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Landscape format. [Loading onto horse and cart].

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349 x 265 mm. A view looking down on the small stream which winds through this low lying area. Beside the stream various huts have been built, with one in the process of construction. The caption adds: ‘Two streams of water, one hot and the other cold, are brought together, forming the most enjoyable bath possible.’

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Landscape format.

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Landscape format. Taken from steamer near Wellington.

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[No print]. Missing.

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Full-plate.

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71 x 70 mm. A river overlooked by trees.

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A view looking down on the wharves at Lyttelton with the harbour beyond and mountains in the distance. The wharves have railway lines running down to them and freight cars can be seen beside the harbour. This would seem to date the photograph after 1877, when the Lyttelton Harbour Board was constituted and many improvements in facilities were made, including direct shipment onto railway wagons for transportation to Christchurch 10 miles to the north.

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140 x 200 mm. Portrait of Margaret Pattison Thom, later widely known as Makereti (or Maggie) Papakura (1873-1930) through the carved wooden window frame of Te Rauru meeting house in Whakarewarewa. Copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of the photograph ‘ILES PHOTO. No. 61’.

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140 x 195 mm. A view along a country road, with woodland on either side. Exact location unidentified.

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The postcard is captioned 'T.K. 3 Maoriland Photographic Series'.

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198 x 138 mm. A view looking along the river, with woods running down to the water’s edge. The Makarewa lies just north of Invercargill at the southernmost tip of the South Island.

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Half-plate (landscape format). [Man blurred].

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194 x 148 mm. A view along a fiord, with mountain ranges in the distance.

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359 x 265 mm. A view looking down onto what is probably a section of the Milton and Lawrence Road, with a small stone bridge in the foreground. Parts of the railway line can just be seen to the left of the road behind an embankment. In the foreground a man sits in front of a small cabin with a few other huts visible further on up the road.

Scope and Contents 350 x 250 mm. A view looking along the river towards the bridge. Additional information is given on the caption: ‘This was designed for a combined road and railway bridge, and has been built over the Manawatu River, in the gorge, the river forming the boundary line between the provincial districts of Wellington and Hawke’s Bay. The total length of the bridge is 428 feet to centre of end piers... The centre span is constructed with wrought-iron lower stringers, and wooden combined radial bow...

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140 x 202 mm. Studio portrait of a Maori woman. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘ILES PHOTO. ROTORUA. No.182’.

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140 x 200 mm. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘CARVED MAORI HOUSE. WHAKAREWAREWA. ILES PHOTO. REGISTERED’.

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North Island: New Zealand.

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North Island: New Zealand.

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Nothing is known of the provenance of this collection of lantern slides and glass plates. The images likely were created to illustrate lectures given at the RCS.

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140 x 200 mm. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph, right: 'ILES PHOTO. 143. THAMES N.Z'. Studio portrait of a Maori Chief, whose name is etched into the foot of the photograph: 'HORI NGAKAPA. NGATIWHANAUNGA'.

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350 x 250 mm. No print. 'Of tribe Ngati Uenukukopako Te Ngae.'

Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 7006-7085 (originally there were 100). Added numbers: 6891-6917; spoiled: 7034, 7035, 7051, 7052, 7066; not used: 7012 and 7074.Subjects covered in the album are:New Zealand: Dunedin; journey to Southern Alps: Burke's Pass, Lake Tekapo, Lake Pukaki, Mount Cook, Tasman Glacier, Hochstetter; Balmoral: sheep shearing; Timaru; Christchurch: Lincoln Agricultural College: Domain Fete and general; Wellington: from sea;...

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North Island: New Zealand.