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A photographic series prepared by the Prime Minister’s Department in 1947 to attract British migrants. The Evans family of 5 Mansford Place, Palmerston North were selected to show the living conditions of a typical New Zealand family. Jack and Betty Evans and sons seated on the lawn of 5 Mansford Place, Palmerston North. Though Savage Crescent houses were designed in a variety of architectural styles, windows as shown here were a standard feature and mass produced in enormous numbers. These probably came from the local joinery factory of H.E Townshend, a firm which secured contracts to build a large number of the houses in the suburb.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
CA: Evans Collection: A175/67/1
Date
1947
Digitisation ID
2010N_A175-67-1_004195
Format
B&W negative

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Taxonomy

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1940s,
evans collection,
family,
savage crescent,
state housing,
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