Nine year old Robbie Grith was one of 30 children who made a dragon after the story, 'The boy and the Taniwaha' was read to them as part of a holiday programme at the Palmerston North Public Library.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          May 14, 1982

Standing left: Mary Helena McCully – née McEwen (1880-1939) daughter of Andrew and Mary Ann McEwen. Standing right: Mary Ann McEwen – née Scrimshaw (1853-1926), daughter of George Scrimshaw. Sitting: Mrs George Scrimshaw – mother of Mary Ann McEw...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1903

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28 January, 1959. "Im so frightened. I don't know how I am going to do the part," confides Niki in 17-month-old Lynette Owen-Taylor at the Opera House yesterday. Niki ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 28, 1959

Madge Allsop - the fictional character created as the 'straight-woman' to Barry Humphries' outrageous female impersonation act Dame Edna Everage - was embodied by English Actress Patricia 'Emily' Perry.

In 1994 while on tour with Humphries, Perr...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Hospital, Palmerston North
Date:          June 20, 1994

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 04 April 1961 "City child's recovery due to combined efforts: the successful operations carried out in England recently on a seven-year-old Palmerston North girl, Anne T...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 4, 1961

This photograph ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 2, April 1988 with the caption, "Two-year-old Christina Koot has a final cuddle with adoptive mother Bertha Zurcher." Bertha Zurcher worked in Wellington Hospital during World War Two. After ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 1988

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 04 April 1961 "City child's recovery due to combined efforts: the successful operations carried out in England recently on a seven-year-old Palmerston North girl, Anne T...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 4, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 02 June 1961 "A young temporary resident of the Municipal Motor Camp was glad to help a carpenter who was working on a new luxury cabin this morning. The cost of the cab...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Dittmer Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          June 2, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 11 April 1961 "Encouraged by dancing successes in Palmerston North and Wanganui, Judith Mohekey, accompanied by her parents, attended the golden jubilee festival in Napi...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 11, 1961

This photograph shows the Caccia-Birch family at on the Woodhey.Standing left to right: Tom; Rachel, wife of Tom; Nancy, wife of Tony holding John their 2nd child; Hetty, wife of Gerald, holding Susan their first child; Gerald. Sitting left to rig...

Creator:      Tony Caccia-Birch
Place:          130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          1933

This photograph shows Mrs Anereta Poananga and holding her eldest daughter.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1918

In this picture is an unidentified small boy in a velveteen suit, with a gentleman (possibly the father) holding the horse's reins.

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          unknown

This photograph is stored with the caption, "Tuesday February 6, 1968 was the first day at primary school for many Palmerston North children."

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          College Street, Palmerston North
Date:          February 6, 1968

Family group of mother, father and two children. Photograph found at 464 Freguson Street, Palmerston North. Also see 2011P_Pg136_006123, with same small child and the father.

Creator:      J W Stevenson
Place:          464 Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1900

George Perrin (1892-1973), fourth son of John and Matilda Perrin, photographed at the Perrin family home 256 Featherston Street, Palmerston North. George served in World War One (WWI) and later married Myrtle Barling. They had one son, Kenneth. G...

Creator:      John Perrin (Junior)
Place:          256 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1905

Children are lined up to help bottle feed penned lambs at the annual A & P Show, held at the Palmerston North Showgrounds

Creator:      Argosy Industrial Photos
Place:          61 Pascal Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1960

Shown here are people enjoying the Pergola built in The Esplanade – the Palmerston North City gardens. Development began on the Victoria Esplanade in Palmerston North, named to mark Queen Victoria's 60th jubilee, in 1897. The pergola was built c19...

Creator:      G F Framjee
Place:          Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1939

This photograph is stored with the caption, "Tuesday February 6, 1968 was the first day at primary school for many Palmerston North children."

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          College Street, Palmerston North
Date:          February 6, 1968

The junior angling competition attracted about 280 young anglers to the lagoon. More than 70 fish were caught, including trout, perch, and eels. Contest organisers, The Manawatu-Oroua branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, released a ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Centennial Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          February 27, 1982

This photograph is stored with the caption, "City Council Workmen repairing a storm water drain on the corner of Park Road and Fitzherbert Avenue. It was necessary to dig down to a depth of 14 ft. to uncover the drain which is understood to be the...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Corner of Park Road and Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          October 26, 1956

This photograph ran with the caption, "Tuesday February 6, 1968 was the first day at primary school for many Palmerston North children. Here's one five year old walking to class at College Street School."

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          College Street, Palmerston North
Date:          February 6, 1968

This photograph ran with the caption, "Nine-year-old Carol Anne Ford, seen with the television set she won in the Manawatu Consumer Co-op "Place a Game" contest. Second prize, a refrigerator, was won by Mr W.J. Jones and the third prize, a waste d...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 1967

The Fire Brigade was established in Palmerston North in 1883. The first Fire Station to be built in Cuba Street was officially opened by J.A Nash, Mayor, on the balcony. These premises were replaced by another building near by, in 1926.

Creator:      Ernest Denton
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 31, 1910

This is a photograph of an unidentified family from about 1890.

Creator:      George W Shailer [?]
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1890

Cannons were purchased by the Government in 1879 and installed at Fort Ngahauranga overlooking Port Nicholson, Wellington Harbour. The never fired a shot in anger and were obsolete by 1900. Two of these cannons were acquired by the Palmerston Nort...

Creator:      Tanner Brothers
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1920 to circa 1929

The glass plate of this unidentified family has "Rutherford" scratched into it.

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1880 to circa 1899

Members of the Palmerston North Fire Brigade at the laying of the foundation stone of the new Cuba Street Fire Station, built 1910. In 1926, a replacement building was constructed on a site adjacent to the old one. The Fire Brigade was set up in ...

Creator:      Ernest Denton
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 28, 1910

This is a photograph of Lucy Shailer, born 22 November 1888. She is the daughter of G. W. Shailer of Palmerston North, a well known photographer in the Manawatu at that time. It is possible that her father took this photograph.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1893

This photograph comes from a small bound photograph album found in the Slack and Hewett Families archive. This albums contains informal photographs, mostly of the Hewett family. They lived on Long Melford Road, Awapuni at a homestead called "Waita...

Creator:      Hewett Family
Place:          Awapuni
Date:          1900 to 1910

This unidentified group is probably in the 40 Mile Bush area of North Wairarapa, at Kaiparoro. The photographs have been identified as relating to Alfred and Eliza Falkner.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Tararua District
Date:          circa 1900 to circa 1910