This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 18 October 1958: "Seen here are the seven finalists who were chosen for the best dressed woman competition which was held in Palmerston North this week. They are (from l...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 18, 1958
Joan Klee is dressed in an outfit she created for the Palmerston North Diamond Jubilee Parade. It caused quite the stir at the time because of its transparent bottom half. She was a window-dresser for the department store Collinson and Cunninghame...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1937
Joan Klee and partner dressed up for the Massey College Capping Ball. Massey Agricultural College was opened in 1928, and was the forerunner of Massey University. Joan Klee married Kenneth Lindsay McDonald.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1937
This photograph is of three nicely dressed ladies in hats and one child perched on one of the cannons in the Square. Cannons were purchased by the Government in 1879 and installed at Fort Ngahauranga overlooking Port Nicholson, Wellington Harbour....
Creator: Madge Child (nee Knight) [?]
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1920 to 1925
This photograph shows a group of women at an unknown civic reception. Back row, from left: Unknown; Mrs G. Tremain, Mayoress 1947 – 1956; Unknown x 2; Lady Oram, wife of Sir M H Oram, MP for Palmerston North 1943 – 1957; Unknown x 6. Front Row: Mr...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1947 to circa 1956
Joan Klee (middle) is dressed in an outfit she created for a Palmerston North Diamond Jubilee Parade. It caused quite the stir at the time because of its transparent bottom half. She was a window-dresser for the department store Collinson and Cunn...
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Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1937
Joan Klee (middle) is dressed in an outfit she created for a Palmerston North Diamond Jubilee Parade. It caused quite the stir at the time because of its transparent bottom half. She was a window-dresser for the department store Collinson and Cunn...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1937
Emma Isabella Fowler (nee Simpson) was the wife of John Coulson Fowler. She lived from c1853-1924.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1883
The son of John Coulson and Emma Isabella Fowler. Born 4 May 1881, Palmerston North.
Creator: J E and H Cobb of Napier and Hastings
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1906
This image depicts the teachers of Wanganui Girls College in 1894. It is thought that the principal Isabel Fraser (from 1894-1910) is shown sitting on the left.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Whanganui
Date: circa 1984
A portrait of Mrs Isabella Essex (nee Brannan). Her husband, Richard Essex, was the fourteenth Mayor of Palmerston North, holding office from 1907 to 1908.
Creator: Bunting Studio
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1907 to 1908