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Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 11 August 1960 "Perched precariously above Rangitikei Street this morning was this employee of a local garage. Mr. D. Pearce was lying atop the concrete pillar on the firm's Rangitikei Street facade holding a new plastic sign in place while his work-mates fixed it into its final position. "

Identification

Object type
Image
Archive
Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Relation
2017-20
Digitisation id
2017N_2017-20_015660
Format
B&W negative
Held In
"Other"

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Taxonomy

Tags
danger,
motor garage,
selwyn motors ltd,
signs,
workmen,
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