Written below photo with blue (faded) ballpoint pen - earliest know view of Shannon
Penciled on back – (1) Earliest known view of Shannon
Earliest known view of Shannon, c.1894 1 B&W photo print, copy (large, damaged)
Cut-over bush (stumps) in foreground, buildings in middle-distance with uncut bush behind and Tararua Ranges in background.
See also #.0001b smaller copy (undamaged)
Used in book – “Shannon School, Jubilee Souvenir, 1949”, page 23, with caption - A general view of Shannon – 1894.
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