Places
Places related to your search results. This map shows just part of our unpublished collections – there's more coming as we add location information to records. Learn how to use the map.
Morrish album
Date: 1880s
By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)
Reference: PA1-q-163
Description: Album of tourist photographs of the North Island from the 1880s, many taken by identified photographers including J M (Josiah Martin), the Burton Brothers, and Wheeler & Son. There are a number of images of Waiwera, including one of two whaleboats meeting a horse-drawn carriage transporting a group of people from a steamer to land. Photographs relating to Maori include views of Parihaka; Taipari's house at Thames; Ngati Maniapoto chief Wahanui at his house, Alexandra; a large group in a hot pool at Whakarewarewa; and one of Aporo and Ngareta at Wairoa. Inscriptions: Album page - "R I Morrish Esq. With best wishes from C A, and M I [Cox?], [Box?] Hill, Melbourne, June 10th, 1888" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with heavily embossed brown leather cover, entitled `Scrap album' in raised gold letters, with gold decoration; 29.5 x 23.5 cm
Spencer Perceval Talbot Nicholl album 2
Date: 1863-1865
From: Nicholl, Spencer Perceval Talbot, 1841-1908 :Photograph albums
By: Kinder, John, 1819-1903
Reference: PA1-q-177
Description: Album compiled circa 1863-5, by Spencer P T Nicholl of the 43rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Some photographs taken by John Kinder. Photographs include images relating to military life, including the Oakura Redoubt, the Kaitake Redoubt, officers of the 68th regiment, military camps in Taranaki, and the Militia Hospital in New Plymouth. Pages 15-18 have the pencilled caption `Lake Taupo', but in fact are photographs of the volcanic area around Lake Rotomahana, and were taken by John Kinder in 1865. They include a sulphur volcano (whakataratara), the Whatapoho geyser, Otukapuarangi (Pink Terraces), and the Tarata or principal boiling springs. Pages 19-32 contain portraits of Maori men and women, some of which have pencilled captions. Inscriptions: Album page - `Spencer p.T. Nicholl (subsequently Lieut. Col.), 43rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Album compiled probably about 1863/4' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, darker green leather corners and spine, original spine with gold decoration, repaired; 37 x 27 cm