Tents - New Zealand - Hawke's Bay Region

Date: [ca 1903]

By: Rowntree, William Walter, 1873?-1945; Rowntree, John Burgess, 1906-1986

Reference: PA1-o-442

Description: Album of photographs taken by W W Rowntree. They cover a journey between Wairoa and Taupo, travelling on foot with a packhorse, and with two companions between Taihape and Wairoa. The album includes two envelopes with loose photographs, one contains one photograph of a Maori family seated on the ground in front of a thatched building, and the other contains four photographs entitled "Waikaremoana" in pencil on the envelope. Three of these show groups of Maori, and one shows the lake. A handwritten slip inserted in the front of the album gives the following information: "The exact location of Maori homes not known. Note storehouse in actual use; totara bark (?); thatch (in loose photo); Mokau Falls; track at Hopuruahine Bluffs; men's dress (one man wearing a waistcoat with fob watch chain, p 16); Maori boy holding a camera; Earthquake Gully; a road around a lake; Crow's Nest Geyser etc" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, embossed title which reads `Photographs'; 16 x 18 cm Provenance: Donated by John Rowntree, Auckland

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1166-F

Description: Panoramic view of Lake Waikaremoana with Ship Rock on the right. Three men are beside a tent far right; there is a large group of men and women in a launch on the left with a rowing boat beside it, and another group of 3 or 4 men and women are standing on a road above the lake on far left. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Lake W. Ship's Rock; Photographer's title on negative - Lake Waikaremoana. New Zealand. Ship Rock on right. No. 202 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 123.5 cm

Date: ca 1903

From: Brown, Thomas Watson, 1878-1947 :Photograph albums relating to New Zealanders in the South African War and of New Zealand scenes

By: New Zealand. Tourism Department; Pringle, Thomas, 1858-1931

Reference: PA1-o-075-24-1

Description: Camp at Opourahine Inlet, Lake Waikaremoana, circa 1903. Shows group of Maori and Pakeha men, and a dog with a tent, with a campfire in the foreground. Hurae Puketapu is standing at left. W A Neale is seated second from left. New Zealand Government Tourist Department photograph. Photographer probably Thomas Pringle. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Opourahine Inlet. Lake Waikaremoana; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - New Zealand Government Tourist Department Protected No 1139 7.1.03 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15 x 20 cm, on album page 22.8 x 29 cm

Date: May 1912

From: Evans, Charles Hellier Davis, 1873-1956 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-221-23

Description: General view of 9th Mounted Rifles Tutira Camp. View consists of tents, horses, and men in open landscape. Photographed by Charles Sorrell May 1912. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - General view 9th Mounted Rifles Tutira Camp May 1912. Sorrell Photo Napier. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 45 x 14.7 cm, on album page

Date: [ca 1920]

From: Bibby, Edward Stuart, 1896-1991: Collection

Reference: PAColl-5636-1-49

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer circa 1920 showing Mary Glover Bibby, her son Ron, and her nephew Eric Baker in a tent by the Bibby family bach at Kairakau Beach, Hawke's Bay. Inscription verso reads "Mother, Ron, Eric Baker". There is a small ink stamp verso for "Leigh & Tyerman [Chemists and Photo Dealers] Waipawa", who were likely responsible for developing the photograph. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, 6.4 x 10.7 cm.