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Date: 1914

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-914

Description: Opens with a group of men on a tramp into the valley of the Orongorongo River in the southern Rimutaka Ranges. Included are views of the river and surrounding mountains, in particular Mount Matthews which they climbed posing for a photograph at the Mt Matthews trig station. There are views in the native forest and one looking over the Wainuiomata Valley. One image shows a group of men standing on the Fernside Railway Station labled as the "Mt Hector Party". This probably relates to a group of photographs later in the album recording a tramp in the Taraua Ranges. A group of five photographs records a trip to the Dawson Falls on Mount Egmont. There are views of the road leading to the falls through native forest, the group sitting on a huge rock below the falls, and the falls themselves. The other images in this group show the party on the Mountain, and loaded onto a cart at Eltham. Two pages of views of Days Bay, Lower Hutt, showing individual houses, Croyden School, and coastal scenes. A surveying trip to Kapiti Island. Views of the western cliff face of the island, the caretaker's house and surroundings, a tame deer, nautilus shells, and H E Girdlestone standing beside an 8 inch micrometer on a tripod. Views of the Volcanic Plateau showing Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro and the surrounding plains. The departure of the Main Expeditionary Force from Wellington during the First World War. The focus of these images is on the transports moored at the wharves, and the two escorting warships, the Japanese "Ibuki" and the British H M S "Minotaur", in the harbour. A group of women playing golf on the Waiwhetu golf links Family and friends at Eastbourne. Trip to the West Coast and the glaciers. Views of the main road south of Ross passing through heavy native forest, the Franz Josef Glacier and people climbing its ice fields, Mount Tasman, the Toaroha Rapids, and the Fox Glacier. There are also views of the Pelorus River and Bridge, the Buller Gorge, the Buller River, and the bridge on the road between Lyell and Inangahua. A general view of Greymouth where the party stayed with friends whoes two children were photographed driving peddle cars. A southern crossing of the Tararua Ranges. The route was by way of Mount Reeves, then down into the Tauherenikau River valley, along the river, then up to Mount Alpha and along the ridges to Hector and out again along the Waiotauru River to Otaki Forks. There are two photographs of members of the tramping party, as well as general views of the ranges, the rivers, a mountain tarn, and the Waihoanga Bridge. A visit to the Army training camp at Trentham. Photographs of individual soldiers and groups of soldiers and visitors. Three views of a man on horseback and a dog in the Manganuiateo River. Three images of surveyors making observations at a trig station using an 8 inch micrometer. Views of the Southern Alps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 30 Sept 1900 - 31 Oct 1900

From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly

By: Ross, Malcolm, 1862-1930; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953

Reference: PA1-f-143

Description: Arrangement: The album consists of Hill-Trevor's diary of the cruise, with the photographs interspersed with the text. This album documents the cruise of Lord Ranfurly, Governor of NZ, aboard HMS Mildura to the Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga and the Kermadec Islands, in October 1900, in the course of which he annexed the Cook Islands and Niue for the British Crown. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 16 February - 21 March 1958, 1960

From: Tomsett, Maurice William Henry :Colour slides of New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7766

Description: Phase 8 continued - 170. Cornwall Park, sheep grazing; 171. One Tree Hill Memorial, Sir John Logan Campbell (Early settler); 172-173. Overlooking Ellerslie, Penrose; 174. Onehunga, Manukau Harbour; 175. Memorial, Mt Hobson in background; 176. Royal Oak, Epsom, Memorial; 177. Volcanic crater below memorial; 178. Auckland airport. Three slides of views of Auckland in 1960. Includes views of the Winter Garden (Auckland Domain), and aerial views over the city Quantity: 12 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1930-ca 1940]

From: Webb family: Transparency slides of new Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-6797

Description: Haul of fish on boat deck. Bird eggs (Moa?). Rotomahana crater eight weeks after Tarawera eruption. SS Mata in Sounds with Lord Bledisloe and the Duke of Gloucester on board. Thermal area. Whale skeleton. Deer in forest clearing. Accomodation house, Waimangu, destroyed in the Tarawera eruption. Ariki Maori village, Lake Tarawera. McRae's Hotel, Wairoa, after Tarawera eruption. The Terraces Hotel, Te Wairoa, after Tarawera eruption. View of Mount Tarawera after the eruption. Landscape covered by volcanic ash from the Tarwera eruption. Lord Bledisloe and Alfred Warbrick fishing at Lake Tarawera. Hazards house, Wairoa, after the Tarawera eruption. Boiling lake, Waimangu. Green falls, Orakeikorako. Quantity: 21 b&w original transparency/ies 1 hand coloured images. 2 colour original transparency/ies Dufaycolor.

Date: 1968-1969

From: Shadbolt, Maurice Francis Richard, 1932-2004 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8203

Description: Aerial view of rift on Mount Tarawera and adjacent lake and forest. A lake giving off steam. Shadbolt children. Views of an unidentified Pacific island, 1968. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1891

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to John White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, 1890

By: Deverell, Walter, 1853?-1920

Reference: A-274-038

Description: Looking down into the steaming crater lake of Mount Ngauruhoe Other Titles - Ngaurohoe Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - in pencil 'Arawa' Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 134 x 221 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives -.

Reference: PAColl-0703

Description: Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.

Date: Early 1950s

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: PAColl-6552

Description: 13 images (and 5 duplicate file prints) of Chateau Tongariro and the nearby roads. Includes the junction of state highways 47 and 48 with a chrysler parked at the side of the road, and one of the Tongariro National Park sign. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015096 to 015108 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: n d

From: Rosser, Mabel, 1918-2013: Collection relating to childhood at White Island and Hokianga

Reference: MS-Papers-10277

Description: Includes reminiscences entitled Christmas on a desert island, together with correspondence, maps and newspaper clippings concerning the island Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 1936-1976

From: Dennis, Jonathan Spencer, 1953-2002 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7413

Description: Photographs relating to The Chateau, Ngamotu Golf Links New Plymouth, Sir Edmund Hillary's family, and Amamus Theatre Group. Those relating to Amamus show the group beneath a banner during a tour abroad, and dramatic works being rehearsed, one of which is a play called 'Valita'. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheets. 8 colour original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1901-1934

By: Fama, Ronald Cyril, 1926-

Reference: PAColl-3254

Description: Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-039904 to 039909 Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1982] 1986

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-f-306

Description: Visit to Vanuatu and Noumea includes - Views of the hotel grounds and the sea, Port-Vila, Vanuatu. Taking tea outside with other tourists or friends. A Cruize liner, Port-Vila. Gardens, houses and social occasions. Traveling in Vanuatu. This includes countryside, forest, villages, coastal views, churches, a metal bridge-like structure, and people, especially children. Events surrounding the opening ceremonies of the first Vanuatu Games (called First Interdistrict Games Vanuatu), Port-Vila, 1982. Two storied colonial house. Old church and religious figures in a Roman Catholic church. Volcano erupting. Noumea, New Caledonia, its surroundings, and in particular church buildings. Loose pages in the front of the album record a holiday in New Zealand, 1986. This includes Hawke's Bay. Picnics by the way. White baiting at the Rangitaiki River mouth. The Coromandel Peninsula. Oil rig at Moturoa. Friends. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1884]

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: MNZ-0051-1/2-F

Description: Engraving of Mount Ngauruhoe by moonlight dating from about 1884. Photographed by an unknown photographer ca 1940. Inscriptions: on page in the original publication - text: Tongariro in moonlight From `The King Country' by James Henry Kerry-Nicholls, page 197. This book was published in England in 1884. The photograph of the engraving was used in `Making New Zealand' in issue number 10 of volume one, `The Mountains,' page 14. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1859 - 1888 - 1867 - 1890

By: Hochstetter, Christian Gottlieb Ferdinand von, 1829-1884; Ciceri, Eugene, 1813-1890; Sargent, Alfred Louis, 1828-; Charton, M E, active 1860-1890s; Tour du Monde (Periodical); Clive Burden Ltd.

Reference: A-109-066

Description: View towards the south end of Lake Taupo, showing snow-covered Ruapehu, and steaming Tongariro, Ngauruhoe and Ketetahi crater in left background. In centre distance is Motutaiko Island. Figures wading in water at left foreground are holding fishing nets. There are two small fishing craft at right foreground, and craft with sails further off. Inscription at lower edge, gives name of engraver, "Sargent" - Alfred Louis Sargent. M.E. Charton's edition appears to be a reprint of the original 1865 edition of "Le tour du monde..." Vol. XI, pages 273-320. Image copied by Eugene Ciceri, from Hochstetter's original design lithographed by A. Meerman, in F. von Hochstetter's "Neu-Seeland" (Stuttgart, 1863), page 364. ATL has original; and English translation , 1867, at q919.31 HOC. c.f. copies at A-048-026 and B-062-024. Another negative made from the 1865 edition of "Le tour du monde" (published Paris: Editions C.T.I.C., 1865), page [297]; negative no. 1/2-C-09879-F. File print in Drawing and Prints Artists file. Other Titles - Lake Taupo. Extended Title - From: "Le tour du monde; nouveau journal de voyages"..."Voyage a la Nouvelle-Zelande", verso of page 298, vol. unknown, 1890? Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - SARGENT; Recto - beneath image - Le lac Taupo. - Dessin de Eugene Ciceri d'apres M. F. de Hochstetter. Hochstetter was in the Taupo region in 1859. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, black and white 158 x 236 mm, on sheet 219 x 300 mm.

Date: [ca 1940s-1950s]

By: Anderson, Cecil R, active 1940s; Ashburton Museum

Reference: PAColl-9442

Description: Photographs of Mount Ruapheu erupting, Pohutu Geyser, and aircraft, taken ca 1950s by Cecil R Anderson of Ashburton Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1930 - 1950

By: Mayclair, J, active 1900s-1950s; Howell, John, active 1978

Reference: B-062-013

Description: View of Ngauruhoe emitting a plume of steam, possibly viewed from the North Inscriptions: Signed: J M & on mount in pencil, J Mayclair Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on paper glued to card, 152 x 302 mm

Date: 1955. 1963

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6463

Description: Views on and from Hen Island (Taranga Island), 1963. A tramp to Mount Tarawera and it's environs, 1955. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

By: Field family

Reference: A-214-006

Description: A river in spate with a low waterfall, several snow-clad volcanos in the background Acquired with the Hodgkins material and appears to have been executed by some a of the Field family. (Dr Eric McCormick's attribution) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 231 x 279 mm

Date: 1969

From: Shadbolt, Maurice Francis Richard, 1932-2004 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8202

Description: Ceremonial event at Ratana Pa. Images show a procession of robed people processing towards the temple, with a band playing. Aerial view of the rift on the summit of Mount Tarawera, 1969. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1911

By: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918; Daniell, Charles Edward, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-188

Description: Views of the Mangatarera Stream and Mount Holdsworth opens a record of a climb to the summit of Holdsworth. The party consists of six women and about five men. There are views of the stream and the swing bridge leading to the Holdsworth track; several shots of the Mountain House with the climbing party arranged along the veranda, and Mr McGregor's party who had arrived on horseback to fix the water tank; the climbing party grouped in the bush on the way up the mountain and on the open alpine ridges; a surveyors tent in the alpine tussock; the party eating beside the Holdsworth Trig; views of the Tararua Ranges from the summit of Mount Holdsworth. Interspersed among the main image groups are photographs of a trip to Rotorua. This involved a group of people in two motor cars. There are images of the Hamurana Stream and Springs at Rotorua, and of children diving for pennies at Whakarewarewa. Views of mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe, the Mangaehuehu Stream, the Crater Lake and the crater on Ngauruhoe, and mountaineers crossing the ice field on Ruapehu and climbing Ngauruhoe. There is a view of Matterhorn Peak the name of which was changed to Girdlestone Peak in 1922. Two images of a surveyors' camp in the Waimarino Bush. The Tern Arch and Little Hawke's Crag on the Buller Gorge road. A view of Lake Tarawerea from the top of Mount Tarawera. The final photograph is a view along the beach to Pencarrow Head, Wellington. Pasted inside the front cover is a cutting from `The Weekly News', Wednesday, December 26, 1945, entitled `New Zealand's highest memorial' by JWG, describing the renaming in 1922, of Matterhorn Peak (Tongariro National Park) to Girdlestone Peak in honour of Hubert Earle Girdlestone after he was killed in action in August 1918. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - To Mr and Mrs Daniell with kindest recollections from a very old friend, Hugh Girdlestone, March 1911 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brownish green cover, 25 x 20 cm Provenance: The album had been presented to Daniell in March 1911 by Hubert Girdlestone.