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The Langmuir family harvesting potatoes, around 1910

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The Langmuir family harvesting potatoes, around 1910

The Langmuir family harvest potatoes together on their Waikato farm near Te Awamutu, just south of Hamilton in the fertile Waikato.

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Ian Pool and Rosemary Du Plessis, Families: a history – Colonial families: 1840–1879, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/30196/the-langmuir-family-harvesting-potatoes-around-1910 (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Ian Pool and Rosemary Du Plessis, published 31 March 2011, updated 1 July 2017.