IMAGE
Sharp & Sons :Instrumental ensemble, Opunake redoubt
- Date
- [Between 1878 and 1880]
- By
- Sharp & Sons (Firm)
- Reference
- PAColl-6014-1-15
- Description
An instrumental ensemble consisting of violin, banjo, flageolet, concertina, triangle and bones, at the Armed Constabulary redoubt at Opunake. Photograph taken, probably in the 1870s, by Sharp & Sons of Wanganui.
The initials 'C M' that form part of the inscription on the mat board probably refers to the American group the 'Christy Minstrels', which by this time had become a generic term for minstrel troupe.
Source of descriptive information - Historical notes from Dan M Worrall, The Anglo-German Concertina; A social history, volume 2 (Concertina Press, Fulshear, Texas, 2009) p vii
Inscriptions: Mount recto - bottom left - Sharp & Sons; Mount recto - bottom right - Photos; Mount recto - bottom centre - Winter Amusements - Opunake C M Troupe
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Albumen print 131 x 206 mm on mount 252 x 315 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Swainson, Jane :Photographs of military forces in Taranaki, Nelson, Hokitika, Parihaka and Rotorua. / Photographs of military forces and redoubts in Taranaki
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Albumen prints, Group portraits, Albumen print 131 x 206 mm on mount 252 x 315 mm
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