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"The Old Shebang", Cuba Street, Wellington, ca, Wellington, New Zealand, 1883

"The Old Shebang", Cuba Street, Wellington, ca

1883 Wellington, New Zealand

Known as 'The Old Shebang,' this modest building on Cuba Street in Wellington, New Zealand, was photographed around 1883, when the street was already developing into one of the young colonial city's commercial thoroughfares.

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