More Info →Group at Valve Tower, Karori Reservoir

Description

This image comes from a collection of glass negatives found in the attic of a Palmerston North home. The people in the images are possibly the Lovelock family, but their identities have not been confirmed.

The gothic style valve tower was constructed c.1872-1878 for the lower dam at the Wellington Waterworks at Karori. Nicolas Marchant, a civil engineer, was the architect. The earth dam was the first of its kind built by a municipality in Aotearoa New Zealand.

This is now the site of the Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne urban ecosanctuary.

Identification

Object type

Image

Identifier

2012/20

Relation

Coolstore - Love Box

Date

1890 to 1910

Digitisation ID

2015G_LoveB1_011095

Format

Glass negative

Held In

"Coolstore"