Greetings From Hastings

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Public Domain
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About this object
Postcard featuring a montage of postcard views of Hastings.

The views include (clockwise from top left): view of Heretaunga Street, taken near the Hastings Hotel; view of the Hastings Post Office; view of the entrance to Cornwall Park; and view of Heretaunga Street looking towards the Grand Hotel. The postcards in the image are mounted in paper frames. The images are surrounded by flowers. The message on the front of the postcard reads: Greetings from Hastings. The words have been spelled out using pins.

There is a note on the back of the postcard addressed to Mr and Mrs Frank Sprosen from Robert Campbell. The note wishes the couple a merry Christmas.

Photographer, unknown.
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Postcard with a black and white photograph.
Measurements
Height x Width: 89 x 141mm
Signature/Inscription
Mrs Orchard
Main Rd,
Loburn, Stamp, Stamped
New Zealand Post Card
Aldersley Series
Real Photograph, Printed, Printed
H.B. Art Gallery and Museum, Stamp, Stamped
Subject date
1900-1920
Caption
Collection of Hawke's Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Tā-ū-rangi, 4792
Credit Line
gifted by Mr R E Hann
Other number(s)
m73/57, 4792, 81675

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