Be Our Guest entry: Letter and copies of photographs, Margaret Wilton
Maker
Wilton, Margaret Joan
Object detail
Brief Description
Letter and photographs to the Be Our Guest competition from Margaret Wilton. Margaret writes about her memories of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.
a) Letter from Margaret Wilton. Margaret was six years old at the time of the 1931 earthquake and was at Nelson Park School in Napier. She remembers that everything went topsy turvy. Her grandmother, who had been travelling to town on the old Chequer bus, came to find her at school. The family lived on Kennedy Road but went to stay at Tent City (which she writes was at McLean Park). Her father had a pilot's licence and made flights over the area after the earthquake.
b) Printed copies of photographs of Margaret's home in Kennedy Road, the family home in Tent City and that of an unknown damaged house.
a) Letter from Margaret Wilton. Margaret was six years old at the time of the 1931 earthquake and was at Nelson Park School in Napier. She remembers that everything went topsy turvy. Her grandmother, who had been travelling to town on the old Chequer bus, came to find her at school. The family lived on Kennedy Road but went to stay at Tent City (which she writes was at McLean Park). Her father had a pilot's licence and made flights over the area after the earthquake.
b) Printed copies of photographs of Margaret's home in Kennedy Road, the family home in Tent City and that of an unknown damaged house.
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Production technique
Media/Materials description
a) Handwritten in blue ink on paper.
b) Printed black ink on paper.
b) Printed black ink on paper.
Media/Materials
Measurements
In the Be Our Guest Folder No 2.: Height x Width: 297 x 210mm
Signature/Inscription
Margaret Wilton, Signature, Handwritten
Classification terms
Subject person
Subject period
Subject date
03 Feb 1931
Credit line
gifted by Margaret Wilton
Other number(s)
m2006/27/155, 36220
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