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Description

There was a week of events to celebrate Palmerston North being granted Borough status in 1877. On Wednesday 19 March there was a depiction of the first train from Wellington arriving at the site of the original station in The Square. Here, the crowd await its arrival in The Square.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection J 85
Date
March 19, 1952
Digitisation ID
2011P_J85_004816
Held In
Coolstore

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Taxonomy

Tags
activities and events,
bus station,
cm ross,
crowd,
fashion,
people,
photographs,
post office,
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