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Mair album
Date: [Between 1903 and 1906]
By: Mair, John Thomas, 1876-1959; New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts
Reference: PA1-o-321
Description: Album of scenic photographs, chiefly taken by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department, with views of the North Island and South Island. North Island scenes include a number of tourist views of Maori, showing carved meeting houses; a group performing a haka; two women demonstrating the hongi; a young woman wearing a feather cloak, hei tiki and huia feathers, and holding a mere; a group of young boys in a haka pose; a woman smoking a pipe; a group of children bathing in a hot pool at Ohinemutu; and Mr. Nelson's carved house at Whakarewarewa. Other North Island scenes show Mount Taranaki, the Auckland wharves, Lake Waikaremoana, and a man fishing at the Ohau Channel, Rotorua. South Island views cover Lakes Wakatipu, Manapouri and Te Anau; the Tasman Glacier; peaks in the Southern Alps; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; a team of four horses with a laden Cobb & Co coach on a ferry, crossing the Mangahua [i.e. Inangahua] River, the Lyell River Bridge and Hawks Crag, all in the Buller Gorge. The last few images are exterior and interior views of the Dunedin Railway Station soon after it was finished in 1906. Inscriptions: Album page - John T. Mair, Wellington, New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured black cover, entitled `Photographs' lettered in gold; 26.0 x 31.5 cm
Tourist Department album 7
Date: [Circa 1900s]
By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department
Reference: PA1-o-500
Description: Photographs, mostly showing the West Coast of the South Island, with some showing parts of Southland, taken by the New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department circa 1900s. Most are landscapes, but some show people in the distance, including horse-drawn coaches in the Buller Gorge and Bealey Gorge; Archer's punt on the Inagahua River; two men standing outside the Malte Brun Hut; climbers on the various glaciers; and people in rowing boats on Lake Kaniere. Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm