View from hills showing Ratanui House, Riddler Farm, the Petone area and (possibly) the Hector family

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Title

View from hills showing Ratanui House, Riddler Farm, the Petone area and (possibly) the Hector family

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Collection

TAPUHI

Description

View taken on the Western Hills, Lower Hutt, looking down on Riddler Farm, the Petone area and Wellington Harbour, circa 1890 to 1892. Somes Island is visible in distance. Thought to be taken at Christmas. In foreground are a three limbed cabbage tree, 'Ratanui' House (home of Sir James Hector), and a group of women, children, and a man, on the left which may be members of the Hector family. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - location identified by Library client

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Date created

[ca 1890-1892]

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22807321

Locations

Petone / Maungaraki / Korokoro / Wellington Harbour / Port Nicholson / Wellington Harbour

Related subjects

Hector, James (Sir), 1834-1907 / Ratanui (Lower Hutt, N.Z.) / Petone / Maungaraki / Korokoro / Wellington Harbour / Port Nicholson

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