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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, a crowd in period costume await its arrival in The Square.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection J 87
Date
March 19, 1952
Digitisation ID
2011P_J87_004815
Held In
Coolstore

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activities and events,
costumes,
crowd,
fashion,
people,
photographs,
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