Print, Photographic, Guinness Bros., The Strand, Tauranga
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Description
Unmounted large format print showing a side rake, swath turner in front of Guinness Bros shop on The Strand, Tauranga. Sign "Danger No Smoking Stop your Engine". Handwritten on reverse in pencil "combined side rake swath turner".
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.
Production place
Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Measurements
160mm (height), 215mm (width)
Accession number
0420/08
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