
A photo that didn't strike me as particularly interesting when I saw it the flea market bin, but I knew an expert collector in Christchurch who I was sure would be able to make something of it. I was not disappointed. As you can see from his blog, he has researched the career of photographer, Daniel Mundy, in some detail. To his surprise, he found that an exact copy of this portrait is held by the New Zealand National Archive. It is in a collection that was bestowed by renowned German geologist Sir Johann Franz Julius von Haast. The bearded man in the portrait remains unidentified, but was quite probably a friend of Haast's.
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