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[New Zealand Post Office] :New Zealand. Mt Cook, Otira Gorge, Mt Egmont, Waikite Geyser...
Date: 1897
By: New Zealand Post Office; Waterlow & Sons (Firm)
Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-1897-01
Description: The first postcard issued by the New Zealand Post Office, December 1897. It shows four vignettes of scenic landmarks: Mt Cook, Mt Taranaki, the Otira Gorge and the Waikite Geyser at Whakarewarewa. This copy is postmarked 28 December 1897 on the verso, and has been sent via Suez to London before being forwarded to Horsham, Sussex. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on card 92 x 141 mm. Provenance: Previously purchased in an antique bookshop in Melbourne.
Grave of Edwin Bainbridge
Date: [ca 1900-1908]
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-001908-G
Description: View of the grave of and memorial to a young man, Edwin Bainbridge, who died on 10 June 1886 at Te Wairoa, being accidentally killed by the falling of a balcony during the Mt Tarawera Eruption. The grave is in Kauae Cemetery, Ngongotaha, near Rotorua. The obelisk memorial has a photograph of Bainbridge on the front and an inscription on the side. The grave is surrounded by a spiked wrought iron fence. Photograph taken by William A Price, ca 1908. Source of descriptive information - ATL Biographies index. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Protd W.A.P. 10.1.08. 1830. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches