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Spencer Perceval Talbot Nicholl album 2
- Date
- 1863-1865
- By
- Kinder, John, 1819-1903
- Reference
- PA1-q-177
- Description
Album compiled circa 1863-5, by Spencer P T Nicholl of the 43rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Some photographs taken by John Kinder.
Photographs include images relating to military life, including the Oakura Redoubt, the Kaitake Redoubt, officers of the 68th regiment, military camps in Taranaki, and the Militia Hospital in New Plymouth.
Pages 15-18 have the pencilled caption `Lake Taupo', but in fact are photographs of the volcanic area around Lake Rotomahana, and were taken by John Kinder in 1865. They include a sulphur volcano (whakataratara), the Whatapoho geyser, Otukapuarangi (Pink Terraces), and the Tarata or principal boiling springs.
Pages 19-32 contain portraits of Maori men and women, some of which have pencilled captions.
Inscriptions: Album page - `Spencer p.T. Nicholl (subsequently Lieut. Col.), 43rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Album compiled probably about 1863/4'
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, darker green leather corners and spine, original spine with gold decoration, repaired; 37 x 27 cm
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Copy negatives available at 1/1-002659; 10/8-1043; C-009075; 1/2-C-017049; 1/2-C-021693 to 1/2-C-021709; 1/2-C-025610; 1/2-C-046635 to 1/2-C-046644; 1/2-C-048137 to 1/2-C-048137 to 1/2-C-048140; 1/2-C-048384; 1/2-C-051382
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Nicholl, Spencer Perceval Talbot, 1841-1908 :Photograph albums
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Album with dark green cover, darker green leather corners and spine, original spine with gold decoration, repaired; 37 x 27 cm
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UnknownWiremu Tamihana Tarapipipi Te Waharoa and family
Date: [ca 1865]
From: Nicholl, Spencer Perceval Talbot, 1841-1908 :Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-q-177-30-4
Description: Wiremu Tamihana Tarapipipi Te Waharoa and two young family members, photographed circa 1865 by John Kinder. Note on back of file print reads "Same background as 1/2-093195-F, Te Waharoa with J C Firth, 1865" Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - W Thompson & family Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Kaitake Redoubt, Taranaki, New Zealand
Date: [1864-1865]
From: Nicholl, Spencer Perceval Talbot, 1841-1908 :Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-q-177-07-2
Description: Kaitake Redoubt, Taranaki. Photograph taken circa 1864-1865 by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Inscription on album page. Inscriptions: Verso - beneath image - Kaitake Redoubt Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 15 x 10.5 cm, on album page
Maori hawkers
Date: [ca 1863-1865]
From: Nicholl, Spencer Perceval Talbot, 1841-1908 :Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-q-177-32-2
Description: Maori hawkers, circa 1863-1865. Carcasses hang from a pole carried on their shoulders. Persons, and location unidentified. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Inscription on album page. Date estimated by cataloguer. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Maori 'hawkers' Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 9 x 5.9 cm, on album page
Pahitere blockhouse, Taranaki
Date: [ca 1863-1865]
From: Nicholl, Spencer Perceval Talbot, 1841-1908 :Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-q-177-06-2
Description: Pahitere blockhouse, Taranaki. Photograph taken circa 1863-1865 by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Inscription on album page. Date from display date at PA1-q-177. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - [Pihitie ?] Block House Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 10.3 x 15.4 cm, on album page
Kaitake Redoubt
Date: 1864
From: Nicholl, Spencer Perceval Talbot, 1841-1908 :Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-q-177-07
Description: Kaitake Redoubt in 1864. Photographer unidentified. This image was reproduced in `The Colonial New Zealand Wars' by Tim Ryan and Bill Parham, 1986, page 198, with the caption: "The Kaitake Redoubt, Taranaki, built in 1864. Outside the walls stands a signal mast, used to relay messages between military posts." Inscriptions: Album page - above image - Taranaki; Album page - beneath image - Kaitake Redoubt Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 10.7 x 15.4 cm, mounted on to album page
Colonial hospital, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Date: [ca 1863-1865]
From: Nicholl, Spencer Perceval Talbot, 1841-1908 :Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-q-177-04-3
Description: The Colonial Hospital, New Plymouth, with Mount Egmont (Taranaki) in the background. Soldiers are lined up on the lawn in front of the hospital. Photographed by an unknown photographer between 1862 and 1865. Source of descriptive information - Inscription on album page. Date from display date at PA1-q-177. Inscriptions: Verso - Militia Hospital & Mt Egmont Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 15 x 9.4 cm, on album page