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Description

The float, which won a first prize, was created by the Display department of C M Ross and was made of hundreds of paper flowers. Gwen Becker, on the float, was an employee of C M Ross. The parade was organised as part of the Jubilee celebrations of 1952, to mark 75 years of Palmerston North.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection J5
Date
1952
Digitisation ID
2008N_J5_A-E_1459
Held In
Coolstore

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Taxonomy

Tags
1950s,
black and white,
c m ross building,
department store,
floats,
jubilee,
roscos,
thematic collections,
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