IMAGE
Road making by unemployed men during the Depression, Akatarawa
- Date
- Jan 1932
- Reference
- 1/2-084131-G
- Description
Men from the unemployed men's camp in Akatarawa excavating hillside to improve the Akatarawa Road as part of a relief work scheme during the Great Depression. Photograph taken by unidentified photographer and published in the Evening Post on 15 January 1932.
Note on back of file print reads: This photo was published in the Evening Post, 1932, Jan. 15. Caption: "Relief work on the road. A gang of men at the task of improving the Akatarawa Rd, a scheme which is being carried out by men from the unemployed men's camp".
Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - Jan 14th 1932
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper / Negatives of the Evening Post newspaper
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Gelatin dry plate negative, Orientation: Horizontal image
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