Looking east along Shortland Street from Queen Street
1910 (Henry Winkelmann) – 2025
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1910 image: Henry Winkelmann | Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 1-W1469
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Two years after the 1910 picture was taken, a fourth level was added to Blackett's Building, at right.
Below: Winkelmann made two exposures of this scene without moving his camera. The moving shadow of the Victoria Arcade building (left) falling across Blackett's Building reveals that plate 1-W1468 was taken before 1-W1469. Click on the image to toggle between the two plates.
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 1-W1468, 1-W1469
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Below: Lastly, a detail of the lower-right area of the two 1910 plates overlaid; click to toggle transition.
