Canterbury, New Zealand - photoprints, chiefly pre-1904 / Walter Burke

PXA 1100/308-401

item

chiefly pre-1904

Graphic Materials, Photographs

456552

Photographs - 17.5 x 21.5 cm. or smaller - 93 albumen & silver gelatin photoprints, some copies
Photographs - 14 x 9 cm. - 1 postcard

[Keast Burke's] family moved to Sydney in March 1904. -- Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

Incl. a rural series numbered on the reverse in large numbers showing swagmen "on the Wallaby Track", sheep, etc. in Australia; also progeny of racehorse Phaeton (nos 331-332); Maori and Duke of York (no.334); Solomon Islanders working in Samoa (no.336); old man repairing a rifle (no.338); lighthouse keeper, Lyttleton, NZ (nos 340,377); NZ bird in captivity (nos 354-355); ship Hortensius (no.358); Maori canoe (no.362); a miner and his cave (no.383); pack horses and donkey (nos 382,384); stagecoaches (nos 385-386); children and billycart (no.387); Samuel Butler house Erewhon (nos 392-397); dugout canoe (no.400), moa's egg (no.401)

Photographer's stamps from Merivale, Christchurch, N.Z. and Sydney, Aust.