IMAGE
Seafarers
- Date
- [ca 1950s-2001]
- Reference
- EP-Labour-Seafarers
- Description
Photographs relating to seafarers (including the New Zealand Seafarers' Union and the The New Zealand Seamen's Industrial Union of Workers). The images are dated circa 1950s-2000, and were compiled for internal use by the library of the Evening Post newspaper
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers / Labour
- Format
- Photographs
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UnknownSonja van Erkel in an Air Force Hercules - Photograph taken by Phil Reid
Date: 11 August 1983
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Reid, Philip John, 1954-
Reference: EP-Labour-Seafarers-03
Description: Sonja van Erkel strapped in for a flight across Cook Straight in an Air Force Hercules. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid on the 11th of August 1983. In protest at the visit of the nuclear powered US warship Uss Texas, seamen on the Cook Straight ferries went on strike. Three Airforce Hercules and two Andover aircraft were called in to transport passengers affected by the strike, across the straight. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin Print, 21.5 x 15 cm
Seamen from the Wairata protesting about job losses due to its sale
Date: 11 Sep 1967
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP-Labour-Seafarers-01
Description: Seamen from the `Wairata', in Dunedin, protesting about job losses due to the sale of the freighter by the Union Steam Ship Company. Shows men on board the ship, by a sign reading "Another sellout. 42 more men unemployed. Photographer unidentified. Publication note - Published in the Evening Post, 12 September 1967 The men initially refused to help move the ship from the Rattray Wharf to the Birch Street Wharf but later agreed to assist. Evening Post caption reads "the `Wairata', the third Union Steam Ship to be paid off in the last year..." Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 12.7 x 19.9 cm