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Workers at a factory fill tins with mixed vegetables by hand in 1954. Canning of vegetables declined from the 1960s as more households purchased deep freezers. Mixed vegetables sold frozen in plastic bags became more popular.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, National Publicity Studios Collection
Reference: 1/2-034458; F/A35,474
by E. Woollett
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