Print, Photographic, Display, Guinness Bros., Tauranga
Maker
Renwood Studio
Current rights
© In copyright
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Object detail
Description
Unmounted large format print showing a display in tent with sign "Guinness Bros Ltd wholesale Wine & Spirit Merchants. Kelvinator Refrigerators Washrite Washing machines". A boat with several outboard motors attached including Mercury are on display. On reverse "Guinness Bros".
Guinness Brothers Ltd. opened at No.1 The Strand in 1908 and sold a wide variety of products including agricultural equipment, alcohol and insurance. The business and its owners were an important part of the community and contributed towards WW1 and WW2 fundraising (Guinness men were killed in both wars), the Municipal Band, the Fire Brigade, the Tauranga Borough Council, Tauranga Harbour Board and the Orange Festival. The store continued, in some form, until 2011.
Guinness Brothers Ltd. opened at No.1 The Strand in 1908 and sold a wide variety of products including agricultural equipment, alcohol and insurance. The business and its owners were an important part of the community and contributed towards WW1 and WW2 fundraising (Guinness men were killed in both wars), the Municipal Band, the Fire Brigade, the Tauranga Borough Council, Tauranga Harbour Board and the Orange Festival. The store continued, in some form, until 2011.
Maker
Renwood Studio
Production place
Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Measurements
157mm (height), 200mm (width)
Accession number
0417/08
Current rights