Inscription on reverse of mounted photograph reads: “Lent by Mrs Kirkcaldie. nee Marjorie Kebbel daughter of John Kebbell. Now given. Cook’s Family Hotel now known as the Foxton but of course re-built.”

Foxton Family Hotel, formerly the home of Thomas U Cook, in Gray Street, prior to 1892 when the building was demolished and a new hotel of the same name was opened on the present site in Main Street.

Two original photographs, one of which is mounted, and two copies

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Unloading green flax at Foxton, 15 August 1912. In this photograph men are unload flax leaves from a punt onto a horse-drawn sledge. In the background is a steamer and other flaxmilling buildings.

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Inscribed on reverse faintly: ” E McLeod Front of original bakery John Walls, Jane Walls, George, Agnes”.

Sepia toned mounted photograph of the front of Walls Bakery, with members of the Walls family and some other unidentified persons. The building is made of slab timber with a half verandah with an iron roof, and large display windows cover the front of the shop, with a smaller sash window set into the wall on the right. Wall family members stand to the far left and are identified as John Walls, Jane Walls, George and Agnes. The man leaning against the verandah post, the man mounted on horseback with a basket of bread on his left arm and the two youths to the right of the photograph are all unidentified persons.

Sepia original with one black and white print, and one black and white photocopy.

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Written above photo: “Old Levin.” Printed below photo: “Bushwhackers.”

Penciled on back: “Donated Chronicle 1977 . Copy, out of ‘My 1st Eighty Years’, Helen Wilson entitled ‘Bushwhackers’. Probably the whare of her future husband C.K. Wilson, 1888.”

Written with black ballpoint pen on piece of paper attached to back: “Titled “Bushwhackers” from Helen Wilson’s book “My First Eighty Years”. Probably the whare of her future husband. ‘

A photograph entitled “Bushwackers” shows a whare made from ponga with two men outside the building and a third man sitting on a horse. Taken c 1888 this is probably the whare of C K Wilson the future husband of Helen Wilson who wrote the book “My First Eighty Years”, a history of the Levin district.”

1 B&W photo print, copy

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H Robinson’s Veterinary Forge on the southern corner of Main and Cook Streets, Foxton. Three unidentified men and two saddled horses stand outside the wooden building.

Photograph and paper copy.

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