IMAGE
Northwood album 2
- Date
- [1900s-1910s]
- By
- Northwood Brothers (Firm)
- Reference
- PA1-o-395
- Description
Photographs taken in the Northland Region by the Northwood Brothers, circa 1900s and 1910s.
The first group show aspects of the timber industry, including tree felling, a cross-cut saw, bullock teams pulling huge logs, a timber camp, and two women peeling potatoes outside a hut.
One image shows a group of Maori. It shows two women, a young man, and six children with a makeshift ten of blankets draped over wooden poles. Two buckets and a kete are in the foreground, and in the background an open umbrella shading a person (baby?) lying on the ground wrapped in a blanket.
The final sequence are all related to the kauri gum industry. Scenes include a group of men digging for kauri gum with three men in suits watching; three Maori men scraping and sorting the gum; a group of kauri gum workers at their camp with two men in the foreground scraping huge pieces of gum; and a bullock team pulling a wagon laden with kauri gum through a ford.
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Album with red cover, black border of Greek key design; 24.5 x 30.5 cm
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Copies available at 1/1-009741; 1/2-C-028802 to 1/2-C-028803; 1/2-C-029636; 1/2-C-029639 to 1/2-029640; 1/2-C-029798
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Album with red cover, black border of Greek key design; 24.5 x 30.5 cm
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UnknownGumdiggers at work, Northland
Date: [191-?]
From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland
Reference: PA1-o-395-18
Description: Group of gumdiggers digging for kauri gum, Northland. Three men in suits are watching. Photograph taken by ca. 1910s by the Northwoood Brothers of Kaitaia. Date estimated by cataloguer. Source of descriptive information - back of file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print mounted on album page
Group outside a timber camp hut
Date: [ca 1900]
From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland
Reference: PA1-o-395-05
Description: Group outside a timber camp hut, circa 1900. Shows two women peeling potatoes, a man, a dog and chickens. Photograph taken by the Northwood Brothers. This image is reversed from the original Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Bullock wagon with a load of gum, Northland
Date: [191-?]
From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland
Reference: PA1-o-395-23
Description: Bullock team pulling a waggon loaded with kauri gum, Northland. The team is going through a ford. One bullock driver is in the water beside the team, the other is sitting on one of the bullocks. Photograph taken by ca. 1910s by the Northwoood Brothers of Kaitaia. Date estimated by cataloguer. Source of descriptive information - back of file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print mounted on album page
Gum diggers at their camp, Northland
Date: [191-?]
From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland
Reference: PA1-o-395-21
Description: Gum diggers at their camp, Northland. Two gum diggers are scraping kauri gum. Photograph taken ca. 1910s by the Northwood Brothers of Kaitaia. Date estimated by cataloguer. Source of descriptive information - back of file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print mounted on album page