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James McAllister’s photograph of a frontier family outside their slab hut in inland Taranaki, about 1898, illustrates the later-mythologised idea of pioneers carving out their farm from the bush.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, James McAllister Collection (PAColl-3054)
Reference: 1/2-065619; G
by James McAllister
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