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Working together, 1940s

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Working together, 1940s

Mrs Holmes and a friend, neighbours in the Hutt Valley, were photographed cutting out a dress in 1944. They are working on the kitchen floor, so it is probably the middle of a weekday – a time when children were unlikely to burst in.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)

Reference: 1/4-001174-F

by John Dobrée Pascoe

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.

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Megan Cook, Household management – The wider world, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/39707/working-together-1940s (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Megan Cook, published 28 November 2012.