Cobb and Co's coach crossing the Waimakariri River during a flood

Cobb and Co's coach crossing the Waimakariri River during a flood
Date
1875
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

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Part of
Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection
Format
1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Film negative
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