Three related images which appear to have been taken at the same time and place - a Maori clergyman with the whetū mārama tohu of the Ratana Church on his vestments, a family group with one woman wearing a kahu huruhuru and a photograph of two older women wearing fur coats. Subjects unidentified. (3 prints)., 1930s

Black and white photographic prints collected by Judy Siers, author of the bookThe life and times of James Walter Chapman-Taylor . Series 1 comprises photographs of a number of well-known Auckland landmarks, including the University of Auckland clock tower. All of these photographs have been mounted for exhibition; the original mounts include Chapman-Taylor’s pencil captions and signature. The photographs in Series 2 are all of Maori subjects, including portraits of Maori and photographs of carved meeting houses or wharenui. A number of the wharenui photographed by Chapman-Taylor during the 1940s have since been rebuilt or extensively renovated. Chapman-Taylor’s detailed photographs of these buildings are therefore an important record of the earlier structures.