IMAGE
Hotel Majestic, Paraparaumu Beach, showing the tennis court being prepared
- Date
- Between 1923 and 1928
- By
- Spilman, Frank Shirley, 1881-1980
- Reference
- Pan-1541-F
- Description
Panoramic view across sand dunes covered with toetoe, looking up towards the Hotel Majestic on a knoll. This building, with a deep verandah all around, contained the dining room and kitchens, while another building, visible below on the right, contained the accomodation. Hotel built and run by Frank Shirley Spilman. Tennis courts under construction below the hotel on the left. A man, identified as the owner Frank Spilman, is seated on the rail of a small footbridge below the tennis courts. Beach and sea on the right, hills in the background on the left. Taken by Robert Percy Moore.
Source of descriptive information - Identification of man seated in the image from a family member.
Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - "Hotel Majestic" Paraparaumu Beach showing Tennis Court being prepared
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Panoramic cellulose triacetate negative 19.7 x 93.4 cm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Landscape photographs, Panoramic cellulose triacetate negative 19.7 x 93.4 cm
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Spilman, Frank Shirley, 1881-1980. Hotel Majestic, Paraparaumu Beach, showing the tennis court being prepared. Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand. Ref: Pan-1541-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/35778714More information can be found in our terms of use.