McIntosh album 8

Photographs of the Nelson Region, Wellington Harbour, Featherston, Ruamahanga Valley and the Rimutaka Hill Road, probably taken by George William Barltrop in 1899 (Identification from other albums in this sequence).

None of the people in photographs are identified, but include several scenes with a woman and her husband; a group portrait at a wedding; two older women in a garden; a picnic group (6 women, one man and three children); two women carrying baskets of plants, with a man wheeling a bicycle (on the road to the Nelson Reservoir); and three young boys in a garden.

A sequence of twelve photographs includes two men, members of the 2nd Contingent, at a military camp (possibly in the Nelson area), preparing to leave for the South African War, in 1899; rows of horses near tents at the camp; soldiers marching; a Nelson street with a banner reading `For Queen and country. God bless our boys'; and Wellington Harbour with crowds on the wharves to farewell the troops.

Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Alternative form available: Copy negatives at 1/2-C-005890 to 1/2-C-005935