IMAGE
Strauchon album
- Date
- [Circa 1890s]
- By
- Strauchon, John, 1848-1934; Strauchon, Kathleen St. George, 1899-1981
- Reference
- PA1-o-483
- Description
Photograph album containing Taranaki scenes. Album created by John Strauchon, Chief Surveyor & Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Taranaki District between 1894 and 1902; photographs possibly taken by him? (Pages 32 onwards are empty).
The first section of the album (pages 1-16) contain images of Mount Egmont (Mount Taranaki), including two accomodation houses, the Manaia Mountain House (Or Dawson's Falls Mountain House), and the Egmont Mountain House; Fanthams Peak; the Kapuni Stream; and Bell's Falls and Dawson Falls.
The second part of the album (pages 18-31) contains views in and around New Plymouth, including two of celebrations during Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
Inserted in page 11 are two untitled loose photographs, one of a South Island glacier, and the other a lake scene.
Source of title - Title supplied by Library
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine with ornate gold decoration on spine, entitled "Album"; 20 x 29 cm
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Album with blue cover, black corners and spine with ornate gold decoration on spine, entitled "Album"; 20 x 29 cm
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