Tauranga Historical Society

SS Ngapuhi berthing at wharf, Tauranga, c. 1920 Real photo postcard, photographed by Henry Winkelmann, published as ‘Tourist Series. 1000’...

From Tauranga City Library’s archives A mo nthly blog about interesting items in our collections. In 2024, to capture the "beauty, vari...

‘Maori War-Canoe at Tauranga, New Zealand’ Watercolour painting by Horatio Gordon Robley, c. 1865 Collection of MTG Hawke’s Bay Tai Ahurir...

Godfrey and Scott Godfrey was a farmer and family man, bush activist and conservationist who lived a life on the edge, over 70 years of it i...

The Postcard Craze Arrives in Tauranga (1904-1907) (continued from Part 3 ) New Zealand’s first pictorial postcard, addressed to Mrs Maxwe...