Views - New Zealand - Southland Region

Date: [ca 1900-1905]

By: New Zealand. Tourism Department; Pringle, Thomas, 1858-1931

Reference: PA1-o-1885

Description: Photograph album containing scenic views of mountain ranges in New Zealand taken circa 1900-1903, probably by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department. Photographers unidentified but some/all possibly taken by Thomas Pringle who was employed by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department in 1901. Compiler of album unidentified. One image has a caption, but others are unidentified. One photograph includes the caption "Misty morning, Clinton Valley, Te Anau, Milford Track" and the other photographs are of landscape scenes including mountains and lakes probably also in the Fiordland area. Also includes images of cabins/dwellings/tramping huts and steamships on a lake, possibly Lake Te Anau. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Backing board recto - On spine "ZZ P575" and "Photographs of Maori Life and Scenery" and the General Assembly Library insignia on spine as well as front of album. Relationship complexity: This album relates to PA1-o-1883 and PA1-o-1884 which came to the library at the same time and belongs to the same series of albums which were from the Parliamentary Library. Arrangement: A loose print from the back of the album is housed in an acid free envelope at the front of the album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green album bound by the General Assembly Library, with gold embossed lettering. 24cm x 31.5cm. Provenance: Donated by Parliamentary Library, Wellington, 2014 Transfers: From Book Collections - From NZ & P Book Collections as part of a large ongoing donation of mainly published material..