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Between 1840 and 1852, almost 20,000 people left Britain and Ireland to settle in New Zealand. Many came from rural areas, pushed by declining wages and the grind of poverty and hard physical labour. In this slightly romanticised watercolour a woman gathers fuel to heat the stove and warm the family cottage.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Reference: C-001-009
by Richard Aldworth Oliver
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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21 June 2012
20 June 2012