Inscription on reverse reads: “Probably Coley’s Mill”

Flaxmill at Foxton probably Coleys. In this photograph a group of men are stacking fibre onto a cart.

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Printed on front of mounting board, top right, with black ink – P 38

Typed on paper glued to back: “Shannon Cooperative Dairy Company’s butter factory at Shannon, about 1909. Palmerston North Public Library print / D40”

Used in book – ‘Horowhenua County and its People’, page 247, with caption - Shannon Cooperative Dairy Company’s butter factory, about 1909. PNPL.

Shannon Co-operative Dairy Company’s butter factory,1909. Outside the wooden building which has an iron roof, are a number of horse-drawn carts which are carrying milk cans.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted

Used in book – ‘Horowhenua County and its People’, page 247

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Milk delivery to a Dairy Factory, possibly at Levin at an unknown date. In this photograph milk is being delivered in cans by horse-drawn carts. Eight unidentified men appear in this photograph.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted (with 2000.018.0177b)

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Written above photo with blue ballpoint pen: “Shannon 1899 Creamery.”

Written on back with black ink pen: “James Hallam Shannon”

N.Z. Farmers Dairy Union Creamery, Margaret Street, Shannon, 1899. In this photograph five horses and carts with milk cans and drivers surround the wooden building. Leaning against the cart on the left is a woman wearing dark clothes and a white bonnet.

1 B&W photo print, mounted

See also s2001.022.0003, a colour copy of this original, which identifies this as the Margaret Street Creamery, Shannon, and the photo was taken by Mr J. Cornwall (Manager), c.1901.

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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “Please return to N. Clayton.”

Penciled on back [faint / faded] : “The new factory – Dad ….. ..ght”

Shannon Co-op Dairy Co. factory. Outside the factory are six horses with carts which are carrying drivers and milk cans. In the centre foreground of the photograph two men stand alongside a small child.

1 Hand coloured / tinted photo print, mounted

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