Whare-o-maranui Lagoon, Napier
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Public Domain
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About this object
View of the Whare-o-maranui Lagoon, Napier, taken looking north towards Napier Hill.
The photograph has been taken during the reclamation of the lagoon in the first decade of the twentieth century. In the midground is the sand pump used by Kennedy and Company as part of this process. In the right foreground, two young boys can be seen seated in a row boat.
A note on the album page reads: Sand dredge, Reclamation Works.
Photographer, unknown.
The photograph has been taken during the reclamation of the lagoon in the first decade of the twentieth century. In the midground is the sand pump used by Kennedy and Company as part of this process. In the right foreground, two young boys can be seen seated in a row boat.
A note on the album page reads: Sand dredge, Reclamation Works.
Photographer, unknown.
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Black and white photograph glued into an album with a leather spine and corners, and red linen cover.
Media/Materials
Measurements
Album (closed): Height x Width: 310 x 260mm
Photograph: Height x Width: 117 x 148mm
Photograph: Height x Width: 117 x 148mm
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Current rights
Caption
Collection of Hawke's Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Tā-ū-rangi, 16542
Credit Line
gifted by Pauline Schwabe
Other number(s)
m2000/64/2, 16542, 82590
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