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Going to town to visit the shops was a major social experience for many people, especially women stuck in the suburbs. In cities they would dress in their finest clothes and catch the tram into town. These shoppers are in Colombo Street, Christchurch, around 1916.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, F. G. Radcliffe Collection (PAColl-4950)
Reference: 1/2-006524; G
by Frederick George Radcliffe
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