Places

Date: [Circa 1937]

Reference: PA1-f-054

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways between 1937 and 1938 by unidentified photographers. Photographs in the North Island include tours between Stratford and Ongarue; Ngaruawahia celebrations in 1938 (including views of King Koroki's house which was built in 1938); Rotorua and six lakes trip; and opening ceremonies for the Hutt Railway. In the South Island views include Caroline Bay with events at the soundshell; in Timaru, views of a two-storied clubhouse and men playing bowls, a person practising croquet, and several games of tennis on a series of tennis courts; areas in Queen Charlotte Sound, Portage, Pelorus and Kenepuru Sounds and Blenheim Aerodrome; Tasman and Franz Josef Glaciers; Milford Sound; Punakaiki; and Cromwell. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, dark green spine, entitled `Tours 5'; 40 x 60 cm

Date: 1903-1930s

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-63

Description: Includes material on Maori history, geography, science, health, language, placenames, prose, poetry, waiata, New Zealand flora and fauna, the transpacific migration of the Maori, personalities, `Problems of the Maori', `Should Maori have equal rights like Europeans?', religion, Maori artifactual preservation, land claims and Maori art Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter (some with holograph annotations)

Date: 1912 - 1973

By: Wright, Frank, 1860-1923; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-020

Description: The rivers merging with low banks and some bush on both sides. On the right bank are two Maori women, one with a small girl, the other carrying a baby, descending to a canoe and a rowboat at the water's edge Reproduced from original watercolour in the Auckland City Art Gallery Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 355 x 533 mm, on sheet 522 x 636 mm

Date: March 1986

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

By: Hargest, Miles, active 1982

Reference: PA12-10771

Description: Events at the Ngaruawahia Regatta. Quantity: 17 colour original transparency/ies 35mm slides.

Date: [ca 1960-1966]

From: Fijn, Jan (John) Reinder, 1910-2003 :Transparencies, particularly relating to the royal visit to Waitangi in 1963, and to Maori

Reference: PA12-10651

Description: Colour slide photographs taken by John Reinder Fijn of Turangawaewae Marae and Maori Parliament buildings at Ngaruawahia. Images include the powhiri area and seating in front of the marae, kuia sitting on the mahau, inlaid paua shells, King Koroki's flag, a waka in the waka house, two unidentified girls in the garden, and a painted stone water feature. Slides are mounted in metal and glass slide holders constructed by Fijn. Quantity: 12 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour phototransparencies

Date: [ca1880-1971]

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004 : Photographs relating to Maori

Reference: PAColl-9977-12

Description: Includes:-- The Maori Parliament House (Turangawaewae House) Ngaruawahia built 1912-1919. Portraits of tatooed Maori Women, all but one, unidentified. The ceremonial waka (ceremonial canoe) Ngatokimatawhaorua fully manned, off Paihia, Bay of Islands. Philip Munro and Toni Muru in large interior decorated with a Cliff Whiting mural. Photomechanical copy of an engraved portrait of King Tawhiao. Dame Te Atairangikaahu enthroned at her coronation, 23 May 1966. Photomechanical print of portraits of King Tawhiao's head wife and second wife. Entrance to Maori King's residence (Turongo House) Turangawaewae Marae. Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1904

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: Eph-C-RAILWAYS-1904-01

Description: Arrangement of text, with small photograph of train engine at the top. Lists the train fares and train arrangements on the Auckland-Frankton line, the Te Awamutu line, the Cambridge branch, and the Thames branch. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 444 x 143 mm. Provenance: Previously part of the Ken Webster Collection.

Date: [1900s?]

From: New Zealand News Ltd :Photographs from the Auckland Star

Reference: PA1-q-015

Description: Album of images from various areas in the North Island. Includes images of Hawera, including streets, swimming baths, bowling greens, church buildings, the post office, hospital buildings, and public school. There are a several views inside caves, including caves and rock formations at Marakopa and Waitomo; views of coal mining at Mokau, the regatta at Ngaruawahia, cement works at Limestone Island in Whangarei Harbour, tree-felling in kauri forest. Images of Hastings include church buildings, school buildings, and other public buildings. One image shows a young man at a burial site in a cave, surrounded by a number of skulls. Photographs taken by Auckland Star photographers around the turn of the 19th-20th century. Relationship complexity - Most images are represented by original negatives donated to the Library by the Auckland Star in the 1950s Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cloth bound volume, labelled "This book must be returned to Mr H Brett's room"

Date: 1925-1945

By: Jones, Frank Colwyn, 1908-1944

Reference: PAColl-3207

Description: Photographs of a variety of subjects, taken and collected 1925-1944 by Frank Colwyn Jones. Includes: Construction of a Maori canoe, from the hauling of a log from the bush to its decoration with carvings and launch Maori song and dance River scenes from 18 March 1938, when the waka Te Winika, ferried the Governor General Lord Galway and Lady Galway along the Waikato River to open Turongo House, Turangawaewae. Construction sites and camps Colwyn Frank Jones was a journalist with the Auckland Star. He worked between the Wars and had a close relationship with Princess Te Puea. The Ngaruawhia photographs in the collection were to be used for a book Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s) in two envelopes in one box. Physical Description: Various format photoprints though mainly 6 x 8 inch Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Papers-4820, papers of Frank Colwyn Jones.

Date: ca1930

From: Gibbens, Ken :Photographs of New Zealand, Australia, California, Hawaii, Samoa and Fiji

By: Gibbens, Ken, active 1920s-

Reference: PA1-o-835

Description: Record of a trip through New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1950]

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-033064-F

Description: Waka with vice-regal party (Sir Bernard and Lady Freyberg ?) on board, Waikato River, Ngaruawhaia, circa 1950. Photograph taken circa 1950 for the National Publicity Studios. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date estimated by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-5469-026

Description: Group of Maori men competing in a waka hurdle race at Ngaruawahia, circa 1920s. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Ngaruawahia Canoe Hurdle race Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-009

Description: View from across the Waikato River towards the main buildings of the Maori king's residence. The long low building on the left is the 'General's quarters', the 'King's palace' is in the centre with dark red barge boards, the 'council chambers' are futher to the right and the closest building and the flagstaff is on the far right. There are two small canoes at the landing place, along with people and horses. There are also tents amongst the remaining buildings on the site Copied from a watercolour by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams 'Ngaruawahia from opposite bank of Waikato. 1864' in E. A. Williams' diary in the Hocken Library, p. 77 (The Turnbull holds a slide of this view) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 98 x 187 mm

Date: 1860

By: Bates, Henry Stratton, 1836-1918; Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979

Reference: A-159-004

Description: View across the Waikato River towards the Maori King's residence and village. 'The house on the extreme left with the sentry box near it is the King's' (note on verso). A large flagpole and ten other houses are visible. A small canoe is in the foreground, with another in the middle distance and others moored at the distant bank. The King was Potatau te Wherowhero Accompanied by letter and newspaper article about the picture. "The house on the extreme left with the sentry box near it is the Kings", and other notes on back Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title; Verso - various inscriptions Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 127 x 170 mm Provenance: Found loose inside volume 2 of Rees' 1892 biography of Sir George Grey. The volume was once the property of the artist, Henry Stratton Bates.

Date: Circa 1910

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0709-1/2-G

Description: View of a Maori waka (canoe) on the Waikato River at the Ngaruawahia Regatta. Taken by Albert Percy Godber circa 1910. Original print in Godber Album Vol 110, p 72 (Pa1-q-103). Date from other images in this album. Inscriptions: Album page - Maori canoe on Waikato at Ngaruawahia. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1943]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000347-F

Description: Waka race to entertain United States Servicemen, held by Tainui Maori at Ngaruawahia circa 1943. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [191-?]

From: Wilson, John C :Photograph collection

Reference: PAColl-4741-02

Description: Waka on the Waikato River during a regatta at Ngaruawahia. Photograph taken ca 1910s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 8.6 x 15.4 cm

Date: 1910

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0710-1/2-G

Description: View of Maori waka (canoes) in a hurdle race on the Waikato River at the Ngaruawahia Regatta. A group of people line the river banks to watch. A bridge crosses the river in the right background. Taken by Albert Percy Godber circa 1910. Original print in Godber Album Vol 110, p 72 (Pa1-q-103). Date from other images in this album. Inscriptions: Album page - Maori canoe hurdle race on Waikato. Ngaruawahia. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [191-?]

From: Wilson, John C :Photograph collection

Reference: PAColl-4741-03

Description: Waka on the Waikato River during a regatta at Ngaruawahia. Photograph taken ca 1910s by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date estimated by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 8.8 x 14.2 cm (approximate, as unevenly trimmed)

Date: 1912 - 1973

By: Wright, Frank, 1860-1923; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-020-a

Description: The rivers merging with low banks and some bush on both sides. On the right bank are two Maori women, one with a small girl, the other carrying a baby, descending to a canoe and a rowboat at the water's edge Reproduced from original watercolour in the Auckland City Art Gallery Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 355 x 533 mm, on sheet 522 x 636 mm