IMAGE
Group of miners waiting to go underground at head of Blackwater shaft in Waiuta
- Date
- [ca 1920-1933]
- Reference
- 1/2-233070-G
- Description
Group portrait includes Harold Ord holding bike, and several miners have candles in their pockets, used for lighting in the mine.
Image published as part of composite newspaper illustration with caption "A group of miners ready to start work underground at Waiuta", in Supplement to the 'Auckland Weekly News', 4 February 1931, page 45. (See Auckland Libraries, Heritage Images, Record ID AWNS-19310204-45-1).
Published in Nathan, Simon, 'Through the eyes of a miner: The photography of Joseph Divis', Greymouth: Friends of Waiuta, 2016, page 60 and 61.
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Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Dry plate negatives, Dry plate glass negative.
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