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Influential immigrants

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Influential immigrants

Many 20th-century arrivals from Germany brought with them the high culture of Europe. Marie Vandewart Blaschke (left, holding cello) was one such immigrant. She is shown here in the Dorothy Davies trio, which performed in Wellington in the 1940s.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dorothy Davies Collection (PAColl-0030-001)

Reference: PAColl-3497

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James N. Bade, Germans – Immigration after 1914, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/560/influential-immigrants (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by James N. Bade, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 July 2024.