IMAGE
Creator unknown :Museum album
- Date
- [1860s-1880s?]
- Reference
- PA1-q-166
- Description
Scrap book of miscellaneous photographs, many of which have no captions and have not been identified.
At the front of the album is an undated newspaper cutting showing the original building used for the Colonial Museum in 1865, which `has been revealed by the pulling down of the Dominion Museum, at the back of Parliament House. For many years this building has been used for a variety of purposes, museum exhibits being housed in adjacent quarters, but it is about to be demolished'.
The first group show interior scenes of the Canterbury Museum, with exhibits of bird skeletons, and mounted birds. Other scenes show mounted animals, possibly not in Canterbury.
Scenery includes views of the Franz Josef Glacier; and a number which are identified showing the gold-mining area around Ross and Donoghues, the Totara River and Mikonui River.
One page has six photographs of mountainous regions in Switzerland; several show the area near the Wellington caves in Queensland, Australia; and two views show the breaking of the Cook Strait Cable.
Source of title - Title supplied by Library
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, maroon spine and corners, entitled `Photographic scrap book'; 30 x 24 cm
Provenance: No donor or provenance information available. Possibly part of a larger collection.
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Album with dark green cover, maroon spine and corners, entitled `Photographic scrap book'; 30 x 24 cm
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Group including Dr A C Barker, R H Rhodes and W M Maskell, alongside a display of Maori...
Date: [1872 or 1873]
From: Creator unknown :Museum album
Reference: PA1-q-166-052
Description: Group alongside a display of Maori artifacts. Standing (from left) Dr Alfred Charles Barker, Robert Heaton Rhodes (or possibly John Anderson), uncertain, James Hector, Thomas Potts, John Enys, unknown, M.B.Hart (future mayor), William Miles Maskell. Seated Rev Charles Fraser, Julius Haast. Image taken 1872 or 1873, Christchurch. Photographed by A C Barker. The Colonial and Vienna Exhibition was held to select New Zealand items for exhibition in Vienna. The display behind the group consists of items from the Colonial Museum (the poupou in the centre is from Te Hau ki Turanga, the meeting house still held at Te Papa), and the collections of Dr Alfred Barker and Sir Donald McLean. Source of information: Conal McCarthy, personal communication. Source of descriptive information - James Hector, John Enys, and Julius von Haast, identified by Library client, 2014.. Further names supplied by researchers, May 2022. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - E R [Withsap ?] John Anderson & [unreadable 6 words]; Album page - beneath image - Dr Barker R H Rhodes C [Fran ?] J [S Unreadable] [J M Haed?] W M Maskell Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 180 x 153 mm, mounted on album page