Auckland Star Building, Shortland Street
ca.1910 (unknown photographer) – 2023
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Historical image: Auckland Star building, Shortland Street, Auckland. Auckland Star: Negatives. Ref: 1/1-002917-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23200225
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The Auckland Star building extended from Shortland Street (as seen here) to Fort Street; pictures of its Fort Street frontage (from the 1880s) can be seen on this site here.
Below, a detail from the historical image.
Below, explore a typical front page of the Star from this period in high-resolution. The idea of front-page news doesn't seem to have occurred to newspaper publishers in 1910. Click or tap (or use a mouse-wheel or pinch-zoom) on the image to zoom. The four control buttons at upper left enable: zoom-in; zoom-out; home (which resets zooming); and fullscreen (recommended).
