Benevolent Institute (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Date: [ca 1884]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-39-16

Description: View of Caversham, Dunedin taken from a vantage point near the southern end of the Southern Cemetery. In the foreground is the railway line and South Road. There are a row of working men's cottages along the railway embankment. The Benevolent Institute can be seen in the middle distance. In the distance to the left is the suburb of Kew. Near the cottages is V[incenzo] Almao's Hat Factory. Photograph taken by Burton Brothers ca 1880s. From `New Zealand through the camera' series of photographs Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 1749 - Caversham. Burton Brothers, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15 x 20 cm on mount 23 x 29.2 cm

Date: [ca 1890s]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025917-G

Description: A stereograph of the Benevolent Institute, Caversham ca 1890s. Photograph taken by William Williams.

Date: 1925

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1887-1/2-G

Description: Part two of a three part panorama of Dunedin. Shows Caversham looking towards the sea. Most of the buildings are on flat land, rising to a housing area on the hill to the right. There is a park in the centre, and nearer the foreground there is a complex of buildings identified as the Benevolent Institute, including one large building which is two-storeyed in parts, with a three-storeyed section to the right. This building has three deep arches on the left, and has very distinctive quoins (cornerstones). Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1925. Other - Part one is at APG-1898-1/2. Part three is at APG-1922-1/2. Location identified from comparison with an image at 1/1-025917 (File print at 81. Dunedin. Caversham. 1890s) showing the Benevolent Institute. Listed in Godber's own index filed in Photographic Archives at TL 6/1/15 in the 1/2 plate sequence under C. Caversham. (3). Dunedin. 1925. To join. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches