Scorching Bay, Wellington
Current rights
Public Domain
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Object detail
About this object
View of a beach, possibly taken at Scorching Bay in Wellington. The photograph has been taken from an elevated position looking down on the beach. A group of people can be seen in the foreground. Karaka Bay Road is visible in the distance. The photograph is thought to have been taken in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.
Photographer, unknown.
Photographer, unknown.
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Black and white photograph glued into an album with a leather spine and corners, and red linen cover.
Media/Materials
Measurements
Album (closed): Height x Width: 310 x 260mm
Photograph: Height x Width: 106 x 142mm
Photograph: Height x Width: 106 x 142mm
Classification terms
Subject period
Subject date
Late 19th Century-Early 20th Century?
Current rights
Caption
Collection of Hawke's Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Tā-ū-rangi, 16614
Credit Line
gifted by Pauline Schwabe
Other number(s)
m2000/64/2, 16614, 82768
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