Papakura Geyser

Date: [ca 18 October 1986]

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

By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978

Reference: EP/1986/5200-F

Description: Carl Leonard, a guide at Whakarewarewa, poses at the site of the extinct Papakura Geyser. Photographs taken ca 18 October 1986 by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1957 - 1958

From: [Turner, Dennis Knight], 1924-2011 :[Illustrations for Legends of Rotorua and the hot lakes. 1958?]

Reference: A-060-053

Description: Shows three boys in a canoe on the Puarenga Stream looking at the Papakura geyser as they paddle past Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Ink, 200 x 270 cm on sheet 259 x 329 cm

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-045446-G

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

Date: [Circa 1910s-1930s]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Joachim, Mary Eleanor, 1874-1957; Theomin, Dorothy Michaelis, 1888-1966

Reference: PAColl-0959-37

Description: Alpine views in the South Island, taken by Miss Joachim (nos. 1-19) and Miss Theomin (nos. 20-50). There are two North Island views taken by Miss Joachim (Papakura Geyser (no. 2), and Mokoia Island in Lake Rotorua (no. 9)). Included in this box is a two-page letter to "Mr. Kennedy" signed by Dorothy Theomin. She starts off "I am always so very [proud when you think any of my films are worth turning into slides that I feel the "kindness" is all on your side for the honour you do me in using them...". She also refers to Peter Graham, Mr. Chas. Buchanan and a Mrs. Bickerton. There are also two pages, partially in Miss Theomin's hand-writing, describing a few of her images, though the numbering system in these notes, the pencilled numbers (possibly given by W. A. Kennedy) and the numbers in the typescript inventory all differ from one another. Most of the places identified are listed above. Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: [ca 1908]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001484-G

Description: View of the Papakura Geyser at Whakarewarewa. There is a stream in the immediate foreground and the geyser can be seen in the distance beyond the stream and scrub. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Papakura Geyser. Whakarewarewa. 1708 William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [189-?]

Reference: PAColl-8829

Description: Photograph of Papakura Geyser at Whakarewarewa, circa 1890s. Photographer undentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on print mount. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.5 x 19.7 cm, on mount

Date: 1916

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0582-1/2-G

Description: Papakura Geyser at Whakarewarewa. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1916. Dated from other images in the Godber Album at PA1-q-102. Original print at Pa1-q-102 (Godber Album, Vol 109, p 38) Inscriptions: Album page - Papakura Geyser. Whakarewarewa. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [192-?]

By: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PAColl-9000

Description: Photograph of the Papakura Geyser, Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, taken by by Sydney Charles Smith, circa 1920s. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Papakura Geyser, Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, N.Z. R.27 Photo S.C.Smith Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 13.6 x 8.5 cm (postcard)