Historical Rotorua Photographs

This image gallery of historical Rotorua photographs is intended for viewing only to give some insight into the region's past. Due to copyright restrictions the images below are not be reproduced or copied in anyway.

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Either Whakarewarewa or Ohinemutu Village
Bella, leader of the poi dancers, Whakarewarewa
Wairoa Geyser
Tutea Falls, Okere
A Maori woman carrying her baby
Bath House buildings early 1900s
Whakarewarewa Village
Pavillion Baths, Govt Gardens circa 1884-1887
'A good haul of trout'
A haka for a penny
Victorian party on White Terrace pre 1886 eruption
Waikite Geyser
Waimangu Geyser, the computed high of this erup tion is 1500ft
Wash day Ohinemutu village
Wairoa Falls, Wairoa
The Tea House and Fred Wylie Memorial in Sanatorium grounds
The Steaming Cliffs, Lake Rotomahana
The ruins of Sophia's whare after the Mt Tarawera eruption
The Porridge Pot, Whakarewarewa
A 21lb rainbow trout caught in Lake Rotorua
Maori chief
The Twins and Inferno, Tikitere
The Torpedo, Whakarearewa
Guide Maggie Papakura
The new Bath House, Sanatorium Grounds
The Hamurana Spring
The Green Lake
The Govt Sanatorium showing Malfroy Geyser
The Fairy Spring
The Chief's Cave, Whakarewarewa
The Brain Pot, Whakarewarewa
Hinemoa's Bath, Mokoia Island
The Blue Lake
The basin of the Waimangu Quiescent
Te Hongi
Rotorua from Bath House viewing platform
Pohutu Geyser at Whakarewarewa taken on March 28, 1914
Part of the Pink Terrace
Okere Falls
Maori Chief
Maori Chief
The power station, Okere Stream
Maori Chief
Lake Rotorua from Ohinemutu
Maggie Papakura in front of Maori wharenui
Lake Tarawera from Wairoa
Lake House Hotel, Ohinemutu circa 1880
Maori children diving for pennies from Whakarewarewa Village bridge into the Puarenga Stream
Junior Kapa Haka group
Hinemoa Street showing the entrance to the Duchess Bath, Brent's Hotel on the right
Desolation around Waimangu
Hamurana Springs
Cooking pool, Whakarewarewa Village
Cooking food using natural geothermal steam vent
Guide Sophia, the heroine of the Mt Tarawera eruption
Wharenui, Whakarewarewa
Buttress, White Terrace
Chief Patara Te Tuhi