Port Ahuriri
Current rights
Public Domain
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Object detail
About this object
An image of Port Ahuriri and the settlement on the Eastern Spit taken from the hill. The street visible along the spit is Waghorne Street. Seen above and along from the two buildings at the far right of the photograph are Rolls Bakery and the London Hotel. The building with three chimneys to the left of this is G E G Richardson's boarding house. The ship visible out at the left of the image moored off Meeanee Point is thought to be the Mary Ederson. On the left edge of the image Gough Island is still undeveloped.
Photographer unknown.
Date unknown but believed to be between 1868 and 1873.
Photographer unknown.
Date unknown but believed to be between 1868 and 1873.
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Black and white photograph glued to card.
Measurements
Height x Width: 128 x 195mm
Height x Width: 200 x 255mm
Height x Width: 200 x 255mm
Signature/Inscription
H B Art Gallery and Museum, Stamp, Stamped
Port Ahuriri July 1868, Inscription, Handwritten
Port Ahuriri July 1868, Inscription, Handwritten
Classification terms
Subject person
Subject period
Subject date
1868-1873
Current rights
Caption
Collection of Hawke’s Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Tā-ū-rangi, 1999
Credit Line
gifted by Mr Cecil Cornford
Other number(s)
56/28, 1999, 76008
Accession number
56/28
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