Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8794
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"Tarawera Mount & Former Outlet..."
Date
1886
Creator
Charles Spencer (1854 - 1933, New Zealander) , Photographer
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Material
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Dimensions
height (print): 134mm
width (print): 201mm
width (print): 201mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Lakeside view with four members of Percy Smith's surveying team gathererd at a rock channel. Typescript copy inscription: "Tarawera Mount & Former Outlet of Lake Rotomahana to Lake Tarawera." Print inscribed "60" upper left, the print is embossed "Charles Spencer, photographer".
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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