item details
NameNgati Poneke Club, Red Cross Pageant
ProductionUnknown; photographer; September 1940; Wellington
Classificationgelatin silver prints, black-and-white prints
Materialssilver, photographic gelatin, photographic paper
Materials Summaryblack and white photograph, gelatin silver print
Techniquesblack-and-white photography, photography
DimensionsImage:
Registration NumberO.039902
Overview
This photograph shows the Ngati Poneke Club performing in the Wellington Town Hall during a fundraising Red Cross Pageant held in September 1940. Women dressed as queens of Britain and as characters representing the British Empire are behind. The background scene evokes a castle with guns protruding through battlements.
Pageants and queen carnivals were popular ways to raise money during the Second World War (1939-45).