IMAGE
Flood debris from Kopuawhara No. 4 public works camp, Mahia Peninsula
- Date
- 20 Feb 1938
- Reference
- PAColl-4431-01
- Description
Photograph surveying the debris from Kopuawhara No. 4 public works camp, taken on February 20 1938 (the day after a sudden flood that killed 21 people). Photographer unidentified.
The Kopuawhara No. 4 public works camp was one of a series of camps set up for construction workers building the Wairoa-Gisborne railway. It was located on the banks of the Kopuawhara Stream, which flooded the camp with a five-metre wall of water in the morning of February 19 1938.
Source of descriptive information - Source of historical notes: Christchurch City Libraries, New Zealand Disasters, http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Childrens/NZDisasters/Kopuawhara.asp
Inscriptions: Verso - centre - No. 4 Camp. Kopuawhara taken the day after the disaster, 19-2-1938.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - No. 4 Camp Feb. 20th 1938
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14 x 9 cm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Jeffery, Cecil Albert, 1888-1970 : Collection / Personal and political photographs
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin print 14 x 9 cm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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