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McWhannell album 7
- Date
- Between March 1923 and October 1940
- Reference
- PA1-q-275
- Description
Album of photographs showing the progress made by Frederick McWhannell and his wife Rhoda McWhannell, from breaking in the land in 1923, including felling scrub, to a fully functional farm with cows, sheep, pigs, and areas of forestry.
Various activities are shown in detail, including hay-making and ensilage; planting trees including eucalypts, pinus insignis, lausoniana; building a water tank from scratch; creating a tennis court from scratch; and the development of the house garden.
Most of the people shown are wither not identified, or only by Christian name. William Duncan Ross McCurdie (Rhoda McWhannell's father) has been identified from comparison with photographs in an earlier album (PA1-o-552)
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Album with brown cover; 39.5 x 26.5 cm
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō / McWhannell, Rhoda Leslie (Mrs), 1898-1996: Photographs of forestry and farming at Ohaupo
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Album with brown cover; 39.5 x 26.5 cm
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