# 51603
NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT TOURIST DEPARTMENT, et al.
[ANGLING] Three photographs of large New Zealand trout caught in Lake Rotorua, Lake Victoria, and the Waimakariri River, early 1900s.
- Gelatin silver print, 150 x 200 mm; New Zealand Government Tourist Department crest in image lower left; unmounted; inscribed verso in pencil: ‘Rainbow trout / 16lbs, L. Rotorua’, and with wet stamp of the NZGTD; very good condition.
- Gelatin silver print, 140 x 200 mm; no photographer identified; on original card mount, inscribed below the image in ink: ‘Rainbow trout 21lbs taken in Lake Victoria, New Zealand’; very good condition.
- Gelatin silver print, 208 x 157 mm; no photographer identified; handwritten caption in negative: ‘Caught by Mr. G. Borgfeldt of Papanui, Christchurch, in Waimakariri River, 5 December 1903. Weight 13 pounds, length 30 1/2 inches, girth 19’; on original card mount, inscribed below the image in ink: ‘Brown trout 13 lbs caught in Waimakariri River’; very good condition.
