Volcanoes - New Zealand

Date: [ca 1904-ca 1979]

From: Stuart, Henrietta, fl 1950s :Postcard albums

Reference: PA1-q-1011

Description: Most of the cards date from ca 1904 to ca 1920. New Zealand cities and towns are represented, including many notable buildings, monuments, and parks. Tourist destinations like Lake Wakatipu, the Whanganui river, and thermal areas feature. One group depict native forest as scenery. There are also memorial cards, the largest number for Richard Seddon, and one for T E Taylor Mayor of Christchurch. One card is of the famous female cross dresser and con-man/woman, Amy Bock. Two cards depict champion New Zealand rowers, Richard Arnst, William Webb, George Whelch, and W Fogwell. Several of the greeting cards, which are scattered throughout the album, depict Maoriland maidens. Another group of cards feature sheep, in flocks on the road, crossing bridges, and at pasture. There is also a group of cattle beasts including highland cattle. Thermal areas include Whakarewarewa, steaming cliffs on Lake Rotomahana, and Waimangu. Volcanoes include Mount Ngauruhoe erupting, Mount Ruapehu, and Mount Egmont. There are also views of the Southern Alps, and one view of the Franz Josef Glacier. Places include Queenstown, Geraldine, Blenheim, New Plymouth, Stewart Island, Lake Wakatipu, Waihi Beach, Hawera, Waiau Gorge, Rotorua, Wellington, The Chateau, Queen Charlotte Sound, Dunedin, Bay of Islands, Christchurch, Buller River, Wanganui, Invercargill, Russel, Auckland, Timaru, Oamaru, Ashburton, Nelson, Napier, Picton, Port Chalmers, Hanmer Springs, Lake Manapouri, Hamilton, Waipukarau, Milton, and Balclutha. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1923

From: Panoramic photographs of New Zealand taken by R P Moore

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-241

Description: Print from same negative (landscape area) as PA6-225. PA6-225 has dramatic cloudscape superimposed in sky area. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1904-1973

From: Stuart, Henrietta, fl 1950s :Postcard albums

Reference: PA1-q-1010

Description: Most of the cards date from 1904 to 1914. New Zealand cities and towns are represented, including many notable buildings. Tourist destinations like Lake Wakatipu, the Whanganui river, and Milford Sound feature. One group relate to trams in Invercargill and Wellington, with a photograph from the 1950s of a horse drawn tram in an unidentified town. There is also one photograph of a dairy factory and the milk arriving in wagons. The largest group of town images relate to Palmerston North, most dating from about 1908. The largest group of post cards in the album are all sorts of greeting cards, many of which are hand coloured. Places represented include Christchurch, Hanmer Springs, Invercargill, Wellington, Governors Bay, Rotorua, Pigeon Bay, Lake Wakatipu, Napier, Dunedin, Te Aroha, Skippers Gorge, Hastings, Lyttelton, Milford Sound, Lake Taupo, Waimate, Kawau Island, Whanganui River, Timaru, Oamaru, White Island, New Plymouth, Paekakariki, Akaroa, Palmerston North, Westport, and Hamilton. There are also some cards from Australia, the United States, and Britain. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1923-1928

From: Panoramic photographs of New Zealand taken by R P Moore

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-234

Description: Print from same negative as PA6-242 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1904-1970]

From: Stuart, Henrietta, fl 1950s :Postcard albums

Reference: PA1-q-1020

Description: Most of the cards date from ca 1904 to ca 1920. They include cities and towns, buildings, and scenic views including some of the thermal areas. Other postcards include - Two memorial cards for Richard Seddon. Three portraits of, and pyjamas belonging to, Amy Bock. Nurse Maud and a young supporter, Festival Queen, Christchurch, 1915. Gathering of the Hawke's Bay Hunt. Greeting and novelty postcards include greetings from - Wanganui. Christchurch. Auckland. Gore. Maoriland. Novelty cards include - Cartoon of Sir Joseph Ward in London. Name card "Bessie." Colour cartoon "I have just arrived in Dunedin." card "We are buzzing round Invercargill." Cartoon "Wash day in the Garden of Eden." Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1923

From: Panoramic photographs of New Zealand taken by R P Moore

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-225

Description: Print from same negative (landscape area) as PA6-241. PA6-241 does not have cloudscape superimposed in sky area. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1970 - 1979

By: Wellington (N.Z.). City Council; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: Eph-D-PARKS-Tongariro-1970s-01

Description: Poster shows a photographic image of a skier pausing to look out over a snowy area towards a snow-covered and steaming Mount Ngauruhoe. There is an inset photograph of a summer-flowering gentian at lower left. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographic print, 685 x 480 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Margaret Hurst, Wellington, in 2005.

Date: 1885-1886

By: Mason, George Edward (Rev), 1847-1928

Reference: PA1-f-253

Description: Album of photographs collected by Rev G E Mason on a trip around the world in 1885-1886. Comprises photographs of California, Tasmania, Sydney, Ceylon, Egypt and New Zealand. In 1884 the Bishop of Lichfield recieved a request from the bishops of Christchurch and Auckland, New Zealand, to send clergy to conduct missions in their dioceses. To this end he invited Rev G E Mason, and Rev Charles Bodington to do the job. The two clegymen left Liverpool for the United States on the 4th of July 1885, spent a summer in New Zealand, and returned to England in September 1886. (Info from "Round the Round World on a Church Mission," Rev G E Mason, Society for the promotion of Christian knowledge, London, 1892). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchase, 2005 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive.

Date: [ca 1904-ca 1970]

From: Stuart, Henrietta, fl 1950s :Postcard albums

Reference: PA1-q-1016

Description: Classic scenic postcards of New Zealand. The bulk of the views are combinations of rivers, sounds, native forest, Lakes, coasts, bays with or with out sail boats, public gardens, mountains (especially the Southern Alps), Harbours and ports. Less well represented are volcanoes, thermal regions, glaciers, and pastoral views. There are some views of cities and towns, but not many. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

By: Apse, Andris, 1942-

Reference: PA12-11481

Description: Photographs of a harbour, and a view of Mount Ruapehu. Quantity: 3 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1918, 1919

From: Hill, Henry Thomas, 1849-1933 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0172-045

Description: Includes articles on the moa and volcanoes and earthquakes Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1840

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: A-146-002

Description: Shows a lake scene (Te Whanga Lagoon) with two ducks in the water and two shags on a branch in the foreground, a canoe on the lake in right distance. Across the lake is a distinctive volcanic cone hill with smaller peaks further in the distance. Tree ferns, a cabbage tree and other trees are nearby, with flax flowering on the strip of land in the foreground The volcanic peak shown may be Te Ranga, close to the South-west corner of Te Whanga Lagoon Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Portfolio D; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Chas Heaphy Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen drawing 132 x 355 mm on sheet 221 x 368 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company collection. Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull, from Francis Edwards, London, 1915.

Date: ca 25 September 1995

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

By: Simcox, Craig, active 1983

Reference: EP-Science-Geology-Volcanoes and volcanic eruptions-01

Description: Mudflows and a steam plume at Mount Ruapehu, photographed ca 25th September 1995 by Evening Post staff photographer Craig Simcox. Arrangement: Negative at EP/1995/3987B Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler print 30.5 x 20.4 cm

Date: [ca 1854]

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891

Reference: B-200-023

Description: An unidentified landscape, probably depicting the volcanic plateau of the North Island as viewed looking east. Mounts Ngauruhoe and Tongariro appear to be smoking. The middle ground shows thick forest leading towards the foothills; in the foreground, two Māori men have set up camp on a river bank. A bridge crossing the river can be seen behind them, with another figure, probably also Māori, upon it. Jeanine Graham's book 'Frederick Weld' (Christchurch: Whitcoulls Ltd., 1983)mentions that in October 1854, Weld and fellow MP James Stuart-Wortley travelled through the volcanic plateau region of the North Island (p.43). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - F.A.W [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 255 x 355, adhered to card 330 x 425 mm Provenance: Acquired by the vendor from a market in the small town of Knislinge, Sweden; purchase price unknown.