IMAGE
Postcard. Washing day, Whakarewarewa. Copyright T Pringle, Wellington, NZ, 105. Printed in Germany [ca 1906-1907]
- Date
- 1906 - 1908
- By
- Pringle, Thomas, 1858-1931
- Reference
- Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Quinn-01
- Description
Coloured photographic postcard shows two Maori women squatting beside a hot pool with their washing. The woman in the right foreground is smoking a pipe.
The handwritten message on the verso is from Mary (Polly) Plunkett to her mother in Britain, expressing Mary's fondness for her mother and her longing to be with her. Her description of the picture on the card reads: "Dear Mother, This is how the natives wash there [sic] things they are very big woman [sic] and the [sic] mostly all smoke a pipe".
Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.
Physical Description: Chromolithograph on postcard, 90 x 140 mm.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Scanned from original
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- [Ten postcards collected by Kathleen Quinn, nee Plunkett. 1906-1910]
- Format
- 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard, Ephemera, Photolithographs, Postcards, Chromolithograph on postcard, 90 x 140 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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Pringle, Thomas, 1858-1931. Postcard. Washing day, Whakarewarewa. Copyright T Pringle, Wellington, NZ, 105. Printed in Germany [ca 1906-1907]. [Ten postcards collected by Kathleen Quinn, nee Plunkett. 1906-1910]. Ref: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Quinn-01. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23020501More information can be found in our terms of use.