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Port Chalmers (inhabited place)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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Port Chalmers, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089E/45
Scope and Contents

198 x 147 mm. A view looking down on Port Chalmers, with Otago Harbour in the background. The picture gives a good view of the layout of this as yet small settlement, with streets running off outwards from the curving beach. Port Chalmers lies 9 miles north-east of Dunedin.

Dates: 1880
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Port Chalmers, New Zealand, 1876

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089B/56
Scope and Contents 360 x 295 mm. A view from a hill overlooking the town, with Otago Harbour and Quarantine Island in the background. Although the town has been roughly laid out, it has still not grown to any great size, consisting mainly of small bungalows and gardens with a few larger houses here and there. In the foreground a small narrow gauge railway line can be seen, probably used in quarrying stone for roadmaking. It would be around the time this picture was probably taken (c. 1875) that Port Chalmers’...
Dates: 1876
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Pt. Chalmers from near Junction, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/27
Scope and Contents

191 x 140 mm. A view looking down from the hills behind Port Chalmers, showing the spit of land on which the town lies, with Otago Harbour in the distance. Port Chalmers is situated about five miles north east of Dunedin.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).