IMAGE
Two possum trappers with a day's catch from the Lake Waikaremoana district
- Date
- [ca Oct 1931]
- Reference
- PAColl-8983-05
- Description
Two unidentified possum trappers with a day's catch from the Lake Waikaremoana district. Shows them standing amongst native bush. Photograph taken circa October 1931, possibly by 'Snadden'.
Publication note - Published in the New Zealand Free Lance, 28 Oct 1931, page 30
Source of descriptive information - New Zealand Free Lance, 28 Oct 1931. 'Snadden' listed as possible photographer from notes on back of print.
Caption - New Zealand Free Lance caption reads: "Trappers' luck - Two opossum trappers with a day's catch from the Lake Waikaremoana district. The opossum trapping season, which has just terminated, has been exceptionally poor, some of the skins not being sufficiently valuable to return the sixpence royalty."
Inscriptions: Verso - [hand written in ink] Opossums caught near Lake Waikaremoana [Typed] Wild Life - Opossum trapping [hand written in ink] P28.10.31. Snadden
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 6.5 x 10.2 cm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin print, 6.5 x 10.2 cm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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