Inscription on reverse reads: “8.9.08 To The F- P- Thanks for the P C It is no use telling me to tell ab. anything, you should have sent it to his girl not me. N says if she gets a letter written tonight it will be a struggle. Good night M K “

The postcard was sent to Mr F H Hemicksen, Railway Station, Waitara.

Postcard of Main Street Foxton taken in 1906 or 1907. The scene shows business premises on one side of the main street which is unsealed. This postcard was posted on 8.9.1908 and has personal note on the back.

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Black and white photocopy.

Main Street Foxton looking south from opposite Clyde Street, c.1900. On the western corner of Clyde and Main Streets is a bank..

Small black and white A5 photocopy.

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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “Site of present A.N.Z. bank south of Clarks.”

Stamped on back with black ink – Horowhenua Historical Society. Acc. No. Date

Businesses with signs readable in original photo (left – right) - H. Walkley – General & Fancy Drapery, Gentlemen’s Complete Outfitter, Ladies & Children’s Outfitter. E.J. August – Furniture Upholsterer & Undertaker, agent for E. Collie & Dresden Piano Co. W.M. Clark – Importer (Estd. 1834), Draper, Mercer, Hatter. ? ? ? – Dressmaking. J.F. Smith – Livery & Bait Stable.

Commercial properties on the eastern side of Oxford Street, Levin, c.1907. From the left is the business of H. Walkley who ran a general and fancy drapery from 1905 to 1925 on this site. Mr E August ran a furnishing factory and shop in conjunction with an undertakers business from 1907 in the shop to the right (south) of Walkleys’. W.M. Clark operated a drapery and menswear store from 1892 in the next shop to the right.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted

See also 2000.563.0002 (original)

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Written on back with black ink: “To Mr & Mrs Phillpotts, Wishing you the compliments of the season. Kind rememberances to all, not forgetting the parlour boarder. Addie Blake has broken it off with her Jack, but I think she is likely to make it up again at any moment. Ethel Wanklyn.”

The Main Street, Foxton, NZ – (caption title) – undated. This oval shaped postcard shows an unpaved Main Street looking south. Letter on back to Mr & Mrs Phillpotts from Ethel Wanklyn.

1 Sepia tone print

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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “Oxford – Queen Street intersection.”

Oxford – Queen Street intersection looking south. 1 B&W photo print copy.

Probably taken in the early 1900s this photo shows the intersection of Oxford and Queen Streets with a gas lamp standard in the centre of the intersection. A ladder is against the pole of the lamp standard. The Oxford Street plane trees have protective wooden barriers around them. A bicycle is propled against a pole on the south-eastern side of the intersection.

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The Main Street of Foxton looking south from The “Triangle” c. 1900. Commercial properties line both sides of the street which is unsealed. A number of people are walking across the street and to the right of the photograph is a hand-pulled cart with large wheels.

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Blue grey coloured laminated photocopy.

Printed below original photo – Main Street, Foxton, N.Z.

Five buildings in Main Street, Foxton c.1880s. The Centre of Commerce building is on the right, however, the other buildings are not identified.

Small laminated colour photocopy.

Possibly a postcard?

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An unidentified street in Shannon. This photograph shows part of the commercial section of the town, and has one business marked ‘Boot Shop’. An unattached dray is sitting next to the footpath outside the buildings on the left. The print is blurred.

B&W photo print copy

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