High-rise state housing blocks had communal washhouses and washing lines on the roof. These are the Dixon Street flats in Wellington in 1943, the year they were built. This was a promotional photo intended to show that Monday washday could still take place in a high-rise building.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)
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Photograph by John Dobrée Pascoe
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
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