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Scenes during the Greytown Borough Centennial celebrations, 1878-1978
- Date
- 1978
- Reference
- AW-1685
- Description
All frames taken in Greytown during the Greytown Borough Centennial celebrations showing people watching a parade of classic and vintage cars go by. Images include a man and a woman on horseback wearing early period riding clothes (she riding side-saddle) parading down Main Street (frame 1); a child riding in a horse-drawn buggy driven by a man wearing a false beard and a bowler hat (frame 2); a large Ford car covered with posters reading "Congrats G.B.C. 25 years service... Hannans ... From the Big G" (frame 3); and a group of people watching from an upper verandah on the Greytown Pharmacy building (frame 4). A number of men, women and children are seen in frames 5 to 12. They include an older Māori woman with plaits, wearing a tipare (headband) and a strongly patterned dress. 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
- Access restrictions
- 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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Scenes during the Greytown Borough Centennial celebrations, 1878-1978. Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs. Ref: AW-1685. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/38423086More information can be found in our terms of use.