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This large 1978 calendar featured photographs of the Whanganui region taken by notable local photographers W J Harding and F J Denton in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The calendar is A3 size in landscape format, with high grade glossy paper and a waxed paper overlay, bound along with top with white plastic rings.
There is one calendar month per page and the photographs are printed in sepia tones. The Whanganui Founders Society was the commissioning client. The last page provides information on the photographers and the subjects depicted in their photos:
January: Waimarie Steam Boat (Day Trippers up the Wanganui, 1890s). F J Denton
February: Sunday Promenade at Castlecliff 1890s. W J Harding
March: Looking down Ridgway Street 1880s; hotel and store 1850; Phoenix Hotel, Campbell Place; McGregors Hotel (Criterion) 1860. Looking down Ridgway Street 1850s; J A Leydon carriage factory 1867. W J Harding
April: Cabbies' stand [outside John Anderson Furniture and Carpet Warehouse]1867. W J Harding
May: The Great Flood 1891, looking towards Federal Hotel. F J Denton
June: Wanganui City viewed from Hatrick's Slip 1902. F J Denton
July: Mereana Tairau, first wife of Morehu Takarangi; unknown; tekoteko (ancestral figures); unknown; wife of Hoani Metekingi. F J Denton
August: Wanganui Branch [Ironmonger W Waring Taylor] next to Hannah's Boot Market 1867. W J Harding
September: Early Brewery [Lough's Bell Brewery] 1860s. W J Harding
October: A formal ceremony at Putiki Mission House, 1850. W J Harding
November: Vertilli walks the tightrope acoss the Wanganui River, 3pm 20th October 1867. W J Harding
December: The Entertainers 1890 style [composite of band members, cricketers, daners and a puppeteer]. Harding-Denton
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