IMAGE
Staff social hall at the Hutt Railway Workshops, decorated for a ball
- Date
- 1930
- Reference
- APG-1799-1/2-G
- Description
The social hall at the Hutt Railway Workshops, decorated for a ball in 1930. Bentwood chairs are placed all around the room, leaving the floor bare, and the ceiling is decorated with streamers, balloons and lanterns. There is a comfortable seating area on the stage with several soft chairs and two standard lamps. Beside the stage is a board with the inscription "Social Hall. Hutt Workshops. Programme. Waltz. One step". Photographed by Albert Percy Godber.
For another view looking towards the back of the decorated hall, see APG-1803-1/2, in which a large group of apprentices are seated for an exam.
Identification of subject and location from Godber's own index at TL 6/1/15 (filed in Photographic Archives), in the 1/2 plate sequence under: S. Social Hall. Hutt Shops. 1930. For ball. Box 122.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Photographs, Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches, Orientation: Horizontal image
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