IMAGE
First motor car at the Hermitage hotel, Mount Cook
- Date
- 1906
- Reference
- PAColl-4746-01
- Description
First motor car at the Hermitage hotel, Mount Cook, 1906. Note on back of backing card reads: "From left - J S Rutherford, Opawe; R H Rhodes, Blue Cliffs. Back seat - R L Wigley." Photographer unidentified.
A library client has questioned the date of this photograph, 23-August-2007. According to him the first cars to Mount Cook were a pair of De Dion 2 seaters. He suggests that this vehicle may well be one of the first service cars to make the the trip in 1907.
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 7.5 x 9.7 cm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Woodhouse, Airini Elizabeth, 1896-1989: Photographs of Timaru
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin print 7.5 x 9.7 cm
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