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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