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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 J 45
Date
1952
Digitisation ID
2008N_J45_CMROSS_1645
Held In
Coolstore

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Place
The Square, Palmerston North

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Taxonomy

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1950s,
black and white,
c m ross building,
department store,
floats,
parade,
roscos,
shop,
the square,
thematic collections,
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