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Haurongo: Kent, Thelma Rene

A photograph of 'Larnach's Castle', Otago Peninsula, taken by Thelma Kent about 1939

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'Larnach's Castle', photographed by Thelma Kent

The extravagant residence of nineteenth-century politician William Larnach was photographed by Thelma Kent around 1939. It was one of the photographic subjects she discovered in her travels around New Zealand in the 1930s and 1940s.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 1/4-003226; F

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Joan McCracken. 'Kent, Thelma Rene', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1998. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/2952/larnachs-castle-photographed-by-thelma-kent (accessed 4 June 2026).