Bakers check loaves of bread exiting an automated electric oven onto a conveyor belt at Boon's Bakery in Christchurch in the 1930s. Electric ovens produced a uniform product in enormous numbers, spelling the end of many small town bakers, with their wood-fired ovens and hand-made loaves.
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Canterbury Museum, Canterbury Historical Association Collection
Reference:
2000.198.1404
Photograph by W. McKaskell
Permission of Canterbury Museum, Rolleston Avenue, Christchurch, New Zealand must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
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As the grandchild of Lionel
margaret lardelli (not verified)
07 o Hune 2013
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