Adkin album 07

Date
Circa 1900s
Reference
PA1-f-003
Description

Album of black & white photographs taken during the early 1900s, showing geological formations in New Zealand. They include images of the Banks Peninsula, Sumner, Heathcote-Avon Estuary, Lyttelton Harbour, and the Halswell River, in several sequences in the album; flooding of the Koputaroa Stream at Levin, on 4 December 1906; Lake Horowhenua; Paekakariki Coast; the Wairarapa, including Orongorongo Valley, Wharekauhau Stream, Wainuiomata, Palliser Bay, Mukamuka Valley, Eglinton's Hut; Tongariro National Park area, including Waiouru (in which the stables of Crowther & McCauley coach services are visible), the source of the Waikato River at the gorge and waterfall of the Mangatoetoenui Stream; Mount Ruapehu, crater lake, the Waihohonu Hut, Te Heuheu Peak, Flounder Glacier and Waikato Glacier; Mount Ngauruhoe, slopes and craters and the source of the Ohinepango Stream; Mount Tongariro, Ketetahi Springs and Ketetahi Hut, craters and crater lakes including the Red crater, and Blue and Green Lakes

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Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
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Gorge and waterfall of Mangatoetoenui Stream, Taupo district

Date: [190-?]

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

Reference: PA1-f-003-101

Description: Gorge and waterfall of Mangatoetoenui Stream, Taupo district, as seen from the Waiouru-Tokaanu Road. Photograph taken circa 190-? by George Leslie Adkin. Source of descriptive information - Inscription on album page. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Fig 101. Gorge and fall of Mangatoetoenui Stream - the Ruapehu source of the Waikato River - viewed from the Waiouru-Tokaanu Road. Drifting pumice-sands of the Onetapu Desert in foreground and on right. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 11 x 14.4, on album page

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Scene at the foot of the northern slope of Tongariro, with Ketetahi Hut

Date: [190-?]

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

Reference: PA1-f-003-136

Description: Scene at the foot of the northern slope of Tongariro, including Ketetahi Hut. Photograph taken circa early 1900s by George Leslie Adkin. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Fig 136. Ketetahi Hut, situated on the grass-steppe belt at the foot of the northern slope of Tongariro. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 11 x 15.5, on album page