IMAGE
Iorns album
- Date
- [1880s - 1890s?] and [1920s?]
- Reference
- PA1-o-244
- Description
A pocket inside the front cover of this album contains 23 loose photographs of landscapes in New Zealand, many of them Government Publicity Photos. In the South Island various views show Milford and the Milford Track, Tasman Glacier, Mount Cook, and the Buller Gorge. In the North Island there are several views of a group of fallow deer near Featherston; two of geysers at Whakarewarewa; and two of caves in the Waitomo Cave system, showing the underground river in the Aranui Cave, and stalactites in the Ruakuri cave.
The main body of the album contains older photographs, circa 1890s, of townscapes in the Wairarapa. Two scenes show groups of Maori performers, one of a posed group of men and women, some holding taiaha and mere; the other of a group of young girls dancing on a podium.
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Album with imitation crocodile skin cover, entitled `Photographs'; 26 x 33 cm
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Iorns, Bennett, 1883-1977 :Photographs relating to Masterton and the Wairarapa
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Album with imitation crocodile skin cover, entitled `Photographs'; 26 x 33 cm
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Copyright
UnknownQueen Street, Masterton
Date: ca 1869
From: Iorns, Bennett, 1883-1977 :Photographs relating to Masterton and the Wairarapa
Reference: PA1-o-244-08
Description: Looking north along Queen Street, Masterton, circa 1869. Buildings, including houses, line both sides of the street. A row of trees is in the background. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Filed in pocket on inside front cover of album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 13.6 x 20.8 cm