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Description

Shearers at work on A S Aldrich’s farm “Matsubara”, Bunnythorpe, north of Palmerston North. The “Matsubara” homestead of Mr G H Aldrich was located two miles out of Bunnythorpe, on the Bunnythorpe – Ashhurst road. The homestead was built about 1888 and destroyed by a fire in the late 1910s.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Sf 15
Date
circa 1904
Digitisation ID
2014N_Sf15_008030
Held In
"Coolstore"

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Taxonomy

Tags
barn,
industry,
labour,
rural towns and life,
shearing,
sheep,
workers,
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