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Description

This early colour postcard depicts four carriages making their way through The Square. The building with the clock tower to the right of the postcard is Palmerston North's fourth post office. Though the tower and clock mechanism were removed after the Wellington earthquake, the rest of the building remains in the same location - the corner of Main Street East and The Square. It is now a cafe and bar. After a long stint in storage, the clock mechanism was put into the Hopwood Clock Tower and remains there to this day.

Identification

Object type
Postcard
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Sq 29
Date
1905 to 1906
Digitisation ID
2014P_Sq29_008837
Held In
IMCA Digital Archive

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Taxonomy

Tags
bank of australasia,
c smith,
cycles,
hand-tinted,
horse and carriage,
horse and cart,
powerline,
red bird,
the square,
transportation,
Community Tags
colour,

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