Spectators on the lawn outside Wellington Public Library

Spectators on the lawn outside Wellington Public Library
Date
1976
Reference
AW-1343
Description

All frames were taken on the lawn outside the Wellington Public library in Mercer Street showing the audience watching a perfomance of Vargo's Circus by alternative theatrical group Red Mole. Frames 2 to 6 show a large group of young children, many of them Māori, on the lawn. In frames 7-9 & 11 a young man, John Dickson, wearing longish hair, a beard, and a long fur coat is outside the Library building, laughing at the action on the Library Lawn. An acrobatic act by the performers is seen in frame 10 with buildings on the corner of Victoria Street seen in the background. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra.

Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet

Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images.

Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Use/Reproduction
All requests for copies, use and reproduction, must be sent to Ans Westra's agent Suite Tirohanga at westra@suite.co.nz and 04 976 7663. Copyright: Copyright held by Ans Westra
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Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Part of
Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs / Westra, Ans, 1936-: Photographs
Format
4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images, Negatives, Cellulose acetate roll film
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Spectators on the lawn outside Wellington Public Library. Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs. Ref: AW-1343. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/38313394

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