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New Zealand “Panorams” [Auckland]

c1900. Forty-two (42) print-out paper photographs, panorama format, in a re-bound oblong cloth folio with original title label, 8.5 x 29.3cm (approx. each). Slight foxing to album pages not affecting images, each laid down on an album page.

Images include Waitemata Harbour with shipping vessels; local businesses along the Hobson Street Wharf, including “Seagar Bros, Boiler Makers”; a rowing event, showing 24 Maori men on Waka tiwai (recreational canoes still raced in regattas today); waka peke (leaping canoes), shown jumping over logs raised slightly above the water surface; views of local businesses on Queen Street, including “P&A Photographic Supply Store” and “Court Bros. Drapery”; views of the Botanic Gardens, streams and river ways, as well as a site of deforestation; and topographical views over the city of Auckland. Ref: TeAra Encyclopedia of NZ; National Library of NZ.

Full visual record available upon request.

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Item #CL187-77

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