Austin Cars, Gladys de Havilland

Production date
19 Jan 1929
 Description
Large group gathered around a woman and car outside the Criterion Hotel on Devon Street. The woman at centre is Miss Gladys de Havilland; a wealthy and independently-minded English woman on her world tour during the late 1920s-early 1930s in her Austin 7, nicknamed "Chummy". She drove into New Plymouth on Saturday 19 January 1929 at 10.30am.

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Artist/Maker
Production role
Photographer
Production date
19 Jan 1929
Production place
New Zealand/Taranaki/New Plymouth
Production period
1920s
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Classification
Photograph/Original Art/Art Object
Collection
Swainson/Woods Collection
Credit line
'Swainson/Woods Collection, Puke Ariki and District Libraries'
Accession number
WD.007360
Collection type
Photographs
Material
Black and White Sheet Film
Black and White Negative
Photographic Negative

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