More Info →"Just Waiting To be Played" Piano for Opera House

Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard 26 August, 1959. "The shiny white ivory keys of the new Steinway concert grand piano looked extremely inviting to the crowd of people who gathered in the Opera House this morning awaiting its arrival. With her hands on the keys of the 2000 pound instrument is the president of the Palmerston North Registered Music Teachers' Association (Miss E. M. Rawlins)."

Identification

Object type

Image

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Date

August 26, 1959

Digitisation ID

2017N_2017-20_015282

Format

B&W negative