This image is a black and white photograph of a watercolour drawing by John Tiffin Stewart (1827-1913), a civil engineer, surveyor and amateur artist. The original drawing is part of the J. T. Stewart papers donated to the Whanganui Museum by W. T...

Creator:      John Tiffin Stewart
Date:          circa 1860 to circa 1885

Ninety-two floats took part at the Palmerston North City Centennial celebrations of 1971. Approx. 10,000 people were present at the event to celebrate 100 years of Palmerston North. Keith Roland Hamblyn was a photographer with the Palmerston North...

Creator:      Keith Hamblyn
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 13, 1971

Ninety-two floats took part at the Palmerston North City Centennial celebrations of 1971. Approx. 10,000 people were present at the event to celebrate 100 years of Palmerston North. Keith Roland Hamblyn was a photographer with the Palmerston North...

Creator:      Keith Hamblyn
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 13, 1971

Sue Morrison and Barry Rosser grabbed a few belongings and canoed away from their flood stricken home rather than get wet.

The floods of July 1988 occurred after Palmerston North experienced the highest 24 hour rainfall on record. It fell mostly...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 25, 1988

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 20 January, 1964. "Off into the unknown--at least in their imaginations--are these young people, all members of the Rowland family. This historic canoe--among several ar...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Longburn
Date:          1964-01-20T00:00:00+00:00

Shown here, is the old Gardner homestead and the old wharf dating from the 1850s. This property was owned by Alfred Seifert, flax miller around 1901.

Creator:      A C Morton
Place:          Koputaroa, Manawatu
Date:          circa 1901

Taken outside H Richardson’s house, possibly on Albert Street, during the big flood of 5th May 1941. People in the canoe are unidentified.

Creator:      A J Shailer
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 1941

People being evacuated by boat from the Morrison’s house on Albert Street, near the corner of St Albans Avenue, Palmerston North. The man with his back to the camera is Mr Killiman.

Creator:      Arthur J Shailer
Place:          Albert Street, Palmerston North
Date:          May 1941

The Carnival of the Lake, centred around Centennial Lagoon, was an annual event organised by the Public Relations Office for a few years during the early 1960s.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Centennial Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          1963

The Carnival of the Lake, centred around Centennial Lagoon, was an annual event organised by the Public Relations Office for a few years during the early 1960s.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:           Centennial Drive, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          1963

This photograph shows a crowd of people traveling by boat, possibly to the celebration surrounding the opening of the dam at Turitea on 17 February 1913.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1913

The Carnival of the Lake, centred around Centennial Lagoon, was an annual event organised by the Public Relations Office for a few years during the early 1960s.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Hokowhitu Lagoon, Palmerston North
Date:          1963

The Carnival of the Lake, centred around Centennial Lagoon, was an annual event organised by the Public Relations Office for a few years during the early 1960s.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Hokowhitu Lagoon, Hokowhtiu, Palmerston North
Date:          1963

This photograph was created by William James Young in the early 20th century. A large variety of subjects are depicted in the collection, but family, rural life and travel are the most prominent themes. The exact location of the photographs in the...

Creator:      William James Young
Date:          1900 to 1932

The original has a reading underneath the photograph: "The Golf Links". Notes on the back (from Ian Matheson) identify a polo grandstand in the background.

Creator:      Whalley
Date:          1902

The Carnival of the Lake, centred around Centennial Lagoon, was an annual event organised by the Public Relations Office for a few years during the early 1960s.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Hokowhitu Lagoon, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          1963