Kaarup, C M :Photographs of rural scences

Date
[ca 1937-1939]
By
Kaarup, Mavis, active 2001
Reference
PAColl-0393
Description

The collection includes: nine photographs of sheep droving and shearing on a Canterbury farm including one of sheep in a pen being branded and one of two Ford cars on a road surrounded by sheep; two of hay harvesting one with a horse-drawn thresher and the other with a tractor; the first electric tractor; seagulls flocking around newly ploughed earth; looking across the plains towards the mountains near Ruapuna with piles of boulders in the foreground; sheaf throwing at a country sports meeting at Hinds which involved throwing a sheaf over a bar set at pole-vaulting height; two photographs of heavy snow in Ashburton, one of shops in East Street and another of someone attaching skis next to a no cycling sign; a Burnett's motors truck laden with bags of wheat outside a barn with three workers next to it; and the Pa at Whakarewarewa. Photographer unidentified.

Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s).

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18 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs
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International truck of Burnett's Motors, Ashburton

Date: 1936 - 1940

From: Kaarup, C M :Photographs of rural scences

Reference: PAColl-0393-01

Description: International C70 truck of Burnett's Motors, Ashburton, laden with wheat, taken in the late 1930s by an unknown photographer. International C series trucks were built between 1934 and 1937. Burnett's Motors was established ca 1936. Source: Stone's Canterbury, Nelson, Marlborough & Westland Directories. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 16.3 x 20.7 cm

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