North album 1

Photographs collected by Mrs Esther Ecclesfield for her daughter Esma Ecclesfield (i.e. Esther Mary Ecclesfield, later known as Esther Mary North, or Esma North). None of the people shown are identified.

Several images show camping and views of bays on Waiheke island.

Many of the photographs were taken in the Napier area, including several of a woman and two young girls with bicycles standing outside a house in Seaview terrace, Napier, and an interior view of the house; yachts; the Napier Arcade, with the Arcadia Tea-Rooms; children at a Napier beach; and a horse-drawn carriage travelling through water along the foreshore to Cape Kidnappers.

Page 4 shows the original Otatara (Ashridge) homestead.

Various views around Wellington include Lower Hutt, Belmont Road, Wilton's Bush, Breaker Bay, Muritai and Titahi Bay.

In the South Island most of the views were taken around Dunedin, showing Tomahawk Beach, Lawyer's Head and "Cargill's Gates" at St. Clair.

Inscriptions: Album page - `Esma. With love from Mother. October 7th 1908' (inside front cover)

Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Physical Description: Album with beige cloth cover, entitled `Post cards'; 13.5 x 21.0 cm