This image is believed to depict, from left: Rimu (Reme) Perkins, her son Graham Wynton Perkins, (b.1938), Berry family patriarch Edwin Daniel Berry, Mary Elizabeth Berry (nee Ridland), her husband Francis (Frank) Leslie Berry (brother of Reme, so...
Creator: Berry Family
Place: 469 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1950s
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.
Caption: “Miss Peggy Miers and Mr. Baron Ormrod photographed at a party to celebrate their engagement.”
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Date: September 1960
These images are part of the Frank Goldingham collection and were possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the second quarter of 1960. Selections may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives....
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Date: May 1960
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 12 May 1961 "The winners of the scavenger hunt at the Palmerston North Industries Fair yesterday looked pleased with their success. They are standing in the broadcasting...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Showgrounds, Palmerston North
Date: May 12, 1961
A portrait of the Dumbleton family. L-R: Eileen, Mrs M. Dumbleton, Mina, Mark Dumbleton, Olive, Marie (seated in front).
Creator: Winxenberg, Masterton
Place: Masterton
Date: 1900s
Eva Williams (Wildbore) with her children (L-R), Noel, Patricia, and Mervyn.
Creator: Charles E. Wildbore
Place: Pohangina
Date: circa 1930
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
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
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Unknown
Date: 1950s
This photograph shows the Caccia-Birch family at on the Woodhey.Standing left to right: Tom; Rachel, wife of Tom; Nancy, wife of Tony holding John their 2nd child; Hetty, wife of Gerald, holding Susan their first child; Gerald. Sitting left to rig...
Creator: Tony Caccia-Birch
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: 1933
The children are: Baby Edna, George, Ella, Queenie (in front), Ernie, Elvie, Logan and Jack (on father's knee). Refer Fitzherbert East Aokautere School and District 1889-1989, p 82.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
A portrait of the Davis family of Linton. Ian Matheson notes that the boy in photograph may have been an adopted son.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Linton , Palmerston North
Date: 1890 to 1930
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, Palmerston North
Date: 1900 to 1910
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
Petersen was a carrier and transported most of the timber for the early Scandinavian settlements around Manawatu. This photograph was taken by Charles Mariboe, a travelling photograph from the late 19th century.
Creator: Charles Mariboe
Place: Wairarapa Region
Date: circa 1894
From left: Julie, Noel, Tom, Sally, Phillip, Lesley, Robin, Thelma. Refer Fitzherbert East Aokautere School and District 1889-1989, p 87.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date: unknown
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
John and Sarah Parker had a dairy farm on Banks Line, Rongotea. They farmed it from 1920 until their deaths, and it continued to be farmed by two of their children, John Jnr and Hannah until 1989. Sarah and John (Snr) Parker are shown with two of ...
Creator: unknown
Place: Rongotea, Manawatū
Date: 1920s
William and Fanny Thompson with their children Hilda, Emily and Ethel. The Thompson family lived at "Willowbank" in Rongotea.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Rongotea
Date: circa 1900
William and Fanny Thompson with their children Emily, Hilda and Ethel. The other woman is un-named.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1890
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
Ann Maria Spry (nee Woolford) with her eldest daughter Alice and youngest daughter Edith in front of their house on Medway Street in Rongotea. Ann Maria was married to Thomas Spry - a blacksmith, who died 29 September 1901 at 45 years of age. Her ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Rongotea
Date: circa 1914
Family reunion outside No 73 (at that time No 50) Russell Street, possibly on New Year’s Day (also William and Jane Chapman’s wedding anniversary). Standing back row, from left to right: daughter Aggie Chapman, Richard Runciman (then manager of Ro...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 73 Russell Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1930
The photo of the Keeling family was taken in 1890. The people in this photo are thought to be:
L to R: Percival North (6/11/1875), Arthur Duguid (8/4/1874), Katherine Amy (22/11/1870), George William (17/5/1869), Robert Morgan (4/9/1877), Eleano...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1890
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 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
L-R: Reg Wildbore, Beverly Wildbore, Jack Sandbrook, Roy Williams, Ivan Lepper, Ruby Sandbrook, Norma Sandbrook, Evan Wildbore, Sylvia, Jean Sandbrook, Albert Whittaker, Jane Wildbore, Cecil Wildbore.
Creator: Charles E. Wildbore
Place: Pohangina
Date: 1931
Group photo of members of William Chapman’s family and his wife Jane’s relations. William Chapman (top left, with beard) owned the 71-acre farm that stood in the north-western corner of Palmerston North. His wife Jane (nee Bowden) is seat...
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1904
This unidentified family pose outside their home made from corrugated iron. Utuwai is situated in the Pohangina Valley. Early European settlement (from 1886) saw farmers buying land from the Pohangina Farm Homestead Association. An early gold rush...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Utuwai
Date: circa 1904