Lower Hutt City Libraries :Album of views of New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom

Photographs of churches, public buildings, and houses in England, New Zealand, Australia, and Italy. In New Zealand, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin feature with photographs of the cities, and some of their principle buildings. Central Otago, Southland, and the Queenstown area are represented by landscape views. The same is true for the Australian cities of Melbourne and Geelong. In particular there are two good views of the interior of St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne and of the recently built town hall and post office. There are several photographs of a large viaduct being built. Pisa is represented by the leaning tower and the west end of the cathedral. There are also several views taken in Guatemala. Grouped throughout the album are photographs of popular art works.

Album inscribed J L Shaw, Geelong, 1875. High proportion of Melbourne & Geelong photographs signed by Thomas J Washbourne, who had a studio at 89 Swanston Street, Melbourne, in the late 1860s (see "The Mechanical Eye in Australia, by Davies & Stanbury, p 250).

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