Auckland city and harbour viewed from Stanley Point
1906 (unknown photographer) - 2024
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1906 image: Auckland city alongside the harbour. Auckland Star: Negatives. Ref: 1/2-008338-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22761976
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Below: A few of the buildings on or near the waterfront in the 1906 image have survived and are visible in the 2024 scene; below, the Union Fish Company Building (left) and Northern Steamship building (near centre, with an added storey) and behind them the Entrican Building (now Australis House) along with a glimpse of its neighbour, the AH Nathan Building. Click on image for transition.
Below: A lonely survivor from the 1906 view is the Colonial Sugar Refining Company Building on Quay Street (at top centre). For a close-up view of this building see a then-and-now treatment on this site, here. In the foreground of the 1906 picture is a glimpse of what appears to be an unidentified American warship. It may have been the Baltimore, which visited Auckland in May 1906 (reported in the New Zealand Herald, 25 May 1906, page 5). Click on image for transition.
A similar view of the city, also made in 1906 and published in The New Zealand Graphic is on this site, here.
