Looking east along the waterfront from the vicinity of Hobson Street Wharf
Between 1918 and 1923 (Frederick George Radcliffe) - 2023
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Historical image: Radcliffe, Frederick George | Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 35-R42
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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 a 1919 Henry Winkelmann picture (together with images showing the photographers' location on Hobson Wharf). In making the image seen here Radcliffe used a lens yielding a very wide field of view (compared to Winkelmann and Price).
Dating the historical image
There is another photograph of this part of the waterfront made by Radcliffe here, also taken from Hobson Wharf (indeed, just a short stroll north along the wharf from the camera position here), for which the Alexander Turnbull Library give a date of 1916. In that picture there is no sign of the building seen in this image to the right of centre with the signage 'George Henning Ltd'. Advertisements in newspapers of the time suggest that this company set up shop at this location (between Little Queen Street and lower Albert Street, having moved from earlier premises in Customs Street East) in the latter part of 1918. Radcliffe died in 1923, so this picture must have been made between 1918 and that year.
