Workers in the burnt wreckage of Ballantyne's department store, trying to make an entrance to the basement

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Title

Workers in the burnt wreckage of Ballantyne's department store, trying to make an entrance to the basement

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Collection

TAPUHI

Description

Workers in the burnt wreckage of Ballantyne's department store, trying to make an entrance to the basement where the fire started. Photograph taken at 11.30pm on Tuesday night, 18 November 1947, the evening after the fire. Photographer unidentified. Other - Published in the New Zealand Free Lance 26 November 1947 Inscriptions: Verso - taken 11-30 Tuesday night. Workers trying to make an entrance to basement where fire started and [sic] many burnt victims were here and in basement Quanti...

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Date created

Nov 1947

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23139687

Locations

Christchurch City

Related subjects

J. Ballantyne and Company / Fires / New Zealand / Canterbury Region / Christchurch City

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