IMAGE
Tensfeld, John album
- Date
- [Circa 1860s-1870s]
- By
- Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
- Reference
- PA1-o-493
- Description
Album of photographs taken by John Tensfeld circa 1860s-1870s.
Title page reads: "New Zealand souvenir, by John Tensfeld, artist, Dunedin. Containing twenty interesting views of the most important places in New Zealand"
Photographs as shown: Port Chalmers; Dunedin (view from jetty); Dunedin (Princes Street); Dunedin (view from Bell Hill); Dunedin (view towards bay); Waikouaiti (Otago); Christchurch (Government Building); Christchurch (Council Chambers); Nelson; Nelson (view from cemetery); Hokitika, Westland (Gibson's Quay); Kanieri, Westland (diggings on Hokitika River); Greymouth, Westland (Mawhera Quay); Cobden, West Coast (on Hokitika [i.e. Grey] River); Westport, West Coast (Gladstone Street, Buller); View near Nelson; Dunn Mountains (Province of Nelson); Old Porirua Road (near Wellington); Forest scene (North Island).
Album from A H Turnbull's own collection, with his own bookplate inside front cover.
The album had the original numbering 3791-3809.
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Album with blue cover; 23.5 x 31.0 cm
Provenance: From the library of Alexander Turnbull.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Copy negatives at 1/2-004140, 004153, 004154, 004564, 004687, 004688, 004690, 004691, 004692, 004707, 035449, 051163,
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Album with blue cover; 23.5 x 31.0 cm
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Copyright
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Nelson looking across the harbour to the cathedral
Date: ca 1880s
From: Tensfeld, John album
Reference: PA1-o-493-09
Description: View of Nelson looking across the harbour to the Post Office on the waterfront and the cathedral beyond. Photographer was Tensfeld. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Gladstone Street, Westport
Date: ca 1870s
From: Tensfeld, John album
Reference: PA1-o-493-15
Description: Gladstone Street, Westport ca 1870s showing a provision store, Albion House, a bar, a Spanish restaurant, W Ferris tea merchants, a barbers, a butchers, Herman Brothers, Camp House general store and the Nelson Hotel. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Dunedin wharves
Date: ca 1880s
From: Tensfeld, John album
Reference: PA1-o-493-02
Description: Looking along a wharf towards Dunedin with the Harbour Chambers on the right. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Nelson cemetery
Date: ca 1860s
From: Tensfeld, John album
Reference: PA1-o-493-10
Description: A view of Nelson with the cemetery in the foreground. Photographer was John Tensfeld. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).