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This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 07 August 1961 "Messrs. C. Payne (kneeling) and G.M. Barlow yesterday altered the city skyline with futuristic wires and pipes - a television aerial. To make life more pleasant as they worked on the roof of a city store they listened to a transistor radio while making the last connections to the television mast."

Identification

Object type
Image
Identifier
2017-20
Archive
Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Relation
2017-20
Date
August 7, 1961
Digitisation ID
2017N_2017-20_016468
Format
B&W negative
Held In
"Other"

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Taxonomy

Tags
1960s,
aerial,
black and white,
installation,
manawatu evening standard,
television,
Community Tags
aerial,
radio,
tv,
workmen,

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