Manuscript, Life after Quake and other verses

Maker
Clarkson, Ruth Ethel
Production date
1931
Current rights
Public Domain

Object detail

Brief Description
Life after Quake and other verses, a booklet written and illustrated by Ruth E Clarkson, 1931. Signed and dated on the front cover.

Included in this booklet are the following poems:
The Napier after quake alphabet;
Life in Hastings 3 weeks after quake (no electricity);
Life in Napier 3 months after quake, chimneys being built, brickeys, sand, mortar, plumbers, carpenters, drain-layers and gas just coming on!;
If men became women for a month;
A protest by a pedestrian.

Accompanying each poem are small sketches drawn and painted in watercolours by Ruth Clarkson. A sketch on the front cover reads: Bricks and more bricks, I hope I never see a brick again. So do I.
Production date
1931
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Handwritten on paper in black ink. The sketches are painted in watercolours.
Measurements
Height x Width: 180 x 190mm
Signature/Inscription
Hawke's Bay Art Society, Bookplate, Printed
Local Collection, Stamp, Stamp
Presented by Miss P M Oxford. Date 28.12 1970., Inscription, Handwritten
Hawke's Bay Art Gallery & Museum, Stamp, Stamp
Subject period
Subject date
Post 03 Feb 1931
Credit line
gifted by Miss P M Oxford
Other number(s)
6441, 091 Cla, 73828

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