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Haurongo: Baucke, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm

The Baucke house, Chatham Island, in 1874

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The Baucke house, Chatham Island, in 1874
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Baucke was born on Chatham Island into a German Lutheran family, and spent his youth and early adulthood there. One of his sisters is pictured in front of the modest family house in 1874.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Peter Webb Galleries Collection (PAColl-0058)

Reference: PAColl-0058-06

Photograph by William H. Rau

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

Sheila Natusch. 'Baucke, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1996. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/94/the-baucke-house-chatham-island-in-1874 (accessed 4 June 2026).