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Cobb and Co's coach crossing the Waimakariri River during a flood
Date: 1875
From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection
Reference: MNZ-0643-1/4-F
Description: Cobb and Co's coach crossing the Waimakariri River in flood. Engraving made from a drawing by Thomas Samuel Cousins for "The Illustrated New Zealand Herald" of 1875 From the caption in Making New Zealand: "The ferry man with a lifebelt is showing the way, as the fords shift in every flood...the river at the spot referred to consists of a number of steams, which in bad weather are sometimes quite impassable" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative