E. Noyce's lithograph is a good image of the many English families who left their home country in the 1850s to head south to Australia and New Zealand. Many were pushed by the tough life of the rural labourer, but many others were pulled by the vision of a society where they could eventually own their own piece of land and extremes of class hierarchy were absent.
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Hand-coloured lithograph by E. Noyce
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
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