IMAGE
Guthrie-Smith :Photographic prints of various people and places
- Date
- ca 1880-1954
- By
- Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); S P Andrew Ltd; Swan & Wrigglesworth (Firm)
- Reference
- PAColl-0507
- Description
A collection of photographs of the Hunter family particularly of George Ernest Hunter and his wife and dogs at their home in Watt Street, Wadestown but also of his brother Robert Henry Hunter (the two men look very alike). They include a number of photographs of their house, garden and neighbourhood but also a postcard of Paekakariki beach, a postcard of two wagons with passengers passing through the Devil's Elbow between Buttermere and Keswick in the English Lake District, seven men with penny-farthing bicycles ca 1880, a carte de visite of four young Maori wearing kakahu taken by Swan & Wrigglesworth, and a photograph of a sketch of Porerua Bay near Wanganui (mid 19th century).
The collection includes a letter to a Mr Ellingham from I W Macdonald of 8 Lower Watt Street, Wadestown offering him the photographs.
Quantity: 83 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 83 b&w original photographic print(s), 1 colour original photographic print(s), Photographs
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