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Kōrero: Bicycles

Cycling and camping holiday

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Cycling and camping holiday

Captured by a Whanganui photographer around 1910, this group of young men combine camping and cycling. Cycling allowed people to get away from towns and cities and enjoy the countryside in the decades before car ownership became widespread.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Tesla Studios Collection (PAColl-3046)

Reference: 1/1-016756; G

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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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jamie Mackay, Bicycles – Bicycles for work and leisure, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/23430/cycling-and-camping-holiday (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jamie Mackay, i tāngia i te 6 April 2010.