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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

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Taxonomy

Tags
1900s,
black and white,
bridges and waterways,
fitzherbert bridge,
manawatu river,
park,
photographs,
postcard,
transport,
water,
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