Looking north down Queen Street
1860 (unknown photographer) – 2022
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1860 image: unknown photographer | Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 5-2608
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This early image of Queen Street shows the Swanson Street corner just left of centre. The buildings visible on the right are those between Customs and Fort Streets, with the Metropolitan Hotel on the corner of Fort Street at far right. Click here for another 1860s image showing them. Some of the foreshortened buildings at left on either side of Swanson Street can be seen in another 1860s image here.
