Letter, Horace Baker

Object detail

Brief Description

Letter form Horace Baker to Samuel Locke suggesting that roads should be surveyed in the Seventy Mile Bush area so a settlement can be constructed.

Collection

Ormond Papers

Maker

Horace Baker; 1851; 24 Sep 1914

Production date

03 Aug 1876

Production place

Gisborne/Eastland Region/North Island/New Zealand

Production period

1870s/19th Century

Production technique

Handwritten

Media/Materials description

Handwritten and printed in ink on paper.

Media/Materials

Ink/Man-made Materials
Paper Products/Man-made Materials

Measurements

Height x Width: 200 x 160mm

Classification terms

Letter
Documentary Artifact
Communication Artifacts

Subject period

1870s/19th Century

Subject date

03 Aug 1876

Current rights

Public Domain

Credit line

gifted by Sir John and Lady Ormond

Other number(s)

45/307, 9031, 74357

Accession number

45/307

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Place made

Gisborne Eastland Region North Island New Zealand Polynesia Oceania

Subject place

Seventy Mile Bush Central Hawke's Bay Hawke's Bay North Island New Zealand Polynesia Oceania

Subject category

Local history History Archive classification Settlement Immigration Building and planning Roads and roading Infrastructure Surveyors and surveying

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