IMAGE
Iorns album 4
- Date
- Between 1877 and 1886
- By
- Wyllie, Edward, 1848-1911
- Reference
- PA1-q-132
- Description
Album created by Joseph Iornsl, between 1877 and 1886.
The first page consists of a collage of members of the first Masterton Borough Council after the Council gained Borough status in 1877, including portrait of Robert George Williams, mayor.
The rest of the album consists of a caricature photographs, or cartoons, by Edward Wyllie. They depicted current public opinion, showing a comic history of the Wairarapa between 1877 and 1886. The cartoons are drawn by Wyllie, or are cartoons taken from published items, with photographed heads of local dignitaries superimposed on the illustrations, and captions relating to local events.
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Album with brown cover; front decorated with black trellis, overlaid with flowers in gold, entitled `Album'; back with impressed decorative pattern; 30.5 x 25.5 cm
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Iorns, Bennett, 1883-1977 :Photographs relating to Masterton and the Wairarapa
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Album with brown cover; front decorated with black trellis, overlaid with flowers in gold, entitled `Album'; back with impressed decorative pattern; 30.5 x 25.5 cm
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