IMAGE
Carpenter fitting a cope iron to a motor tow-boat being built for the United States armed forces, during World War II
- Date
- 1943
- Reference
- 1/4-000591-F
- Description
Henry, a carpenter who came from England some years ago, fitting a cope iron to a motor tow-boat being built for the United States armed forces, during World War II. Photograph taken in Auckland, in 1943, by John Dobree Pascoe.
Other - Pascoe's caption, from the Photographic Archive file at 6/1/30, for the first of the set of photographs at 1/4-000581 to 000620, reads: "War purposes have made extensive developments to the shipbuilding industry in New Zealand. Hundreds of units have to be built for the Allied mosquito fleet of the Pacific area. This series of forty photographs show how eight motor tow-boats were built for the United States Armed Forces, and give some of the personal background to the story..."
Caption - Pascoe's caption for this image in Photographic Archive file 6/1/30 reads: "Carol and June get up early. Breakfast is an important meal; on it hard work must be done. Before the war these girls were partners in an art novelty shop in Wellington. Now, they are competant on the farm and would not leave the life."
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Film negative
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Film negative, Orientation: Square image
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Carpenter fitting a cope iron to a motor tow-boat being built for the United States armed forces, during World War II. Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives. Ref: 1/4-000591-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23026512More information can be found in our terms of use.