IMAGE
[Volume of facsimile photographs from a volume presented to Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York from the Citizens of Wellington and District. 7 March 1927]
- Date
- 1927
- By
- Bock, William Rose, 1847-1932
- Reference
- Eph-B-ROYAL-1927-01
- Description
The photographs contained are of:
Title page: "Address to Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York from the Citizens of Wellington and District, New Zealand, March 7th 1927". At lower centre is a photograph of Wellington Town Hall with a tower. Lower left shows the signature of the illuminator W R Bock.
Two photographs showing the text of theilluminated address
Page showing photographic views of the industrial area of Petone, and of the seaside resort of Eastbourne
Page showing photographic views of the picturesque settlement of Upper Hutt, and a general view of Johnsonville
Page showing photographic views of Titahi Bay at sunset; and of a pastoral scene in the Hutt County
A photograph of a carved wakahuia
A photograph of the typescript speech by His Worship the Mayor (probably Charles Norwood, though unsigned), and of the Duke's reply (with his signature Albert, by which he was known at that time)
Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Physical Description: Photographs 195 x 150 mm, mounted in hardback volume, 275 x 245 mm., front cover with gilded crest of the General Assembly Library
Provenance: Previously held in the Parliamentary Library.
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 1 volume(s), Ephemera, Photographs, Facsimiles, Illuminations, Photographs 195 x 150 mm, mounted in hardback volume, 275 x 245 mm., front cover with gilded crest of the General Assembly Library
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