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[Building rock wall on playing field]

documentary heritage
  • Description

    Foreground shows men working on breaking rocks; small wooden railway with loaded trolley runs past dirt and rock pile to early model truck; houses in background. Possibly Windmill Road playing fields, or east side of Teachers College grounds.

  • Other Id

    59885 (Presto content ID)

    PH-NEG-C26288 (Reference Number)

    DU436.1235 (Print 33) (Library of Congress Call Number)

    P6846 (Legacy number)

  • Department

Images and documents

Images

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    [Building rock wall on playing field]
  • Primary Maker

     Reginald Lediard (Photographer)

  • Date
    Circa 1920s
  • Physical Description

    3 1/2X4 3/4; 9x11.5cm. Quarter plate

  • Level of Current Record
    Child
  • Related Object Notes
    9 albums; 7x16mm movie films; loose photos; 2 Boley 16mm movie cameras and 1 Devry 16mm Projector; 1/1 plate camera front with lens (latter 3 items in History Dept. -Rose Young
  • Is Part Of
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  • Provenance Details
    R.S. Lediard, born 20-Nov-1898 died 19-Feb-1973; lived at 2 Tuperiri Road, Epsom; was a commercial photographer at 39 Victoria Street West in 1920s and early 1930s, working from home late 1930s; commissioned to work for Auckland City Council - Parks Dept., Art Gallery and Zoo; commissioned to photograph Hall of Memories etc., Auckland Museum. Friend of Drs Falla & Powell, Gilbert Archey and G. T. Turbott, accompanying them on expeditions; member of Museum Institute, President of Auckland Botanical Society, doing botanical photography for them (35mm negs and prints bequeathed to Botany Dept, University of Auckland.
  • Copyright
    No known copyright restrictions
  • Last Update
    11 May 2023

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