View of Napier from Napier Hill looking towards Cape Kidnappers
Maker
Burton Brothers
Current rights
Public Domain
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About this object
View of Napier from Napier Hill looking towards Cape Kidnappers, possibly taken in the 1880s. Tennyson Street is located at the base of the hill. Among the businesses that are visible along Tennyson Street are the Union Insurance Company and C B Hoadley and Company auctioneers. Among the other businesses whose premises can be identified by the signage that appears on the building façades in the photograph are Blythe and Company (dressmaker and milliners), The Evening News, A Campbell (milliner), W L White (basket and perambulator maker), and Remington (chemist) on Emerson Street; and H Williams (ironmonger), R T Smythe (bookseller and stationer), John Higgins (butcher), R C Harding (printer), E Conroy (butcher), Knowles Warehouse, and the Caledonian Hotel on Hastings Street.
Cape Kidnappers is visible in the distance.
Photographer, Burton Brothers.
Cape Kidnappers is visible in the distance.
Photographer, Burton Brothers.
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Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Black and white photograph mounted in an album.
Media/Materials
Measurements
Photograph: Height x Width: 142 x 200mm
Album: Height x Width x Depth/Length: 401 x 330 x 55mm
Album: Height x Width x Depth/Length: 401 x 330 x 55mm
Signature/Inscription
8, Inscription, Handwritten
C. D. Cornford 56/28, Stamp, Stamped
Same as 4961 Box 6, Inscription, Handwritten
C. D. Cornford 56/28, Stamp, Stamped
Same as 4961 Box 6, Inscription, Handwritten
Classification terms
Subject person
Subject period
Subject date
1880s?
Current rights
Credit Line
from the estate of Mr C D Cornford
Other number(s)
56/28, Album 12, 1904, 77526
Accession number
56/28
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