Display board of photographs showing people and scenes in the Wellington region

Date
[ca 1930s-ca 1940s]
Reference
PAColl-D-1436
Description

Display board with montages of photographic prints on both sides. Images show people and scenes taken circa 1930s-circa 1940s, mainly in the Wellington city area, but also in the wider Wellington region. The board may have been created by the Evening Post.

One side shows scenes at listed locations:

- Lake in the Botanical Gardens

- Picnic place at Moonshine

- Rock garden in Riddiford Park, Lower Hutt

- Waiwhetu Stream, Lower Hutt

- Oriental Bay Parade

- Entrance to Khandallah Domain

- Oriental Bay beach

- Riddiford Park, Lower Hutt

- Botanical Gardens and city from Northland heights

- Houses of Parliament

- Upper reaches of the Hutt River

- Days Bay beach

- Spring flowers in the Botanical Gardens

Other side shows crowded city street scenes with people, cars and trams. Also many close-ups of women and children pedestrians. Exact locations not listed but all appear to be in Wellington city. Willis Street and James Smith's Corner are included.

Quantity: 1 display board, with 21 b&w original prints on one side, and 13 b&w original prints on the other.

Physical Description: Mount, 68.4 cm x 50.9 cm, with photographic prints attached. Prints vary in size.

Additional description

Print of Waiwhetu Stream has most of the middle portion of the print ripped out. Part of the portion is filed with the print, in a large enclosure.

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Creator unknown: Display boards of photographs showing people and scenes in the Wellington region
Format
1 display board, with 21 b&w original prints on one side, and 13 b&w original prints on the other, Photographs, Mount, 68.4 cm x 50.9 cm, with photographic prints attached. Prints vary in size.
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