This is the home of the Rockstrow family, located at 59 Cuba Street. Johann Friedrich Rockstroh (1834-1913) was a Prussian born in Erfurt, Germany. As a young man he migrated to New Zealand, where he practiced medicine in the goldfields of Otago a...
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1889
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 January, 1964. "From an earth-bound plant operator to a steeplejack is a big jump in one day, but it did not seem to worry Mr M. Hoare, an employee of Carbonic Ice, L...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Tremaine Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: January 29, 1964
John Prentice purchased the brickworks in Boundary Road (now Tremaine Avenue) in 1900. The buildings on the far left are the drying sheds and mixing sheds (steam powered). From left: John Prentice, owner (3rd from left, white moustache); Albert Be...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Tremaine Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
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
This property is thought to be in Grey Street, Feilding. George Shailer was a well known photographer in Palmerston North taking many studio in informal photographs in the Manawatu Region.
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Feilding
Date: circa 1880 to circa 1890
The subject of this photograph is Venona McNichol (d. 02 December 1997). This bakery, believed to be one of the oldest at the time in the Manawatu, used to serve rural areas as far south as Feilding and Ashhurst.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1981
The Rangitikei Dairy Company’s first factory at Bulls was built in 1901 and replaced in 1925.
Creator: Rembrandt Studios, Marton
Place: Rangitikei Region
Date: 1901
Workers and dog outside their 'home', a tent, in the bush.
Creator: George W Anderson
Place: Manawatu [?]
Date: 1914
This family is thought to be the Scandinavian family of Daniel Johansen, listed in the Post Office Directories for 1885-6 and 1901-2. Far right, with a horse is Bernt Johansen.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1900
This photograph was taken between April and September of 1923, showing construction in progress on the Gasworks at Terrace End, Palmerston North. At the time the foreman was Mr Maidment.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1923
This building could possibly be a boarding house, dormer windows with the name over the door lintel. Note the railway tracks in the foreground and hill just noticeable in the middle right of the photograph.
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1880 to circa 1890
John Prentice purchased a brickworks in Boundary Road (now Tremaine Avenue), Palmerston North, in 1900. The buildings on the far left are the drying sheds and mixing sheds (steam powered). Identified people: John Prentice, owner (foreground); Herb...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1905
The Thompson family lived at "Willowbank" in Rongotea. Compare with 2014p_rng83_007675, an earlier photograph of the house.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Rongotea
Date: 1910