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This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 17 December 1958: "Twelve Commercial Travellers dressed as clowns today took 102 orphans from the various homes and treated them with a visit to Father Christmas at Messrs. Collinson and Cunninghame's Cave and later to a film at the Regent Theatre. The clowns are seen escorting the children to their seats at the theatre."

Identification

Object type
Image
Archive
Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Date
December 17, 1958
Digitisation ID
2017N_2017-20_015055
Format
B&W negative

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Taxonomy

Tags
1950s,
black and white,
children,
christmas,
clowns,
manawatu evening standard,
regent theatre,
santa claus,
Community Tags
christmas,
commercial travellers,
orphans,
regent theatre,

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