Access is provided in the Katherine Mansfield Reading Room

Date

1912

Reference

1/2-021950-F

Description

Miner and Workers Union Hall at Waihi, during the 1912 miners' strike. Taken by an unidentified photographer.

Note on back of file print reads: "During the night strike-breakers painted patriotic symbols it [the hall]. Next morning the strikers changed `God save the King' to `God save J B King' (the American International Workers of the World speaker who had been at Waihi and who had hurredly left NZ in August)."

Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Access restrictions

Partly restricted - Digital content available only in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room

Part of

Waihi Arts Centre & Museum: Photographs of Waihi

Format

1 b&w copy negative(s), Negatives, Orientation: Horizontal image