IMAGE
Post Office Square, Wellington
- Date
- Circa 1928
- Reference
- Pan-1895-F
- Description
Panoramic view of Post Office Square, Wellington. The Chief Post Office with clock tower is in the centre. In front is a small one-storeyed brick building with tiled roof on which the booking office for Wellington Tramways 'Sight Seeing Bureau' advertises bus tours. There is a bus parked outside with the logo 'Seeing Wellington Bus Tours'. The New Zealand Government Life Insurance building is on the right with a tram shelter over the road on the harbour side. The Union Steam Ship Company building is on the far right, and the Huddart Parker building to the left of Post Office Square. People, cars, trucks in the image. Taken by Robert Percy Moore.
Source of descriptive information - Date of 1928 taken from other images in Moore's own numerical sequence.
Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Post Office Square. Wellington. No. 341; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Post Office Square
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 132.2 cm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Panoramic negative 19.7 x 132.2 cm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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