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Jessie Buckland photograph album - P1993-011/3

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Reference NumberP1993-011/3Datec.1890-c.1909CreatorBuckland, Jessie Lillian, 1878-1939DescriptionAn album of 297 photographs, including numerous genre studies that feature Jessie Buckland and her siblings with dramatic or poetic titles, as well as documentary scenes taken mostly when the family lived at Taieri Lake Station near Middlemarch, and Akaroa, where Jessie later moved with her parents in 1902.

Other places shown include Waikouaiti, New Brighton Road in Christchurch, Moeraki, Akaroa, Orakei, Lake Hawea, Wanaka, Waipori, Chatham Islands, Wellington, Takapuna Beach, Rangitata Bridge, Maniototo and Ocean Beach. Other places shown include Waikouaiti, New Brighton Road in Christchurch, Moeraki, Akaroa, Orakei, Lake Hawea, Wanaka, Waipori, Chatham Islands, Wellington, Takapuna Beach, Rangitata Bridge, Maniototo and Ocean Beach.

History / BiographyJessie Buckland and possibly her older sister, Susan, entered photographic competitions and published images c.1900 using the pseudonym, 'P. Gay'. Evidence held at the Hocken suggests this name was derived from the literary character Peterkin Gay, a cheerful, adventuresome youth in two of R.M. Ballantyne's novels, The Coral Island: a Tale of the Pacific Ocean (1857) and its sequel, The Gorilla Hunters (1861). (N. Austin, 'Images capture the art of play', ODT, 16 March 2024.)

Jessie Buckland was the only family member to go on and establish a professional career as a photographer, but two of her other siblings, Carrie and Harold, also took photographs so it is difficult to name the creators of the individual photographs in the album with any certainty.Provenancedd N. Buckland and P. McKenzie, Christchurch, 1983

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