Postcard, Picnic, Tauranga
Maker
Mary Humphreys
Production date
1910
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Description
Postcard showing a group of men and women posing for photograph outside. May have been at a picnic. Stamped on reverse "Mary Humphreys, Photo Tauranga". Handwritten on reverse "1910 left to right back Mssrs Duncanson, Shearman, Badger, Munro, Smith, Jones.1- Miss Wrigley 2-Jessie Gilmore, 3&4-Vickery". Numbers correspond to handwriting in blue pen on front.
Mary Humphreys (nee Henderson) was a professional photographer operating in Tauranga at the end of the 1890s into the early 1900s. She was born in 1865 in Croydon, Surrey, England and came to New Zealand in the 1880s, marrying Thomas Humphreys in June 1889. Widowed in 1898, and with three young children, Mary turned her home into a boarding house and began to advertise for photographic work. In 1901 the 'Christchurch Press' published forty of her photographs in a special supplement and a album of her images was given to the Duchess of Cornwall by the women of Tauranga.
Mary Humphreys (nee Henderson) was a professional photographer operating in Tauranga at the end of the 1890s into the early 1900s. She was born in 1865 in Croydon, Surrey, England and came to New Zealand in the 1880s, marrying Thomas Humphreys in June 1889. Widowed in 1898, and with three young children, Mary turned her home into a boarding house and began to advertise for photographic work. In 1901 the 'Christchurch Press' published forty of her photographs in a special supplement and a album of her images was given to the Duchess of Cornwall by the women of Tauranga.
Maker
Mary Humphreys
Production date
1910
Production place
Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Measurements
90mm (height), 140mm (width)
Accession number
0188/12
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