Charles Mackintosh Ross (centre, with his thumbs in his pockets) stands outside his Palmerston North drapery in 1896. Ross started the business in 1882, moving to a site in the Square the following year. For more than a century C. M. Ross was Palmerston North’s premier department store. Many department stores began as small draper’s shops like this.
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Photograph by A. E. Hobbs
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