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Relief workers during the Depression, Akatarawa Region

Date: ca 1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-084256-G

Description: Relief workers at a camp in the Akatarawa area during the Great Depression. Taken by unidentified photographer, circa 1932. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

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Te Horo, Kapiti Coast district, Wellington region, with rocks collected by relief workers

Date: [ca 5 May 1932]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-084202-G

Description: Paddock at Te Horo, Kapiti Coast district, Wellington region, circa 5 May 1932, with a wheelbarrow of rocks collected by relief workers. Photograph taken by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass dry plate negative

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Relief workers at Gracefield

Date: [1930s]

From: Howard, B J : Chiefly photographs of Somes Island during World War I

Reference: 1/2-090512-F

Description: Relief workers at Gracefield, 1930s. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

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Group of people around a building during the depression, Wellington

Date: [ca 1932]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-084148-G

Description: Scene taken during the 1930s depression, Wellington, probably at a soup kitchen. Photograph taken circa 1932 by an unidentified staff photographer for the Evening Post. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

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Relief workers constructing Rongotai Airport

Date: [ca 1930]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-071566-F

Description: Relief workers constructing Rongotai Airport in Wellington, circa 1930. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

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Relief workers stacking rocks, Te Horo, Kapiti Coast district, Wellington region

Date: [ca 5 May 1932]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-084201-G

Description: Relief workers stacking rocks in a paddock in Te Horo, Kapiti Coast district, Wellington region, circa 5 May 1932, photographed by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass dry plate negative

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Unemployment demonstration, Hutt Valley, Wellington

Date: 1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-084213-F

Description: Unemployment demonstration, 1932. View from above of two women pushing prams and men marching on foot. Ahead can be seen other men on bicycles. They are marching on a footpath beside railway tracks. Photographed by the Evening Post on 30th January, 1932. A related image was published in the Evening Post for the 30th January 1932 with the following caption: "Unemployed demonstration, some hundreds of unemployed marched from Hutt Valley to the city today and assembled in Parliament grounds while a deputation waited on the Prime Minister....." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 95mm x 120mm

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Rongotai, Wellington, with relief workers

Date: [ca 3 Aug 1927]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-8557-66

Description: Rongotai, Wellington, during the depression, showing relief workers shovelling sand into railway wagons. Photograph taken by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of print. Collection listed as Evening Post from identifying marks (stamp and writing) on back of print. Inscriptions: Verso - Rongotai Unemployment works Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16 x 21.6 cm

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Creator unknown : Photograph of workers on sand dunes at Lyall Bay, Wellington

Date: [ca 1932]

Reference: PAColl-8855

Description: Photograph of men working on sand dunes at Lyall Bay, Wellington. Shows them by rail tracks (preparing to move sand?). Probably shows relief workers during the depression. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on print. Dated from note on file print which reads "circa 1932". Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 6.8 x 21.6 cm

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Creator unknown: Photograph of road construction, Wellington

Date: [ca 23 Mar 1932]

Reference: PAColl-9469

Description: Photograph of road construction by relief workers in Wellington, probably Brooklyn. Photograph taken during the 1930s depression, circa 23 March 1932, by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on print. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16.3 x 21.4 cm

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Unemployment relief work during the Depression

Date: 1930s

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-044670-F

Description: Unemployed men and boys from the Penrose relief camp constructing a fence during the Great Depression. Made for publication in the Evening Post by an unidentified photographer during the 1930s. Arrangement: Original print at PAColl-5927-56 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

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Relief workers during the Depression, Akatarawa Region

Date: ca 1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-084257-G

Description: Relief workers at a camp in the Akatarawa area during the Great Depression. Taken by unidentified photographer, circa 1932. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

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Dwellings at the labour camp in Te Horo

Date: 1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-084198-G

Description: Dwellings at the labour camp in Te Horo, taken by an unidentified photographer in 1932 for the Evening Post. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

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Unemployment relief work during the Depression

Date: 1930s

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-036286-F

Description: Unemployed men constructing a road during the Great Depression, probably in the Akatarawa region. Made for publication in the Evening Post by an unidentified photographer during the 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

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Creator unknown : Photograph of relief workers building a retaining wall during road co...

Date: [ca 1930-1933]

Reference: PAColl-9480

Description: Photograph of relief workers building a retaining wall during road construction works circa 1930-1933. Possibly near Akatarawa, Wellington region. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on item. Possible dates estimated by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16.6 x 21.5 cm

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Relief workers pulling a chain harrow at Petone

Date: 1932

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 2

Reference: PAColl-5584-03

Description: Relief workers pulling a chain harrow at Petone. Photograph taken by Jeremy Veniamin Garvitch in 1932. This photograph was used (with the image reversed) in a 1930s poster advertising the Labour Party, with the caption `Relief workers cheaper than horses' - see `The Sugarbag Years' by Tony Simpson, pages 56 and 92. Page 92 attributes this photogaph to W B Sutch, however, it was taken by Jerermy Garvitch. Inscriptions: bottom centre - Written in biro on original - J V Garvitch. Photo. Petone Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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