This image comes from a collection of glass negatives found in the attic of 'Lovelock's cottage' by 'Keebles Farm' near Massey University. The people in the images are possibly the Lovelock family, but their identities have not been confirmed.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1890 to 1910
This image comes from a collection of glass negatives found in the attic of 'Lovelock's cottage' by 'Keebles Farm' near Massey University. The people in the images are possibly the Lovelock family, but their identities have not been confirmed.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Unknown
Date: 1890 to 1910
This image comes from a collection of glass negatives found in the attic of 'Lovelock's cottage' by 'Keebles Farm' near Massey University. The people in the images are possibly the Lovelock family, but their identities have not been confirmed.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1890 to 1910
This photograph was taken in the McGiffert Street depot of Child Brothers. Child Brothers Ltd, Carriers and Fuel Merchants, was established in 1919 by Edward G Child and his sons, W J Child & E W H Child. They opened the metal crushing depot and p...
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: Albert Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1927
This image was taken by Frank Goldingham for Photorama pictorial magazine's August 1963 edition.
"The Bainesse School reecntly [sic] celebrated their jubilee with a cabaret, roll call, church service and parade of floats. Three hundred old pupils...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Bainesse
Date: August 1963
This image was taken by Frank Goldingham for Photorama pictorial magazine's August 1963 edition.
"The Bainesse School reecntly [sic] celebrated their jubilee with a cabaret, roll call, church service and parade of floats. Three hundred old pupils...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Bainesse
Date: August 1963
This image was taken (but not used) by Frank Goldingham for Photorama pictorial magazine's August 1963 edition.
"The Bainesse School reecntly [sic] celebrated their jubilee with a cabaret, roll call, church service and parade of floats. Three hun...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Bainesse
Date: August 1963
This image was taken (but not used) by Frank Goldingham for Photorama pictorial magazine's August 1963 edition.
"The Bainesse School reecntly [sic] celebrated their jubilee with a cabaret, roll call, church service and parade of floats. Three hun...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Bainesse
Date: August 1963
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the second quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Intersection of Broadway and Princess Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 1960
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the second quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Intersection of Broadway and Princess Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 1960
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the second quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Intersection of Broadway and Princess Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 1960
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s July 1960 edition, but was not published.
Mockery of traditional cultural practices by 'dressing-up' in grass skirts was once a common form of entertainment. The practice slowly died out acr...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 1960
The Bank of Australasia, constructed around 1878, was located on the corner of The Square and Broad Street (now Broadway Avenue)
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Corner of Broadway Avenue and the Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1890 to circa 1899
A film believed to have been taken by Rod Matheson featuring images from the Carnival of the Lake, which took place at Hokowhitu Lagoon during Anniversary Weekend 1963. Events included a pet parade, children's competitions, Highland dancing, and a...
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 18, 1963
Hedwick Wilhemina McDonald, nee Maher (1893 - 1959) was a horse woman and the first woman to be granted a horse trainer licence in the Manawatū. She trained the horse that won the Melbourne Cup in 1938. She began her own training stables at Awapun...
Creator:
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1930s
This image comes from a collection of unidentified negatives taken by H M Griffiths in the early 1900s, probably 1910-1920. Many of these negatives are labelled as having been taken in Tokomaru, but many have no information with them. They were do...
Creator: H M Griffiths
Date: 1910 to 1920
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 12 February, 1964. "First prize in the bare-back riding, under 17 years, class, went to C. Dudley (Napier), on Snow Queen, at the Dannevirke A. & P. Show yesterday."
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 12 February, 1964. "Many hours of work go into preparing a horse for a show. Here Andrew Sanders, aged 8 years, of Takapau, is seen plaiting the tail of his pony at the ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 08 November 1958: "Two attractive young riders from Masterton make a pretty picture as they wait their turn in the wire jumping competition. They are Miss Pat Bennett (n...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Showgrounds, Palmerston North
Date: November 8, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28 March 1958, page 15: "This handsome brown weanling filly, foaled in August last year at the Santa Rosa Stud, Longburn, shared equal top price with her half-sister at ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 28, 1958
Two people dressed as a horse, with the green and white livery of the Manawatū Rugby team walk along Church Street accompanied by people holding a banner reading "Go-Go-Manawatu" on the occasion of winning the Ranfurly Shield.
The Manawatu Rugb...
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 197X
At an unknown location in or near Palmerston North. Mr Milson – back row, black hat; Alphonse Rogers – on horse; Charlie Batterley – far left,; Mrs Parr; Mrs Gore – partly turned to the right; Harry Wiggins – white chin whiskers; Dodd - ? black wh...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1896
This photograph was taken from the slopes of Ferry Hill (now Seaview Gardens), at the corner of Union and Harbour Streets. Includes Leven & Co’s “Hemp Grading and Wool Stores” (large multi-gabled building in the distance) and NZ shipping Company’...
Creator: George W Anderson
Date: 1912
In 1912 the mill was owned by Walter Bock and Henry Coley, who had purchased it about three years earlier from Oliver Austin. It was situated in Stewart Street, Foxton, just south of the Borough boundary.
Creator: E A Phillips
Date: 1912
Paddockers are dismantling a stack of fibre in a drying paddock in Foxton. The hanks of dried fibre are being loaded into a dray for transport back to the flaxmill for scutching. Man standing left foreground by post, is Darcy Knewstub, others unid...
Creator: E A Phillips
Place: Foxton, Horowhenua
Date: 1912
Mrs. Fergusson, known to the children as 'Old Nurse' with Walter Taylor-Young (probably), second from right,cousin of the Strangs, and either Graham, Brian or Colin Strang. Taken at the gates of Mr J Strang's residence, 'Woodhey' (now Caccia Birch...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
The fountain in the foreground of this postcard once stood is in western quadrant of The Square, in front of where the Central Library now sits [2017]. It is shown here before the Coronation monument for Edward VII was added on top (1925). The bui...
Creator: Aldersley Series
Date: 1912
Courting days of Mr and Mrs McQueen Murdoch (nee Rachel Port) riding side saddle across the Pohangina River from Awahou North to Pohangina. At this time James was a recent arrival from Scotland and Rachel was the eldest daughter of Richard Port. M...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Pohangina
The smithy building and business was later shifted to 240 Ruahine Street. Mr Coles is in the centre and S. Beaument, a cousin, is on the horse. The dog's name is Towser.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Albert Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1923
Christian Petersen was an early Mauriceville wood-carrier, and is shown here transporting timber for the new homes of the settlement.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Mauriceville, Wairarapa Region
Date: circa 1889