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Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-386

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm

Date: 1886

By: P, C, active 1886; Wilson & Horton (Firm); Gilmore, D Hunter, active 1950s-1980s

Reference: B-033-020

Description: A series of views of Te Wairoa with Lake Tarawera in the background; the White Terraces; the Pink Terraces Supplement to: New Zealand Herald, 21 June 1886. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Two tone lithograph 450 x 290 mm Provenance: Donation: D. Hunter Gilmore, Rangiora, 12 March 1980

Date: 1906 - 1912

By: Howorth, Charles Henry, 1856-1945

Reference: G-345

Description: Shows a corner of a lake with steaming cliffs around it. May show the Waimangu area, rather than Lake Rotomahana Similar to the painting at G-446, but warmer in colouring. Howorth's thermal area paintings were likely to have been completed between 1906, when he left Invercargill, and 1912, with around 1908 as the most likely date Other Titles - Waimangu Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C.H. Howarth Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 635 x 889 mm

Date: Before 1886

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: PAColl-0417

Description: Photgraphs of two paintings by Hoyte, one of the white and one of the pink terraces with Lake Rotomahana in the background and a photograph of the cold water basins on the white terraces. Photographer unidentified. 1/2-145409 to 145411 Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-145409 to 145411 Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s) (2 are photographs of paintings, painted by Hoyte). Physical Description: Unbacked albumen prints

Date: 1870

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: B-005-003

Description: Shows a distant view of the steaming Otukapuarangi (Pink Terraces) from Puai Island. A bearded figure stands in the right foreground and there is a canoe on the lake near the base of the Terraces. Other Titles - Island Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 229 x 330 mm

Date: [1885]

By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA7-54-22

Description: View of the sulphur encrusted fumarole (Whakataratara) on the shores of Lake Rotomahana. Photograph taken by George Dobson Valentine in January 1885 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Whakataratara, L.Rotomahana. 32. G.V. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 19 x 29 cm on mount

Date: 1924

From: Panoramic photographs of New Zealand taken by R P Moore

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-210

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1957 - 1958

From: [Turner, Dennis Knight], 1924-2011 :[Illustrations for Legends of Rotorua and the hot lakes. 1958?]

Reference: A-060-097

Description: Shows the two islands in Lake Rotomahana that existed before the eruption of Mount Tarawera Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Ink, 147 x 197 cm on sheet 190 x 280 cm

Date: 1980

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926; International Art Centre (Auckland)

Reference: C-083-064

Description: In set of 4 having title; Portfolio of four large hand-numbered lithographic colour prints by famous colonial artist (publicity brochure). From original oil painting completed 1888, after destruction of the Terraces. Limited ed of 500 copies; proof copy Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Art reproduction ; photolithograph, coloured 460 x 810 mm

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-532

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by E Wheeler & Son, circa 1870s to 1880s Most of the views are identified, either on the photograph itself, or in hand-written captions below; places shown are listed above. One image has caption "Flax cutting" on the photograph which shows a man standing be a group of cabbage trees, with a house? or possibly a mill with a water wheel in the background behind the trees, while the hand-written caption reads "Valley scene, Hokianga". Other Titles - New Zealand views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover (damaged), entitled "New Zealand Views" in gold lettering; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1870s - 1880s

From: Crawford family :Photographs of James Coutts Crawford and family

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920

Reference: PA1-q-059

Description: Album of views of New Zealand and Europe. The New Zealand views were mostly taken by James Bragge, during the 1870s and 1880s, and were chiefly of the Wellington Region. One loose photograph inserted in the album shows the laying of the foundation stone at Scots College, Wellington, by Mr. Aitken, in April 1918. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, 37.5 x 29.2 mm

Date: 11 May-16 Jun 1847

By: Gisborne, William, 1825-1898

Reference: qMS-0844

Description: Gisborne and Petre went by sea to Coromandel and then by land, first up to Thames and travelling up the river, passing through pa, including Opita, then to Matamata, Tauranga, Rotorua, Lake Tarawera and Lake Rotomahana. They returned to Auckland by way of the Waikato River, passing through Maungatautari and Waipa. The journal includes interesting descriptions of Maori life and Gisborne meet the Revs Brown, Spencer, Chapman and Ashville [sic] and various prominent Maori. Variations in title - Binder's title: Gisborne journal The journal is loose in a cover with a typescript and index in an envelope at the back Quantity: 1 volume(s) (38 pages, 30 leaves)). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript (32 cm, blue linen)

Date: 1886 - 1956 - 1957

From: Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].

Reference: B-140-010

Description: Six-panelled account of the 1957 discovery by divers of the possible remains of the Pink and White Terraces under the waters of Lake Rotomahana and of exploration (sponsored by Sir Henry Brett) in July 1886, just after the eruption of Mount Tarawera, by Alfred Warbrick and J. A. Philip, with Hau-te-Horo and Toko. Warbrick insisted on abseiling into the still active crater, and was forced to climb up again when it began to erupt. These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Jenny Gibbs, of Auckland, in 1995.

Date: 1884

From: Harper, Laura 1833-1887 :Laura Harper's sketchbook. No. 10 1884

Reference: E-376-038/039

Description: Shows several people rowing a canoe on Lake Rotomahana with White Terrace ahead Other Titles - .... Rotomahana ... Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - White Terrace Roto Mahana Nov 4 1884 Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double page). Physical Description: Pencil, 140 x 450 mm. (page size)

Date: 1850

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: E-144-038

Description: Group of Maori seated on shore of lake, White Terraces to the right. The group is listening to a young woman, dancing, singing or speaking The Turnbull holds only a photograph of the original Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour. Original 9.8 x 14.1 ins

Date: 1886 - 1900

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: B-175-015

Description: Shows a general view of the White Terraces, with two figures standing on the lip of one of the pools at centre right. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, image 147 x 435 mm, on sheet 254 x 550 mm. Provenance: Donated by David Mote, England, 2009 Transfers: Collection as a whole was received by Photographic Archive; material transferred from there - - Transfers - To Ephemera : Postcard album; to MSS : passport and naval papers; to Drawings, Paintings & Prints : print of The White Terrace.

Date: 1842 - 1844

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: A-275-003

Description: A whare and trees in the left foreground, a canoe being rowed by three men on the lake in the centre and the White Terraces in the background, with clouds of steam above them. Probably one of the earliest depictions of the Terraces On the verso is a poem in the artist's hand, to his wife, Rangi Kawau (Rangi Koa), with marginal notes on the Maori words, in the hand of Edward Shortland. Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Title in ink in the artist's hand Compare two other version of this drawing by Merrett. One dating from 1842 is in the British Library's Grey Albums (Add. Ms 19953 f. 99, pl. 268) an ink and pencil drawing entitled 'Rotomahana, one of the Rotorua Lakes with a view of the hot springs and the ascent to it by natural steps of salyx'; also the Turnbull Library's A-089-008, an ink and wash sketch, almost identical to this one. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 160 x 249 mm

Date: 1906 - 1912

By: Howorth, Charles Henry, 1856-1945; New Zealand. High Commission (Great Britain)

Reference: G-446

Description: Steaming cliffs probably of the Lake Rotomahana or Waimangu area Similar to oil at G-345, but cooler in colouring. Howorth's thermal area paintings were likely to have been completed between 1906, when he left Invercargill, and 1912, with around 1908 as the most likely date Inscriptions: bottom right - C H Howorth Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil 665 x 905 mm Provenance: Donation: New Zealand High Commission, London: 28.4.76

Date: 1868

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-o-094

Description: Views of New Zealand chiefly taken by Daniel Mundy circa 1868, with some taken by Charles S Spencer. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Decorated tan coloured cover "Scraps", 25.5 x 33 cm Provenance: Alexander Turnbull Library donation slip on front page reads: "Scrapbook of old photos collected by Mr Mundy about 1868."

Date: [1880s]

From: Saxby, Stephen Hector, 1907- :Photograph albums

By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-q-212

Description: Photographs taken during the 1880s, chiefly by George Valentine, and Charles Spencer, both of whom visited Mount Tarawera before and after the eruption of June 1886. Inserted in a pocket at the front of the album are images cut from the paper "Newsview", June 1949, showing historic photographs of the eruption, and another double-page from the Weekly News (June 6, 1951) on the "65th Anniversary of the Mount Tarawera catastrophe". The latter article notes that mud, estimated at 75 ft in depth, covered a vast area. The album includes images taken before the eruption, and shows the same areas irreparable damaged. Many show the Pink and White Terraces, the village of Te Wairoa, and the massive rift in the mountain; also a group led by Sir James Hector to study the aftermath and changes wrought by the eruption. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, impressed design in dark brown; 31 x 27 cm