Kōrero: Street life

Feeding horses

Feeding horses

Horses were the ‘engines’ of 19th-century transport, essential for the delivery of goods across town. Here, horses feed and rest in Auckland’s Victoria Street in the early 1900s. Horse excrement was one of the defining smells of street life.

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Auckland City Libraries - Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero, Sir George Grey Special Collections
Reference: 35-R33
Photograph by Frederick George Radcliffe

Permission of Auckland City Libraries Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Ben Schrader, 'Street life - Colonial street life, 1840–1914', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/20670/feeding-horses (accessed 20 April 2024)

He kōrero nā Ben Schrader, i tāngia i te 11 Mar 2010