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Description

The photograph was thought to have been taken of the corner of Te Awe Awe street and Awatea Terrace, Palmerston North. In May 1941 the Manawatu River flooded about 250 hectares of the city. A stop bank between Fitzroy Street and Jickell Street had been constructed but it proved inadequate for the flood waters.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
IMCA Digital Archive 2011
Date
May 4, 1941
Digitisation ID
2011P_IMCA-DigitalLibrary_005573
Held In
IMCA Digital Archive

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Taxonomy

Tags
1940s,
black,
bridges and waterways,
flooding,
hokowhitu,
photographs,
Community Tags
flood,
natural disaster,
water,

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