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John and Thomas Watson purchased the grocery, hardware, produce and crockery departments of Palmerston North's United Farmers' Co-Operative Association in 1910, and began trading as Watson Brothers. Sometime later, before 1937, it was taken over by a local syndiate and floated into a limited company of Watson Bros. Ltd. The photograph shows the interior displays of the shop, situated between Main Street and Church Street west on The Square.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Bc 214
Date
circa 1937
Digitisation ID
2009N_Bc214_BUI_2445
Held In
Coolstore

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Taxonomy

Tags
building,
buildings,
commerce,
department store,
display,
kitchen ware,
photographs,
retail,
shop,
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