Food cupboard

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Title

Food cupboard

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This food cupboard, built during the Great Depression of the 1930s, shows how New Zealanders 'made do' during hard times. It is built almost entirely of packing-case timber from the United States, with the many inscriptions pointing to the timbers' earlier uses: 'Clock - handle with care', 'Exported from USA Jackliss Sons New York', and, on the inside of the removable door panel, 'NZR' and 'Pictures'. Making doKnown as 'Kiwi ingenuity', New Zealanders have a reputation for being able to cre...

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Format

Image

Date created

circa 1930

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/483573

Related subjects

Cost & standard of living / wood / metal / furniture / livery cupboards / utility furniture / Depressions / recycling / Modernist / New Zealand

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