item details
NameThe Angel, the 'Echo' and the Tutaekuri River
ProductionLeslie Adkin; photographer; 26 December 1914; North Island
Classificationgelatin dry plate negatives, black-and-white negatives
Materialsphotographic gelatin, sheet glass, silver, photographic plates
Registration NumberA.008856
Credit lineGift of G. L. Adkin family estate, 1964
Overview
This shows Maud Herd sitting in a rowing boat. Leslie Adkin's foot is in the bottom right corner of the frame.
This is the eleveth of 18 photographs taken by Leslie Adkin, Maud's fiance, during his six-day holiday in Hastings with here family, 24-29 December 1914.
After they watched Napier's Mardi Gras parade, Maud and Leslie spent five hours rowing and drifing on the Tutaekrui River, near the town.