"Festival Wax Works" - Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay
Object type
Image
- Description
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This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 19 February 1958, page 7: "Two popular figures are portrayed here in the cave at Collinson and Cunninghame's. They are Sir Edmund Hillary and his companion in the adventure, Sherpa Tensing. These men made history when they conquered Mt. Everest."
Identification
- Identifier
- 2017-20
- Relation
- 2017-20
- Date
- February 19, 1958
- Digitisation id
- 2017N_2017-20_014623
- Format
- B&W negative
- Held in
- Coolstore
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Creation
- Created By
- Manawatu Evening Standard
- Place
- Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
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