More Info →Fitzherbert Bridge

Description

Looking from the river walk in the Esplanade gardens, to the Fitzherbert Bridge across the Manawatu River, built 1877. The original donated cards are postmarked 1906, with one sent to Miss Kathleen Thompson, Kaueka, Castlemain, Victoria [Australia] and the other to Miss Newman, 'on a hill', Napier.

The photographer of this image was Albert John Stockman (1881-1906), who was born in New Plymouth and moved to Palmerston North around 1903. He joined the Manawatū Camera Club and in November 1905 was awarded first prize for a pair of scenes of the A & P Show. Stockman began part-time work as a porter at the Palmerston North Railway Station in January 1906. Tragically, he was killed in a shunting accident on 16 March 1906, aged 25 years old.

Identification

Object type

Postcard

Relation

Public Photograph Collection Br 11

Date

circa 1906

Digitisation ID

2010P_Br11_3440

Held In

"Coolstore"