Be Our Guest entry: Letter, Photograph and Envelope, Mavis Jensen
Maker
Jensen, Mavis
Production date
Dec 2005
Object detail
Brief Description
Letter, photograph and envelope to the Be Our Guest competition by Mavis Jensen. She writes about her memories of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.
a) Letter by Mavis Jensen.
b) Photograph. Mavis, aged 14, and a family friend outside a damaged house in May Avenue, Napier. On the back of the photograph she writes that the house shown was a large two-storied brick house that was so heavy the ground floor sank entirely out of sight, just showing the top floor above ground. She believes the Treston family lived there.
c) Envelope addressed to: Miss D Ives. The envelope has a New Zealand 45 cent stamp.
a) Letter by Mavis Jensen.
b) Photograph. Mavis, aged 14, and a family friend outside a damaged house in May Avenue, Napier. On the back of the photograph she writes that the house shown was a large two-storied brick house that was so heavy the ground floor sank entirely out of sight, just showing the top floor above ground. She believes the Treston family lived there.
c) Envelope addressed to: Miss D Ives. The envelope has a New Zealand 45 cent stamp.
Maker
Production date
Dec 2005
Production place
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
a) Handwritten blue ink on decorative notepaper.
b) Black ink on photographic paper.
c) Paper.
b) Black ink on photographic paper.
c) Paper.
Media/Materials
Measurements
Letter.: Height x Width: 195 x 147mm
Photograph.: Height x Width: 68 x 114mm
Envelope.: Height x Width: 90 x 153mm
Photograph.: Height x Width: 68 x 114mm
Envelope.: Height x Width: 90 x 153mm
Signature/Inscription
Treston's House
May Avenue
After 'shake 1931
two story house
first floor sunk underground
top floor & roof showing., Inscription, Handwritten
M JENSEN
21 NELSON CRESCENT
NAPIER 4001, Sticker, Adhesive
May Avenue
After 'shake 1931
two story house
first floor sunk underground
top floor & roof showing., Inscription, Handwritten
M JENSEN
21 NELSON CRESCENT
NAPIER 4001, Sticker, Adhesive
Classification terms
Subject person
Subject period
Subject date
03 Feb 1931
Credit line
gifted by Mavis Jensen
Other number(s)
m2006/27/175, 36488
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