Photograph, Earthquake damage, Wairoa Bridge
Production date
Post 03 Feb 1931
Current rights
Public Domain
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Object detail
About this object
View of damage to the Wairoa Bridge, taken after the Hawke's Bay earthquake in 1931. A couple stands in front of the collapsed supports.
The bridge has buckled. A man and a woman pose for the photograph in the foreground. Further people can be seen walking across the bridge.
The bridge has buckled. A man and a woman pose for the photograph in the foreground. Further people can be seen walking across the bridge.
Production date
Post 03 Feb 1931
Production place
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Black and white photograph housed in a photograph album.
Media/Materials
Measurements
Album (closed): Height x Width x Depth/Length: 191 x 263 x 15mm
These dimensions represent the size of the photograph as visible through the inset window in the album page.: Height x Width: 57 x 101mm
These dimensions represent the size of the photograph as visible through the inset window in the album page.: Height x Width: 57 x 101mm
Classification terms
Subject period
Subject date
Post 03 Feb 1931
Current rights
Credit Line
gifted by Paul Canham
Other number(s)
m96/12, 16800, 84444
Public comments
I have that Wairoa Bridge photo in an old photo album of my late father with photos from Napier and Waipukurau with damage after the quake. Don't know who took them though. You also want to remove the text under the photo about the Westshore Bridge too.
- Trevor Cook posted 5 years ago.