View of Napier from Bluff Hill

Maker
Valentine & Sons Limited
Current rights
Public Domain
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Object detail

About this object
View of Napier thought to have been taken between 1860 and 1864. Hastings Street is lined with commercial premises and houses. The road in the foreground is possibly Browning Street. Tennyson Street, Emerson Street and Dickens Street are also visible.

The Inner Harbour is visible on the right side of the image. Cape Kidnappers is visible in the distance.

A label in the front of the album in which this photograph is located reads: Photographed by Valentine & Sons.
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Black and white photograph mounted in an album.
Measurements
Photograph: Height x Width: 108 x 166mm
Album: Height x Width x Depth/Length: 401 x 330 x 55mm
Signature/Inscription
Other copies in
Dominion Museum
dated this 1864

1860 dated by
Mr Cornford, Inscription, Handwritten
Same as No. 50
Same as part of No. 1987 Box 6 (Panorama), Inscription, Handwritten
Negative (21cm x 12cm) numbered 1987 (Photograph of large picture), Inscription, Handwritten
Compare No 2088 on page 57, Inscription, Handwritten
1871, Inscription, Handwritten
1868, Inscription, Handwritten
1860, Inscription, Handwritten
1., Inscription, Handwritten
C. D. Cornford 56/28, Stamp, Stamped
Subject period
Subject date
1860-1864?
Credit Line
from the estate of Mr C D Cornford
Other number(s)
56/28, Album 12, 1891, 77437
Accession number
56/28

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