IMAGE
Lantern slides of New Zealand landscapes, holiday scenes, and gardens
- Date
- [1930s-1950s]
- Reference
- PA11-273
- Description
Lantern slides of New Zealand landscapes, holiday scenes, and gardens taken by unidentified photographers, probably during the 1930s-1950s. Some have printed captions giving the location or subject.
The images include:
- Views of Mt Cook and of the Franz Josef Glacier, along with image of crevasses. Also images of skiing, including kea bird perching on upright skis.
- Landscapes seen through windows above the altars of two churches: the Church of the Good Shepherd (Lake Tekapo) and St James Church (Waiho Gorge, near Franz Josef).
- Scenes in Queenstown, including of the lakefront and the yacht `Kelvin' at the wharf, St Peter's Church, and looking over Lake Wakatipu to The Remarkables.
- Images probably taken elsewhere in Central Otago, including a stone post office and other buildings; lake with boats [Lake Wanaka?]; a hillside flower garden; flower beds and gardens; and informal group portraits of children.
- Views of flowers, gardens, or trees in Tauranga, Rotorua, and unidentified locations.
- Exterior views of Canterbury Museum and Arts Centre in Christchurch.
Arrangement: Set contains slides from boxes, 4, 5, and 8.
Quantity: 19 b&w lantern slide(s). 30 colour lantern slide(s).
Physical Description: Lantern slides
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Creator unknown: Lantern slides, chiefly of trips overseas, plants, and gardens
- Format
- 19 b&w lantern slide(s), 30 colour lantern slide(s), Transparencies, Lantern slides, Landscape photographs
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