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Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 November 1956: "Firemen of the Palmerston North Fire Brigade had a difficult fight to gain control of the flames which gutted the upper storey of this house in College Street."

Identification

Object type
Image
Archive
Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Relation
2017-20
Date
November 24, 1956
Digitisation ID
2017N_2017-20_014136
Format
B&W negative
Held In
"Other"

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Taxonomy

Tags
1950s,
black and white,
college street,
fire,
fire brigade,
house,
house fire,
manawatu evening standard,
Community Tags
fire,
fire hose,
firefighters,

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