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Winter shows as they used to be
Saturday 15 July | Camera Obscura,
HCL_04394, Hamilton City Libraries The Winter Show circa 1920. Note the flags of different nations.
Trying it on Scout fundraiser
Saturday 8 July | Camera Obscura,
110 years ago this week, a grand concert was held at the Frankton Town Hall to aid the Boy Scouts’ Hall Building Fund.
Three unknown men in the era of narrow ties
Saturday 1 July | Camera Obscura,
For quite some years now, researchers, historians and genealogists have had great benefit from our collection of photographs.
Latest in milking technology
Wednesday 28 June | Camera Obscura,
Commercial stand for J. B. MacEwan & Co. Ltd the sole agents for the L. K. G. Milking machine and Baltic Separator. 'LKG' stood for Lawrence Kennedy & Gillies.
The cream separator
Saturday 10 June | Camera Obscura,
This brochure from c. 1931 outlines the new models available from R. A. Lister & Co Ltd. The Lister Separator Co.
Railway on shopping strip
Saturday 3 June | Camera Obscura,
This is from a wee album of ‘works photos’ taken by the intrepid A. E. (Hef) Graham. In the album there is a typed pasted-in label, ‘6. 5.
Player's first performance
Saturday 27 May | Camera Obscura,
On 29 August 1935, the St Peter’s Players performed “The Importance of Being Earnest”, Oscar Wilde’s well known comedy to a crowded auditorium.
Manuwai Waikato bound
Saturday 20 May | Camera Obscura,
This was one of the last big transactions of the Waikato Shipping Company, the purchase of the paddle steamer Manuwai.
Shipping shares in 1916
Saturday 13 May | Camera Obscura,
This week’s image is a recently digitised archive, outlining information about shares in The Waikato Shipping Company, Limited from August 1916.
Those were the days
Saturday 6 May | Camera Obscura,
HCL_11555 Our country had a great deal to celebrate in 1953.
Check out the bargains
Saturday 29 April | Camera Obscura,
HCLE_00085 Do you remember shopping at Pollock & Milne? This flier advertises a summer clearance sale, which began on 18th January 1935, two years after the store opened.