item details
NameWairoa Hotel
ProductionBurton Brothers; photography studio; circa November 1885; Dunedin
Alfred Burton; photographer; circa November 1885
Alfred Burton; photographer; circa November 1885
Classificationgelatin dry plate negatives, black-and-white negatives, group portraits
Materialssilver, photographic gelatin, sheet glass, photographic plates
Materials Summaryblack and white gelatin glass negative
Techniquesgelatin dry plate process, black-and-white photography
Registration NumberC.010810
Overview
Depicts McRae's Hotel (Rotomahana Hotel) at Te Wairoa, prior to the 1886 Mount Tarawera eruption. There are about twenty people scattered in front of the hotel and on the first floor verandah. Some of them has been identified - the owner, Joseph McRae (man in suit, to right of centre); to the left of him, Aporo Te Wharekaniwha (with beard, tie and braces) and Ngareta.