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Splash of colour, but where is it?
Saturday 21 January | Camera Obscura,
To start off 2023, and to bring some colour to the dull weather, we have this photo taken from a slide transparency.
Revival of the Messiah
Saturday 17 December | Camera Obscura,
Handel’s Messiah is a well-loved choral production, so it is not surprising that it was chosen for the first performance of the Hamilton Choral Society in December 1922.
Kiwi Christmas shutdown
Saturday 10 December | Camera Obscura,
We’ve had a few people on holiday in the photos in the last few months and here we are again in holiday mode.
Books, an ideal Christmas gift
Saturday 3 December | Camera Obscura,
A sentiment I’m sure many of us can sympathise with: “Give Books This Christmas!” This flier dates from 1935 and comes from Paul’s Book Arcade on Victoria Street (opposite the…
Viewing the city from a top vantage point
Saturday 26 November | Camera Obscura,
We don’t often feature aerial photos. They are very often higher altitude therefore very small detail and lots of it.
Hamilton centre stage for comedy
Saturday 19 November | Camera Obscura,
In 1934, Hamilton was the location for ‘Hamilton Talks’ a twenty minute comedy billed as New Zealand’s first ‘talking picture comedy’.
Is it truck, lorry, or a pick-up utility?
Saturday 12 November | Camera Obscura,
A truck known years ago as a lorry but possibly even small enough to be a ‘pickup utility’. It is No. 3 in the fleet of Cambridge Co-op Dairy Coy. Ltd.
Radio waves hit homes
Saturday 5 November | Camera Obscura,
“Do you know that in your own home you can hear the famous scotch band now playing at the Dunedin Exhibition?” A remarkable technological advancement is advertised in this flier…
Inside a gas works? But then again maybe not
Saturday 29 October | Camera Obscura,
See at the top of the image, the date is 28th January 1965. 1964 is crossed out. That was a common absent-minded slipup in the days when people wrote out cheques ...
Hotel's fine cuisine
Saturday 22 October | Camera Obscura,
This menu is from a dinner held at the Hamilton Hotel on 22 July 1958. The dinner was held in honour of G. H. V.
Narrows a course linked to past
Saturday 15 October | Camera Obscura,
There is a sign on the corrugated iron shed on the right which says, ‘The Narrows Golf Club Links Private’.
Popular screening
Saturday 8 October | Camera Obscura,
This flier promotes a matinee screening of ‘educational, instructive, scenic and amusing pictures’ at the King’s Theatre on November 4 1911.