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[Transporting wool bales].

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  • Description

    Labouring men rolling wool bales along a ramp. In the middle ground is a gorge, over which the wool bales are being slung by rope, parallel with a timber and rope swing bridge. The background rises to steep, grazed, hill country.

  • Other Id

    30073 (Presto content ID)

    PH-1976-6-87 (Reference Number)

    TR650 B775 (Library of Congress Call Number)

    32254 (DBTextworks system ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

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Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    [Transporting wool bales].
  • Primary Maker

     George Bourne (Photographer)

  • Date
    1910s-1920s
  • Physical Description

    201 mm. x 157 mm (image)

    215 mm. x 164 mm (support)

  • Level of Current Record
    Child
  • Related Object Notes
    George Bourne Papers MS 793
    Letters MS 89/236
    Albums 327 and 328
    Essay on Montages 99/65
  • Is Part Of
  • Media
  • Technique
  • Subject Category
  • Provenance Details
    Ngaire Morgan,daughter of George Bourne
  • Public Access Text

    George Bourne was born in Whanganui. In c1902 he started working for the 'Weekly News' as one of their photographic artists and travelled throughout New Zealand for the next twenty years in that capacity. He is well known for his series portraying the Maori prophet, Rua Kenana and his newly built community at Maungapohatu in 1908. He pioneered aerial photography through his friends the Walsh brothers and is also known for his comic photo montages.

  • Copyright
    No known copyright restrictions
  • Last Update
    12 May 2023

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