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Chatham Islands album
- Date
- 1938
- Reference
- PA1-q-052
- Description
Album chiefly shows members of a Lands & Survey team surveying boundaries etc, in the Chatham Islands, and in South Canterbury, circa 1938. Residents of the Chatham Islands, various locations in the islands and activities such as sheep transportation from the islands to Lyttelton and Wellington by ship are shown. Another sequence shows drainage and irrigation procedures in South Canterbury. The photographer is probably Russell Gladstone Dick, later the New Zealand Surveyor-General.
Other - Source of descriptive information - Card inserted in album which reads "Ample evidence this is a 1938 Lands and Surveys team surveying boundaries etc ... The photographer is shown in photos 126, 127 and 112, and is probably Mr Dick, later NZ Surveyoe General ..." Signed "Rhys Richards".
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Dark blue cloth-covered album, 35.5 x 22.5 cm
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Dark blue cloth-covered album, 35.5 x 22.5 cm
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UnknownMr C Langdale, telegraphist, and others, Waitangi wharf, Chatham Islands
Date: 1938
From: Chatham Islands album
Reference: PA1-q-052-122
Description: Mr C Langdale, telegraphist, and others, Waitangi wharf, Chatham Islands, 1938. Photograph probably taken by Russell Dick. Source of descriptive information - Inscription in album. Photographer and date from information at PA1-q-052. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Mr C Langdale (Telegraphist) and others. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 8.8. x 12.6 cm, on album page