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Date: 1883 - 1970 - 1978

From: [Various artists] :Postcards of paintings and a carving in the Waikato Art Museum, London Street, Hamilton, New Zealand. [1970s]

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: E-278-q-057

Description: Reproduction of Charles Blomfield's painting `Maori village at Rotorua' (1883) depicting dwellings and hot springs (with steam rising from them). There is a large weeping willow on the right and a lake in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 124 x 184 mm

Date: 1883 - 1970 - 1978

From: [Various artists] :Postcards of paintings and a carving in the Waikato Art Museum, London Street, Hamilton, New Zealand. [1970s]

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: E-278-q-057-A

Description: Reproduction of Charles Blomfield's painting `Maori village at Rotorua' (1883) depicting dwellings and hot springs (with steam rising from them). There is a large weeping willow on the right and a lake in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 124 x 184 mm

Date: 1920

By: Feldon, W H, active 1920

Reference: E-278-q-101

Description: Postcard with a photo-mechanical reproduction of a drawing of an amended design for the proposed monument for Maori soldiers designed by Auckland sculptor W H Feldon, 16 Feb 1920 showing additional portraiture panels. On top on the monument is a Maori warrior. The memorial was erected to commemmorate the sons of the Te Arawa people who fought and died in World War One. It was unveiled by the Duke of York in Feb 1927. Words, pictures and symbols tell the story of the arrival of the Te Arawa waka at Maketu and the tribes' voyage to the 20th century. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photo-lithograph, 138 x 90 mm on card

Date: 1883 - 1970 - 1978

From: [Various artists] :Postcards of paintings and a carving in the Waikato Art Museum, London Street, Hamilton, New Zealand. [1970s]

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: E-278-q-057-B

Description: Reproduction of Charles Blomfield's painting `Maori village at Rotorua' (1883) depicting dwellings and hot springs (with steam rising from them). There is a large weeping willow on the right and a lake in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 124 x 184 mm

Date: [1916-1934]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-75

Description: Assorted research papers, drafts and clippings about New Zealand history. Includes articles about Te Teko Pa, and George 'Rowley' Hill and drafts of 'The inspector: A police force vignette' and 'At the rising of the moon' and postcard of the Maori carved pulpit at the Maori Mission Church [possibly Ohinemutu?] and a photograph with caption which says 'At the wood-carving school, Horohoro. The carving instructor and the boy who made this decorative "pare" for the top of the doorway.' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: between 1934 and 1935

Reference: PAColl-6619

Description: 46 images of the Duke of Gloucester's tour of New Zealand in 1934-5 including: nine of his visit to Rotorua including Maori kapa haka; one of veterans at the bridge of remembrance in Christchurch; one of him opening Tekapo bridge and another of the party at Tekapo House hotel; one of him in a crowd outside the railway station in Hokitika; one of him inspecting a parade of nurses; one of him visiting a traditional whare; two of him as a jockey at a race meeting; three of the felling of a kauri tree; seven of his stay at Longbeach sheep station, Ashburton County; and two of him at the Waitangi memorial. Photographer unidentified but possibly Hall Raine. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-019066 to 019078, 019082 to 019107, 019111, 019113, and 059505 to 059509 Quantity: 46 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: 1942-1943

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

Reference: PA1-f-259

Description: Most of the photographs relate to the remedial treatment camp set up in Rotorua. On the first page, the photographs are flanked by newspaper cuttings about another camp set up for the same purpose at Papakura, Auckland. The photographs on this page may relate to the Papakura camp. Most of the photographs are of groups of men doing various forms of excersise, and playing sport. There are group photographs of men in military uniform and others of groups posing with tennis raquets and medicine balls. Other photographs record the launch of "Bonds for Bombers" campaign in Rotorua, March 1942, and the ANZAC parade 1942 (also Rotorua). There are seven original cartoon drawings of military personnel by Stenberg. These were used in the Rotorua camp's newspaper. The photographs are supported by many newspaper cuttings about the camps and their purpose. There is a photograph relating to the camp newspaper "The Arawa Guerilla" and two copies of the paper are pasted onto the same page. Other newspaper cuttings and two programmes relate to a very successful entertainment developed by the men in the Rotorua camp. This was "Splitzkreig Army Review" which from September 1942 to March 1943 toured the upper North Island and raised 2,000 pounds for the Patriotic Fund. Remedial treatment camps were set up for men who had been judged by the military medical authorities as unfit for military service, but whoes ailments were considered curable. Examples of the sorts of conditions treated are knee problems, flat feet, \"underdevelopment,\" nervous conditions, and chronic backache. The Rotorua camp occupied Arawa Park, and the racecourse. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1905 - 1920

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-071-006

Description: A raupo whare on the left, by a flax-fringed spit of land, a Maori man standing outside, a small boat in the left foreground, the lake and a low island beyond. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [title and signature in pencil]; Recto - at the base of the paper: Dry point [in pencil] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching (dry point) 66 x 95 mm (platemark) on sheet 202 x 151 mm

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: [ca 1890s-1919]

From: Clark, Morton, fl 1900s :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9525-2

Description: Postcards collected by Morton Clark and family. Includes a number of postcards addressed to Miss Kathleen Clark (from Fred ?, Harry ?, Uncle Will and Jack Perston) to Mrs Morton Clark (from Fred, possibly a son, and Jack Perston); and Miss Campbell, Nurse at Wellington Hospital (from Sissie Battersby); and stereoscopes of the 1901 royal visit to Rotorua. Quantity: 48 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 9 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) stereoscopes.

Date: 1884

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

Reference: E-376-021

Description: Shows a bubbling mud hole in Rotorua Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Mud holes at Rotorua No 1 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 140 x 230 mm. (page size)

Date: 1929

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975 :[Rotorua and district] [ca 1929]

Reference: A-227-085

Description: Shows gardens with a lake feature and hills in the background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 210 x 290 mm

Date: 1929

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to Rotorua as a tourist destination. 1890-1929]

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Rotorua-1929-01

Description: Promotes Rotorua's tourist attractions. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Offset print on both sides of brochure, 230 x 375 mm, folding to 203 x 95 mm.

Date: 1845-1846

By: Chapman, Thomas, 1792-1876

Reference: MS-0498-0499

Description: Chapman was a CMS missionary stationed at Rotorua. For some part of 1845 he was also relieving at Tauranga Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs (20 cm; ¼ fawn morocco, fawn linen)

Date: [ca 1970-ca 1979]

From: Giles, T Rex, 1929-2006 :Photographs of deer farming and hunting, opossum hunting, taxidermy, and mining.

Reference: PAColl-8752-2

Description: Photographs of deer carcasses being processed for export at Consolidated Traders Ltd's works at Rongatea and Rotorua. Also featured are carcasses of wild pigs awaiting processing and frozen goat carcasses bagged and ready for export. Several photographs show bales of deer pelts packed and covered with hessian. Deer photographed on Rex Giles' farm, Forest Park, at Maroa north of Taupo. Most of these photographs were in albums of plastic sleaves and were probably used as promotional material for the company. The prints were removed from the albums as the type of plastic bonds with the emusion of the print. Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1960 - 1969

By: Harrison & Grierson (Firm); Rotorua County (N.Z.). County Council; New Zealand. Parliamentary Library

Reference: MapColl-832.18gbbe/[ca.196-]/Acc.29845

Description: A set of Rotorua County Council District Planning maps, section one, Rotorua West, on 15 sheets. Maps include sheet 1 - Rotorua County showing rural boundary; 2 - Maori burial reserves (Urupa) and a thermal spring reserve; 3 - showing rural boundary, railway, main traffic routes; 4 - rural boundary, residential, commercial and industrial zones, reserves, proposed motorway, Pukerimu Urupa, Weri Weri Pa, Rakeikohanga Urupa, Pekehana Reserve, Otaimata Reserve, Orangi-Kahu Burial Reserve, Urupa and Puhirua Pa, church reserve and lakeshore reserve; 5 - zones, reserves, schools, railway; 6 - state forests, scenic reserves, 'Waiponokino Old Pa', Maori reserve, Tuakuraurekau burial ground (Urupa), Kotare Maori Pa, water supply and acclimatisation reserve; 7 - zones, sewerage reserve, cemetery reserve, gravel pit, Pukepatu burial reserve (Urupa), schools, proposed road changes; 8 - native school site, Lake Rotokawa, boundaries, main traffic routes; 9 - water supply reserve, boundaries, main traffic routes and recreation reserves; 10 - specified departures granted, native school site, main traffic routes and boundaries; 11 - boundaries near Lakes Okataina and Tarawera; 12 - main traffic routes along Ataimuri Rd; 13 - State Forest Whakarewarewa Plantation; 14 - State Forest, scenic reserve and Lakes Tikitapu and Rotokakahi ; and 15 - reserve for internal communication, Koripo burial reserve, scenic reserves, lakeshore reserves, roads and boundaries surrounding Lakes Okareka and Tarawera. The maps are bound in a card folder. Maps have own notations and scales. Other Titles - 1 Other Titles - one Quantity: 15 map(s) bound together. Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scales differ, 74 x 75 cm.

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: Rayner, Walter Moody, 1869-1939

Reference: PA4-0910

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of porridge pots, Rotorua, taken by W M Rayner ca 180s Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Porridge pots, Rotorua; Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Backing board recto - left of image - W M Rayner - photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1873-1910

By: Lee, Bertha, 1901-1996

Reference: MS-Papers-10474

Description: A history of St John's Presbyterian Church, Rotorua and people connected with it, including family trees of some early church members Quantity: 1 folder(s) (58 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1870 - 1879

From: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850?-1936? :[Sketchbook; English and New Zealand scenes, with Tristan da Cunha, 1870s]

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: E-044-q-1-032

Description: Shows three scenes: A beach in Rotorua; a beach at Rotoiti and a [native] treee drawn in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour in album, page size 228 x 296 mm

Date: [ca 1959]

From: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.): Photographs

By: Alleman, Land and Verrall (Firm); Fenwick (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0811-02-02

Description: Drawing and retouched photograph depicting the proposed new shop and office buildings for the firm of Lee Brothers (architect: Alleman, Land and Verrall). Drawing by Lee Brothers circa 1959. Photograph taken by Fenwick circa 1959. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 architectural drawing. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Plans-2001-008.