View from hills showing Ratanui House, Riddler Farm, the Petone area and (possibly) the Hector family

View from hills showing Ratanui House, Riddler Farm, the Petone area and (possibly) the Hector family
Date
[ca 1890-1892]
Reference
PAColl-0045-05
Description

View taken on the Western Hills, Lower Hutt, looking down on Riddler Farm, the Petone area and Wellington Harbour, circa 1890 to 1892. Somes Island is visible in distance. Thought to be taken at Christmas. In foreground are a three limbed cabbage tree, 'Ratanui' House (home of Sir James Hector), and a group of women, children, and a man, on the left which may be members of the Hector family. Photographer unidentified.

Source of descriptive information - location identified by Library client. Other - copy of this image at PA1-o-879-01

Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Physical Description: Albumen print 12 x 15.4 cm

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Part of
Ferguson, A P (Mrs), fl 1967 :Photographs of military forces, Wellington and the members of the Wellington Kennel Club
Format
1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Albumen prints, Landscape photographs, Albumen print 12 x 15.4 cm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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View from hills showing Ratanui House, Riddler Farm, the Petone area and (possibly) the Hector family. Ferguson, A P (Mrs), fl 1967 :Photographs of military forces, Wellington and the members of the Wellington Kennel Club. Ref: PAColl-0045-05. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22807321

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