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195 x 140 mm. A view looking along a small stream, with trees on either side.

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204 x 145 mm. A view looking down from a small settlement and across the lake, with mountains in the distance. In the foreground stand a few farm buildings and some cleared land.

Scope and Contents 198 x 147 mm. A view of the collapsed Pink Terrace, destroyed in the volcanic eruption and subsequent earthquakes of June 1886. Mt Tarawera believed even by the Maoris to be extinct, killed 153 people, submerged the Pink and White terraces and caused enormous devastation over hundreds of square miles.For photographs of the terraces before their destruction, and descriptions of the phenomena see D.L. Mundy’s ‘Rotomahana and the Boiling Springs of New Zealand’ (Sampson Low, London...

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186 x 148 mm. A view looking from the lake towards the terraces, with steam rising from the geyser behind.

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198 x 147 mm. A view looking down on Port Chalmers, with Otago Harbour in the background. The picture gives a good view of the layout of this as yet small settlement, with streets running off outwards from the curving beach. Port Chalmers lies 9 miles north-east of Dunedin.

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194 x 144 mm. A view looking across the inlet, with a mountain visible in the distance beyond the far shore. Preservation Inlet lies at the extreme south western tip of the South Island and is now part of the Fiordland National Park.

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206 x 140 mm. A view along the lakeside looking towards the geysers and mineral terraces from which steam is rising. For other pictures and for contemporary descriptions of these phenomena, which were largely destroyed in the eruption of 1886, see Y308B/99-104, New Zealand postcards 100-111 and Y308A/131.

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187 x 148 mm. A view looking across one of the boiling pools of mud in the Rotomahana district, with hills in the background.

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191 x 143 mm. A view looking down on to the town, with houses built right down to the beach. A steamer is moored to a jetty in the harbour. The original town of Russell (named after Lord John Russell, Secretary of State for the Colonies) was destroyed by fire in 1842 and never rebuilt, and the use of the name Russell here applies to Kororareka, an older nearby settlement and port.

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193 x 139 mm. A view looking down on the road through the gorge, with a small wooden bridge in the foreground. The snow-capped mountain in the background is possibly Mt. Sealey.

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194 x 138 mm. A view looking along the river with steep, wooded hillsides reaching down to the water and a snow-clad mountain in the distance. Exact location unknown.

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142 x 205 mm. A view showing the steep hill which the line ascends (the machinery and freight trucks at the top of the incline can be seen in Y3089E/26). The operating procedure is unclear.

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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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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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.