Looking east across Queen Street between Durham and Victoria Streets
1859 (?) 1866 (?) (unknown photographer) - 2021
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Historical image: Auckland Museum | East side of Queen Street looking up from Durham St,1866?,PH-NEG-C134
Copy of a print. The original is presumably lost.
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The Face at the Window
One source dates this photograph to 1859. John Nicol Crombie's photographic studio is at right. Crombie was among the first professional photographers to work in Auckland, and it is entirely possible that it is he who appears in the window at upper right – see detail below. Crombie photographs of Shortland Street and Queen Street can be seen here, here, and here.
A later view of Crombie's somewhat grander studio is here.
