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Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 4th December 1965 "They all gasped when he was unveiled. Everyone pressed forward for a better look as soon as the wraps fell away. Then five-year-old Joanne Looney posted the first letter to the mythical man at the North Pole, and Palmerston North officially had a new Santa Claus."

Identification

Object type

Image

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Date

December 6, 1965

Digitisation ID

2018N_2017-20_MS000143b

Format

B&W negative