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Scaffolding around the destructor chimney, before demolition : Image 1 of 1

Image of Scaffolding around the destructor chimney, before demolition, 1939 28.2.39

  • Title Scaffolding around the destructor chimney, before demolition, 1939
  • Creator Municipal Electricity Department
  • Date 28.2.39
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  • Physical Description Size of original : 15 x 20 cm. Digital file from original photograph. Scanned 2011. Equipment: Cruse CS185 Scanner; format tiff, 300 ppi.
  • Notes Photograph caption: Scaffolding round Destructor Chimney. 28.2.39. Before demolition.
    Scaffolding around the destructor chimney, prior to demolition. Street lighting tower waggon at left. Photograph taken in February 1939. Christchurch. A City of Light, p. 22.
  • Source Archive 1050
  • Collection Name
  • Collection Description A collection of photographs of Christchurch and surrounds taken in the course of the business of the Municipal Electricity Department. The images document the building of the M.E.D. building in the 1930s, various types of the electrical infrastructure, and includes views of the city from early to mid twentieth century.
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  • Collection Location Christchurch City Libraries Archive collection
  • File Reference CCL-MED-0018

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    This material has been digitised from the Archives and Manuscripts collection of Christchurch City Libraries.