IMAGE
Scenic photographs of New Zealand complied by the Scenery Preservation Board
- Date
- [ca 1880-1910]
- By
- Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Scenery Preservation Board
- Reference
- PAColl-0444-1
- Description
Photographs of the following: a set of seven photographs by Collis and annotated by F P Corkill, land agent, re landholding around the Waiwhakaiho River; scenic views such as waterfalls, lakes, and the Pink and White Terraces; bridges with annotations re height etc; sixteen numbered photographs mounted two to a card of scenic views in the Taranaki Region, Rotorua and the far north (including ones of Taumaha Gorge, Taranaki and Lake Ora - location unidentified); a set of seven photographs of the Waipu Caves including Lot's wife, the anvil and the sugar loaf in Morrison's Cave; a clipping of St Paul's Cupola and a photograph of Kauri Gully, Northcote with annotations on resolutions passed re the establishment of reservations; a panorama in two photographs of Flagstaff Hill, Dunedin with annotations re a potential reserve; and two of a tramping party of three men and five boys resting at a waterfall. Includes a recent hand-written list of the photographs.
Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Mounted prints
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Scenery Preservation Board :Scenic photographs of New Zealand
- Format
- 56 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Mounted prints
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Copyright
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View of the ladders on the Wanganui River
Date: ca 1906
From: Scenery Preservation Board :Scenic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: PAColl-0444-1-2-13
Description: Men ascending ladders up a cliff above the Wanganui River. Below them a man stands in a boat at the foot of the cliff. The location is 75 miles from Wanganui. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1906 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
Picnic ground at "The Meeting of the Waters"
Date: 1906
From: Scenery Preservation Board :Scenic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: PAColl-0444-1-1-08
Description: Original caption reads: "On O'Samuel's property at The Meeting of the Waters. The bush clad cliff on right hand side of picture is part of the School Commissioners' 2 chain strip, reserved from lease. New Plymouth, 1 Oct. 1906." Photographer unknown Inscriptions: Mat recto - bottom left - Picnic ground Meeting of the Waters Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
Limestone rocks at Waro, photographed by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department
Date: Ca 1903
From: Scenery Preservation Board :Scenic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: PAColl-0444-1-2-09
Description: View of limestone rocks at Waro, Northland, from the railway, taken ca 1903 by a New Zealand Government Tourist Department photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 15.1 x 20.2 cm on mount 22.6 x 25.5 cm
Scenic view of the Whanganui River
Date: [ca 1900s]
From: Scenery Preservation Board :Scenic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: PAColl-0444-1-2-17
Description: Scenic landscape view of the Whanganui River. Photographed by an unknown photographer some time between 1900 and 1910. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.8 x 15 cm, on mount 30.3 x 25.3
Scene on the Waiwhakaiho River, New Plymouth
Date: 1906
From: Scenery Preservation Board :Scenic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: PAColl-0444-1-1-13
Description: Scene on the property of Oliver Samuel MLC on the Waiwhakaiho river, near its juncture with the Mangorei Stream at the "Meeting of the Waters", photographed ca 1906 by Willam Andrews Collis of New Plymouth. Original caption reads: '"The beach" on Mr O Samuel's demesne, adjoining the "Meeting of the Waters"'. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 15.6 c 19.9 cm on mount 25.1 x 30.3 cm