Be Our Guest entry: Letter and photograph, Jean Ross Mackenzie
Maker
Mackenzie, Jean Ross
Production date
Circa 2005
Object detail
Brief Description
Letter and photograph to the Be Our Guest competition from Jean Ross McKenzie about her memories of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.
a) Letter written by Jean Ross McKenzie, circa 2005. Jean's family lived on a sheep station in Hawke's Bay, of which her father was the manager. Her father was on a horse at the time of the quake and it wasn't until he got off that he realised there was an earthquake. Jean, her mother and brother were inside at the time but managed to get out of the house. The family slept in Army tents for two or three nights before being evacuated to stay with relatives in Wellington. Jean and her brother went to Roseneath School.
b) Photograph of Jean and her brother Jock taken shortly after the earthquake.
a) Letter written by Jean Ross McKenzie, circa 2005. Jean's family lived on a sheep station in Hawke's Bay, of which her father was the manager. Her father was on a horse at the time of the quake and it wasn't until he got off that he realised there was an earthquake. Jean, her mother and brother were inside at the time but managed to get out of the house. The family slept in Army tents for two or three nights before being evacuated to stay with relatives in Wellington. Jean and her brother went to Roseneath School.
b) Photograph of Jean and her brother Jock taken shortly after the earthquake.
Maker
Production date
Circa 2005
Production place
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
a) Handwritten black ink on unlined paper.
b) Printed on photographic paper.
b) Printed on photographic paper.
Media/Materials
Measurements
In the Be Our Guest Folder No 2.: Height x Width: 230 x 177mm
Height x Width: 152 x 102mm
Height x Width: 152 x 102mm
Signature/Inscription
5521, Stamp, Stamped
J R Mackenzie, 419 Hastings St Sth, Hastings, Inscription, Handwritten
Taken shortly after the earthquake my brother Jock and I., Inscription, Handwritten
1931, Inscription, Handwritten
J R Mackenzie, 419 Hastings St Sth, Hastings, Inscription, Handwritten
Taken shortly after the earthquake my brother Jock and I., Inscription, Handwritten
1931, Inscription, Handwritten
Classification terms
Subject person
Subject period
Subject date
03 Feb 1931
Credit line
gifted by Jean Ross Mackenzie
Other number(s)
m2006/27/126, 35836
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