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Footwear factory, 1920s

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Footwear factory, 1920s

This is the interior of M. O’Brien’s footwear factory in Christchurch in the 1920s. Christchurch and Auckland were the main centres for footwear production.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

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by Samuel Heath Head

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Jane Tolerton, Clothing and footwear manufacturing – Footwear, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23993/footwear-factory-1920s (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jane Tolerton, published 6 April 2010.