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A clean, orderly home with a settled and happy family cared for by a loving mother was at the core of the ideal family many colonists tried to set up. William Bambridge drew this picture of his wife Sophia and their baby son William in his diary in June 1844.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Reference: MS-0130-159
by William Bambridge
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