Camps - New Zealand - Waikato Region

Date: 1920 - 1929

By: Turner, E J Dorothy, 1885-1958

Reference: A-104-023

Description: A tent and an adult and child building a campfire in the left foreground with tall trees to the right, the lake in the background Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 101 x 89 mm (platemark) on sheet 131 x 115 mm

Date: 1841 - 1847

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-077

Description: Four drawings on one page. At the top, a frontal view of a seated Maori man with facial moko. Below on the left, 'Tutaka moana near Taupo' shows a tent near a small lake among bush-clad hills. Below right, a circular bay, looking out past headlands towards Lake Taupo. Below, centre 'A young chief of Tautari's tribe, Wakatane' shows a standing young man wrapped in a cloak. Other Titles - Whakatane Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of four drawings, various media

Date: 1848

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-004

Description: View from a bank, with two tents in the foreground. A European man in a top hat stands, surrounded by Maori, one attending to a fire in a drum, one holding a spear. Possibly below the Huka Falls, with a high hill beyond. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of sepia ink and wash drawing

Date: [1910s or 1920s?]

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: A-472-026

Description: Sketch copy of Richard Taylor's 'Our encampment, November 29, 1845'. Shows a site at Arohenua with three small tents amongst the limestone formations, with tall hills in the background, including one with a distinctive limestone pillar on its top. There is a toetoe in the foreground. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Camp Nov 29, 1845 [in pencil]; Recto - top left - D [Maclean?] Rev T. Taylor [in pencil] Similar images at E-296-q-123-1 and B-075-013-1. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 250 x 195 mm Transfers: Drawing removed from PAColl-10460-19..

Date: 1881

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: A-174-032

Description: Shows a large tent pitched on flat land, a camp fire burning in front of it and a pair of boots in the foreground. A group of trees is behind Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash 125 x 255 mm on sheet 230 x 290 mm Processing information: Location updated on 8 November 2023 to reflect an official update in the extent of the geographic name Rangiriri.

Date: 1853

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Hawkins, C W (Mr), active 1960s

Reference: A-138-041

Description: View from a hill above Coromandel looking down at the curve of the waterfront, with cottages, tents, sailing ships and canoes, the hills south of Coromandel in the distance The watercolour was also reproduced as a wood engraving in the Illustrated London news, vol 23, no. 656, p. 465, 3 December 1853. The copyist is possibly the donor, C. W. Hawkins. The conference held at Coromandel in 1853 was between Maori chiefs and Lieutenant-Governor Wynyard, concerning the purchase of the land containing the Coromandel goldfields. Kikowhakarere Bay is now the site of modern Coromandel township. Other Titles - Committee at Pata Pata, Coromandel Harbour. A copy of a watercolour by Charles Heaphy 'Committee at Papa Pata, Coromandel Harbour, 1853' a watercolour in the collection of the British Library, reference number Add. MS 19954, folio 7 (7). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing 80 x 130 mm

Date: 1881

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Australasian views [New Zealand scenes] [ca 1880]

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908

Reference: E-052-q-008

Description: A river in the foreground, with a pontoon-type ferry holding men and horses crossing it. A paddle-steamer and another boat to the left. Across the river are tents and a number of huts with a steep hill to the right. Shows the Waihou River with Dibsell's Landing at the foot of Rolleston Street, Te Aroha Reproduced in: New Zealand's heritage, (1970), part 20, p. 558, with title Riverside settlement with tents and huts and a horse being ferried across the river The landing, on the banks of the Waihou River in Te Aroha, was thought to be originally a crossing place used by Maori. A Mr William Dibsell, an employee of Josiah Clifton Firth, established himself at the landing in 1879 and opened a general store and a licensed house of accommodation. A Mr Everitt later established a punt crossing here, then moved the crossing to the foot of Bridge Street, Te Aroha, with a punt large enough to take across a wagon and team of horses. Other Titles - Riverside settlement with tents and huts [former title] A photograph of the same spot taken about 1881 by Foy Brothers, of Thames, has the central building identified as the Waihou Hotel. The photograph comes from the Firth Family Collection MS Papers 1491 Folder 7 (negative 1/2-111449, copy in Turnbull Library Pictures under 15. Piako Co. Te Aroha) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white on paper 137 x 200 mm mounted into sketchbook

Date: 1845

By: Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873

Reference: B-075-013-1

Description: Three small tents amongst limestone formations, with tall hills in the background, including one with a distinctive limstone pillar on its top. There is a toetoe in the foreground. Shows the site at a small kainga Arohena (Arouena); cf. Taylor's diary entry (in qMs sequence), and same scene in his sketchbook (E-296-q-123-1) The centre of three drawings on the same sheet (418 x 263 mm) with: Waterfall at Hoperiki [Operiki, Whanganui River], and A natural logan rock. The Library holds another rougher version of the same drawing in Taylor's album (E-296-q). It bears the same inscription and date and shows the same limestone rock formations, tall hills, a river and three small tents. Like the drawing at B-075-013-1, it also has below it a view of a limestone rock formation, titled A natural rocking stone Other Titles - Arohena Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title. Also at foot of sheet: "Sketches on journey of D. Maclean and Rev. R. Taylor 1845" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 108 x 198 mm Provenance: An attached and partially legible sheet of paper reads: Given to Maj. F. B. Bulkeley, 65th ...& ... Given by Heaphy and Von Tempsky. and by him taken to England & given to S H K B Coates by Maj. Chas Bulkeley. [Major Charles Bulkeley was the father of Francis Beaumaris Bulkeley of the 65th Regiment]

Date: 1863 - 1867

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: A-234-012

Description: Four slab huts with raupo thatched roofs and slab chimneys in a clearing in New Zealand bush, with tree ferns and cabbage trees, as well as other large trees and dense bush in the background. There is a high rocky bluff to the right and tall hills in the background. Smoke is coming from the chimneys of the left- and right-most huts, there are steps leading to the central hut and the right-hand hut has a woman in a red skirt standing in the doorway. The top of the chimney for this last hut is formed by a barrel. Bush combined with rock formations suggest the Coromandel district, visited by Hoyte during the gold-mining era. The settlement is likely to be of semi-permanent miners' huts. Other Titles - Early settlers' camp. [title in auction catalogue] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J.C.Hoyte Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white 156 x 336 mm

Date: 1868

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: C-052-009

Description: Shows the tunnel entrances to a gold mine on the left, with three miners outside, one carrying a shovel. Tree ferns and the smoke from a fire, then a goldminers' tent with two men and a small fire, centre foreground. Hills and a plain with the Waihou and Piako rivers in the distance In folder 2: Letter by L C Lloyd (11/5/1970) confirming attribution, and sketch-map showing probable area where painted. (Copy on 3/1/1/) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & chinese white, 317 x 542 mm Provenance: Previously owned by a dealer in Palmerston North, who had purchased the painting for $38 circa 1970, from the Start Family, Napier, who had purchased it at a market in Napier in the 1930s or 1940s for £1 or £2. The painting sat over the mantelpiece in the Start family home for many years. (pre-auction information from Mr Brian Start, pers. comm. 27. 8. 1987).

Date: 1864

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-044

Description: Shows three men with horses camped below the huge rock on the Waikato-Taupo road Other Titles - Pohaturoa Rock Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 235 x 315 mm Provenance: Wilkie Family Collection

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0545-F

Description: Images show scenes from a workers camp, possibly at Putaruru, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show men with a car being towed, accomodation blocks, and female visitors to camp with infant children. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0546-F

Description: Images show grandmother and infant child at a workers camp, possibly Putaruru, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show kuia with woollen blanket draped around her and the infant carried on her back. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 1845

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-123-1

Description: Shows site at Arohena (Arouena); cf. Taylor's diary entry (in qMs sequence), and same scene in his sketchbook (E-296-q-123-1) Compare a very similar sketch at B-075-013-1 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia ink, 90 x 145 mm

Date: 1884

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Photographs and papers

Reference: 1/1-025747-G

Description: Armed Constabulary camp at Puti Point, Kawhia, showing four tents and a wooden building. Photographed 1884 by William Williams. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative