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Wanganui River, N.Z.

Photographer
Date
  • 1915
Description
  • Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "No point of either North or South Island over 75 miles from the ocean. While Australia is a very dry continent having but a limited rainfall, no high mountains, and consequently no large river systems; New Zealand is comparatively a moist county, requiring little or no irrigation for its crops. The Wanganut River in North Island is famed for its beauty. For the greater part of 140 miles it runs in a deep canyon, which it has cut through hardened volcanic ash to a depth of form 200 to 500 feet. The walls of the canyon are in many places almost perpendicular and everywhere they are very steep. Both sides are covered with rich green vegetation, conspicuous amongst which are tree ferns, rising in some instances to a height of fifty (50) feet, and bearing aloft surprisingly graceful umbrella-shaped fronds. In some places along the course of the river the banks are so steep that the natives are obliged to go to and from their canoes by means of ladders."
MODS Note
  • Hand-tinted
Subject
Work Type
Location
Rights Holder
  • OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Identifier
  • P217:26:47
Local Collection Name
Is Part Of
  • Set 39 - Scenic Australia
Institution
Conversion
  • Master scanned with Epson 1640XL scanner at 800 dpi. TIFF, 24 bit color. Image manipulated with Adobe Elements 4.0.
Submission Date
  • 08/12/2015
Modified
  • 05/26/2023
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APA

OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University. (03 May 2025). Wanganui River, N.Z. Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df70dn38z

MLA

OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University. "Wanganui River, N.Z." Oregon Digital. 03 May 2025. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df70dn38z

Chicago

OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University. "Wanganui River, N.Z." Oregon Digital. Accessed 2025-05-03. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df70dn38z

Wiki

{{cite web | url= https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df70dn38z | title= Wanganui River, N.Z. |author= |accessdate= 2025-05-03 |publisher= }}
Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Weister Company http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/WeisterCompany
2 Rivers http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85114250
3 lantern slides http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300134977
4 New Zealand https://sws.geonames.org/2186224/
5 Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides, 1900-1940 (P 217) http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/localCollectionName/p_217
6 Oregon State University http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80017721

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