This postcard comes from the Mackrell Archive. They came to be in possession of the Mackrell family by way of Huia Mackrell's wife, Doris Cammock (later Mrs Mackrell, of Woodville). They were sent by Doris' brother Frank while he was serving in th...

Creator:      Frank Cammock
Date:          April 13, 1917

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.

Caption: “Children and their parents in the church at the demonstration evening at the conclusion of the hobbies school.”

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          September 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s September 1960 edition but was not published.

Arranging the display of items produced by children at the 7th Day Adventist Hobbies School.

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          September 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.

Caption: “A young lady in search of hobbies.”

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          September 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s September 1960 edition but was not published.

Some of the baskets, model airplanes, and trinket boxes produced by children at the 7th Day Adventist Hobbies School.

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          September 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.

Caption: “Some of the 200 boys and girls who enjoyed themselves at the 7th Day Adventist Hobbies School.”

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          September 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.

Caption: “Mr. Bellworthy keeps an eye on the boys in the woodwork section of the 7th Day Adventist Vacation Bible School.”

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          September 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.

Caption: “Mesdammes M. Strawbridge, E. Fairclough, and A. Baker with their class of basket makers.”

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          September 1960

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          September 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.

Caption: “A group displaying their glass paintings. The teachers are” Miss F. Benson and Miss. A. Brooker.”

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          September 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.

Caption: “Mesdames L. Dew and L. Yoeman making plaster casts with their class.”

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          September 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.

Caption: “Mrs. A. Lindsay instructing her class on trinket box making.”

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          September 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.

Caption: “Boys hard at work making fret-saw models.”

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          September 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.

Caption: “Mrs. I. Mayhew and Mrs. F. Seminjuk who taught their pupils picture framing.”

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          September 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.

Caption: “Mesdammes E. Simenauer, R. Kent, and A. J. Abbis demonstrate the making of trinket boxes.”

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          September 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s September 1960 edition but was not published.

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          September 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.

Caption: “A group of the teacher’s children playing with blocks and toys.”

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          September 1960

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Author Beth Mooney retains her grandmother's scrapbooks and creates new scrapbooks about the history of the Gledhill family, who have farmed in the Manawatū district fo...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          November 23, 2019

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 26 June 1958, page 4: "Palmerston North is one of the main centres in the upholstery trade, having over 20 firms operating and supplying furniture all over the North isl...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 26, 1958

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on Monday 29th June 1981.

Telethon 1981 was for the International Year of Disabled Persons. Telethon was a 24-hour live television spectacular designed to ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Rainbow Stadium, Pascal Street, Palmerston North
Date:          June 27, 1981

Mayor Grant Smith asked that the traditional ANZAC Day poppy wreath be a community created object in 2016. Hundreds of knitted, felted and crocheted poppies were donated to the project and hand-stitched on to the wreath.

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          April 2016

This image of nurses is from a series of slides that shows life at Rostrata Maternity Home in the late 1950s. Situated on the corner of Ruahine and Ferguson Streets, Rostrata was owned by E B Watson who ran it as a private maternity hospital for m...

Creator:      Joyce Una Baker
Date:          1957

This photograph shows the handiwork of students under Mr Stephenson. Some of the items pictured are ladders, a cabinet and sets of shelves. The photographer, Charles Wildbore, was a well known local, amateur photographer during the early years of ...

Creator:      Charles E Wildbore
Place:          Pohangina, Manawatu
Date:          1910

Susan Herbert Knight (nee Nicholson) was born in Waipukarau in 1865. She married Robert Dawson Knight and moved to the Manawatu in 1903. They farmed at Longburn before, as a widow, she moved to live in Grey Street, Palmerston North in 1947. She di...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1950

Karl Anthony at the Awapuni racecourse attending the Rangitāne area cub day. About 1400 cub scouts and leaders attended this cub day to commemorate the birth of Lord Baden-Powell and 75 years of scouting.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Racecourse Road, Awapuni, Palmerston North

This mounted print shows the results of the 1915 Wood Work class at the Palmerston North Technical School. It was taught by Mr Stephenson. This item is not held by the Ian Matheson City Archives. Situated on the corner of King and Duke Street, the...

Creator:      Crown Studios
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1915

Mrs G Hallam in the kitchen/dining room of their home, about to start on a piece of embroidery. See "From Bush to Swamp: The Centenary of Shannon, 1887-1987." See also, Pi 602, 633, 635, 636, 638 and 639.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Shannon, Manawatu
Date:          circa 1930 to circa 1939

An unidentified woman is seated in a rocking chair on a porch and knitting socks. She is wearing makeup to make her appear as an elderly woman. This was part of a set of glass negatives found with no information - see 2010G_Unknown_3559 - 3566.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Unknown
Date:          circa 1920 to circa 1929

Mrs Joan Paton demonstrates the use of a Swedish spinning wheel.

Creator:      John Cleland
Date:          October 5, 1970

This photograph shows young women sewing, who are probably students at Palmerston North Technical College. The image comes from the school archive of Queen Elizabeth College. The date of the image is unknown.

Date:          1910s