Camping - New Zealand - Bay of Plenty Region

Date: ca 1880-1900

By: Digglemann, Albert, active 1906; Stewart, George Vesey, 1832?-1920

Reference: PAColl-7253

Description: Tents scattered through the Katikati Domain with some people on the beach during the christmas holidays. Photograph taken by Albert Digglemann and sent by George Vesey Stewart, chairman (of the Katikati Highway Board and District School Committee amongst others). Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Kate Kate Domain - at the Kate Kate Heads showing some of the tents of the camping party at Xmas holidays Photo by Mr A Digglemann of Kate Kate and sent by Geo, Vesey Stewart Chairman Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1890 - 1899

Reference: A-192-007

Description: A night scene at the foot of cliffs and a pool, with a camp fire in the left foreground by a makeshift tent Other Titles - Mangorewa River Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 203 x 126 mm

Date: 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2245-F

Description: Panoramic view, probably of the Matapihi Railway Bridge, Waipu Bay and Tauranga Harbour. There is a large camping ground in the foreground with many tents and marquees including a big circular tent on the right. Crowds of people on the beach behind the tents. Another collection of tents across the bridge on the left. Cars and trucks parked in a field on the far right. A tent in the foreground has the letters "C.D.M.S." printed on the roof. Stacks of wood piled up, smoke from a coupld of fires. Fields of corn in the foreground between tents. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Source of descriptive information - Location and date from other images with some similarities taken by R P Moore Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 105.4 cm

Date: 1934-1935

From: Borra, Jeffrey, 1958-: Photographs taken and collected by the Borra family

By: Borra, Attilio, 1904-1983

Reference: PA1-o-2054

Description: Photograph album of photographs taken or collected by the Borra family in 1934 and 1935, many likely taken by Attilio Borra. Photographs show people camping, scenery in the North Island of New Zealand, a cricket team, and people at the D P Fisher staff picnic in 1935. Inscriptions on the back of some of the photographs indicate that some were taken at Christmas 1934 and Christmas 1935. Places photographed include the Arapuni Spillway, Rotorua thermal areas and lakes, Whakarewarewa village, Waiotapu thermal area, Pukekura Park in New Plymouth, Cape Kidnappers, Castle Point lighthouse, and the Napier Soundshell. Some photographs have been removed from the album. Title supplied by Library. D P Fisher was an engineering firm in Wigan Street, Wellington. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 62 photographs. Physical Description: Bound album, 19 x 28 cm; front cover is missing.

Date: [196-?]

From: Goodall, Gladys Mary, 1908-2015: Scenic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: GG-02-0466-1

Description: Elevated view of the Mount Maunganui motor camp and beach. Photograph taken 1960s by Gladys M Goodall. Publication Note - Published by Whitcombe & Tombs as postcard WT912 Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparency 10 x 12.4 cm

Date: [Circa 1920s]

From: McCormack, Leonora, 1925-: Albums and photographic prints of the Harding family

Reference: PA1-q-152

Description: Photographs associated with the Harding family of Hawke's Bay. None of the people are identified. Most of the images are holiday scenes, showing camping, fishing, and touring around various sites in the North Island. Many show areas around the Waikato River, the thermal regions around Rotorua, and Lake Waikaremoana. Inscriptions: Album page - Menzies, PO Box 235, Hastings, H.B. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photographs in a dark green `Minute book' with red spine; 33.5 x 21.0 cm

Date: 1880

By: Graphic (London, England)

Reference: A-433-008

Description: Seven scenes in one engraving showing: On the road [Seven travellers on horseback with a packhorse and two dogs] Crossing [Travellers and riders beginning to cross a river] Camping out [Travellers beside a camp fire at dusk] [St]ampede [The horses take fright] The ferry [European travellers get rowed across water while their horses swim behind] 30 miles downstream [European men do the rowing of their companions including two women] Rotomahana Springs [A gentleman in a tartan skirt holds a large melon, while his companions and Maori men soak in hot pools. Two Maori cook a pot over a campfire] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on page 400 x 295 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, May 2010.