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Perhaps you know where some of the photographs below were taken and what they are of?  If you can help, please note the number related to each image with your comment below.

1) What building is this Burton Brothers stereoscopic image taken from and where is it? 

Untitled, circa 1880, New Zealand. Burton Brothers. Te Papa

2) Is it Lake Wakatipu?  Where exactly is it taken from and where is it looking towards?

Untitled. circa 1900, Muir & Moodie. Te Papa

3) The time is 8.55am but where is it?  The two churches behind it might help or perhaps the signage for the businesses – “S. McBride, Monumental Mason” and “Zealandia Butchery”.

[Town Clock Tower building, 8.55am]. circa 1900, Muir & Moodie. Te Papa

4) A mystery railway station – is the church steeple a clue? This is an image that has fantastic detail when you zoom in…

[Railway Station]. circa 1900, Muir & Moodie. Te Papa

5) This looks like Picton…

Untitled, circa 1900, Muir & Moodie. Te Papa

6) But this is a mystery settlement:

Untitled, 1880s, Burton Brothers. Te Papa

7) Somewhere near Blenheim?

Untitled [Steam train], circa 1900. Muir & Moodie. Te Papa

8) Auckland… or perhaps not?

Untitled, circa 1900. Muir & Moodie. Te Papa

9) This has to be the hardest or perhaps the easiest if you know it?

[Illegible] Abbey, circa 1880. Burton Brothers. Te Papa