Vintage 1923 Photo Album Early Automobile Car Trip Along New Zealand Coast

An album of well-notated snapshot photography singularly documenting a road trip along the northeast coast of the South Island of New Zealand in April of 1923. The traveling party starts somewhere just north of Christchurch and winds its way up what is now mostly the route of State Highway 1, covering more than 400km through scenic terrain and emergent rural towns, ending up in the Tasman Bay city of Nelson, documenting their trip along the way in 79 clear photographs. An uncommon vernacular record of an early automobile trip along the South Island coast of New Zealand. [Photo Album of a 1923 Automotive Trip in New Zealand]. Approximately 7" x 4" album.

Thin, brown card wrappers, string bound through left margin with 38 thin card leaves of a slightly different stock holding a total of 79 sepia-toned snapshot photographs, each approximately 3 x 2. Majority of photos identified in neat ink print to pages.

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