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A photographic montage showing the members of New Zealand's House of Representatives in 1860. The building at the top is Government House – the seat of the governor – rather than Parliament House, where the House of Representatives sat. The utilitarian parliamentary building may have been considered too undignified for the composition.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Auckland Star Collection (PA-Group-00610)
Reference: 1/1-003163-G
by John Nichol Crombie
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.