Crater lakes

Date: [ca 1940s-1950s]

By: Anderson, Cecil R, active 1940s; Ashburton Museum

Reference: PAColl-9442

Description: Photographs of Mount Ruapheu erupting, Pohutu Geyser, and aircraft, taken ca 1950s by Cecil R Anderson of Ashburton Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1906

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Ruapehu eruption sketchbook. 1902-1908].

Reference: E-599-029/030

Description: A sketch showing onlooers at the crater lake two days after an eruption, with several descriptive annotations. A note at lower left says that the eruption took place on Thursday 15 March 1906, at 11.45 a.m. Notes indicate the peak Para te Taitonga at top right. At lower right a note says: "Deep holes caused through hot stones falling on ice, sulphur deposit around edges of holes". Other notes indicate: glacier and snow, ice, black deposit, solid ice cliffs, milky grey-blue water, steam amd yellow fumes, black hummocks of deposit 4-5 feet high, lake boiling. Other Titles - 17 March 1906 Extended Title - From his Ruapehu eruption sketchbook. 1902-1908, pages 29-30. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on double page spread in sketchbook, 135 x 346 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2002.

Date: 1913

By: New Zealand weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: C-065-013

Description: A coloured photograph showing a geyser erupting, observed my a man standing by a lake or the sea Supplement to: The Weekly News. Special Christmas number 1913 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 571 x 406 mm

Date: 8 March 1894

From: Cowan family: Collection

By: Allen, George Frederic, 1837-1929

Reference: A-472-008

Description: Watercolour depicting view of Crater Lake on Mount Ruapehu showing rocks and snow. The artist has painted himself into the image. There are two figures standing on the peak. Handritten text below the image reads "Sketched from a point inside the crater on the North side, about 50 feet above the level of the water, on March 8 1984 - Mr Blacket's photo taken from the opposite side of the crater, was done about a year before. Mr Dunnage's first photo taken from the opposite side of the crater, was done about a week after this sketch. His second photo taken from the opposite side of the crater was done in April 1895 soon after the erruption of March 10 1895. The black blot in the left foreground is my head. The two figures on the ridge on the left are Mr Willis and my son Frank. The little stream with a waterfall is just over my head, behind the sharp little rocky peak and between it and the snow-field. The high South peak "(the second peak from the South)" is the rock a little to the left of the centre, against the sky-line." Inscriptions: Verso - top left - Return to Geo. Fred. Allen. [in ink]; Recto - top left - 14 [in pencil]; Recto - beneath image - Sketched by Geo. Fred. Allen 3pm March 8, 1984 [in ink]; Recto - beneath image - {Te-wai-o-moe / The water of sleep} [in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 100 x 175 mm adhered to card 172 x 226 mm Transfers: Watercolour was removed from PAColl-10460-09 for housing purposes..

Date: [Circa 1906 to 1909]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, Charles Tenison, active 1906-1910

Reference: PA1-o-455

Description: Photographs taken by Charles Tenison Salmon about 1906 to 1909. Images include views of the Ohakune/Horopito Road, a Christmas camp in the bush at Ohakune, the volcanic eruption of Mount Ngauruhoe in April 1909, and views taken when traversing the Tongariro National Park. Some photographs show Charles and Marie Salmon in the bush, and one shows three climbers, Charles T. Salmon, Edward Phillips Turner and Hugh Girdlestone. Views on the Ohakune-Horopito Road show a team of horses pulling an empty dray, and one of a group of people waiting while their carriage crosses a ford on the Mangatoetoenui River. Other - Negatives are held of these images Inscriptions: Album page - Photographs taken by Charles T. Salmon, about 1906-1909 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 19.5 x 26.5 cm

Date: 1947

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

Reference: E-710-008

Description: A volcanic mountain outline viewed across a lake or flat land. May be Ruapehu's crater lake, or more probably Mount Ngauruhoe and one of the Tama Lakes Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook, page size 122 x 102 mm

Date: 1958 to 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8810

Description: Transparency slides of New Zealand selected by Mr Williams as a representative collection to be used in a series of lectures on his return to England. This group includes both slides Mr Williams took himself, and slides he purchased. This sheet shows a sheep drover on horseback with a pack horse and two dogs herding a flock of sheep near Gisborne; a woman sitting on a tree stump overlooking Lake Taupo and the mountains; fumarole vents near Lake Taupo; the Chateau Tongariro on Mount Ruapehu; a man standing beside the Crater Lake on Ruapehu; Mount Ngauruhoe; a garden in New Plymouth; a distant view of the house "Tupare" near new Plymouth; Mount Egmont; views on the road to Tokaora; railway line running through the centre of Palmerston North; the Manawatu Gorge; a street in Masterton; the Wairarapa plains and sheep farms; a stand of cabbage trees; dry riverbed of the Putangirua River en route to the Putangirua Pinnacles, and a view of the Pinnacles. The slides are not in his original numerical sequence, and are selected by subject relating to particular talks. Arrangement: These slides were selected by Mr Williams from his original sequence to create a representative collection of New Zealand images which he used in illustrated lectures on his return to England. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1913

By: New Zealand weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: C-065-013-a

Description: A coloured photograph showing a geyser erupting, observed my a man standing by a lake or the sea Supplement to: The Weekly News. Special Christmas number 1913 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 571 x 406 mm

Date: 1923-1928

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

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-205

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

Date: 1939

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1281

Description: Crater Lake, Mount Ruapehu. Print with hand-applied colouring made from a negative taken 9 October 1964 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print with hand-applied colouring, mounted on board, 68 x 38 cm

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Papers and diaries

Reference: MS-Papers-0261-06/08

Description: Includes diagrams

Date: 1886

From: Smith, Maurice Crompton, 1864-1953 : Tarawera eruption, 1886

Reference: PA1-o-122-51

Description: New crater lake at Mount Tarawera after the 1886 eruption, and members of Stephenson Percy Smith's survey party in the foreground. Photograph taken in 1886 by Charles Spencer. Other Titles - The new lake - Rotomakariri Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - The new lake - Rotomakariri; Embossed, bottom centre of photograph: Charles Spencer Photographer Near the site of the former Lake Rotomakariri? Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 13.5 x 20.1 cm, on album page

Date: Apr 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-27678-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: Apr 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-27677-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: [26 October 1900]

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: PA1-q-633-42-1

Description: A crater lake on Sunday Island, in the Kermadecs group. Blue Lake is the foreground. Green Lake is to the right. Photograph taken 26 October 1900 by Malcolm Ross. Dated from PA1-f-143 Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - A Crater Lake in Sunday Island Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 109 x 152 mm mounted on album page 253 x 314 mm

Date: 26 Apr 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-12966-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: [192-?]

From: Thorley, W H :Photographs

Reference: 1/2-070123-F

Description: Scene with crater lake, snow, ice, and rock formations, Mount Ruapehu. Photograph taken circa 1920s by W H Thorley. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date and photographer from information at PAColl-3689. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [192-?]

From: Thorley, W H :Photographs

Reference: 1/2-070107-F

Description: Scene with crater lake, snow, ice, and rock formations, Mount Ruapehu. Photograph taken circa 1920s by W H Thorley. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date and photographer from information at PAColl-3689. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1886

From: Kirk, Thomas William, 1856-1936: Photograph album

By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA1-q-138-007

Description: View of echo Lake [probably Lake Rotomahana] and the Hole in the Wall Crater. The rift through Mount Tarawera can be seen in the background and the countryside is covered wity volcanic ash and mud. Photographed by George Dobson Valentine in 1886 Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Soon after eruption of 1886; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Echo Lake and Hole in the Wall Crater. Rotomahana. 140. G.V. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: Jun 1958

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1958/2181-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches