IMAGE
Whale on ramp at Whaling Station, Tory Channel - Photograph taken by Argosy Studio
- Date
- [ca 12 Jul 1954]
- By
- Argosy Studio
- Reference
- PAColl-8163-25
- Description
Photograph of a dead humpback whale lying on the ramp of the whaling station at Tory Channel in Malborough. Shows the buildings of the station at the water's edge, and a man looking on from a ramp in the background. Photograph taken in September 1954, by Argosy Studios for the Free Lance.
Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Published 21 Jul 1954 page 28 [publication stamp]; Verso - centre - A whale weighing about 50 tons is hauled up the Ramp at the Whaling Station, Tory Channel [attached slip]; Verso - bottom right - right 10 3/4 x 4 12/7/54; Verso - bottom left - Photo Copyright By / Argosy Studio / Picton / No 4928 [photographer's stamp]
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.6 x 16.8 cm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Digital content available only in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room
- Part of
- New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin print 21.6 x 16.8 cm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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