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50 x 75 mm. A view of a ship at harbour. A sign before it reads 'Stop!! Danger'.

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56 x 74 mm. A view showing a small rocky river.

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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.

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Album of mostly 80 x 54 mm prints. There is a brief list describing items 1-98, which document the trip from Southampton to South Africa, travel in South Africa, and the visit to Southern Rhodesia. Many photos do not appear in the exact numerical order given in the listing. The rest of the images are uncaptioned, but their general locations have been identified by reference to the diary RCMS 353/1.

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60 x 40 mm.
1-11, 15-17 By Henry Winkelmann (1861-1931) who was a leading photographer in Auckland from the 1890s. Numbers 6 and 11 were issued with Golden Floss Cigarettes and the remainder with White Ensign Cigarettes. They all have titles on their fronts.
12-14 From a series of 50, 'Beautiful New Zealand', issued with Three Castles Virginia Cigarettes, taken by the New Zealand Government Publicity Office, and have printed descriptions on the backs.

Scope and Contents The compiler and provenance of this photograph album are unknown. It captures a diverse range of subjects and places. Captions have been reproduced as they appear in the album. The majority of photographs relate to New Zealand and most are the work of Arthur James Isles (1870-1943), probably the son of the Oamaru photographer James Isles. Arthur Isles established a studio at Thames in the early 1890s and later settled in Rotorua. He exhibited at the Christchurch International Exhibition of...

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A collection of loose prints (probably originally 12), measuring approximately 80 x 60 mm and captioned in the negative. The prints are a commercial souvenir set contained in a printed envelope, published by R.C. Griffiths of Queenstown.

Scope and Contents An album containing mounted prints of various sizes, most prints captioned in an ornate script. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. The album contains photographs from Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia, and is split into somewhat haphazard sections:1-50 Sydney...

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64 x 42 mm. A view showing tour members picnicking in the New Zealand countryside.

Scope and Contents Undated postcards, envelopes and photographs containing images from New Zealand. The pictures include the War Canoe Race, tattooed Maori, 'tiki', South African postmen, a pictorial Christmas message and Robley surrounded by dried heads. There is also a painting by Robley of the 'Hongi or old Nose Salute'. The images are accompanied by a letter from Robley to the Secretary, Royal Colonial Institute, June 1920, enclosing a postcard with an original painting of a tiki and offering various...

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196 x 141 mm A view of the Pink Terrace from Lake Rotomahana. For a contemporary description of the terraces see Y308B/99 and Y308A/131. For pictures of the area before and after it was destroyed in the eruption of 1886 see New Zealand Postcards 100-111.

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198 x 146 mm. A close-up view of the encrusted formations on some of the cups on the Pink Terrace.

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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201 x 143 mm. A view of the Pink Terrace cascade with the lake in the foreground and steam rising from the geyser behind. For other pictures and descriptions of these formations, and the eruptions that destroyed them, see Y308B09-104, Y308A131 and New Zealand Postcards 100-111.

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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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62 x 41 mm. A view showing a carved wooden food store in the model pah [Maori fortified village] at Whakarewarewa.

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57 x 74mm. A view looking down onto a bubbling mud pool, the 'poached eggs' of the title referring to the shapes made by the bubbling mud.

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55 x 75 mm.

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85 x 140 mm.

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350 x 250 mm. No print.

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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.

Scope and Contents 360 x 295 mm. A view from a hill overlooking the town, with Otago Harbour and Quarantine Island in the background. Although the town has been roughly laid out, it has still not grown to any great size, consisting mainly of small bungalows and gardens with a few larger houses here and there. In the foreground a small narrow gauge railway line can be seen, probably used in quarrying stone for roadmaking. It would be around the time this picture was probably taken (c. 1875) that Port Chalmers’...

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360 x 266 mm. A view looking down on to the harbour with city buildings in the foreground and Mt. Victoria visible beyond the harbour. Government House is in the centre of the photograph with a cluster of ships moored at the right at Queen’s Wharf. The Council Chambers are at the left of the photograph (see Y3089B/25).