Hand-coloured view over Auckland's red-brick rooftops to a blue harbour with sailing ships and a green island beyond, about 1900.
Antique colour geological map of the Auckland isthmus, its volcanic cones marked in purple and orange on cream land and pale sea.
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Auckland from St. Matthew's Tower

Pictures by Photoglob Co.

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Red roofs fall away to the blue waters of the Waitemata in this hand-coloured photochrom of Auckland from about 1900, with sailing ships in the harbour and Ferdinand von Hochstetter's 1864 map of the isthmus inside. On the horizon sits Rangitoto, which rose from the sea only about 600 years ago, the youngest of Auckland's volcanoes. For someone who loves Auckland or is headed there.

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Auckland · Photochrom / Auckland from St. Matthew's Tower / Photochrom, Photoglob Co., c. 1900 / Red roofs fall away to the blue waters of the Waitemata, with the volcano Rangitoto on the horizon. Rangitoto rose from the sea only about 600 years ago, making it the youngest of Auckland's volcanoes.

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