New Zealand’s spectacular scenery was was the most popular imagery in the colonial period. It was depicted by artists and photographers, and reproduced on stamps, postcards, posters, and in calendars and newspapers.
Postcards
Postcard: image artwork by Laurence William Wilson, 1900. Wanganui River, New Zealand
Stamps
Lake Wakatipu, from the 1898 Pictorial Centenary Collection.
Photography
Lake Manapouri, albumen silver print, 1898. Burton Brothers Studio, https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1443367 Lake Te Anau, Otago, 1903. From the Auckland Weekly News, Auckland Library Heritage Collections AWNS-19030924-6-1
