Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8793
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"The Fissure..."
Date
1886
Creator
Charles Spencer (1854 - 1933, New Zealander) , Photographer
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 136mm
width (print): 201mm
width (print): 201mm
Subject
Content object
Description
View into the steeply-sloped Tarawera crater, steam rising at its furthest edge. Typescript copy inscription "The fissure; showing that the levels of the Sides are not displaced." Print marked '58' top centre.
Object history
From an album of photographs describing the eruption of Mount Tarawera on the central North Island of New Zealand on 10 June 1886. Presented to the Royal Society by James Hector on 17 July 1886, with additional photographs on 22 September 1886.
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