Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
"Pole sitter", outside the Timaru Telephone Exchange |
Description |
An unknown "pole sitter" outside the Timaru Telephone Exchange building in 1968. The person is poised (reclined) on a platform on top of a telephie pole for an unknown reason. Also features a Midlands Co-op. Dairy Co Ltd truck, bearing advertising for saveloys and small goods, was photographed by John Young while on a hitch-hiking trip to Bluff from Lincoln College. Bears dating and identification annotations on the verso. |
Photographer |
Young, John |
Date |
1968 |
Year Range from |
1968 |
Year Range to |
1968 |
Place |
Timaru, N.Z. |
Format |
Print, Photographic |
Medium |
Paper, Photographic |
Processing Method |
Silver gelatin print |
Print Size |
86(h) x 89(w) mm |
Original/Copy |
Original |
Search Terms |
Midland Co-op Dairy Co Ltd, Timaru Timaru Telephone Exchange |
Subjects |
Communication Telephone industry Telephone switchboards Exchanges Trucks Dairy products industry |
Catalogue Number |
2022/040.001 |
