Jim Baltaxe WEMO Photograph 049
Images, UC QuakeStudies
A photograph of a volunteer from the Wellington Emergency Management Office shaving outside their temporary accommodation in Hagley Park.
A photograph of a volunteer from the Wellington Emergency Management Office shaving outside their temporary accommodation in Hagley Park.
Revealed after the SoulFood Cafe building was demolished - Haircutting for 6d and a shave for thruppence? how old is this?
It’s just before 3pm on a late summer day in 1914. Prolific Christchurch photographer, Steffano Webb is setting up his camera equipment inside the gents’ hairdressing saloon of well kno…