The cast of "Life with Father", performed by the Palmerston North Little Theatre Society at the Palmerston North Opera House 22-24 November 1945.
The 16 cast members were: Kay Nichols, Helen Whitehead, Derek Bennett, Ian H. Stewart, Barry Powell, ...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa November 22, 1945
People dressed in costumes for a theatre production or fancy dress party. Visible are several knights, nuns, friars and ladies.
It is believed to be a photograph of nurses performing a revue at the Opera House 10-11 August 1945, with entertainmen...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 10, 1945
Car racing on a dirt track at Awapuni. The track was located in the Pitama Road / Slacks Road area. Hand coloured print
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Pitama / Slacks Road area, Palmerston North
Date: December 31, 1949
Syd Jensen stands with his Triumph GP and a KTT Velocette motorcycle, alongside a year's worth of trophies, shields and banners from the 1949 racing season. Syd Jensen was a very successful pilot, aircraft builder, businessman, engineer, racing ...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1940s
Douglas DC-3 ZK-APA aircraft [Puweto], thought to have been taken at Milson Airport, with the Royal Mail insignia panted near the cockpit.This airplane was used for military and civilian purposes. This photograph was almost certainly taken after 1...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1940s
Two figures in naval uniform stand alongside two women dressed in wedding attire. Elmar Studio wedding portraits are usually composed with the bride and groom in the centre of the photograph, flanked on either side by the bridesmaid and groomsman.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1949
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1954
PNBHS rugby team.
The coach, standing on the left is Guthrie Wilson (1914-1984), who taught English, History and Latin at the school between 1946 and 1955.
According to The Palmerstonian (1947 yearbook), the following were members of the 2nd X...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1947
An group of unidentified nurses. It appears to be a group of registered nurses and others with a red cross on their headwear.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1940s
The students depicted are: Back row: Phillipa Direen, Anne Brittenden, Maria Lynch, Judy Hoffman, Dale Hollis, Christine Toomer, Helen Stewart, Biddy Lynch, Suzanne O'Kane; Middle row: Geraldine Scott, Margaret Roche, Vicki Jarrett, Louise Findlay...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: April 1965
The Ashhurst branch of the Women’s Institute (sometimes Country Women's Institute) was formed 15 August 1932.
A Mrs J. Penket is thought to be 5th from the left behind the front row. She started visiting patients in hospital on behalf of the Man...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Ashhurst
Date: 1947
The 'Old Boys' football team playing an undentified team at the Palmerston North Showgrounds. Also see 2011G_ELMAR-2-B3_005156
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: The Showgrounds. Palmerston North
Date: circa 1946
Supporters of the Palmerston North High School Old Boys football team arriving for game, at the Palmerston North Showgrounds. Also see 2011G_ELMAR-2-B3_005155
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: 61 Pascal Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1946
A ladies basketball team accompanied by their coach, in Pahiatua. Women's indoor basketball was still a new sport in 1947. In 1946 the New Zealand Women's Basketball Association (Inc.) was formed and National and Island championships began in 1947...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Tararua District
Date: circa 1947
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
The photograph was taken at Palmerston North Intermediate Normal School. It is likely that the Team was associated with...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1950s
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1951
A band set up to play in the Premier Drapery Company (PDC) department store. The Plaza Mall stands where the PDC building used to be located. See also FM 53
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1949
PDC (Premier Drapery Company) tea rooms laid out ready for wedding breakfast. The Plaza is now located on the site of this former department store.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1940s
PDC (Premier Drapery Company) tea rooms laid out ready for wedding breakfast. The Plaza is now located on the site of this former department store. Also see 2013G_ELMAR-B6_007314
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1940s
PDC (Premier Drapery Company) tea rooms laid out ready for wedding breakfast. The Plaza is now located on the site of this former department store. Also see 2013G_ELMAR-B6_007313.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1940s
A musical band set up to play in the Premier Drapery Company (PDC) department store. The Plaza Mall stands where the PDC building used to be. See also FM52
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1949
The four Carr family siblings pose for a family portrait.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Unknown
Date: 1940s
This photograph was taken at Palmerston North Intermediate School. 'The Wattles', in Linton Street, is visible in the background.
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the ...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1950s
The nurse on the right has been identified as Eileen Beaumont. The nurse in the middle is possibly Heather Trewheelen.
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1949
The first intermediate school in Palmerston North was opened in 1941 at 300 Ferguson Street. This photograph shows the class taught by Mr Arthur Budd. It was taken to mark the departure of Robert Black, sitting first on the left in the front row. ...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1945
The students depicted are: Back row: Roz Taylor, Christine Roche, Frances Hepburn, Jackie McDonald, Brigid Kennedy, Unknown, Carla Howe, Patricia Lee, Tricia McCavana, Lorraine Crawford; 4th row: Gabrielle O'Connor, Clare Wylie, Judith Lee, Patric...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: May 15, 1966
Following her marriage, Patricia Doughty was known as Pat Eyre.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Unknown
A combined meeting of the Palmerston North Lunch Club and Rotary Club was held 1 December 1944 in the Premier Drapery Company tearooms to hear R.M. Algie, Member of Parliament for Remuera and Professor of Law at Auckland University, speak about wa...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1944
The writing on this truck is only partially legible with the word "Resign" clearly visible on the side, indicating this truck is decorated as part of a capping parade mock protest. The image was taken in front of the National Bank of New Zealand b...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Unknown
Date: unknown
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. A snapshot of life in Palmerston North in December 1953. The city was looking forward to a visit from the new Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh.
Creator: Tina White
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 15, 2020