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Landscape format. Chiefly the Library: in front is seen a marble statue of John Balance, Premier before Seddon. [Fire destroyed wooden parlt. Blgs adjoining to the left in 1907. S.S.]

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147 x 200 mm. A view showing the mouth of a geyser from which steam is emerging.

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70 x 55 mm. Group photograph. Persons identified as: 'Warcup, Barrow, Shanahan, C.O.'

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197 x 142 mm. A close up view of some of the cups on the White Terrace showing the texture of the formations, with a Maori girl sitting in the background. See Y308B/100-101 and New Zealand Postcards 100-111 for images of the area before and after the eruption of Mt Tarawera, which destroyed the Terraces.

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198 x 140 mm. A good general view of the Terrace, showing the formations and steam rising from the geyser above, which created the phenomenon. With a Maori standing in front of the Terrace. See Y308B/100-101 for other pictures.

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198 x 140 mm. A good general view of the Terrace, showing the formations and steam rising from the geyser above, which created the phenomenon. See Y308B/100-101 for other pictures.

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198 x 147 mm. A view of the cup-like formations on the White Terrace filled with water from the geyser above. For a contemporary description of this otherworldly formation, and information about its destruction, see Y308B99-104, Y308A131, and New Zealand Postcards 100-111.

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

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198 x 148 mm. A view from the bottom of the terrace showing the saucer shaped structures, with steam rising from the geyser on the hillside behind.

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148 x 198 mm. A view from one side of the river looking along the cable car lines towards the settlement on the far bank, with a cable-car on the wires.

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142 x 198 mm. A view from the lakeside looking down on to the boiling spring, with steam rising from its mouth and an outlet running into the lake.

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183 x 132 mm. Possibly New Zealand.

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182 x 132 mm. Possibly New Zealand.

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Landscape format. [Railway trucks loaded with wooden planks].

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360 x 256 mm. A view looking along the valley, with the railway bridge in the foreground, and a few farming settlements scattered on either side of the road. Additional information on the caption states: ‘The bridge in foreground is over the South Tokomairiro River. Its total length, 180 feet, comprising three spans of 60 feet, on masonry piers and abutments. It was designed by John Caruthers, Esq, Engineer in Chief of New Zealand, and built by Messrs. Campbell and Co. in 1873’.

Scope and Contents 237 x 196 mm. A view showing the two masted steamship aground at low water, next to a large tree-covered rock. The ‘Otago’ left Dunedin on December 3rd 1876, bound for Melbourne, striking Chasland’s Mistake south of Nugget Point early on the morning of the 4th during foggy weather. No passengers were injured. This photograph is reproduced, with full details of the shipwreck, in ‘Shipwrecks, New Zealand Disasters 1795-1950’ by C.W.N. Ingram and P.O. Wheatley (Wellington, 1951). Photograph by...

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176 x 244 mm. General view looking along the boat from the bows. The 'St George' is barquentine rigged. The remainder of the caption reads 'The figure in White is 2nd coo' before it cuts off.