Places

Date: [Before 10 Jun 1886]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-37-14

Description: Photograph of McRae's Hotel, Te Wairoa taken by the Burton Brothers before the eruption of Mount Tarawera on 10 Jun 1886. In the foreground are two small Maori boys and areas fenced off for the growing of vegetables. The area in the immediate foreground has one wall constructed from blocks of earth while the other sides of the fenced enclosure are made from wooden stakes. Identical image at PAColl-7344-89 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3848 - Wairoa. Burton Bros, Dunedin; Mount recto - beneath image - Pans with 4082 (written in ink) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14 x 20.2 cm on mount 22.8 x 29.3 cm

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: Evans, I, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-1519

Description: Photographs taken on holiday in New Zealand by woman identified as I Evans. Comprises photographs of men, women and children from Tuhourangi and Arawa iwi, many in traditional costume; Model Village at Whakarewarewa; Ohinemutu Pa; Lake Rotorua; Guide Ruth, Ana Hato; Guide Rangi; Wairakei geysers; Rotomahana; buried forest; Arapuni; Hongi's Track; Lake Taupo; Wellington Harbour from Ngaio; tobacco growing at Riwaka; apple packing shed at Redwood's Valley, Nelson; Devils Boots, Collingwood; Government Buildings, Wellington; Wainui House, Nelson; houseboat, Whanganui River; self-portraity of photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 151 x 202 mm Provenance: Purchase, 2009

Date: Circa 1900 to 1905

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-295

Description: Album of photographs, probably taken by George William Barltrop, chiefly taken on a tour around the South Island. The first images relate to an area around Wellington, including Waiwhetu and Wainuiomata, including scenes of the Wainuiomata Reservoir. Two photographs taken in a park show three women wearing hats, full-length outfits, and carrying umbrellas, the "McNabs". One photograph shows a group of men and women, members of a camera club. The tour aound the South Island travels from Sheffield, down to the Otira Gorge, up to Lake Brunner and Inangahua, past Murchison, through Longford. In Wellington Harbour the steamship Ophir is sailing out, with people standing on the wharf in the foreground. Also in Wellington, is a large group portrait of men associated with the Missions to Seamen, gathered together on Labour Day 1901. Five photographs are taken around Otaki, one a pastoral scene, and two of three young Maori people (a young woman and a young girl in two scenes, with a second young girl in the third scene); a water mill; and a group of four people having a picnic in a field (two women (one obscured) and a young boy on the left, and a man with a bandaged hand on the right). The last few scenes are again of the South Island, at Temuka, Otago Harbour, Dunedin (including the Octagon), and a tram belonging to the Roslyn Tramway Company with a group of men on the front cab, and three standing in front. Inscriptions: Album page - G W Barltrop Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green album, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: [ca 1901-1970]

From: Stuart, Henrietta, fl 1950s :Postcard albums

Reference: PA1-q-974

Description: Album of postcards of Maori and thermal areas. Most date from ca 1900 to ca 1930. There are a large number depicting Whakarewarewa village and thermal area. Wairakei and Waimangu thermal areas are also well represented. Images include - Bath House and Government gardens, Rotorua. Whakarewarewa village and thermal area. Mermaids bath, Wairakei. Mud volcano, Waiotapu. Steaming hills, Lake Rotomahana. Waimangu geyser in action. Rachael spring, Rotorua. Blue Bath. Wairoa geyser in action. View of Lake and Mount Tarawera. Hinemoa's bath, Mokoia Island. Waikite geyser. Pink and white terraces, Lake Rotomahana. Malfroy geyser, Rotorua. Pohutu geyser. The twins geyser, Wairakei. The inferno, Tikitere. Hamurana springs, Rotorua. The eagles nest, Wairakei. Crows nest geyser, Taupo. Tourist views of Maori and Maori life are well represented. These include - Maori maidens, many in traditional costume. Maori children bathing and diving for pennies, Whakarewarewa. Maori children bathing at Tokaanau. Maori children performing mock haka. Women cooking in hot pools, Whakarewarewa. Women washing clothes in hot pools, Whakarewarewa. Women carrying children on their backs (pikau). Women performing a poi dance. War canoe race. Men performing a dance, Parihaka. Men performing a haka. Men sparring with taiaha. Men dressed in traditional costume, some identified as "chiefs." Buildings represented are - Interior views of Saint Faith's Church, Ohinemutu. Interior views of Rangiatea church, Otaki. Carved pataka in Auckland Museum. Meeting houses, Rotorua. Carved gateway, Ohinemutu. Carved gateway, Whakarewarewa. Communities other than Whakarewarewa village are - Parihaka Pa, Taranaki. Karohirohu Pa. Te Kumo Pa, King Country. Lakes include - Echo Lake. Lake Rotoiti. Lake Rotomahana. Lake Taupo. Green Lake. Blue Lake. Some people are named. Whakarewarewa guides include - Guide Maggie Papakura. Guide Rangi. Guide Kathleen. Guide Bella. Guide Pipi. Guide Spohia. Guide Georgina. Guide Eileen. Guide Edie. Guide Susan. Notable men are as follows. The names here are as they appeared on the postcards - Rewi Maniapoto. Ruetiwatea. Te Rangituataka. Te Here. Ruatara Turaumoko (died 1905). One card shows commercial flax cutters at work. Two coloured cards have biblical quotations in Maori. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: ca 1920

By: Hewitt, George R, active 1920-1985

Reference: PAColl-0601

Description: Postcards collected by the depositor while working as an able seaman on HMS Renown during the tour by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Black and white postcards of Auckland, Christchurch, particularly the botanic gardens, Lyttelton, Picton, and Samoa and colour postcards of Wellington. Quantity: 43 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: ca1984-ca1995

From: National Library of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5801-1

Description: Mainly records of National Library events which include gifts of books from Poland and Yugoslavia, a delegation of Librarians from China, the official opening of the National Library, the New Vacuum Freeze Dryer for Conservation, the powhiri for Dick Grace the first Maori Manager, celebration for Women's Suffrage Day, Princess Anne visiting, the presentation of the Missoula Peace Quilt, National Library Children's Days, 25th anniversary of setting up the library by act of parliament, and the initiation of the talking book service. Most of the rest of the images record the construction of the National Library building, people and occassions connected with this, the building's interiors, and services provided. Quantity: 101 b&w original photographic print(s). 76 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1885-1945]

By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PAColl-0422

Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1950s-1960s

By: Robin Smith Photography Ltd

Reference: PAColl-0530

Description: Set of photographs of work and leisure in New Zealand, the majority of cattle and sheep mustering and skiing but including a woman water skiing, a woman painting a vase of flowers in oils, a Maori man carving wood, portraits of individual Maori, a procedure in the wine making process, men in the oyster fishing industry, a woman testing eggs, a man looking up at a tree with a chain saw etc. Photographer was Robin Smith. Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Circa 1900s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-302

Description: Album of photographs probably taken by George William Barltrop, circa 1900s. Most of the views are taken from a ferry on the Whanganui River; stretches of the river; kainga (villages); groups of Maori on the riverbanks; a low-lying waka with two men in it; and a scene of passengers disembarking. There are a number of views of Paranui Pa, including an overall view, groups of Maori children, including one entitled `Haka for a penny'; a kaumatua seated in a doorway, by himself in one image, and with two children in a second image. One view of a gathering for the Missions to Seamen; two portraits of a young woman, taken from different angles (possibly Emma Jane Barltrop). Other - Pages are numbered 896 to 935 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, entitled `Photographic views'; 20.5 x 17.5 cm

Date: [ca 8 Jan 1979]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016

Reference: EP/1979/0120-F

Description: Group collecting sea eggs in Wellington Harbour. Shows two Maori children. Photographs taken on circa 8 January 1979 by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley. Other - One of these images (EP/1979/0120/14a) images illustrated an article on water pollution published in the Evening Post 8 January 1979 Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s) strips with 6 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

Reference: A-020-001

Description: Shows a Maori child squatting in front of a fence, a woman and two other children beyond it. In the foreground is a carved memorial post. The scene is probably at Waitahanui Pa at Lake Taupo Angas' reference to 'stile' may possibly be intended to read 'stele' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 240 x 165 mm

Date: Apr 1949

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-181

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, Apr 1949 Scene at the civic reception held in Dixon Park, Greymouth to honour the visit of HMNZS Kaniere, one of the new frigates of the Royal New Zealand Navy; Cromwell racecourse; action photos from Ngaruawahia's annual regatta (includes young Maori boy eating watermelon); Maori deputation visiting Parliament to discuss the question of liquor licence in the King Country (includes portrait of 78 year old Mrs A Huirama); exhibition held in Christchurch of Japanese wood-block colour prints compiled by K R Moshelm, a former director of Army Education and Welfare Service in Japan; Bailey bridge on Lewis Pass Road, near Glen Wye Station; photo of family of Gilbert Edwards, a Dunedin claimant to the fortune of a Welsh stonemason who immigrated to New York and died in 1789 (story in Free Lance, 20 Apr 1949). Makara Radio Station (series of photos including A F Smith, officer in charge of Makara Radio Station); Star Rugby Club, New Plymouth 60th jubilee celebrations and members of the 1919-1939 decades in the grand parade held at Rugby Park; limestone caves recently discovered at Lake Te Anau (Cave of Swirling Waters). Final section of the main highway between Auckland and Te Kuiti under construction (Mayor of Te Kuiti, K W Law watching final load of metal chips being laid); composting of Masterton's refuse; construction of the road at Belmont Gully and Haywards (Hutt Valley); repair of fault in the Auckland-Suva cable by Government steamer Matai; Union Steam Company's vessel Waitemata en route to Vancouver rescuing converted Fairmile launch Mahurangi in Pacific Ocean near Rarotonga. All Black captain Fred Allen, with former All Black Trevor Berghan and Mrs Berghan in fancy dress costume; Chinese crew's arrival in Auckland to take over the Union Steam Ship Company's vessel Kaikorai at Port Chalmers (sold to Hwah Lee Steam Ship Company of Shanghai) Quantity: 58 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [1900s]

By: Pringle, Thomas, 1858-1931; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA1-o-316

Description: Album of scenic views of New Zealand, many taken by Thomas Pringle, others taken by photographers from the New Zealand Tourist Department, and others by unidentified photographers. A number are hand-coloured. South Island scenes include Milford Sound, lake and mountain views, and some of Christchurch city. North island scenes include a number in Wellington, with views of city streets, the Chief Post Office, Government Buildings, St John's Church and the railway station. Most of the other North Island views are of tourist destinations, particularly in the thermal regions, with hot springs, geysers and mud pools. There are a large number relating to Maori, especially at Whakarewarewa, with taniko weaving, flax weaving, poi dancers, te hongi, and posed portraits of young girls in front of a meeting house wearing different styles of cloaks. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown textured cover; 25.5 x 30.0 cm

Date: [1940s-1950s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Morel, Leo, active 1940s-1950s

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-217

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1940s-1950s; and one dated 1973. Two Maori girls (Robin Kingi and Makuini Warbrick); bird studies; group of mothers and young children at Ashburton Trotting Club winter meeting; T H Small instructing W Boyd in typing at NZ Institute for the Blind in Tinakori Road; Ordinary seaman Gordon Wilson splicing lines on a northern coaster; Dave Gunn & Jim Sinclair setting out with their horses from Lower Pyke Hut, Hollyford Valley; feeding ducks at Victoria Lake, Wanganui; Vestria (ship); 8000 pound award notice for capture of Ned Kelly and associates, 1879; Chief of Air Staff (Air Vice-Marshal L M Isitt) and Mayor of Wellington at exhibition of war photographs, Oct 1944; antropology student Marie McMahon working on excavations near Rotorua, 1973. G J Sullivan (Te Aroha), Hon R Semple, B M Tene (Hastings), Hon E T Tirikatene (Southern Maori) & W T Johansan (Wellington) taken at Labour Party Conference, 1951; NZ Labour Party Conference held in Wellington, taken in session in Assembly Hall when the death of Prime Minister Rt Hon M Savage was announced, Apr 1940 (two photographs of the assembly, both torn in places). Mr & Mrs Jay Wilbur with their first copy of NZ Free Lance, 1946; wedding photo of D L Woon & his bride Amy Wainwright, with bestman R H Glading & bridesmaid Miss Florence Woon, 1951; debutantes at ball organised by Waipukurau branch of Returned Services Association (Cecily Burkin, Peggy Mills, Ngaire Davies, Joan Gannaway, Joan Grant and Mary Williamson with Major-General A S Wilder, 1951. Wedding of Kathleen Tunnel of Trentham to George Lee of Wallaceville (with description on letterhead of `Brown Owl', Upper Hutt, where the reception was held), Jan 1949. Photographer Leo Morel of Upper Hutt. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1927-1949

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Powell, Arthur Walter, 1893-1970; Moore & Thompson (Firm); Bierre, Eric W, 1899-

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-145

Description: Photographs taken for publication in NZ Free Lance between 1927 and 1959, many undated. Includes a variety of subjects and places (see below). Also photographs of Ana Hato at Orakei Korako; roadmakers and road construction at Hopuruahine in Wairoa District; ancient eel weir (patuna), taken by J Faris in 1886; carvings on King Koroki's palace, Turangawaewae Marae, Mar 1938; Maori Meeting House at Te Kaha, East Coast and carved memorial cross, 1959; Meeting House at Whangara, 1959; school children waiting for the bus outside the Ruatoria Primary School, 1959; group of children at Whakarewarewa, 1944, etc Photographers include: W Hall Raine; A W Powell, Eric W Bierre, Moore & Thompson, and others. Also typed list of captions (not all photographs included) Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-081-1

Description: Shows two adults and several children outside a whare at Orakei, Auckland Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 102 x 207 mm

Date: 1942

From: Centennial Branch Internal Affairs :Tour of Netherlands Delegation and celebration of Abel Tasman's tercentenary

Reference: PAColl-5291-3

Description: Quantity: 62 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1960 - 1965

By: Pictorial Publications Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-1960s-F1

Description: A set of five postcards featuring Maori scenes: P 68. Maoris at gateways to model pa, N.Z. P 69. Maori children in hot pool, N.Z. P 70. Pohutu Geyser, Rotorua, N.Z. P 226. Maori storehouse, Rotorua, N.Z. P 343. Maoris at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, N.Z. Title on accompanying slip of paper 52 x 76 mm. (retained with cards) The set was packaged in clear plastic for sale in the 1960s. The packaging was removed upon arrival into the Library, in order to ascertain the content, and to preserve the cards in perpetuity. Date of publication estimated from the donor's account of a visit to Rotorua. The price of the cards was in sterling currency and therefore dates from 1967 or earlier. Quantity: 5 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photographs, 101 x 151 mm. Provenance: Donated in 2011.

Date: [late 1930s]

By: McNaughton, Henry Leslie, -1969; Woodward, Joan, active 1960s-1990s

Reference: PA1-o-914

Description: Album showing housing conditions in Newton Gully, Ponsonby and Freeman's Bay, compiled by H L McNaughton, headmaster of Grey Lynn School in Surrey Crescent, as part of an investigation undertaken in the late 1930s into the living conditions of children attending his school. The album also contains H L Mc Naughton's report to the Department of Health. The area in which these photographs were taken is bounded by Nelson Street, Union Street, Fanshaw Street and Victoria Park Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Joan Woodward's father was headmaster of Grey Lynn School in the 1940s, after H L McNaughton.

Date: 2004 - 2005

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to breastfeeding]

By: Awarua Social and Health Services; Young, Trish, active 2004

Reference: Eph-B-BREASTFEEDING-2004-01

Description: A calendar showing black and white photographs of babies, some showing mothers and breastfeeding babies. Name of publishing institution is given on front of calendar as Awarua & Social Health Services. Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s) calendar. Physical Description: Photolithographs on pages each 208 x 290 mm.