Scene at Waiwhetu, Lower Hutt, with weathered tree stump and Willcox's flour mill

Scene at Waiwhetu, Lower Hutt, with weathered tree stump and Willcox's flour mill
Date
[ca 1885]
Reference
1/1-025978-G
Description

Stereographic scene at Waiwhetu, Lower Hutt, showing a weathered tree stump, Willcox's flour mill, and hills behind. The man seated in the tree stump is unidentified. Photograph taken circa 1885 by William Williams.

Source of descriptive information - from file TL 6/1/41: "Well. Hutt. Wilcox's [sic] Mill, Waiwetu [sic]. mid 80"

Willcox built a four storey mill in 1842, at the junction of the Waiwhetu Stream and White's Line, which operated until about 1885. (Information from Lower Hutt, past and present : a centennial and jubilee publication / Lower Hutt [N.Z.] : Lower Hutt Borough Council, 1941, pages 59-60)

Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Physical Description: Glass negative

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Part of
Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera
Format
1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Stereographs, Glass negative
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Scene at Waiwhetu, Lower Hutt, with weathered tree stump and Willcox's flour mill. Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera. Ref: 1/1-025978-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23034057

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