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75th Anniversary 1987 - Basil Young cutting cake, staff in fancy dress, window displays and shop interior (during celebrations), Peter Jordan retirement (1985 (sales manager), Basil Young retirement from Board of Directors (1985) Ian Shearer retir...
Date: circa 1938 to 1987
A variety of activities are shown in the photograph album created by the Ashhurst Scout Group, including examples of bush craft, a handicraft expo, games and several Field and Cub Days. Group photographs are also included.
Creator: Ashhurst Scout Group
Date: 1967 to 1973
This photograph album contains photographs of the Seifert flaxmills Weka and Miranui. Flax workers are pictured cultivating, gathering, drying and processing the fibres. Details of the transport operations undertaken by cart and barge are als...
Creator: Alfred Seifert
Date: August 1917 to October 1917
The Grammer family were early Ashhurst residents and the Grammer Family archive contains family information from 1868. Ron Grammer was the son of Tom Grammer and the family lived in Bainesse, close to Palmerston North. Private Ron Grammer served i...
Creator: Ronald Grammer
Place: Bainesse
The Grammer family were early residents of Ashhurst. This album is one of several artefacts created during World War Two by Ron Grammer.
Creator: Ron Grammer
Date: 1939 to 1945
Berry Engineering was established in 1907 by Mr Edwin Berry, in Main Street, as E. D. Berry General Engineer. As they grew, they moved to Ferguson Street, then to Ashley Street, and sons Frank, Zean and Edwin Jnr joined the business. They manufact...
Creator: Berry Engineering
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1970 to 1989
Photograph album mainly consisting of photographs of pupils and activities of Craven School, Palmerston North. The names written in ink were added by Lorna Playford, who donated the album to the Ian Matheson City Archives. Alongside views of life ...
Creator: Annie Dalrymple
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1903 to 1915
This photograph album depicts the Creighton Family of 5 Donnington Street, Palmerston North. It shows a range of different locations around Palmerston North and the surrounding area, ranging from 1940 to around 1943. The woman in most of the pictu...
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Date: 1940 to 1943
This album documents the Western Brewery Co. Ltd. premises in Bates Street, Whanganui. Photographs include: the despatch office; racking room; cask washing stage; racking machine; fermenting cellar; weiss cylinders; cask pitching room; gyle room; ...
Place: Whanganui
Date: circa 1946 to circa 1955
This album documents hotel buildings in the lower North Island (excluding the Wellington region), listing them alphabetically by the name of the business.
The hotels shown include the: Albion Hotel, Patea; Albion Hotel, Shannon; Albion Hotel, Wha...
Date: circa 1955 to circa 1960
This loose page from a photograph album contains 8 photographs of Craven pupils, one named '1911 Cricket Team' and another named 'Sports 1911'.
Creator: Annie Dalrymple [?]
Date: circa 1911
A photograph and newspaper album compiled Richard Everitt (Dick) Moxon. Photographs include: family and friends, Palmerston North Rangers Association Football Club, Chatteris Engineers Reserves. Clippings pertain to sporting achievements, marriage...
Creator: R.E. (Dick) Moxon
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900 to 1911
This photograph album spans the years 1903-1911 and showcases the life of young women at boarding schools in the late 19th Century.
Creator: Annie Dalrymple
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1903 to 1911
This 1930s photograph album belongs to the Barrow Family, of Palmerston North. Subjects include family members, pets, airplanes, the 1935 flood, cars and car crashes, the Esplanade Gardens and other local landmarks.
Creator: Barrow Family
Date: 193X
Dated from the 1920s and 1930s, this photograph album depicts events on the Manawatū Gorge road including construction and repairs of the road, removing slips, car accidents etc. The album also contains images of Napier following the earthquake of...
Creator: William Brockie
Place: Manawatū Gorge
Date: 1925 to 1935
These photographs show the Scandinavian Club taking part in the opening of the Vasa Exhibition at the Manawatu Museum. The man in the centre of the second and fourth images is Professor Keith Thomson.
Creator: Reg Rushbridge
Date: 197X
Berry Engineering was established in 1907 by Mr Edwin Berry, in Main Street, as E. D. Berry General Engineer. As they grew, they moved to Ferguson Street, then to Ashley Street, and sons Frank, Zean and Edwin Jnr joined the business. They manufact...
Creator: Berry Engineering
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1970 to 1989
The Ashhurst Community Historical Collection contains photographs of people and places in and around Ashhurst. The majority of the images date from the first half of the 20th century. Copies of individual photographs are available on request.
Creator: Various
Place: Ashhurst
Date: 1880 to 1987
Photograph album held by Carl Andreas (1848-1907) and his wife Anne (1846 - 1936) and their descendants. Carl and Anne emigrated from Norway to New Zealand on the 'Celaeno' in 1871. They were allocated 40 acres of land at Awapuni before soon movin...
Creator: Various
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1875 to 1900
Photograph album containing images of the activities of the Ashhurst Arts Centre. Includes: - Arts and Crafts Exhibitions 1971 - 1975 - Centennial Exhibition (Palmerston North) 1971 - Drama Group and other productions 1971 - 1975 - Mrs Ashhurst co...
Creator: Ashhurst Arts Centre
Place: Ashhurst
Date: 1971 to 1975
Album of the Linton Branch of the Country Women's Institute (CWI), containing a photograph and report from each President of the Branch during their term in office. Also includes newspaper cuttings, show certificates and photographs of Branch birt...
Creator: Linton CWI
Place: Linton, Manawatū
Date: 1931 to 1993
Photograph album containing photographs of Samuel and Margaretta Macaulay and their family, including Nita, Lena, Elizabeth, Sarah, Joe and Emilie Macauley, and family friends. Also Campbell Aitchison, Thompson home on Milson Line, Aitchison home ...
Creator: Various
Place: Manawatū
Date: circa 1920 to circa 1930
Photograph album documenting the occasion of the Kairanga School 90th anniversary in 1978. Shows group photos of attendees, cake cutting, dinner and outdoor ceremony. Unidentified.
Kairanga School was opened Monday 10 December 1888.
Creator: Kairanga Home & School Association (?)
Place: Kairanga, Manawatu
Date: 1978
The first meeting of the Kairanga Girl Guide Company was on 3 April 1954. Kairanga is a farming district on the outskirts of Palmerston North.
The album, entitled 'Camping Days' contains photographs of camps at Himatangi Beach and Kowhai Hut and ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatū
Date: 1964 to 1966
An autograph book used as a photograph album. Photographs document Huia Mackrell's service overseas during World War One, including shipboard life, Egypt and Gallipoli. Signed, inside front cover; "Some snaps during my travels, H H Mackrell".
Creator: H H Mackrell
Date: circa 1914 to circa 1918
A family photograph album of unknown origin. The images appear to span the 1930s-1970s and includes Foxton School class photograph (1970), unidentified rugby team, Te Hauke war memorial, soldiers during World War Two, and portraits of unidentified...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatū
Date: circa 1930 to circa 1980
Family photograph album, including images of family members, scenes around Palmerston North, animals, music, sport, soldiers, "Huanui" (boat at Foxton), Foxton, Maori Battalion (1940) and farm scenes.
Creator: Newth family
Place: Manawatū
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1950
This photograph album depicts wide range of images of the Monrad family and ‘Kaingahou’, and includes photos of the Kendall family who owned ‘Kaingahou’ at one time.
Ditlev Gothard Monrad (1811–1887) was a prominent figure in nineteenth-century D...
Date: 1866 to 1970s
Maurice Thompson Senior's photograph album. Maurice lived in Invercargill, Timaru and Auckland. His son Charles married Elizabeth Maculey and farmed at Milson Line.
Album contains photographs mainly of the Auckland area, Charles and Elizabeth Th...
Creator: Maurice Thompson (Snr)
Place: New Zealand
Date: circa 1900 to circa 1940
The album was created for Mrs Jill Cook, a founder of the club. It contains messages from members of the Club and photographs of members and their children and husbands. It also lists their former home and when they arrived in New Zealand
The Ove...
Creator: Overseas Ladies Club
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1950 to circa 1959