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[Trask, E. E., fl. 1956] :Waikato Lakes [ms map]. Drawn, E.E. Trask, 2/8/56.
Date: 1956
By: Trask, E E, active 1956; Automobile Association (Wellington, N.Z.) Inc.
Reference: MapColl-832.18cdh/1956/Acc.9633
Description: Hand drawn map of the Waikato River from Lake Taupo to Waipapa. Includes Whakamaru and Maraitai Lakes and the proposed Ohakuri, Atiamuri and Waipapa Lake. Settlements and roads are named. Ms map amongst Automobile Association maps donated 1970 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil on card, linen backed, coloured, scale [1:126 720], 47 x 48.6 cm. Provenance: Signature of E.E. Trask, 2/8/56 bottom right corner Handwritten note on bottom right corner - State Hydro Dept., (Mr. Heine) 9/8/56
Photograph of Atiamuri Bridge across the Waikato River
Date: [ca 1904]
From: Wells, Joan Mabel, fl 1986 :Photograph album of Japan and photograph of Atiamuri
Reference: PA9-100
Description: Photograph of Atiamuri Bridge across the Waikato River, taken ca 1904 by Thomas Pringle. Shows Pohaturoa Rock in the background. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - top left - Muriel Pringle 6/4/1904; Backing board recto - bottom right - Waikato River at Atiamuri, About 1902 Pohutaroa in Background by Thos Pringle. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 25.6 x 32.7 cm [visible image], in decoratively carved wooden frame 44.5 x 57 cm
Fifield, W. E., fl. 1930s :Plan of Rangitoto Tuhua [ms map] H.G., W.E. Fifield. [ca.1930?]
Date: 1930
By: Fifield, W E, active 1930s
Reference: MapColl-832.18cdc/[ca.1930?]/Acc.5829
Description: Hand-drawn map of the area from Taumarunui following the main trunk line and the Ongarue River northwards to Mangeokewa River to the Waikato River and Waihaha River to Waituhi. Creeks, streams and rivers are named, some marked in blue. Watersheds of the Mokau, Wanganui and Waikato Rivers are prominently marked as are land blocks and mountain peaks which include height in feet. Lines of the Taringamotu Company's Tram and the Mangapehe Tram are drawn and the map includes many references to tram formations. Directions with mileages are given to Lake Taupo. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, coloured, scale [1:63 360], 87.5 x 78.2 cm.
Newman, Frederick Hugh, 1900-1964 :[Plans for electric substations and memorial fountai...
Date: 1949 - 1953
By: Newman, Frederick Hugh, 1900-1964
Reference: Plans-2004-053-001/003
Description: Includes perspective drawings of the Whakamaru Power project, Islington substation, and for a memorial stone and fountain in Manners Street for the Methodist Church, 1939. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, sizes varying up to 520 x 765 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms Maria Newman, of Lower Hutt, in 2004. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1291.
Salmon album 11
Date: [Between 1930 and 1941]
From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints
By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999
Reference: PA1-q-207
Description: Album of photographs (mainly landscapes) taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1930 and 1941. The album is divided into sections (not in chronological order), many relating to camping holidays with an unidentified companion. Areas covered included a Christmas holiday trip in 1937 to the East Coast and thermal regions around Tikitere and Waimangu, the Morere nikau forest, Mount Maunganui beach, Hongi's track, the buried village at Te Wairoa, and Rotorua. A North Auckland trip in December 1938 included camping as far north as Paihia, Russell and Waitangi, the Waitangi Falls, the Waipoua Kauri Forest and Trounson's Kauri Park, also Auckland, the Kaingaroa Plains and Waiouru Valley. Areas of erosion were noted, and mangrove swamps. An Anniversary Day trip (22-23 January 1939) took Salmon to the Putangirua Pinnacles in the Wairarapa; and in September 1941 he went to the Hawke's Bay area. In 1945 he went on a North Island Expedition working on malaria control, with ?Bissett, and William John Phillipps. February 20-27 1939 was a trip across the Napier-Taupo Road, and included a number of images of the silt and desolation caused by a great flood in the Esk Valley in 1938. In 1936 Salmon went on a geological trip to the Rotorua area, and at Orakei Korako he was particularly interested in "sinter formations" (thermal deposits of silica, of which the Pink and White Terraces were examples). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm
Pinnell, Karen :Album of motoring tours in New Zealand
Date: ca1945-ca1955
By: Pinnell, Karen, active 2002
Reference: PA1-f-240
Description: Album of scenic photographs taken on motoring tours through the North Island during the 1940s and 1950s. It includes a series of images showing United States Servicemen touring in New Zealand, probably during World War 2. Places visited include the Chateau Tongariro, Ohinemutu, Rotorua and Huka Lodge. Mount Ruapehu is shown in eruption. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: From the collection of the Draper and Brenton families.
Photographs of the Arapuni dam, the Catlins and other views
Date: [ca 1890-1927]
From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); France, J W, active 1890s
Reference: PAColl-0348
Description: Mounted photographs by the Burton Brothers of the junction of Eden and Tees Streets, Oamaru showing St Luke's Church, shops, tram lines and part of the Council Chambers; looking down on the wharves of Port Chalmers with the Presbyterian Church in the right foreground; and the Kakahi Falls, near Tawhata on the Whanganui River. Two smaller mounted photographs of a river in the Catlins District. Three pages from a photograph album holding five photographs of the building of the Arapuni Dam on the Waikato River including the buried forest exposed by the Waikato River diversion. Three loose prints by J W France of an early settlers' cottage made of ponga with a turf roof and with the family outside; a group of six workmen standing on the road they were building with long handled shovels and a boy and a dog in front of them; and the funeral procession of Sir John MacKenzie in 1901 led by a pipe band up the main road in Oamaru working. Finally a loose print of the bridge over the Waiho River. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-68928 to 1/2-068934. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.
Creator of Collection Unknown : Postcards of Hamilton
Date: ca 1925-1935
By: Cartwright, George, active 1900s-1920s
Reference: PAColl-7240
Description: Series of postcards of Hamilton taken by G Cartwright: children swimming and playing in the lake; cars and a bus travelling along Victoria Street with shops on either side including a billiard room and a dentist; the traffic bridge, with the railway bridge in the distance over the Waikato River, with river boats moored next to it; Soldier's Park; the cenotaph; a steam train going over the railway bridge; and the traffic bridge with parkland in the foreground. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-002723 to 002729 Quantity: 6 b&w copy negative(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives
Searle album 2
Date: [Circa 1932]
By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984
Reference: PA1-f-131
Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Roland James Searle, circa 1930s. The first subject is the opening of the Wellington Citizens' War Memorial (Cenotaph), and includes a programme of the dedication and handing over on Sunday 17th April, 1932 (p 001-012). That is followed by the consecration ceremony for the National War Memorial and War Memorial Carillon (again with a copy of the programme), held on Anzac Day, April 25th, 1932 (p 015-023). Pages 029-033 show the arrival of the Wellington Jubilee Dock in 1931, the floating dock which was towed from England by two Dutch tugboats. The next sequence is entitled "The Express pulls out - Thorndon", and follows the Express to Wanganui where views show a river-boat trip up the Whanganui River (p 037-056), and include a map of historical areas on the river compiled by Annabell & Marchant, surveyors of Wanganui (p 055). The train trip is continued in the next section, and includes an illustrated diagram of the Raurimu Spiral, then arrival at the new Beach Road Auckland Railway Station. Photographs of Auckland include the Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland University, Grafton Bridge, a sailing ship at the wharves, and the Auckland Zoo. Further North there are scenes of ploughing, a mine entrance, rock formations at Waro, and the Taheke Falls; before travelling to Rotorua and the surrounding thermal regions. A number of images were taken at Whakarewarewa, including photos of Paul Thomas and his wife, along with scenes showing women washing clothes in hot pools, a woman with a baby on her back holding a rope with a food basket cooking in the pool, children in a hot pool, and men at work carving. Paul Thomas wrote to thank Searle for sending him copies of photographs (p 101, written on May 1st 1932). Later photographs again with the train often in view show timber felling and milling, and views of the Arapuni hydroelectic power station. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured grey cloth cover, entitled "Snapshots"; 28.5 x 39.0 cm
Waikato River, Cambridge
Date: [1920]
From: Andrews, N :Stereoscopic photographs
Reference: PA4-0377
Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Waikato River, Cambridge, taken ca 1920 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print
Travels of a Country Library Service Bookvan; Waikato trips, 1970s
Date: 1974, 1978
From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation
Reference: PA1-o-848
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).
Wright, Frank W, 1860-1923 :The meeting of the Waipa and Waikato Rivers, 1912 [by] F.W....
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
Colour slides 122-145
Date: 16 February - 21 March 1958
From: Tomsett, Maurice William Henry :Colour slides of New Zealand
Reference: PA12-7764
Description: Phase 7 continued - 123. Lake Taupo; 124. Waikato River, near Huka Falls (outlet of Lake Taupo); 125-128. Huka Falls (Waikato River); 129. Wairaki Geothermal Project (Gen power by nature steam); 130-131. Boiling mud; 132. Natural steam; 133. Tapped outlets; 134. Power house, housing 400 kva generator operated by steam thru 8" diam pipe at 150 lbs per square inch from depth of 1363"; 135. Boiling water run off; 136-145. Scenes of geyser valley near Wairaki, Govt run - guided tour 6/6. Boiling mud - Geysers - Extremely interesting. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.
Drummond, T M :[Map of] Maraetai showing Waipapa and Waikato River. Surveyed by T M Dru...
Date: 1915
From: Te Whaiti family : Collection
By: Drummond, Thomas McKay, 1846-1934
Reference: MapColl-832.18bje/1915/Acc.27418
Description: Shows Waipapa River and Waikato River, Waitete and Mihianga streams, Mangakino and Waione Streets. See NZMS 13 SAK 77 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colour on linen paper, 40 x 34 cm. Scale not given Transfers: From Fran Te Whaiti Papers; MS-Group-0805. Processing information: Combined into ATL-Group-00753, September 2022.
Birrell album 2
Date: [1950s]
From: Birrell, Kenneth Stewart (Dr), b 1909 :Albums of photographs taken by Kenneth Stewart Birrell
Reference: PA1-q-031
Description: Views of New Zealand with particular interest in mountain scenery, both in the North Island and the South Island. They include numbers of images of chairlifts, skiing, rivers and springs, and thermal regions in the North Island. Most of the images are colour photos, taken by Dr Ken Birrell, during the 1950s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover labelled "Photographs", 250 x 300 mm
[Creator unknown] :[Waikato catchment area] [map with ms annotations]. 1928
Date: 1928
By: Waikato Catchment Board.
Reference: MapColl-832.14cdc/1928/Acc.8562
Description: Drawn on a traced map, annotations depict watershed (water catchment) areas including lakes and rivers from Te Kohanga, Waikato River south through Orton, Opuatia, Lake Whangape, Rotongaro, Waahi, and on the West Coast, Kaawa, Neilson's (below Te Akau) and Ruapuke (Parawai Stream) north of Aotea harbour are highlighted. Bottom right corner reads:'45'. On verso, reads (faint): Waikato Catchment Board, West-Central Waikato, Raglan County. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, linen backed, part coloured, scale indeterminable, 136 x 75 cm.
Waikato Historical Society: Photographs of historical sites in the Waikato region
Date: ca1908-1958
By: Waikato Historical Society
Reference: PAColl-6505
Description: Four photographs: one of the Tattooed Rocks, west of Raglan; one of the site of the brewery of C L Janes now the garden of 2 Cook Street, Hamilton; one of River Road, Hamilton ca 1908 and another as it was in 1955. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-009920 to 009921 and 012562 to 012563 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Film negatives and a photographic print
Auckland Star album 2
Date: [1900-1910]
From: New Zealand News Ltd :Photographs from the Auckland Star
Reference: PA1-q-013
Description: Views around the Taupo Tongariro area, including Mounts Ngaruahoe and Tongariro, Huka Falls, Aratiatia Rapids, Lake Taupo and Wairakei. There is one image of the Maori interior of Tom Ryan's whare, one of the Terraces Hotel at Lake Taupo, and others of various buildings at the Spa Hotel (Taupo), including the interior of the dining room. This building was the meeting house Te Tiki o Tamamutu, purchased by John Joshua (proprietor of the Spa Hotel) for use as a smoking room and dining room for the hotel guests. Several images show unidentified Maori women in posed groups, or working with flax, and in one case a woman using a treadle sewing machine. An unidentified man is seen, in several images, fishing at pools below the Aratiatia Rapids. 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 album, labelled "This book must be returned to Mr H Brett's room"
Adkin album 20
Date: February to March 1913
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-q-003
Description: Record of a trip from Woodville to Napier and Taupo via the Napier-Taupo Road, February to March 1913. Views include Dannevirke, the upper reaches of the Manawatu River, Waipukurau Lake, Tavistock Hotel, the rail and foot bridge across the Waipawa River between Waipukurau and Waipawa, Hastings Post Office; motor and horse-drawn buses which run between Hastings and Havelock North; house under construction in Henry Street, Hastings (house named Ackworth, owned by Laurence Denton, accountant); views of Cape Kidnappers and the gannet rookery; Ed James and family at their seaside bungalow at Te Awanga; views of Napier and Ahuriri; the Taradale Road embankment over the Tutaekuri River, the Ahuriri Lagoon and mudflats; Marine Parade, Napier showing Norfolk pines, the Municipal Baths and a monument to "six brave men drowned in floods while rescuing people at Clive". Views on the Napier-Taupo Road including the Mohaka River, Tarawera Hotel in Waipunga Valley; Lake Taupo; Huka Falls; Aratiatia Rapids on the Waikato River; hot pool at the Geyser House Hotel (Wairakei) with a group of children swimming; Wairakei Geyser Valley showing geysers, and mud pools.
Events at the Ngaruawahia Regatta
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.