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140 x 200 mm. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘WAIMANGU GEYSER. PROTECTED. III. 2.11.01’.

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A caption identifies the photographer as [James?] Iles, who was active in New Zealand from 1870 to 1929.

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140 x 200 mm. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘WAIMANGU GEYSER. ILES PHOTO. REGISTERED No. 1206. 12/11/03’. Another copy is filed at Y3089FF/23.

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140 x 200 mm. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘WAIMANGU GEYSER. ILES PHOTO. REGISTERED No.1206. 12/11/03’. Another copy is filed at Y3089FF/40.

Scope and Contents 359 x 266 mm. A view looking across fields towards a combined road and rail bridge. In the foreground stand two figures with a horse, while beyond the bridge is the small town of Waipawa. Additional information is given on the caption: ‘Pastoral country through which runs the Napier-Manawatu Railway. The bridge over the river has a total length of 1,495 feet, comprising 24 spans of 60 feet, two of 14 feet 6 inches and two 13 feet. The roadway, having a clear width of 12 feet, is carried on...

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75 x 120 mm.

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125 x 75 mm.

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A collection of loose prints, measuring approximately 75 x 95 mm and captioned in the negative. The prints are a commercial souvenir set and are contained in a printed envelope sub-titled 'The wonderland of thermal grandeur'. The views show waterfalls, rivers, geysers and boiling lakes. Some have additional handwritten notes on the reverse. Photographs (sold) by Wairakei Store.

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198 x 138 mm. A view showing the mouth of the mud geyser in the foreground with the pool in the background behind trees.

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130 x 80 mm.

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191 x 141 mm. A view looking into the steaming mouth of one of the geysers in the area.

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A caption identifies the photographer as [James?] Iles, who was active in New Zealand from 1870 to 1929.

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A caption identifies the photographer as [James?] Iles, who was active in New Zealand from 1870 to 1929.

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198 x 144 mm. A view looking down on the lake from a wooded hillside. Wairoa is situated near the coast at Hawke Bay, and Lake Tarawara was the scene of the sighting of the ‘Phantom Canoe’ which to the Maoris presaged the volcanic eruption of 1886 (see Y308A131 and New Zealand postcards 100-111).

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A collection of views measuring approximately 60 x 80 mm, captioned in the negative. The prints are a commercial souvenir set contained in a printed envelope. Photographs by the New Zealand Government Tourist and Health Resorts Department.

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126 x 70 mm. A postcard depicting the hostel and the surrounding land.

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194 x 141 mm. A view looking down from a wooded hillside on to the beach and estuary at Waiwera, with a large house standing near the beach. Waiwera, which lies on the east coast just north of Auckland, is an area of hot thermal springs and was developed as a tourist area by Robert Graham (c 1820-1885), the man who also gave his name to Grahamstown.

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198 x 147 mm. A view of Waiwera from the other side of the bay, and taken from the seashore, with a man sitting on a rock looking across towards the house seen in Y3089E/31.

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198 x 147 mm. A similar photograph to Y3089E/31, taken from a slightly different place on the hillside.

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199 x 145 mm. A view taken from slightly further inland showing the cultivated backgarden of the large house and more of the estuary which is crossed by a bridge in Y3089E/31.

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148 x 199 mm. A view looking seaward, with palms and vegetation in the foreground and a small island visible in the bay.

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10½'' x 5¼''.

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202 x 143 mm. A view showing the winches and freight trucks of a railway which drops down a steep incline (seen Y3089E/28). Presumably connected with a mining venture of some kind, it is difficult to determine the specific use of the trucks.

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198 x 147 mm. A view looking across the railway incline seen in Plate 28 towards a small settlement in the valley beyond.

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Landscape format. Shannon Flax Mills.