Looking east along the waterfront from the vicinity of Hobson Street Wharf
1919 (Henry Winkelmann) - 2023
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1919 image: Henry Winkelmann | Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 1-W0482
This location on Hobson Wharf saw a number of photographers set up their cameras over the years before the area was reclaimed. Click here for a picture by William Archer Price made around 1918, and here for one by Frederick George Radcliffe.
Winkelmann's location
In the image below, a detail of a 1920 Winkelmann panorama, Winkelmann's camera location would have been in the vicinity of the shed in the lower left corner.

1920 image (detail): Henry Winkelmann | Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 1-W1707-PAN
Looking back
The image below, from a lantern slide made by an unidentified photographer for the Auckland Harbour Board, shows the scene looking back toward Hobson Wharf from the Ferry Building. The picture seems to date from roughly the same period as Winkelmann's images.

New Zealand Maritime Museum Hui Te Ananui a Tangaroa
Collections Online object record URL (accessed 2023), 2021.28.192