Making Carbonettes at the Waikato Carbonisation Works: Rotowaro

Maker
David Bramwell Cook
Production date
1985
 Description
Photograph taken in 1985 by commissioned photographer, David Cook, for inclusion in the 2000 exhibition "Shifting Ground: Stories from Rotowaro". Image depicts a man dressed in working clothes as he tends a large piece of machinery. He is making carbonettes at the Waikato Carbonisation Works in Rotowaro.
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Maker
Production date
1985
Media/Materials
B/W photo, silver gelatin print mounted on archival, acid-free matting board
Measurements
304x406mm (Image)
460x560mm (Matt Whole)
Production place
Rotowaro, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand
Collection
Rotowaro: The Last Days of the Waikato Coal Mining Town/David Cook/Photography Collection/Social History
Department collection type
Visual Arts
Social History
Credit line
Commissioned Photograph by David Cook:
Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Accession number
1989/55/43

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