Looking east from Wellesley Street West
1903 (Henry Winkelmann)
Below, an early attempt at a then-and-now treatment of this Winkelmann image, using black and white film, from 1978.
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Below, from 1994, another treatment, mixing elements of three images (intended for print).
Below, the modern image is from 2021.
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1903 image: Henry Winkelmann | Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 1-W1051
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Winkelmann made two plates of this scene, 1-W1051 as seen above, followed a minute or so later by 1-W1080. Although he didn't change his camera's position he did re-frame the scene between exposures as seen below (click to toggle transition).
