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Kōrero: Clothing and footwear manufacturing

Women machinists

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Women machinists

The clothing industry became increasingly mechanised in the early 20th century. These machinists are working in a clothing factory, about 1920.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PAColl-9472

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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Jane Tolerton, Clothing and footwear manufacturing – Clothing factories, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/23982/women-machinists (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jane Tolerton, i tāngia i te 6 April 2010.