IMAGE
Album of photographs depicting Joseph Gordon Coates and others on tours to various parts of New Zealand
- Date
- ca1922-ca1926
- By
- Coates, Marjorie Grace, 1892-1973
- Reference
- PA1-o-851
- Description
Gordon Coates and his wife on tour. Most of these photographs relate to Coates' as MP and Minister of Public Works. Most of the events record the trials and tribulations of journeying to remote parts of New Zealand to open bridges, post offices, power plants etc. The album also records some of the social and recreational events associated with the tours.
According to Gordon Coates' daughter, Mrs Sheila Pryde, this album belonged to Gordon Coates' wife Marjorie, who collected, and may have taken some of the snaps when she accompanied her husband travelling in various parts of New Zealand.
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Barr, John Manson, 1904-1993 :Photographs of Joseph Gordon Coates
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs
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