Sleeping quarters for Special Mounted Police, at Mount Cook Barracks, Wellington, during the 1913 waterfront strike

Sleeping quarters for Special Mounted Police, at Mount Cook Barracks, Wellington, during the 1913 waterfront strike
Date
1913
Reference
1/1-019684-G
Description

Sleeping quarters for some of the Mounted Special Police, at the Mount Cook Barracks, Wellington, during the 1913 waterfront strike. Shows men lying on straw, on the floor of a large hall. Leslie Adkin is sitting up, facing the camera, in the centre of the picture. Photograph taken by S C Smith.

Other - Note on back of file print reads "...similar photo published in Auckland Weekly News 13/11/13..."

Other - Note on back of file print, signed by Library client, reads: "Leslie Adkin sitting up facing camera centre of picture. See his diary, held by Museum."

Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print.

Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Physical Description: Glass dry plate negative

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Part of
Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand
Format
1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Glass dry plate negative, Orientation: Horizontal image
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