Postcards, 'Stronger City'

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Title

Postcards, 'Stronger City'

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This postcard features a poem called 'Stronger City' by the American poet Gertrude Ryder Bennett, who wrote it in 1931. The poem is also on a plaque in Napier to commemorate the devastating earthquake there in 1931. The card was designed by Rebecca Lovell-Smith of Lyttelton who lost her historic home and business premises (God Save the Queen) in the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. But through her design work she has been able to adapt and survive. She has also printed the poem onto t...

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Format

Image

Date created

2011

Creator

Rebecca Lovell-Smith / Screen Concepts / Gertrude Bennett

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1227329

Related subjects

Earthquakes / Poetry / cardboard / ink / postcards / printing / Christchurch / New Zealand / United States

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