IMAGE
Ballantyne's department store fire, Christchurch
- Date
- 1947
- Reference
- PAColl-5936-27
- Description
Fire at Ballantyne's department store in 1947, showing fire fighters on Colombo Street, Christchurch, with water hoses. Photographer unidentified.
Inscriptions: Verso - 6000 gallons of water every minute played into building looking north along Colombo St. Instruction and Directions one man said like a scene from London Blitz
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives / New Zealand Free Lance original photographic prints, from the file print collection, Box 2
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Orientation: Horizontal image
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