Municipal Electricity Department collection
The first fluorescent street lamps, Cathedral Square : Image 1 of 1
- Title The first fluorescent street lamps, Cathedral Square, 1958
- Creator Municipal Electricity Department
- Date August, 1958
- Image Description
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- Image 1 of 1
- Multipart Note
- Physical Description Size of original : 26 x 20 cm. Digital file from original photograph. Scanned 2011. Equipment: Cruse CS185 Scanner; format tiff, 300 ppi.
- Notes Photograph caption: Horizontal and vertical fittings (BGE) 4 x 80 W Tubes (In front of Cathedral) Horizontal fittings (Revo) 3 x 80 W Tubes Mounted Ex Tramway Poles.
Cathedral Square at night, looking west to Worcester Street, August 1958, showing the first fluorescent street lamps used by the MED, both horizontal and vertical fittings. Christchurch. A City of Light, p. 124 .
- 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.
- Parent Collection
- Parent Collection Description
- Collection Location Christchurch City Libraries Archive collection
- File Reference CCL-MED-0049
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