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Southern Lakes and mountains, and some North Island views
Date: [Between 1885 and 1919]
From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Muir & Moodie (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-0959-15
Description: Views of the Southern Lakes District, interspersed with a few scenes in the North Island taken by the Burton Brothers and Muir & Moodie between about 1885 and 1919. Most of the places mentioned are listed above. Image no. 63 shows a party of men and women at Sandfly Point (Milford Sound) showing some of the women wearing veils over their hats for protection from sandflies; image no. 79 "Phantom canoe as seen on Lake Tarawera" is an artist's impression of the phantom canoe which appeared to a group of tourists on Lake Tarawera on May 31st prior to the eruption of Mount Tarawera on June 10th 1886 and which was considered to be a bad omen; image no. 82 shows a collage "No. 1. Maori Land. The portraits are originals - taken from life"; image no. 094 shows a close-up view of the "wire tram" over the Taramakau River; no. 095 shows a logging tramway in the Taupaki Kauri Bush belonging to Matthew Henry Roe, while no. 120 shows his Kauri Point Sawmill, with the paddle steamer "Oregon" in the background; no. 096 shows a self-acting tramway incline at Wairongomai used for gold extraction; nos 104 and 105 show gold dredges, "the Dunedin Gold Dredge" and "Sew Hoy's Dredge". Quantity: 122 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Some items retouched with white, showing snow-covered peaks. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".
Matai Camp, near Mangapehi, Waikato
Date: [ca 1920]
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-0860-1/2-G
Description: Matai Camp, just over 11 miles east of Mangapehi, Waikato, circa 1920. Shows a clearing in the bush with a railway track, a cluster of timber workers' huts, and two unidentified women with a small girl standing by the railway line. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. Other - Original print in Godber Album Vol 109, p 157 (PA1-q-102) Source of descriptive information - Historical notes from Library client, April 2007 Inscriptions: Album page - Matai Camp. Mangapeehi. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches