IMAGE
McComb transparencies one
- Date
- [ca 1955]
- Reference
- PA12-11488
- Description
Transparency slides showing South Island scenes taken by Kevin James McComb, circa 1955, while on a road trip around New Zealand.
Scenes in cities and towns show cable car advertising “DCT Mornington” on a Dunedin street outside a National Party office; view of Port Chalmers and Otago Harbour; a Donald Duck statue on the awning of T & J Thomson Ltd and a view of Caroline Bay, Timaru; lake and parked cars, Wanaka; Lyttelton with port in foreground; swimmers and sunbathers on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown; an unidentified woman pushing a child in a pram across a bridge over the Avon River, Christchurch as well as another image of seagulls on the riverbank; Picton, Marlborough Sounds, seen from wharf.
Scenes relating to roads show Arthur's Pass, with views of river and road; cars outside Homer Tunnel; driver warning signs at start of Skippers Saddle Road; the road leading to Sumner; and tunnels marked “In” and “Out” at Ohau Bluff on Christchurch to Blenheim Road.
Other images show a billboard advertising a Manapouri-Doubtful Sound tour boat [tourist?] on Lake Manapouri; the floodgates Lake Pukaki; girls from Hukarere Girls’ College in school uniform at Franz-Josef motor camp; a government hostel building at Milford Sound; and Jim Docking and Phil Webster on tarmac with New Zealand National Airways Corporation (NAC) plane being loaded behind them.
Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.
Physical Description: Colour film phototransparencies in card mounts
- Use/Reproduction
- Copyright: Please check copyright
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- McComb, Kevin James, 1932-2012: Slides taken around New Zealand
- Format
- 24 colour original transparency/ies, Colour transparencies, Colour film phototransparencies in card mounts
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