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A display of electrical goods features in the Christchurch shop window of Turnbull & Jones Ltd around 1917. These were the early years of electricity supply, with fewer than 20,000 consumers nationwide. The signs in the window exhorting the benefits of electricity illustrate this – ‘no smoke, no dirt, no work’ and ‘the old order changeth giving place to the new’.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Steffano Webb Collection (PAColl-3061)
Reference: 1/1-003927-G
by Steffano Francis Webb
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