Print, Photographic, Fire, Tauranga Hotel

Production date
Feb 1936
Current rights
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Description
An unmounted print showing the Tauranga Hotel burning with smoke billowing up. Photograph taken from behind a crowd of people standing on The Strand. Headlines in the Bay of Plenty Times, 17 February 1936, "Destructive Fire On Strand. Tauranga Hotel and Five Shops Reduced to Ruins Within an Hour. Old Two-Storied Block Burns Fiercely. Brigades Hopeless Task. Desperate Fight Saves Adjoining Shops. Loss Estimated at 12,000 pounds". Handwritten on reverse "Tauranga Hotel fire, forty odd years ago. E.H."
Production date
Feb 1936
Production place
Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Measurements
100mm (height), 162mm (width)
Accession number
0321/08

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