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Kōrero: Farm families

Doing the washing

Doing the washing

Rural women tended to be involved in work that could be done around the home. Here Angela Jacob is stirring the washing in the newly-settled Manawatū community of Āpiti in the 1890s.

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Reference: MA_I012910

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Emma Dewson rāua ko Jock Phillips, Farm families – The colonial family and the household economy, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/19826/doing-the-washing (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Emma Dewson rāua ko Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.