2-716-617 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Champagne Cauldron, Wairakei, New Zealand', c1909. Geothermal feature 'so named because of the exquisite sparkle of its ever-boiling contents', in an area of natural geysers and boiling mud pools. One of a set of stereocard views by George Rose, boxed as "Studies through the Stereoscope", to be viewed on a Sun Sculpture stereoscope made by Underwood & Underwood. [The Rose Stereograph Company, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington & London, c1909]