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Story: Clothing and footwear manufacturing

Women machinists

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Women machinists

The clothing industry became increasingly mechanised in the early 20th century. These machinists are working in a clothing factory, about 1920.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

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Jane Tolerton, Clothing and footwear manufacturing – Clothing factories, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23982/women-machinists (accessed 15 June 2026).

Story by Jane Tolerton, published 6 April 2010.