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A workman bagging pork carcasses in muslin and sacking, in the freezer at Longburn Freezing Works. The Longburn Slaughtering and Freezing Company Ltd was established as a farmer's co-operative in 1890. Sited at Longburn, just south of Palmerston North, it later became known as the Longburn Freezing Works. It closed in 1986.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
CA: Elmar Negative Collection (17)
Date
circa 1946
Digitisation ID
2011G_ELMAR-2-B19_005385
Held In
Coolstore

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Taxonomy

Tags
1940s,
black and white,
elmar studios,
factory,
longburn freezing works,
meat,
meat industry,
photographs,
pork,
work,
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