Young, Archibald, d 1954: Photograph album relating to Archibald Young's voyage to New Zealand, Australia, USA, and the Pacific

Photograph album of images taken by various photographers (identified below). Chiefly scenic views of New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii, and United States of America. Also eight images of Fijian and Samoan persons. Album compiled by Archibald Young ca 1888.

- Album features photographs of New Zealand, including Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Gisborne, Port Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Hutt Valley and river, Waitakere Falls, Oamaru, Queenstown, Waikato River at Ateamure [sic], Mt Earnslaw and Lake Wakatipu, Milford Sound, Lake Manapouri, Ohinemutu, Lake Rotorua and Mokoia, and Wairakei. Also includes series of George Dobson Valentine images relating to the eruption of Mount Tarawera (before and after), including the Pink and White Terraces, Tikitapu Bush, Lake Rotomahana, Echo Lake and rent in the side of the mountain. Album also contains images relating to Maori, including King Tawhiao but also unidentified group images, meeting houses, various carved object, and dried heads.

- Images from Australia feature: Cape Raoul, Mount Wellington and other Tasmanian scenes; Melbourne city scenes, including 1888 Exhibition building, Scots Church, Federal Coffee Palace, Princess Theatre, and Bourke Street; Ballarat; Garden Gully Goldmine; Sandhurst, including the School of Mines and Industry and the Shamrock Hotel; Blue Mountains, New South Wales, with Katoomba Falls, Govett's Leap, Weeping Rock, and Jenolan Caves featured; and a panorama of Sydney, including the harbour.

- Photographs from the Republic of Hawaii feature Diamond Head, King's Palace and Princess Ruth's Palace, Coconut grove at Waikiki, Hawaiian Hotel, E C Hall's residence, gardens at Queen Hospital, and various dance groups. Photographs from the United States of America feature: San Francisco images include general city views, the observatory at Golden Gate Park, and Beach Drive from Cliff House; various images of geological formations in Yosemite Valley including Yosemite Falls, Merced River, and an unidentified group standing on Glacier Point; Salt Lake City, including the house of Brigham Young and the Mormon Tabernacle; Colorado Springs' Antlers Hotel and Garden of the Gods; and a number of images of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Line, including railway engine and passenger cars, Castle Gate, Marshall Pass, and Royal Gorge.

- Also contains a number of portraits of unidentified Fijian and Samoan women and girls, and one group portrait of Fijian men.

- Photographers include John R Morris, [James?] Connolly, Burton Brothers, Daniel Louis Mundy, George Dobson Valentine, David Alexander De Maus, Josiah Martin, Ebenezer Caney, [W M?] Reynolds, Chuck Photo, Faber Photo San Francisco, Charles Roscoe Savage, and William Henry Jackson

-Miscellaneous materials include a loose print of a construction [mining? drilling?] scene [ca 1880s-1890s] and pressed leaves that are dark brown against paper but reddish brown when held to the light.

Source of title - Title supplied by Library

Inscriptions: Opposite leaf to album page one `Daddy went twice around the world but the second time he got a chill playing deck cricket'; On album page 45, above photograph of Hawaiian Hotel (Honolulu) `Daddie had breakfast with the King & Queen of Honolulu'.

Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Physical Description: Photograph album

Provenance: Donor is a distant relative of Archibald Young.