Places

Date: [Between 1940 and 1942]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-o-564

Description: Scenic views of Cambridge, the lake at Hamilton, Puketeraki, Piha, and the farm `Rozel' near Ohaupo, interspersed with portraits of family and friends, chiefly taken by Rhoda McWhannell. One photograph shows Rhoda McWhannell's parents (William Duncan Ross McCurdie and Olga Mariquita McCurdie) reading congratulatory messages on their Golden Wedding Anniversary. This album gives the date as 1942, but a previous album gives it as 1941. Rex Hamilton, Bill Hewett and Frederick McWhannell are photographed in military uniform. Photographs of people identified only by surname are Mrs Bowler, Dr Gower and Dr Gribben. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with pale green and cream marbled cover, pale green spine and cord; 20.5 x 24.5 cm

Date: 1860 - 1900

By: Mair, Gilbert, 1843-1923; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-081-001/006

Description: Sketches depicting incidents arising out of a taua or raiding party visiting Parawera settlement to exact revenge after a case of adultery. The marae, various groupings of iwi, dances, fights, haka, horseriding, and competitions are depicted, along with a visit from the police. The Parawera group were Ngati Apakura, Te Wherowhero's iwi, and the visitors in search of payment were Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Hourua and Ngati Koroki. Ngati Haua are also mentioned in one sketch. Quantity: 6 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper ca 230 x 320 mm Provenance: Given to Alexander Turnbull in 1913 by Gilbert Mair. See covering letter of 17 November 1913 in MS 57, Folder 64. A typescript copy is held with the drawings in Box A-081. Mair ironically compares the artist to the French portraitist of Napoleon, Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier

Date: 1912-1913

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-o-1223

Description: There are three general groups of images in this album. The first records a holiday to the Volcanic Plateau, taken by a group of men over Christmas 1912, where they climbed Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro. The story starts with the group outside the 14 miles stables where they hired a wagon to transport them into the mountains. The route they took was from the north eastern side of Ruapehu to the Waihohonu Hut situated between Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe. They climbed Te Heu Heu Peak and then trekked across the snow to the Crater Lake returning to Waihohonu Hut and a dip in the Waihohonu Stream. The next day they set out for Mounts Ngarauhoe and Tongariro. They paused at the source of the northern branch of the Waihohonu Stream on their way to climb to the crater of Ngarauhoe. By the end of the day they reached the Ketetahi Hut on the northern slopes of Tongariro near the Ketetahi Springs. The next day they tramped out via Lake Rotoaira to Tokaanu where they set up camp on the shores of Lake Taupo. The Party then moved north to Wairakei and Rotorua taking in stops at the Huka falls and the Aratiatia Rapids. From Rotorua they returned to Wellington by train. The next group records a hunting trip into what is today the Haurangi State Forest Park in the south eastern Wairarapa in February 1913. There are views of the camp with Girdlestone's mother and another woman visiting. The area depicted is in the valley of the Turanganui River and the surrounding hills. Images include native forest views, a forest fire, hunting pigs with dogs, riding horses, the corpses of wild pigs, groves of Karaka trees, and partly cleared land. The third group of images are of social and sporting events associated with two houses. In both cases the sport depicted is men and women playing tennis. Other images include a child driving a peddle car, views of the "Devon" wrecked on the rocks at Pencarrow Head 25th of August 1913, and women and children with horses. The last image in the album is that of a young woman writing as she holds a telephone reciever to her ear. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: Between 1958 and 1983

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8850

Description: These slides are entitled "Rozel. Illustrations for journal". They include views of eucalyptus trees, lemon and grapfruit trees, their dog "Wee Dug", their 1951 Austin A40 car, a clematis ("Travellers' Joy") and the house. One picture taken in Cambridge shows an old red pillar box; smoke over a swamp fire in the distance; the Rukuhia Swamp; clouds over Pirongia; Waikato landscape and clouds; a young boy with a prize-winning calf; Horneman's farm at Ohaupo; a group identified only by Christian name ( Percy, Lindley, Joyce and Mr Spencer at Rozel), Gubbins oaks at Rozel, and oak blossom. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: Between March 1923 and October 1940

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-q-275

Description: Album of photographs showing the progress made by Frederick McWhannell and his wife Rhoda McWhannell, from breaking in the land in 1923, including felling scrub, to a fully functional farm with cows, sheep, pigs, and areas of forestry. Various activities are shown in detail, including hay-making and ensilage; planting trees including eucalypts, pinus insignis, lausoniana; building a water tank from scratch; creating a tennis court from scratch; and the development of the house garden. Most of the people shown are wither not identified, or only by Christian name. William Duncan Ross McCurdie (Rhoda McWhannell's father) has been identified from comparison with photographs in an earlier album (PA1-o-552) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover; 39.5 x 26.5 cm

Date: 1930

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-1-063

Description: Nob Goile (left, with rifle) and Cyril Rutland (right, with knife) with a wild pig at the mine clearing, Mokau River, after a successful hunt, photographed in 1930 by Robert E Wells. Their dog is at the right. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Mokau River 1930. A successful pig hunt at the Mine Clearing - opposite Old Mine - Nob Goile on left, Cyril Rutland on right. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 11.8 x 15.9 cm

Date: 1937 - 1952

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Bledisloe, Charles Bathurst, Viscount, 1867-1958; Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Richards, Robert Samuel, active 1951; Weigel, William George, 1890-1980

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-031

Description: Photographs of the South Island, 1937 to 1952, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of Campbell Island in 1931 and views of the southern lakes and glaciers. Photographers include Thelma Kent, Eric W. Bierre, Lord Bledisloe, A E Graham, Lloyd Wilson, W G Weigel and W Hall Raine. Quantity: 61 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1800-1850], 1898

By: Osborne, John D, active 1978

Reference: MS-Papers-11789

Description: Comprises copies of ships' logs made by American whalers and Royal Navy ships at Mercury Bay and Coromandel, including information compiled by Osborne; also letter of thanks to Dr Erson re his role in the Dog Tax War at Rawene (1898) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (19 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss (photocopies)

Date: Between 1957 and 1982

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8849

Description: Views of the gardens and trees at Rozel, the forest farm owned by Mac (Frederick Brayshaw McWhannell) and Rhoda McWhannell. They include the entrance, the Rozel nursery, eucalyptus trees, Judas trees in bloom, a royal oak and oak blossom, and pinus radiata bloom. One image shows Fred, Merta and Robert (Frederick McWhannell, Merta and Robert Alford); and another shows three men identified only by their Christian names (Ross, Jock and Cliff). The last ten slides are entitled "Rozel. Illustrations for journal". They include views of the house, poplars, "Wee Dug" their dog, a croquet match played on Anzac Day 1961, sweet oranges, lemons and lemon blossom, Japanese maples, George (?) and a Judas tree. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: [Between 1880 and 1887]

From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district

By: Hemus & Hanna (Firm)

Reference: 1/1-001887-G

Description: Ngāti Hauā group at Te Wai o Turongo meeting house at Waharoa, near Matamata. Seated in the centre of the group is Hohua Ahowhenua (d 1889). Photograph taken between 1880 and 1887 by Hemus & Hanna of Auckland. Other - Note that 1/2-018166 is a similar image This negative is part of a sequence which includes a portrait of Hohua Ahowhenua which was commissioned by Josiah Clifton Firth. The original negatives for these images, which are now part of the Alexander Turnbull Library collections, are dry plates, which would indicate that they were taken after 1880, but before Firth's departure from his Matamata estate in July 1887. In "Nation making" (pp 260-261) Firth states that after his departure Hohua was abandoned in the runanga house by his people. This photograph would appear to have been taken before this. The negatives form part of the collection of Herman Schmidt. Schmidt in 1904 took over the studio of Hemus & Hanna, who are therefore most likely to have taken the images. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1876

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-106-023

Description: Shows two Maori figures walking along a track in the foreground, bush and scrub in the middle distance, and a view of Mount Tauhara in the distance. The two figures are carrying bundles and a dog is following them. Glued to modern backing board. Accompanied with inscribed title (not in the hand of the artist, and probably copied from inscription on original backing or from verso of work) Other Titles - Tauhara Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed and dated. Also initials C D B faintly, lower left Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on canvas paper, 178 x 253 mm. Provenance: Previously sold at McArthur's Auction, Auckland in April 1985, lot 44.

Date: 1933

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-25304-G

Description: Marutuna and her husband seated with their dogs beside an Austin 7 car, Orakeikarako. Photograph taken by Leo White in 1933. Source of descriptive information - Subject identified by descendant Marutuna was the sister of Pitiroi of Tuwharetoa Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder Yellow 04, Maori Studies A.

Date: [Between 1880 and 1887]

From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district

By: Hemus & Hanna (Firm)

Reference: 1/1-001906-G

Description: Ngāti Hauā group at Te Wai o Turongo meeting house at Waharoa, near Matamata. Seated in the centre of the group is Hohua Ahowhenua (d 1889). The name "Hohaia" inscribed on the maihi refers to Josiah Clifton Firth, who owned large estates near Matamata. Photograph taken between 1880 and 1887 by Hemus & Hanna of Auckland. This negative is part of a sequence which includes a portrait of Hohua Ahowhenua which was commissioned by Josiah Clifton Firth. The original negatives for these images, which are now part of the Alexander Turnbull Library collections, are dry plates, which would indicate that they were taken after 1880, but before Firth's departure from his Matamata estate in July 1887. In "Nation making" (pp 260-261) Firth states that after his departure Hohua was abandoned in the runanga house by his people. This photograph would appear to have been taken before this. The negatives form part of the collection of Herman Schmidt. Schmidt in 1904 took over the studio of Hemus & Hanna, who are therefore most likely to have taken the images. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1930

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-1-102

Description: Nob Goile (left, with rifle) and Cyril Rutland (right, with knife) with a wild pig at the mine clearing, Mokau River, after a successful hunt, photographed in 1930 by Robert E Wells. Their dog is at the right. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 8 x 10.5 cm

Date: [Between 1880 and 1887]

From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district

By: Hemus & Hanna (Firm)

Reference: 1/1-010217-G

Description: Ngāti Hauā group at Te Wai o Turongo meeting house at Waharoa, near Matamata. Seated in the centre of the group is Hohua Ahowhenua (d 1889). The name "Hohaia" inscribed on the maihi refers to Josiah Clifton Firth, who owned large estates near Matamata. Photograph taken between 1880 and 1887 by Hemus & Hanna of Auckland. This negative is part of a sequence which includes a portrait of Hohua Ahowhenua which was commissioned by Josiah Clifton Firth. The original negatives for these images, which are now part of the Alexander Turnbull Library collections, are dry plates, which would indicate that they were taken after 1880, but before Firth's departure from his Matamata estate in July 1887. In "Nation making" (pp 260-261) Firth states that after his departure Hohua was abandoned in the runanga house by his people. This photograph would appear to have been taken before this. The negatives form part of the collection of Herman Schmidt. Schmidt in 1904 took over the studio of Hemus & Hanna, who are therefore most likely to have taken the images. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [1864?]

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-043

Description: Shows a tall carved gateway on the left, with a group of Maori centre and a pataka (storehouse) on the right; Ruapehu and Tongariro beyond lake in distance. The two children in the foreground are holding kete (flax kits) and there is a dog beneath the carved gateway. There is a flagpole in front of the pataka. There is a watercolour from a similar view, also by Fox, in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia (Ref. no. NK 564). A European traveller is shown in the Australian watercolour, the groups of Maori are different, there is a cooking fire in the centre foreground, flax baskets in front of the pataka, and the pataka is facing the viewer. A photograph of the Australian watercolour is in Drawings & Prints, under the same title as the Alexander Turnbull Library's watercolour. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 234 x 340 mm