Be Our Guest entry: Letter, Margaret Gannaway
Maker
Gannaway, Margaret
Production date
Circa 2005
Object detail
Brief Description
Letter and photocopies to the Be Our Guest competition by Margaret Gannaway (nee Frame).
a) Letter in which Margaret Gannaway writes about memories of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, circa 2005. Entitled: Affect of Napier 1931 earthquake on families Frame and Harrison.
Valentine Harrison was an eighteen year old apprentice at the Daily Telegraph in Napier who was buried by falling masonry and later killed by the fire. Margaret's mother Jessie Harrison worked at Blythe's on alternate days and February 3 was her day off. Margaret's father Douglas Frame worked as a storeman. He told other workers to go outside after hearing a rumble and they survived. Jessie and Douglas were evacuated to Takapau and married there in March 1931. Margaret was born in 1932 and her brother and sister in 1935. Her grandfather was David Bruce Frame was an architect and civil engineer in Napier.
b) Photocopy of the Ancient Order of Foresters District Building in Dickens St, Napier, designed by Margaret Gannaway's grandfather and one of the only buildings to withstand the earthquake.
c) Photocopy of a photograph of Jessie Harrison and Douglas Frame on their wedding day.
a) Letter in which Margaret Gannaway writes about memories of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, circa 2005. Entitled: Affect of Napier 1931 earthquake on families Frame and Harrison.
Valentine Harrison was an eighteen year old apprentice at the Daily Telegraph in Napier who was buried by falling masonry and later killed by the fire. Margaret's mother Jessie Harrison worked at Blythe's on alternate days and February 3 was her day off. Margaret's father Douglas Frame worked as a storeman. He told other workers to go outside after hearing a rumble and they survived. Jessie and Douglas were evacuated to Takapau and married there in March 1931. Margaret was born in 1932 and her brother and sister in 1935. Her grandfather was David Bruce Frame was an architect and civil engineer in Napier.
b) Photocopy of the Ancient Order of Foresters District Building in Dickens St, Napier, designed by Margaret Gannaway's grandfather and one of the only buildings to withstand the earthquake.
c) Photocopy of a photograph of Jessie Harrison and Douglas Frame on their wedding day.
Maker
Production date
Circa 2005
Production place
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
a) Handwritten in black ink.
b) Printed black ink on paper.
c) Photographic paper.
b) Printed black ink on paper.
c) Photographic paper.
Media/Materials
Measurements
In the Be Our Guest Folder No 2.: Height x Width: 253 x 202mm
Height x Width: 152 x 90mm
Height x Width: 90 x 70mm
Height x Width: 152 x 90mm
Height x Width: 90 x 70mm
Classification terms
Subject person
Subject period
Subject date
03 Feb 1931
Credit line
gifted by Margaret Gannaway
Other number(s)
m2006/27/102, 35129
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