New Zealand views album 1

Early photographs of New Zealand, most taken by Hart, Campbell & Co, and Wheeler & Son.

Inserted in a pocket attached inside the front cover are two items. One an old print of a hut at Milford, taken by Hart, Campbell & Co, and the other a newspaper cutting (Evening Star Friday March 23, 1934), of Dunedin from View Street, and Dunedin from Dowling Street, both taken in 1861.

The photograph of a Cobb & Co. coach at Palmerston, has the caption `2. Cobb's coach. E Devine, driver. Palmerston, Otago, N.Z. 1876' and the photographers are named as Hart, Campbell & Co.

One set of photographs have no captions and no identification of photographer. They follow a group of men travelling along a river bed, with small rowing boats, on river banks, and at the foot of waterfalls.

Another sequence shows native bush, tree ferns and rivers.

Two views (pages 8, 10) show Linnburn Station. One is unidentified in the album, but identified from the same image at Te Papa (digital view on the internet), the other closer view of the homestead has a caption.

Relationship complexity - The photograph of Cobb's Coach at Palmerston (p. 7), is the same image as one at PAColl-7344-54 (Box 16), with the same caption `2. Cobb's coach. E Devine, driver. Palmerston, Otago, N.Z. 1865', but the photographers are identified as Hart, Campbell & Co. on this image, but identified as Burton Bros. on the PAColl copy.

Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Physical Description: Album with very dark blue-green cloth cover, black corners and spine, entitled `New Zealand views' in gold lettering; 24.5 x 32.5 cm