Wairoa Bridge construction

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About this object

The image features a construction worker guiding the bucket of a crane as concrete is poured during the reconstruction of the Wairoa Bridge following Cyclone Bola.

Collection

Daily Telegraph Negative Collection

Maker

Daily Telegraph; 1871; 1999

Production date

14 Dec 1988

Production place

Napier/Hawke's Bay/North Island/New Zealand

Production period

1980s/20th Century

Production technique

Photography (35mm)

Media/Materials description

black and white negative

Media/Materials

Celluloid/Plastic/Photographic/Man-made Materials

Measurements

Height x Width: 35 x 114mm

Classification terms

Negative

Subject period

1980s/20th Century

Subject date

14 Dec 1988

Current rights

Credit Line

gifted by the Daily Telegraph. Reproduction by kind permission of NZME/Hawke’s Bay Today.

Other number(s)

A/1988/12/14/24, 91943

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Place made

Napier Hawke's Bay North Island New Zealand Polynesia Oceania

Subject place

Wairoa Wairoa District Hawke's Bay North Island New Zealand Polynesia Oceania

Subject category

Floods Disaster Archive classification Bridges Buildings and structures Construction and demolition Building and planning

Subject auto tags

Trousers Sky Helmet Hard hat Construction worker Style Wood Black-and-white Headgear Asphalt

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