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Street meeting

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Street meeting

In one of the earliest photographs of Wellington, around 1859, a group of women and children gather in Thorndon’s Hobson Street. The denuded hill in the background is Mt Victoria.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Crawford Family Collection

Reference: PA1-f-019-25-3

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Chris Maclean, Wellington places – Western suburbs, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/13426/street-meeting (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Chris Maclean, published 3 March 2009, updated 1 March 2016.