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Description

Paddockers are dismantling a stack of fibre in a drying paddock in Foxton. The hanks of dried fibre are being loaded into a dray for transport back to the flaxmill for scutching. Man standing left foreground by post, is Darcy Knewstub, others unidentified.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Fx 33
Date
1912
Digitisation ID
2007N_Fx33_FLA_0623
Held In
Coolstore

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Taxonomy

Tags
flax industry,
hemp,
horse,
industry,
labour,
photographs,
pitchfork,
wagon,
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