Photographs of Consolidated Traders' meat processing operations

Date
[ca 1970-ca 1979]
Reference
PAColl-8752-2
Description

Photographs of deer carcasses being processed for export at Consolidated Traders Ltd's works at Rongatea and Rotorua. Also featured are carcasses of wild pigs awaiting processing and frozen goat carcasses bagged and ready for export. Several photographs show bales of deer pelts packed and covered with hessian.

Deer photographed on Rex Giles' farm, Forest Park, at Maroa north of Taupo.

Most of these photographs were in albums of plastic sleaves and were probably used as promotional material for the company. The prints were removed from the albums as the type of plastic bonds with the emusion of the print.

Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s).

Access restrictions
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Part of
Giles, T Rex, 1929-2006 :Photographs of deer farming and hunting, opossum hunting, taxidermy, and mining.
Format
54 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs
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