Before motorised traffic made streets unsafe, children used them as playgrounds. In this 1906 image of Whanganui’s Bell Street, boys kick a rugby ball, watched by two lines of girls.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Tesla Studios Collection (PAColl-3046)
Reference:
1/1-017498; G
Photograph by Frank J. Denton
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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