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Date: 1882

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

Reference: E-328-f-100

Description: A view of Rotomahana from the foot of the Pink Terrace showing a Maori canoe at the edge of the lake Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Rotomahana (Warm Lake) from foot of Pink Terrace Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 150 x 205 mm

Date: 1862 - 1967 - 1864

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-012

Description: Shows two huts beside and end of the lake, one with a group of six Maori (probably three men and three women) five of them seated, in front of it. At the entrance way to the other a hut man is about to enter carrying a flat bowl with steam rising from it. In the centre foreground is a three?-legged cauldron. In the lake water at right a figure stands at the back of a canoe. There is a grassy island in the lake and beyond is flat-rolling land partly covered with bush. Original watercolour, entitled "Lake Papaitonga" at B-004-030. Other Titles - Lake Papaitonga. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Print no. 633 / Serial 11. 1967; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 242 x 380 mm, on sheet 450 x 570 mm.

Date: ca 14 January 1991

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

By: Reid, Philip John, 1954-

Reference: EP/1991/0099

Description: The Kurahaupo waka being paddled on Lake Horowhenua as part of the Kurahaupo Waka Festival. Photographed on the weekend before 14th January 1991 by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1862 - 1967 - 1864

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-012-b

Description: Shows two huts beside and end of the lake, one with a group of six Maori (probably three men and three women) five of them seated, in front of it. At the entrance way to the other a hut man is about to enter carrying a flat bowl with steam rising from it. In the centre foreground is a three?-legged cauldron. In the lake water at right a figure stands at the back of a canoe. There is a grassy island in the lake and beyond is flat-rolling land partly covered with bush. Original watercolour, entitled "Lake Papaitonga" at B-004-030. Other Titles - Lake Papaitonga. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Print no. 23/ Serial 11. 1967; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 242 x 380 mm, on sheet 450 x 570 mm.

Date: 1843 - 1840 - 1841

By: Day & Haghe (Firm)

Reference: B-187-009

Description: Shows a group of Maori at the edge of Lake Taupo, with a long palisade running along the waterfront to the left. Tongariro and Ruapehu mountains are in the distance. Another copy at PUBL-0007-331 Other Titles - Ruapehu Extended Title - From "Travels in New Zealand", by Ernest Dieffenbach. London, John Murray, 1843. Volume 1, opposite page 331. Merrett joined Dieffenbach and his party at Taupo. See the journal of Ensign Best, edited by N Taylor. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 130 x 192 mm (sight)

Date: 1890

By: New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal; Star Lithographic Works

Reference: C-060-020-a

Description: Identifies features of the landscape, and shows a large Maori canoe beached in front of a decorated whare in the left foreground. Maori men, women and children populate the waterfront. The three volcanoes are in the background, with Ngauruhoe steaming. The view looks south along the lake Supplement to: New Zealand graphic, 20 Dec 1890 Extended Title - View of the southern shore. Auckland New Zealand Graphic, 1890 (Auckland ; Star Lithographic Works) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, coloured, on card 300 x 485 mm

Date: 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-026

Description: A scene on Lake Papaitonga, showing trees around the lake, a Maori canoe and the pataka, Te Takinga, on the property of Sir Walter Buller. The view looks west towards the Tararua Range Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Papaitonga Lake. Sept 1899 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

Date: 1886

From: Smith, Maurice Crompton, 1864-1953 : Tarawera eruption, 1886

By: Blythe, John Cunningham, -1892; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: PA1-o-122

Description: Photographs mostly taken in the area of Mount Tarawera after the 1886 eruption, showing the extreme changes to the landscape. Chiefly taken by Charles Spencer and J C Blythe, members of the survey party led by Stephenson Percy Smith. Some are taken by photographer Josaiah Martin [possibly not a member of the survey team]. The album includes one image of a boiling acid lake on White Island. A hand-printed index can be found at the beginning of the album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green linen cover with dark green leather spine and coners, spine title "Photographs. Tarawera eruption 1886. Presented by M. Crompton Smith. Vol. 15". 26 x 31 cm

Date: 1862 - 1967 - 1864

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-012-a

Description: Shows two huts beside and end of the lake, one with a group of six Maori (probably three men and three women) five of them seated, in front of it. At the entrance way to the other a hut man is about to enter carrying a flat bowl with steam rising from it. In the centre foreground is a three?-legged cauldron. In the lake water at right a figure stands at the back of a canoe. There is a grassy island in the lake and beyond is flat-rolling land partly covered with bush. Original watercolour, entitled "Lake Papaitonga" at B-004-030. Other Titles - Lake Papaitonga. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Print no. 634 / Serial 11. 1967; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 242 x 380 mm, on sheet 450 x 570 mm.

Date: 1957 - 1958

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

Reference: A-060-095

Description: Shows an empty canoe on Lake Tarawera. The wakawairua, a portent of death to all who saw it and a sign that all that region would be overwhelmed. It was thought to be the tohunga Tuhoto. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Ink, 147 x 200 cm on sheet 190 x 280 cm

Date: 1855 - 1890

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-084-007

Description: Shows a view of the lake with a canoe with a triangular sail. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Wash sketch, 178 x 254 mm

Date: 1960 - 1965

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973 :Old homes & sheds, farms made by pioneers in Norsewood. [1950s-1964].

Reference: E-029-q-140

Description: Shows a young woman or girl in a blue dress and wearing a white necklace and earrings sitting in a waka. The waka is resting on grass with ferns and bush behind, in the vicinity of Lake Rotoiti. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour 245 x 315 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist available.. Provenance: Donated by Mrs J. Brenkley in 1964.

Date: [ca 1870s-1890s]

From: Bridge family :Photograph albums

By: Anson Brothers (Firm); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Pulman (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-271

Description: Views of New Zealand, England, Australia and Canada, associated with family of Charles Joseph Bridge (d 1876), settler at Homebrook, near Lake Ellesmere; and his son, Charles Hastings Bridge. Includes pressed flowers and leaves, a coloured sketch of a rowing boat on a river lined with willow trees. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Henry Hugh Chapman 1881; Henry Walter Bridge 1886 Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1870 - 1971

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Palette Products Ltd

Reference: C-084-003

Description: Shows two canoes on the lake and some figures standing in left foreground. In the left middle distance are some huts on land projecting into the lake. There are snowy mountains behind. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph 351 x 608 mm on sheet 487 x 734 mm

Date: 8 June 1926

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-q-002-072

Description: Taueki family fishing for eels on Lake Horowhenua aboard the Hamaria canoe, the last war canoe on the lake. Photograph taken 6 June 1926 by G L Adkin. Album piece is from has been digitised and surrogates are available at Library reference PA1-q-002. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - 72 & 73. The Hamaria canoe - the last of the old war-canoes on lake Horowhenua, now used by the Taueki family for eel-spearing. Length cof canoe about 60 ft. 8.6.26 Arrangement: Image in PA1-q-002 on page 15 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 8.5 x 15.3 cm, mounted on album page

Date: 1862 - 1864

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :[Lake Papaitonga; Maori woman carrying child; man with bird. ca 1863].

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

Reference: B-004-030-1

Description: Shows two huts beside and end of the lake, one with a group of six Maori (probably three men and three women) five of them seated, in front of it. At the entrance way to the other a hut man is about to enter carrying a flat bowl with steam rising from it. In the centre foreground is a three?-legged cauldron. In the lake water at right a figure stands at the back of a canoe. There is a grassy island in the lake and beyond is flat-rolling land partly covered with bush. Reader in 2005 suggests that this picture may show the Mahoenui kainga, burnt down in 1873, by Muaupoko tribe. Verso shows pencil sketch of Maori woman carrying child beneath cape, and unfinished sketch of man with bird. Original watercolour for photolithographic prints at C-028-012/012-b. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - Horowhenua / Papaitonga; Unsigned and undated. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, on recto of sheet 270 x 415 mm.

Date: [ca 1908]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001457-G

Description: View of Lake Roturua and boats moored at the lake edge. In the immediate foreground is a waka; Mokoia Island can be seen in the distance. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, ca 1908. Note on back of file print `Foreshore Rotorua Te Matou area'. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Lake Roturua. 1042 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1874

By: Chapman, Ernest Arthur, 1847-1933

Reference: B-035-012

Description: Shows the White Terraces descending from the top left, with Lake Rotomahana in the right distance. In the foreground lake is a canoe containing five seated figures. Other Titles - Rotomahana Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 355 mm.

Date: ca 1920-30s

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-046222-G

Description: Scene alongside Lake Virginia, Wanganui, photographed by Sydney Charles Smith circa 1920s-30s. Looks over flax bushes and cabbage trees towards the lake. Shows a monument on a hill at the edge of the lake, consisting of a waka stood on one end and decorated inside with kowhaiwhai pattens. A gazebo is further in the distance. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - right of image - SCS Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1882

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: G-633

Description: A pre-eruption view of Lake Rotokakahi (Green Lake) shows the Maori village of Kaiteriria. In the left foreground a group of Maori is seated on the ground beside a raised storehouse (pataka), with several other pataka and whare further away. There is a stake fence between the pataka and the whare, as well as another pataka on the headland reaching away into the lake. Three figures sit in a waka with a small rectangular sail at lower right. The island or headland at the far right has a flat top which may be a pa site. There are bare steep hills on the far side of the lake. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - top centre - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - C Blomfield. 1882 Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 420 x 672 mm (sight)