Looking north from Queen Street toward Customs Street
1880s (Edwin Willmott) - 2022
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1880s image: | Lower Queen Street, Auckland, 1880s, Auckland, by Edwin Willmott. Purchased 1999 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds. Te Papa (O.021618)
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A cartes-de-visite format photograph. Construction of the Palmerston Buildings, seen here at centre, was completed in 1884, and the firm of Lewis & Simpson, seen here at left, moved from this location to Fort Street in 1886*, so Willmott's image must presumably have been made between these dates.
*New Zealand Herald, 13 August 1886, Page 1
