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Kōrero: Clothing and footwear manufacturing

Footwear factory, 1920s

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Footwear factory, 1920s

This is the interior of M. O’Brien’s footwear factory in Christchurch in the 1920s. Christchurch and Auckland were the main centres for footwear production.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 1/1-007455; G

by Samuel Heath Head

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

Jane Tolerton, Clothing and footwear manufacturing – Footwear, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/23993/footwear-factory-1920s (accessed 4 June 2026).

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