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Description

An Army truck ploughs through the raging flood waters covering Napier Road, at the James Line intersection, during the January 1953 flood.
See ‘A Time of Transition’ by Val Burr, page 86.
See Also: Ian Matheson City Archive Research File A175/ 316

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Wh 27
Date
1953
Digitisation ID
2014N_Wh27_009194
Held In
Coolstore

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Taxonomy

Tags
military,
natural disaster,
photographs,
rural towns and life,
stoney creek,
transport,
Community Tags
flood,
truck,
water,

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