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Story: Rural mythologies

Backyard garden

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Backyard garden

Photographer Albert P. Godber stands with his wife and daughter in the backyard of their home in Baker street, Caversham, Dunedin, in 1926. Although not all New Zealanders could live the rural dream by having a house and farm in the country, others could approximate it with a glasshouse and vegetable garden in the suburbs.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Albert Percy Godber Collection (PA-Group-00048)

Reference: APG-1583-1/2; G

by Albert Percy Godber

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Jock Phillips, Rural mythologies – Country versus city, 1890–1945, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/20315/backyard-garden (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 1 March 2009.