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John Bates, China and Crystal Salon, Customs Street East

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  • Description

    Shop front window display looking through to interior of shop. China and glass displayed in window and niches, some art deco style glassware. "Royal Doulton" sign in window.

  • Other Id

    59368 (Presto content ID)

    PH-NEG-A1721 (Reference Number)

    DU436.1215 C98e (Library of Congress Call Number)

    32947 (DBTextworks system ID)

  • Department

    Photography

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Catalogue

  • Object Type

    photograph

  • Name/Title
    John Bates, China and Crystal Salon, Customs Street East
  • Primary Maker

     Reginald Lediard (Photographer)

  • Date
    Circa 1920
  • Physical Description

    16.5x21.5cm. Full plate

  • Level of Current Record
    Child
  • Related Object Notes
    9 albums; 7x16mm movie films; loose photos; 2 Boley 16mm movie cameras and 1 Devry 16mm Projector; 1/1 plate camera front with lens (latter 3 items in History Dept.).
  • Is Part Of

    Lediard photographs

  • Media

    glass/inorganic material

  • Technique

    Gelatin dry plate negative

    Glass plate negative

    Negative

    Photographic techniques

  • Subject Category

    Stores, Retail--New Zealand--Auckland

    Show windows

    Storefronts

    Customs Street (Auckland, N.Z.)/Library of Congress subject headings

  • Public Access Text

    R. S. Lediard, born 20 November 1898, died 19 February 1973, lived at 2 Tuperiri Road, Epsom. He was a commercial photographer at 39 Victoria Street West in the 1920s and early 1930s. Lediard worked from home in the late 1930s. He was commissioned to work for Auckland City Council in the Parks Department, Art Gallery and Zoo. Commissioned to photograph Hall of Memories etc., Auckland Museum. Friend of Drs Falla & Powell, Gilbert Archey and G. T.

    Turbott, accompanying them on expeditions. Member of Museum Institute, President of Auckland Botanical Society, doing botanical photography for them (35mm negs and prints bequeathed to Botany Dept, University of Auckland).

  • Copyright
    No known copyright restrictions
  • Last Update
    01 Dec 2023

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