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194 x 140 mm. A view looking across the River Avon towards the hospital, a cluster of building with mock-tudor timbering.

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195 x 142 mm. A view of the higher basins which receive the water from the geyser first. With a Maori in the background.

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199 x 140 mm. A view showing part of the top section of the White Terrace, with a Maori bathing in one of the pools.

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308 x 250 mm. A view showing the front of this small single storey wooden hotel with an interesting assortment of people posing on the verandah: these include a kilted man, two carefully dressed ladies, several policemen and a Maori. The caption adds: ‘The Huka Falls are distant from the hotel about 3 miles’.

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350 x 250 mm. No print.

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265 x 360 mm. A view looking along the boulder strewn stream, with a cliff at the left side and a steep hill at the right.

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[Showing sailing boat tied up and small rowing boats, with train on landing stage].

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Half-plate (landscape format). Skeleton in Christchurch Musuem: length 87 feet: length of head 21 ft: length of lower jaw 20 feet, 8 inches., estimated total weight 9 tons. [In covered area resting on wooden trestles, with woman standing below looking up].

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435 x 335 mm. A mounted print showing the river at the bottom of the gorge, with thick woods on either bank. A print made by one of the permanent processes, and part of a series produced by Burton Bros., Dunedin, entitled ‘New Zealand through the Camera’.

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The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 6787-7005 (originally there were 173 in the album). Added numbers are: 6933-7005; not used: 6791, 6821, 6834 and 6872; missing 6790, 6792-6794, 6802, 6809, 6812, 6814, 6848-6849, 6936-6937, 6941, 6944, 6947, 6981, 6984, 6989-6890, 6992-6993 and 6995.

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Landscape format. Mount Cook under cloud.

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Landscape format. [Crowds of people, women in long dresses and hats, attending fete with museum building in the background].

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Landscape format. [Crowds of people, women in long dresses and hats, attending fete with museum building in the background].

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350 x 250 mm. No print.

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355 x 265 mm. A view looking down along the valley road, with farms and cultivated land on either side.

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Landscape format. [Circular swing roundabout loaded with people. Perambulator in right foreground].

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Landscape format. [Circular swing roundabout loaded with people. Perambulator in right foreground].

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Landscape format. [Circular swing roundabout loaded with people. Perambulator in right foreground].

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359 x 257 mm. A view showing the front of the building with officials standing in the two doorways. On the left are office buildings (made of wood), with the stone council chamber at the right.

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35 x 260 mm. A view from the street corner outside the Knox Church, a single storey building designed by R.A. Lawson and completed in 1876.

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Landscape format.

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Landscape format. North Island: New Zealand. [Muddy area].

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Landscape format.

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Full-plate (landscape format). [A long straight bridge across the wide river with mountains in the background].