Waimangu Geyser

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-386

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm

Date: ca 1917, ca 1965

By: Robinson, Ina Margaret, 1915-2006; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: PAColl-3674

Description: Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (postcards, stapled together).

Date: ca 1909

From: Berwick, S W (Mr) :Albums of New Zealand scenes and coastal towns

Reference: PA1-o-834

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1910

From: Robinson, Mr :Photograph albums containing mainly carte de visite portraits and views of New Zealand

Reference: PA1-f-063

Description: Large format photomechanical tourist views of New Zealand taken by an unidentified photographer, possibly published by Wrigglesworth & Binns in "W & B Series". Places shown are listed above. One photograph shows a young maori woman wearing a feather cloak and a hei tiki, and carrying a mere. Other Titles - Robinson III Album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 430 x 295mm rebound with blue "Library" marbled covers

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1900s]

From: Goodman, S C (Mr), fl 1975 :Photograph albums and loose prints

By: Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-q-106

Description: Album of postcard photographs from England and Europe, photographs taken by various photographers, including those with the following initials "F.F. & Co", "W", and "J V" One photograph, taken by C Spencer, is of the Waimangu Geyser in New Zealand. Album also contains two watercolours, one entitled "The reservoir near Shenstone, Warwickshire, June 28 at 2 o'clock" signed JEFG[?]. The other has no description, but is likely to be a different view of the reservoir, both with fields and trees around the water. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black leather album with silver corners (Hallmarked CPR, from Birmingham); highly decorated endpapers with small design of gold flowers; 37 x 28 cm.

Date: [1890s?]

By: Finch, Olive, 1883-1984; Cowdell, Joseph Tuffley, -1907; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hawley & Company; Iles, Arthur James, 1870-1943; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Verrall, John Miles, 1849-1921; Wilson, George Washington, 1823-1893

Reference: PA1-o-172

Description: Photograph album containing views of the South Island, including Christchurch, Diamond Lake, Otira Gorge, Bluff, Skippers Gorge, Waiau River and Hanmer. North Island views include views of Mount Tarawera after the eruption in June 1886, and views of the Pink and White Terraces before they were destroyed in the eruption. Other views show Napier, showing the first ship to berth at the new breakwater, SS Flora, on 22nd October 1895; Marine Parade in Napier; street views in Gisborne and Whangarei; Parihaka; and the Rotorua, Wairakei area with the Huka Falls, Aratiatia Rapids, and the Waimangu Geyser. Photographs taken circa 1890s, by some unidentified photographers, but many by named photographers, including Arthur James Iles (Thames), E Wheeler & Son (Christchurch), Hawley & Co (Napier). All named photographers are listed in the name sequence. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, with ornate gold decoration on spine, 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1917-1930

From: Kensington, Jacqueline :Photographs, certificates and theatre programmes relating to the Reeve and Oxley families

By: Kensington, Jacqueline, active 1995; Kensington, Iris Merle, 1905-1982

Reference: PA1-o-730

Description: A lot of Merle Reeve's relatives and friends, views of cities and towns, especially Palmerston North and Wellington, sports teams associated with Wellington Teachers College, Wellington Boys College, and All Saints Anglican Church, Palmerston North, in the late 1920s. Scenic views taken on holidays. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1907

From: Barker, Margaret, 1924-2013: Photographs

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-2090

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: c1904

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PA7-19-18

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1903 and 1906]

By: Mair, John Thomas, 1876-1959; New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts

Reference: PA1-o-321

Description: Album of scenic photographs, chiefly taken by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department, with views of the North Island and South Island. North Island scenes include a number of tourist views of Maori, showing carved meeting houses; a group performing a haka; two women demonstrating the hongi; a young woman wearing a feather cloak, hei tiki and huia feathers, and holding a mere; a group of young boys in a haka pose; a woman smoking a pipe; a group of children bathing in a hot pool at Ohinemutu; and Mr. Nelson's carved house at Whakarewarewa. Other North Island scenes show Mount Taranaki, the Auckland wharves, Lake Waikaremoana, and a man fishing at the Ohau Channel, Rotorua. South Island views cover Lakes Wakatipu, Manapouri and Te Anau; the Tasman Glacier; peaks in the Southern Alps; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; a team of four horses with a laden Cobb & Co coach on a ferry, crossing the Mangahua [i.e. Inangahua] River, the Lyell River Bridge and Hawks Crag, all in the Buller Gorge. The last few images are exterior and interior views of the Dunedin Railway Station soon after it was finished in 1906. Inscriptions: Album page - John T. Mair, Wellington, New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured black cover, entitled `Photographs' lettered in gold; 26.0 x 31.5 cm

Date: 1917

By: McKinney, N D, active 1993

Reference: PAColl-3377

Description: Includes two photographs of ruined building Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope. Physical Description: Photoprint 102 x 65mm

Date: [Circa 1890s-1900s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Skeen & Co.; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: Pa1-o-517

Description: Album of photographs taken by various photographers many of whom are unidentified. Photographs are seen on pages 1-31, with pages 32-50 unused. Colombo is shown in the first part of the album, and includes street scenes, the "Old Colombo Lighthouse", the Galle Face Hotel(?), views of outrigger fishing canoes, carts drawn by humped cattle, "padda" boats on a canal, and a group of young Sri Lankan women. The second part of the album contains views of New Zealand, chiefly in the thermal regions with views of Ohinemutu, Hamurana Springs, the Poutuhu Geyser, Waimangu Geyser, the "Fairy bath" at Okoroire and the "Okoroire Natural Bridge Rapids". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, darker red corners and spine; 24.0 x 31.5 cm

Date: 1959

From: Mueller family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0448-41

Description: Concerns two talks, `Waimangu Geyser' and `Early Rotorua' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1955-1956]

From: McComb, Kevin James, 1932-2012: Slides taken around New Zealand

Reference: PA12-11491

Description: Transparency slides showing North Island scenes taken by Kevin James McComb in circa 1955 to 1956, while on a roadtrip around New Zealand. Series of photographs show Tasman Pulp and Paper Mill at Kawerau with images including wood preparation plant, chlorine plant, lime "re burning and W'house", woodchip storage silos, sawmill, water treatment plant, a crane, general office, and the mill cafeteria after it was destroyed by fire. Also images of the surrounding hills and farmland. These images are dated January 1955 as well as January 1956. A group of men drinking in room at Rotorua Grand Hotel "Kawerau Elect. Dinner" in November 1955 are identified as Bob, Trever Evans, George, Ray Sullivan, Norman Choules, and Jim Coomber. Another image of the Grand Hotel at this time shows the dining room, table settings, and staff in uniform (including "Shirley Anne"). Also contains one image of Waimangu Geyser and surrounding bush and another of Cathedral Cliffs and Frying Pan Lake; two images of Lake Okataina with buildings, wharves, and boats (one taken from a boat, the other from the shore); and an image of Ron Whitlock lying on a bed at the Central Hotel in Auckland. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour film phototransparencies in card mounts

Date: 1921, 1924, 1925

From: Swinley, John, 1949-: Photographs and serials

By: Berger, Arthur, 1871-1946

Reference: fMS-Papers-12904

Description: Comprises serials relating to Rātana and the Rātana band's tour of Europe. Includes: - 'Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung' (28 February 1925), the cover featuring a photograph taken by Max Schirner of the Rātana band; - 'Illustrierte Kronen Zeitung' (19 May 1921), the cover image showing an illustration featuring Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana by Austrian illustrator Ladislaus Tuszyński; - 'Uhu' (Heft 2, November 1924), containing an article by Arthur Berger about his visit to the Waimangu Thermal Valley after the Tarawera eruption. Also includes photocopies made by Library staff of translations provided by the donor. The Rātana band toured Europe in 1924 and 1925. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) Containing three serials and one typescript.. Physical Description: Three magazine publications of varying sizes, printed in multicolour inks, containing graphic and photographic illustrations; and one typescript document. Processing information: Translations provided by the donor have been photocopied onto acid free paper for reasons of storage and preservation and housed with the items. Description updated 21 August 2023 following information provided by the donor.

Date: 1906

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to sewing machines. 1900-1909]

By: Singer Sewing Machine Company; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-SEWING-MACHINES-1906-01

Description: Circular booklet promoting Singer sewing machines, The back cover has the statement "The Singer seam unites New Zealand". Both front and back covers show different illustrations of a woman in a classical draped gown with a sewing machine and a map of New Zealand. The inside front cover lists the four different types of stitch including vibrating shuttle, oscillating shuttle, and automatic chain stitch. The inside pages show photographs of the Christchurch Exhibition Building, the Avon River, Queenstown, Waimangu Geyser, and portrait of several Māori. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Chromolithographs and photolithographs in circular booklet of 8 pages, diameter 115 mm.

Date: [Circa 1910s]

From: Starke, June, 1923-2006: Photographs

By: New Zealand. Government Tourist Bureau

Reference: PA1-o-476

Description: Album of photographs which include 12 pages of views of Scotland and one postcard of the memorial cairn at Culloden. They include views in and around Inverness, including the Caledonian Canal and Culloden. Pages 13-34 show photographs of New Zealand, chiefly taken by the New Zealand Government Tourist Bureau. Scenic views of the South Island are mostly in the Southern Alps, Southern Lakes district and the Buller Gorge; and in the North Island they are mostly in the central volcanic area around Wairakei, Taupo and Whakarewarewa, and also include views of the Whanganui River One of the images shows young Maori women heating kettles and cooking food in hot pools at Whakarewarewa Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 22 x 28 cm

Date: [ca 1927]-[ca 1943]

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927; Goldie, Charles Frederick, 1870-1947

Reference: PA1-f-124

Description: Album of newspaper and magazine cuttings, photographs, and prints of paintings in colour and black & white, mostly of Maori subjects, with some images of geographically interesting sites in New Zealand, including Mount Tongariro, Lake Waikaremoana, and the Waimangu Crater. The Maori material includes prints of paintings by Goldie, and prints of paintings of Maori by T. Ryan, some of which are copies of works by Goldie. There is a print of a painting by T. Ryan, showing Tomika Te Mutu, painting done from an original sketch by Horatio Gordon Robley. There are many publicity photographs of Maori, showing clothing, particularly cloaks, and showing various activities in Maori pa, including weaving, firelighting, poi dances, and waka poi. Also includes images of Maori waka on the Waikato River; 2 pages of Maori rock carvings, found in a cave shelter on the Kaingaroa Plains in 1926, and one on Maori god-sticks (Pou whakapakoko).

From: Creator unknown :Photographs depicting areas of New Zealand

By: Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA7-21-09

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Circa 1900s-1910s]

By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA1-o-365

Description: Album showing various aspects of New Zealand life in cities, on farms, and in industries such as gold and coal mining, the timber industry, dairy industry, and flax industry. Other images focus on New Zealand scenery ranging throughout the North Island and the South Island. Photographers are mostly unidentified, but groups who are named are A. Northwood, and the New Zealand Tourist Department. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Album identical in content to that at PA1-o-364. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon covers, entitled `New Zealand'; 24 x 30 cm