AFCM album 1

History of early New Zealand with photographs, newspaper and magazine cuttings. Mostly portraits of administrators, and governors. Includes information on the Treaty of Waitangi and the Wairau Affray, with a facsimile of the letter of condolence to the inhabitants of Nelson in New Munster from the Mayor, Alderman, Town Councillors and undersigned inhabitants of the Borough of Wellington. Copies of photographs of Parliament Buildings, including the buildings in Auckland used until 1865, the first building in Molesworth St., Wellington, and Parliament Buildings before the fire in 1907. Also one page devoted to New Zealand's first Labour Ministry with Michael Savage as Prime Minister. Album also includes fold-out panorama of St. John's College, Tamaki, Auckland. This is a copy of a lithograph by Mrs Caroline Harriet Abraham, which she possibly copied from a sketch by John Greenwood from his diary in 1851. (See Record at Ref. no. A-220-008, held in Drawings and Prints).