Survivors, Roach's Department Store, Hastings
Maker
White, Leo Lemuel
Production date
Post 03 Feb 1931
Current rights
Public Domain
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Object detail
About this object
A photograph of survivors from the top floor of Roach's department store, which collapsed during the Hawke's Bay earthquake on the 3rd of February 1931. The group of women are pictured sitting under canvases at Miss Bicknell's.
Photographer, possibly Leo White. However on the back of the photograph the name H C Newell appears.
Photographer, possibly Leo White. However on the back of the photograph the name H C Newell appears.
Production date
Post 03 Feb 1931
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Black and white photograph, housed in a folder of plastic sleeves.
Media/Materials
Measurements
Height x Width: 80 x 107mm
Signature/Inscription
Roach's Survivors, Inscription, Handwritten
Hastings quake (Napier 1931)
Survivors from Roach's top floor.
"Under canvas" at Miss Bicknells
H.C. Newell, Inscription, Handwritten
Hastings quake (Napier 1931)
Survivors from Roach's top floor.
"Under canvas" at Miss Bicknells
H.C. Newell, Inscription, Handwritten
Classification terms
Subject period
Subject date
Post 03 Feb 1931
Current rights
Credit Line
gifted by W C Newell
Other number(s)
m84/6, 16511, 82656
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