Scope and Contents 200 x 144 mm. A view showing the entrance to an elaborate meeting house at Thames, a town S.E. of Auckland on the Firth of Thames. These carved houses, or ‘Whare Whakairo’, embodied an elaborate symbolism in their construction: the house is named after a revered ancestor, and each part of the house is then considered a representation of part of that ancestor’s body: the rafters his ribs, the window his eyes, the ‘kokoru’, the carved frontal effigy, his face, etc. Wirope Hoterini Taipari...

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198 x 146 mm. A view looking across the Thames River towards a bridge leading to the town of Te Aroha. With mountains in the background.

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198 x 147 mm. A view looking across the river towards the town of Te Aroha, which lies about 30 miles south of Thames.

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199 x 147 mm. A view looking out through trees towards the cultivated plain of the Thames Valley.

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194 x 140 mm. A view looking across the River Avon towards the hospital, a cluster of building with mock-tudor timbering.

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194 x 144 mm. A view showing the lawn and the wooden palace, a two storey building with verandahs and a tower. On the lawn some kind of gathering is in progress, mainly attended by Europeans.

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435 x 335 mm. A mounted print showing the river at the bottom of the gorge, with thick woods on either bank. A print made by one of the permanent processes, and part of a series produced by Burton Bros., Dunedin, entitled ‘New Zealand through the Camera’.

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191 x 142 mm. A view looking up towards the mountain range with the Kawarau River in the foreground. ‘The Remarkables’ are a spectacular range to the east of Queenstown, which rise to a height of 7688 ft at Double Cone.

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210 x 148 mm. A view of the top of the terrace, with steam rising from the geyser (not visible).

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194 x 139 mm. A view looking along a river valley with steep wooded hillside rising on either side.

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198 x 142 mm. A view showing wooden buildings with thatched roofs in Vavau.

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196 x 142 mm. A view from the land looking out over the harbour, with a steamship in the middle of the picture. Copyright registered Aug 21st 1899.

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197 x 146 mm. A view showing the buildings along the waterfront at Vavau.

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193 x 140 mm. A view looking towards land and showing the inlet to the harbour at Vavau. Copyright registered 21 Aug. 1899.

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194 x 141 mm. A view looking down from a wooded hillside on to the beach and estuary at Waiwera, with a large house standing near the beach. Waiwera, which lies on the east coast just north of Auckland, is an area of hot thermal springs and was developed as a tourist area by Robert Graham (c 1820-1885), the man who also gave his name to Grahamstown.

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198 x 147 mm. A view of Waiwera from the other side of the bay, and taken from the seashore, with a man sitting on a rock looking across towards the house seen in Y3089E/31.

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198 x 147 mm. A similar photograph to Y3089E/31, taken from a slightly different place on the hillside.

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199 x 145 mm. A view taken from slightly further inland showing the cultivated backgarden of the large house and more of the estuary which is crossed by a bridge in Y3089E/31.

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148 x 199 mm. A view looking seaward, with palms and vegetation in the foreground and a small island visible in the bay.

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202 x 143 mm. A view showing the winches and freight trucks of a railway which drops down a steep incline (seen Y3089E/28). Presumably connected with a mining venture of some kind, it is difficult to determine the specific use of the trucks.

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198 x 147 mm. A view looking across the railway incline seen in Plate 28 towards a small settlement in the valley beyond.

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196 x 143 mm. A view looking across the harbour at Apia, with Samoan craft in the foreground, and three unidentified men-of-war at anchor beyond. Probably taken during the 1899 crisis.

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183 x 145 mm. A view looking down from the hill behind the city on to Te Aro Flat, Lambton Harbour and Port Nicholson, with Mt Victoria in the background. For other photographs of Wellington taken from a similar position in the 1870s by James Bragge, see Y308B/93-98.

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199 x 144 mm. A view looking down on the Wellington suburbs behind Te Aro Flat and the Harbour. At this time they are just reaching the foothills of Mt Victoria.

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203 x 144 mm. A view of the cup-like formations produced by the minerals ejected by the geyser above.