Glimpses of New Zealand : a presentation album to Rear-Admiral A. F. Beal, with the compliments of the Hon. R. F. Bollard, Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington, New Zealand, 31st August 1926.

Collection

Identifier: MSS Archives-2011/07

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Photo-album with pictures of New Zealand at the beginning of the 20th-century, showing landscapes and the customs and costumes of the Ma¯ori people. It is a presentation album to Rear-Admiral A. F. Beal, with compliments of Richard Francis Bollard (1863-1927), Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington, New Zealand. The album is dated 31st August 1926. The fifty gelatin silver prints show images including: Hongi, Ma¯ori Chief, Ma¯ori Guide at Rotorua, Queen Street, Auckland, Wairua Falls, Waimangu Gyser, Baurenga Gyser, Ma¯ori Poi-dancers, Ma¯ori washing in a hot pool, Rotorua, plus other views on North and South Island.

Dates

1926 - 1926

Creator

Beal, A.F., Rear-Admiral (Arthur Floyd) (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Not restricted.

Extent

0.1 metres (1 volume (52 prints); 23 x 35 cm)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

General

Oblong folio. Contemporary dark blue morocco, spine and sides gilt, frontcover with title lettered in gold, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. Fifty gelatin silver prints, each ca. 150 x 195 mm, mounted to album leaf rectos with printed captions pasted to mounts beneath and two photographs, loosely inserted, signed Leslie Hinge.