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 for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 15 March 1958, page 10: "Unperturbed by its surroundings, John Silver, which gained first place in the household class at the Palmerston North Siamese cat show yesterday...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 15, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 30 May 1961 "Mr. H.L. Arthur, of Hamilton, is shown with his "pink" cat. Although the cat is not the pink one imagines it to be, it has a faint tinge of this colour in t...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 30, 1961
This cart was originally owned by Chung Lee who sold vegetables and fruit in the Dannevirke area in the 1960s.
The cart was bought by Tom Daulton when Chung Lee retired in 1966. Daulton then donated it to the Manawatu Horse Drawn Preservation So...
Creator: Ruahine Echo
Place: Tararua District
Date: November 24, 1974
Lucky is a kitten from Poppelle’s Kitten Rescue, a local cat rescue organisation. She is seen sleeping in a paper tray belonging to a library staff member.
Creator: Susie
Place: 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: November 2017
Staff of an unidentified flax mill.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1902
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
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
Place: Unknown
Date: 1900 to 1932
Three workers posing in front of a flax bale.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1903 to 1907
Darrell Coley (later Lee) at 4 years of age, with an unidentified boy, on the cat walk in the Roscos tearooms. C M Ross had seasonal fashion parades for adult and childrens' wear. Darrell modelled at these shows from about 3-8 years of age, having...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1959
Peter Gray, a hermit, lived with his cat and numerous dogs in this hut which he built on the banks of the Manawatu River, Hokowhitu.
Creator: John Perrin (Junior)
Place: Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1905
The children of local sheep and dairy farmer William Chapman outside the family home at 77 Kairanga Road (present day Botanical Road) in Palmerston North. Back row, left to right: Jessie Moore Chapman, John Henry Chapman, unknown guest; Front: Lou...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Botanical Road, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1915
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
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
Pat Hayes (later Eaton) was the Doolan family babysitter. From left: Pat; Raewyn Doolan; Fluff the cat. At the Doolan home in Parata Street.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Parata street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: 1953
This photograph shows an unidentified group of people of various ages sitting on the porch of a villa style home. They may be gathered for a school reunion.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1949
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
This photograph was presumably taken in the Pohangina Valley, probably near Utuwai. The sack around the man’s waist is a flour sack, stamped with the words “Richter Nannestad, Pure Roller Flour, Manawatu, Palmerston North”. In the foreground ca...
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900 to circa 1910
Les Davis (b.1900) on his 1920 Excelsior Big X 1000cc Vee Twin Auto-Cycle (note his leather chaps), outside his parent’s house under construction at 171 Albert Street, Palmerston North. Les was the son of James and Harriet Davis, who farmed in the...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1924
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
Louisa Jane Chapman (‘Louie’ – then aged about 17), youngest daughter of local sheep and dairy farmer William Chapman, perched with cat on the remains of an uprooted tree in the fields behind the family home on the corner of Boundary Road and K...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Botanical Road, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1909
This photograph was taken c1897 at the top of “Back Track”, before the “Dittmer Bros” built the road round to Scott’s Road. Notice the gentleman left holding a cat. A typical bush section in the Kahuterawa Valley. Identification of men unknown, bu...
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1896
50 onlookers watched as firefighter Kevin Gardner unsuccessfully attempted a rescue of cat stuck on one spire of All Saint Church. Rather than be caught, the cat leapt off the structure. It was caught by two onlookers, Tony Blyth and Roger Murray,...
Creator:
Craven School pupils and parents attending a sports day at the Polo Club grounds. Charlotte "Granny" Slack can be seen in black on the right hand side of the photograph.
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1910
This photograph comes from a small bound photograph album found in the Slack and Hewett Families archive. This albums contains informal photographs, mostly of the Hewett family. They lived on Long Melford Road, Awapuni at a homestead called "Waita...
Creator: Hewett Family
Place: Awapuni
Date: 1900 to 1910
This photograph shows unknown children in what appears to be fairytale costume. The location of this photograph is unknown.
Creator: Newton, Auckland
Place: Unknown
Date: circa 1900
Slack family and friends at 'Waitoitoi', Awapuni, Palmerston North. Back row (from left): Ken Stowe, Jack Lack, Len and Raymond, Dr Stowe, Humpries, Reg Bagnall. Middle (from left): Jane Hewett, Mrs Stowe, Reg Hewett, Mildred Hewett. From (from le...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1913