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Story: Inner-city living

Living room, Symonds St Flats

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Living room, Symonds St Flats

A publicity photograph of a living room in a Symonds St flat in the late 1940s shows how the severe lines of the room are softened by the tenant’s furnishings and ornaments.

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Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira

Reference: 3942U

by Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd

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Philip Morrison and Ben Schrader, Inner-city living – City flats, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23746/living-room-symonds-st-flats (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Philip Morrison and Ben Schrader, published 6 April 2010.