Scope and Contents Gathering outside old Invercargill Post Office, Dee Street. Possibly to celebrate the end of the First World War.

Scope and Contents Gathering outside old Invercargill Post Office, Dee Street. Possibly to celebrate the end of the Boer War.

Scope and Contents Album containing 114 photographs of early Invercargill and surrounds. The location of the original negatives is unknown, but prints of many of the images can be found in other collections around the country. Some of the photographers have been identified but are largely unknown.See the Southland Times 9th and 10th of December 1924 'Years of Change' special report which features many of the photographs alongside updated views from 1924.Numbers drawn in ink...

Scope and Contents Features the schooner (or scow) Waihopai which was built outside Mr A. H. Puettelkow's Provincial Hotel on the south west corner of the intersection of Tay and Conon Streets, Block XII, Section 14. See the Southland Times, 13th November, 1867, p.2 for details of it's launch.

The hotel also features in photo number 42.

Photographer unknown.

See bibliography for sources

Scope and Contents West side of Dee Street, between Esk and Spey Streets. Block 1.

Featuring: Cowper and Wilson General Ironmongers; Prince of Wales Livery and Bait Stables; R. Sloan and Sons

Scope and Contents North side of Tay Street between Dee and Kelvin Streets. Block II.

Featuring: J. [John] Coutts, Tailor; George Stock, General Merchant.

Scope and Contents East side of Dee Street between Tay and Esk Streets. Block II, sections 1 and 22.

Featuring: Henry Mayo, Albion Hotel [proprietor c. 1872-1876]; G. [George] Lumsden, Watchmaker; A. Aldridge [began in Dee Street 1874]; and W. Lewis & Co., Drapers.

Taken: Between March 1874 and March 1875.

Overview Don Street, looking south towards corner of Esk and Kelvin Streets.

Featuring: Rear of old Council Chambers in centre, Meikle's house in foreground, and old Police Station background right.

Scope and Contents North side of Tay Street, between Kelvin and Devron Streets. Block III, section 16.

Featuring: Mitson's Family Hotel and Mitson's Hotel.

Scope and Contents South side of Tay Street, between Conan and Jed Streets. Block XIII, sections 6,7 and 8 respectively.

Featuring: O’Hara bootmaker, Caleb Froggatt butcher, and Odd Fellow Lodge Hall.