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Men using hand sickles to reap grass from between felled trees and stumps. The man looking at the camera is Thomas Harrison and the site is probably his farm on Pohangina Valley West Road, about two miles south of Utuwai School.

Identification

Object type
Image
Digitisation ID
2007N_Gs3_RTL_0795
Title
Reaping by hand in the Pohangina Valley
Held In
Coolstore

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Creation

Created By
Place
Palmerston North
Date
circa 1904

Object rights

Credit Line
Palmerston North City Library
License
No Known Restrictions

Taxonomy

Tags
agriculture,
farming,
photographs,
rural towns and life,
wildbore,
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