Wairoa Bridge

Object detail

About this object

The image features the repairing of the base of the pile for the first pier of the Wairoa Bridge. The bridge was damaged during Cyclone Bola in March 1988.

Collection

Daily Telegraph Negative Collection

Maker

Daily Telegraph; 1871; 1999

Production date

10 Feb 1989

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 113mm

Classification terms

Negative

Subject period

1980s/20th Century

Subject date

10 Feb 1989

Current rights

Credit Line

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

Other number(s)

A/1989/2/10/34, 91950

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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 Rivers and Lakes Environment

Subject auto tags

Sky Infrastructure Building Plant Tower Skyscraper Black-and-white Trunk Wood Terrestrial plant

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