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VINTAGE PANORAMIC PHOTO GATHERING AT OHINEMUTU. Impressed tiki outline mark 'Panora (?) Studios Rotorua'. 130 x 385mm
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Featuring the Queen Victorian Memorial. Note: Moore, R P, 1881-1948. Panoramic photographer. Born Christchurch, the son of Charles Moore, draper, and Annie Jane Moore. During World War I he was a travelling photographer in Queensland. In 1919 he had a studio at 379 Kent Street, Sydney, and his earliest panoramic photographs date from this time. From 1923 to 1931 he operated from a studio at 88 Manners Street, Wellington, specialising in panoramic photographs made with a cirkut camera. During the 1930s and 1940s he lived at different times in Australia and New Zealand. From 1936 to 1941 he was in partnership with James Thompson in the Panora studio in Rotorua. Husband of Celia Mary Moore (née Johnston, married circa 1914). He died in Sydney. His widow married Henry Sutcliffe in 1954.
