240 x 192 mm. A view showing the lower terraces of the White Terrace Cascade (or ‘Te Tarata’ – tattooed Rock) with a Maori sitting in one of the pools in the saucer-like formations. Just above this terrace (not in the picture) is a geyser, the chemically impregnated water from which formed the terraces. Like the Pink Terrace, it too was destroyed in the eruption of 1886.

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.

A caption identifies the photographer as [James?] Iles, who was active in New Zealand from 1870 to 1929.

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

A caption identifies the photographer as [James?] Iles, who was active in New Zealand from 1870 to 1929.

245 x 180 mm. A view showing the boiling geyser at the summit of the White Terrace with a Maori sitting on a rock above the geyser and steam rising from the surface, ‘Rotomahana and the Boiling Springs of New Zealand’ by D.L. Mundy and F. Von Hochstetter (Sampson Low, London, 1875).

242 x 171 mm. Another view of the White Terrace, looking along the formation with the steaming geyser and hillside beyond.

346 x 177 mm. A view showing the Maori village of Ohinemutu, with huts and a small palisade, situated on the banks of Lake Rotorua. In the middle of the lake can be seen the island of Mokoia, ‘Rotomahana and the Boiling Springs of New Zealand’ by D.L. Mundy and F. Von Hochstetter (Sampson Low, London, 1875).

190 x 148 mm. (Oval print) A view of the top of one of the terrace formations (exact location unidentified) with a rock protruding from the crystal-like material.

200 x 143 mm. A view of part of Lake Rotomahana with steam rising from the land around the lake, and looking north-east toward Mount Tarawera in the distance.

90 x 125 mm. Showing a man (Dickinson?) fishing beside a river.

Monochrome postcards. Subjects include: children diving for pennies; Lake Rotorua; Maori kitchen, Papakura Geyser and The Devil's Reception.

73 x 66 mm. A close-up of an airplane.

54 x 53 mm. A mud bank.

125 x 80 mm.

73 x 65 mm. A view of the countryside from the road.

150 x 110 mm.

185 x 135 mm. Oval.

200 x 140 mm A view looking across an expanse of mud, dotted here and there with mud craters. This is probably at Waikanapanapa.

143 x 199 mm. A view looking between trees and across a lake towards Ruapehi, the most southerly of the three volcanoes which stretch in a line south-west of Lake Taupo.

201 x 145 mm An exterior view of the assembly house showing the carving on the beams at the side of the entrance and around the roof. In front of the building stands a group of Maori men, women and children, Aporo standing in a warlike pose, wearing Maori dress and with feathers of the huia in his hair and brandishing above his head a kotiate, the small Maori club made from various woods and stones. Third from the right of the standing Maoris is Ngareta.

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.