Image collection: Faces of our Forebears

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R Ashby, Cobham Street, Spreydon, Christchurch, standing among the tobacco plants grown in his back yard [1928]	Traffic Officer Herbert MacIntosh prepares to mount his bicycle [1895]	Homeguard manoeuvres : a demonstration of a dummy machine-gun [1941]
Knitting socks for the troops serving overseas in World War Two (1939-45) [1940]	Two bishops [ca. 1900]	A busker with a banjo entertaining in Cathedral Square, Christchurch [1927]
A shoe-shine man reads a newspaper while waiting in Cathedral Square for customers, Christchurch [1927]	R.S.A. Miss Victory contest, Christchurch, 1943 [1943]	Some members of the Atalanta Club [ca. 1892]
Elizabeth Reid McCombs, née Henderson (1873-1935) [between 1919 and 1925]	A newspaper vendor in Cathedral Square, Christchurch [1927]	A sandwich-board man advertising dancing shoes in Cathedral Square, Christchurch [1927]
Five of the six children of Thomas Jones Walker Shand [1886]	A Canterbury trooper, 3rd New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Rough Riders), preparing to depart for the Boer War (1899-1902) [1900]	A day at New Brighton beach [ca. 1927]
A 21st birthday celebration [6 Dec. 1955]	Patricia and Victor Ellena at 34 Shrewsbury Street, Merivale [ca. 1935]	Schoolboys pictured outside the tea kiosk at Victoria Park [ca. 1940]
Going to the pictures [ca. 1954]	Cheerful boy scouts acting as messengers to distribute food and medicine to patients at their houses during the influenza epidemic [1918]	A family picnic on a summer's day at Addington Show Grounds' motorist's camping ground, Christchurch [1929]
Interior of a cave hut at Taylor's Mistake, Christchurch, used by young men on weekend summer trips [1910]	Five generations of an old Banks Peninsula family, the Wrights [1912]