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Whites Aviation photograph of Napier, 1950s (2nd of 3)

Whites Aviation photograph of Napier, 1950s

In the early 1950s Leo White took a major series of photographs of New Zealand towns and cities from the air. The photographs provide a unique record of the country before the huge urban growth in the later 1950s and 1960s. For example, this one of Napier shows the lack of development on the former inner harbour, which had been raised in the 1931 earthquake and became the future site of the airport. The Alexander Turnbull Library made this valuable collection widely available through digitising the images and publishing them on the National Library website.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Whites Aviation Collection
Reference: WA-21810-F

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Russell Brown, 'Digital media and the internet - Information', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/43451/whites-aviation-photograph-of-napier-1950s (accessed 24 April 2024)

Story by Russell Brown, published 22 Oct 2014