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  • "Festival Wax Works" - Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay
  • "Festival Wax Works" - Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay
  • "Festival Wax Works" - Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay
Description

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

Object type
Image
Identifier
2017-20
Archive
Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Date
February 19, 1958
Digitisation ID
2017N_2017-20_014623
Format
B&W negative

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Taxonomy

Tags
1950s,
art,
artworks,
black and white,
manawatu evening standard,
Community Tags
climbing,
famous faces,
mountaineer,

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