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Kōrero: Rural mythologies

Backyard garden

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Backyard garden

Photographer Albert P. Godber stands with his wife and daughter in the backyard of their home in Baker street, Caversham, Dunedin, in 1926. Although not all New Zealanders could live the rural dream by having a house and farm in the country, others could approximate it with a glasshouse and vegetable garden in the suburbs.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Albert Percy Godber Collection (PA-Group-00048)

Reference: APG-1583-1/2; G

by Albert Percy Godber

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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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jock Phillips, Rural mythologies – Country versus city, 1890–1945, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/20315/backyard-garden (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.