Waterfalls - New Zealand - Waikato Region

Date: 1989

From: [Posters concerning the environment and environmental protection. 1984-1989].

By: Brown, Nigel Roderick, 1949-; Coromandel Peninsula Watchdog; Pringle, Michael James, 1962-

Reference: Eph-C-ENVIRONMENT-1989-01

Description: Poster featuring a Nigel Brown woodcut showing two figures looking at a waterfall flanked by nikau palms. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on poster 490 x 335 mm. Provenance: One copy donated by Michael Pringle, Wellington, in 2016.

Date: ca 1969

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2896

Description: Transparencies showing views of the Huka Falls on the Waikato River, Taupō, taken by Cyril Beavis circa 1969. Also includes transparencies showing a wooden church, and several black and white transparencies showing aerial views of mountain ranges and rivers, likely in New Zealand. Transparencies showing black and white aerial views are continued at PA12-2897. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Slides delivered in housing with annotations that read "Heritage Church" and "SPANZ". Quantity: 5 colour original transparency/ies. 17 b&w original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in April 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-85.

Date: [1890s-1900s?]

From: Teale, Edmund Oswald (Sir), 1874-1971 : Birell album

By: Charles H Kerry & Company; Shearsby, A J, active 1913-1928; Star Photo Company; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA1-q-029

Description: Postcards, chiefly of Australia, including Tasmania, Adelaide, Queensland, New South Wales, with several showing various tin mines in Tasmania. There is a section of New Zealand postcards in the middle of the album, many taken by an Australian photographic company "Charles H Kerry & Co", labelled "Series 53. Hot Lakes District, New Zealand". These images are tinted, and include views of the Huka Falls, the Pink and White Terraces, Waiotapu, Ohinemutu, Whakarewarewa, Lakes Waikaremoana and Taupo, and the Aratiatia Rapids. The NZ images also include views of the Mount Cook region of the South Island, including Franz Josef Glacier, Hooker Glacier, Mounts Darwin, Sefton and Cook, and Lakes Te Anau and Wakatipu. Many of the postcards show the photographers' names, and include R C Harvey, A J Shearsby, the Star Photo Co., de Tourret, and the New Zealand Tourist Department. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown "Postcard album" with red, green and blue decoration, 285 x 240 mm

Date: ca 1915-1920

By: Arnold, John Bernard, active 1920s

Reference: PAColl-7318

Description: Photographs of: tennis courts and shops including A O Jones, draper; four general views of the town from the mountain; the waterfall; the entrance to the domain; Bald Spur Track on Te Aroha Mountain; No 8 Spring and No 1 Bathhouse; No 2 bathhouse and no 15 spring; bathhouse and spring in the Domain; Hinemoa Hotel; Cadman Baths; the Domain from Bald Spur Track; and Te Aroha Mountain. Photographer was Arnold. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003342 to 003357 Quantity: 16 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1860 - 1880 - 1865

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford and Samuel Deighton. 1860-1880]

Reference: E-926-007

Description: Shows a waterfall, with a long drop between bush in the upper half, and a shorter drop in the lower foreground. A version of this image is reproduced in See Crawford's "Recollections of travel in New Zealand and Australia ...", London, Trubner, 1880. page 139. Extended Title - From his "Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford" [1860-1880], page [7 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash drawing, 235 x 145 mm

Date: 1906-1909

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

Reference: PA1-o-1227

Description: This album is an anthology of views of Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro from 1906 to 1909, and includes a climbing trip up Mount Egmont. Included are details of the mountains such as the Crater Lake, the crater on Mount Ngauruhoe, Ngauruhoe erupting Easter 1909, climbers on the Wangaehu and Mangaehuehu glaciers, views of snow fields and peaks near the summit of Ruapehu, climbing parties, and various lakes in the area. These include Tama Lakes, Lake Rotoaira, and the Blue and Green lakes on Tongariro. There are images of waterfalls on the Makatote River, the Whakapapanui Stream, the Mangawhero River, on a branch of the Mangatoetoenui Stream, and below the Wangaehu Glacier. There are also two views of Ruapehu Hut and views of Ruapehu from the locality of Rangataua, south west of the mountain, described in the album as "Rangataua Bush" and "Rangataua lake". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1930 - 1939

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: A-383-018

Description: Shows a general view of the beginning of the falls. May possibly be Aratiatia Rapids. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - JLM Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Drypoint etching, plate 135 x 178 mm, on sheet 225 x 287 mm.

Date: 16 February - 21 March 1958

From: Tomsett, Maurice William Henry :Colour slides of New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7764

Description: Phase 7 continued - 123. Lake Taupo; 124. Waikato River, near Huka Falls (outlet of Lake Taupo); 125-128. Huka Falls (Waikato River); 129. Wairaki Geothermal Project (Gen power by nature steam); 130-131. Boiling mud; 132. Natural steam; 133. Tapped outlets; 134. Power house, housing 400 kva generator operated by steam thru 8" diam pipe at 150 lbs per square inch from depth of 1363"; 135. Boiling water run off; 136-145. Scenes of geyser valley near Wairaki, Govt run - guided tour 6/6. Boiling mud - Geysers - Extremely interesting. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: ca 1890s

From: Donne, Anne, fl 1975 :Photographs mainly of Richard John Seddon in New Zealand and the Pacific

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3329-01

Description: Photographs of: a group of people gathered to watch sports on the Queen's Birthday in Tonga including Seddon; a view of the coast at Cape Foulwind; a letter addressed to "Sire Sedone, Pirima, Neuseland" from Niue; a gathering of Tongans outside a marquee in Nuku'alofa for the Queen's birthday celebrations; Seddon and what are probably other parliamentarians standing on the steps of a building; a large totara; the Seddon family on a visit to the state schoolhouse in Levuka, Fiji; the Seddon family gathered round an ornately framed certificate noting Seddon's achievements; Huka Falls taken by the Burton Brothers; Seddon holding a taiaha seated in a group of seven working men; the recreation ground in New Plymouth looking towards Mount Taranaki; two portraits of Samoan girls; a cart travelling on the Cable Bay Road looking out over the bay taken by Tyree Studio; Lake Taupo from Motutere taken by Burton Brothers; and a group of men, possibly including Seddon, sitting and standing on the steps of a building. Other than the first six, these prints are all stuck to pages from what may have been an album. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1957

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Sketchbook]. 1956-1957.

Reference: E-485-f-016

Description: A view from a path above the Huka Falls, with the Waikato River below and a house among hills in the background Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, in sketchbook 185 x 270 mm.

Date: 1874

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :Waterfall at Waihi, Lake Taupo 1874. Roto Aera Feby 8th 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-029-032-1

Description: Shows a high waterfall descending through bush. There is a figure standing in a canoe in the right foreground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 355 x 255 mm

Date: [1900-1910]

From: New Zealand News Ltd :Photographs from the Auckland Star

Reference: PA1-q-013

Description: Views around the Taupo Tongariro area, including Mounts Ngaruahoe and Tongariro, Huka Falls, Aratiatia Rapids, Lake Taupo and Wairakei. There is one image of the Maori interior of Tom Ryan's whare, one of the Terraces Hotel at Lake Taupo, and others of various buildings at the Spa Hotel (Taupo), including the interior of the dining room. This building was the meeting house Te Tiki o Tamamutu, purchased by John Joshua (proprietor of the Spa Hotel) for use as a smoking room and dining room for the hotel guests. Several images show unidentified Maori women in posed groups, or working with flax, and in one case a woman using a treadle sewing machine. An unidentified man is seen, in several images, fishing at pools below the Aratiatia Rapids. Photographs taken by Auckland Star photographers around the turn of the 19th-20th century. Relationship complexity - Most images are represented by original negatives donated to the Library by the Auckland Star in the 1950s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cloth bound album, labelled "This book must be returned to Mr H Brett's room"

Date: 1894

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926; Grice, Elizabeth Chudleigh, 1887-1960

Reference: G-437

Description: View from the west bank of the Waikato River towards the Huka Falls, with bush and hills in the distance Inscriptions: No visible signature or date Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil painting on canvas 579 mm x 431 mm

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7814

Description: Transparency slides of Wairakei Power Station, Huka Falls, Lake Taupo, Napier and Gisborne, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: 1867-1868

From: Cooke, I V :Photographs of New Zealand and Australia

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-045

Description: Photographs taken in 1867 and 1868 by Daniel Louis Mundy. Collection comprises: moa skeletons on display in the Canterbury Museum, Maori man sitting in front of a flax plant in the Hokianga, a black pine forest in Westland, miners' whares at Tararu creek in the Thames goldfield, Punch Bowl Falls, Otira Gorge, fern trees at Governor's Bay, waterfall at Waihi at the head of lake Taupo, tramway at Moanataiari in the Thames goldfield, bush at German Bay (Akaroa), Waitohi creek in the Thames goldfield, Onoke (Hokianga), kauri forest at Wairere Stream (Hokianga), Wild Missouri and Russell's batteries at Tararu Creek, waterfalls at Banks Peninsula and Otira Gorge. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album bound in green morrocco, with gold tooling, 41.2 x 30.2 cm

By: Deverell, Walter, 1853?-1920

Reference: E-203-q-001

Description: The Huka Falls seen from below, with a suspension bridge above them. The border around the drawing is a Maori kowhaiwhai (rafter) pattern Inscriptions: Signed: W D Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink and wash sketch, with Chinese white, 127 x 152 mm

Date: 1885

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: E-964-q-005

Description: Daytime view of Okete Falls, near Raglan. The falls are the centrepoint of the painting, flowing into Okete Bay. They are framed by rocks, hills and bush Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Raglan [in ink]; Recto - bottom left - Okete Falls [in ink]; Recto - bottom right - M Wykes [in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on wove paper, 205 x 280 mm (image)

Date: 1886

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: E-964-q-015

Description: View of a tall waterfall, surrounded by trees including tree fern and cabbage trees, and dense bush. Probably Magnakara Falls in the King country Other Titles - Mangakara Falls Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Maungakara Fall [in ink]; Recto - bottom right - 1886 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on wove paper, 195 x 155 mm (image)

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Werren, Douglas John 1930-2007: Transparency slides

Reference: PA12-11325

Description: Transparency strips taken by Doug Werren, circa 1950s to 1960s. Photographs show Huka Falls, a coastal scene, and a groups of unidentified women by a car. Quantity: 2 colour original transparency/ies strips with three images. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

By: Maxwell, active 1980s; Sheehan, Grant, 1950-

Reference: PA12-10804

Description: Photographs of Lake Taupo and features in the Taupo area. Includes rock formations, waterfalls, and Mount Ruapehu. Quantity: 10 colour original transparency/ies.