Album, birds on Tutira Station
Maker
Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert
Cunningham, Sheila H
Production date
1920s
Current rights
Public Domain
Object detail
Brief Description
These photographs of birds on Tutira Station were taken by Herbert Guthrie Smith.
Inside the front cover of the album is a letter from Ashley Cunningham regarding his wife Sheila's friendship with Barbara Absolom who was the daughter of Herbert Guthrie-Smith. In 1977 Barbara gave Sheila 70 photographs of birds around Tutira taken by Guthrie-Smith in the 1920s. Sheila Cunningham mounted the photographs into two small albums of which this is the first.
On the title page is small painting of blue ducks drawn by Sheila Cunningham. The album contains photographs of: the pūkeko, paradise duck, brown duck or teal, scaup or black teal and blue ducks. In an envelope glued onto one of the pages are four photographs of birds one of which is identified as a parakeet.
Glued onto the back cover of the album is a letter addressed to Sheila Cunningham from Barbara Absolom dated 2 August 1976 thanking her for the article about her father.
Inside the front cover of the album is a letter from Ashley Cunningham regarding his wife Sheila's friendship with Barbara Absolom who was the daughter of Herbert Guthrie-Smith. In 1977 Barbara gave Sheila 70 photographs of birds around Tutira taken by Guthrie-Smith in the 1920s. Sheila Cunningham mounted the photographs into two small albums of which this is the first.
On the title page is small painting of blue ducks drawn by Sheila Cunningham. The album contains photographs of: the pūkeko, paradise duck, brown duck or teal, scaup or black teal and blue ducks. In an envelope glued onto one of the pages are four photographs of birds one of which is identified as a parakeet.
Glued onto the back cover of the album is a letter addressed to Sheila Cunningham from Barbara Absolom dated 2 August 1976 thanking her for the article about her father.
Production date
1920s
Production place
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Photograph album with black pages and photographs with explanatory labels.
Media/Materials
Measurements
Height x Width: 177 x 234mm
Classification terms
Subject period
Subject date
1920
Current rights
Public Domain
Credit line
gifted by Ashley Cunningham
Other number(s)
m91/16, Album 38a, 21843
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