IMAGE
Buildings on the corner of Davis Street and Thorndon Quay, Wellington
- Date
- [ca 7 Jan 1961]
- Reference
- PAColl-7796-98
- Description
View of cars passing through the intersection of Davis Street and Thorndon Quay in Wellington, showing an old wooden house on the corner (ca 1890s), and the concrete Farm Products building behind it advertising: "Kiwi Hams, Bacon & Sausages". Photograph taken circa 7 January 1961 by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post.
Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Evening Post / Wellington, N.Z. / Jan 1961 / Copyright photograph; Verso - centre - Old House / 4/C x 5 3/4 / 5 / Com / Fri; Verso - bottom centre - Publication date stamp: 7 Jan 1961; Verso - bottom centre - Original caption: Standing on the corner of Davis Street and Thorndon Quay, this old house provides a contrast with the Farm Products building which overshadows it. Built before 1891 and extended in 1903, the house is soon to be demolished to make way for the widening of Thorndon Quay.
Published in the Evening Post, 7 Jan 1961: `Standing on the corner of Davis Street and Thorndon Quay, this old house provides a contrast with the Farm Products building which overshadows it. Built before 1891 and extended in 1903, the house is soon to be demolished to make way for the widening of Thorndon Quay.'
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.7 x 18.3 cm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper / Evening Post original photographic prints and postcards, from file print collection, Box 4
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin print 14.7 x 18.3 cm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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