This postcard has the message, "Will you send me a box of violets for Miss Fraser for the party if it is not too much trouble. Meta". It was addressed to Mrs HY Lethbridge, Ruatuangata, Wangeahu, Wanganui and postmarkes 4 J1 1904. To the left of t...
Creator: Crown Studios
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1904
J Piercy purchaed a property from David Hughey on 3 December 1891, located about one mile from Ashhurst on the Pohangina Road. He subsequently sold the property to Richard James on 2 April 1896. Piercy lodged Patent application 3196 for 'Piercy's ...
Creator: W McGuire & Co., Sydney
Date: circa 1892
Alfred Richard Stace (died 1909), arrived in Aokautere about 1875. He married Emily Robert, daughter of C. W. and Annie Robert of Stoney Creek. Alfred purchaesd land at the end of what is now Staces Road, where he ran a dairy farm. Staces Road was...
Date: 1890s
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the second quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: The Gorge, Manawatū
Date: June 1960
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the second quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: The Gorge, Manawatū
Date: June 1960
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the second quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: The Gorge, Manawatū
Date: June 1960
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 backyard is thought to be the Shailer's Property at Makino, where the Shailer family farmed prior to George Shailer taking up photography.
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Makino, Feilding?
Date: circa 1890
Margaret Street is situated in Roslyn, off Main Street East. This part of the city was still very much a rural enclave in the 1920s.
Creator: R P Moore, Wellington
Place: Margaret Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920
Carow Ladies' College was constructed about 1891 by Mr & Mrs C A Von Blaramberg and served as the family residence and the Carow Ladies’ College (also known as the Carow Girls’ Collegiate School) until about 1902. It was situated in Carow Street, ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Carow Strret, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900
The Palmerston North Show Grounds are on a block of land in central Palmerston North, bounded on two sides by Cuba Street and Pascal Street. The first Agricultural and Pastoral Show in Palmerston North was held in 1886, at the showgrounds.
Creator: R P Moore, Wellington
Place: Showgrounds, Palmerston North
Date: June 22, 1923
This tree is to the left of the Fitzherbert entrance to the Victoria Esplanade. In 1980, the girth at ground level was 4.5 metres and its height was 10.6 meters. This tree was listed in the district scheme register of historic and notable trees.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Fizherbert Avenue, Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: 1980
This photograph looks south across the river to the Fitzherbert Terraces and shows some of the cows and horses owned by the Slack family at "Waitoitoi".
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1905
The Palmerston North Golf Club was formed in 1930 and originally sited as in this photograph, off the corner of Botanical and Park Roads. During World War Two the course was commandeered by the Army and the Club went into recess. The grounds were ...
Creator: A Taylor
Place: Corner of Botanical and Park Raod, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1930 to circa 1939
Front view of the 7-roomed house at 77, Kairanga Road, the most distant point from the Mangaone stream on the Chapman farm in the north-west corner of Palmerston North. The family moved here c1915 after vacating the house they had occupie...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Botanical Road, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1915
This photograph is of a sheep run in upper Pohangina Valley.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Pohangina Valley, Manawatu
Date: 1979
This building was opened in 1908 as the Feilding Technical School, and became a teaching facility for woodwork and cookery classes following the opening of Feilding Agricultural High School in the 1920s. Originally two storied, in 1931 the Napier ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 117 Fergusson Street, Feilding, Manawatu
Date: July 23, 1973
This photograph is of a sheep run in upper Pohangina Valley.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Pohangina Valley, Manawatu
Date: 1979
This photograph is of a sheep run in upper Pohangina Valley.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Pohangina, Manawatu
Date: 1979
The postcard is addressed to Mr Ernest Low, Holly Lodge Paiti, Wanganui and sent by SE Collingwood. The domed structure in the middle of the photograph is the original band rotunda that once sat in The Square. It was moved to the Victoria Esplanad...
Creator: G H Bennett and Co.
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
Looking up Te Awe Awe Street toward Victoria Avenue. During the great flood of 1902 small streams became raging torrents.
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: Te Awe Awe Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1902
This photo shows the timber groynes built by the Palmerston North Borough Council in an attempt to prevent riverbank erosion, c 1909-1910. The river moved south-westward at at this bend between the 1890s and the 1940s and serious erosion took place.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1909
Edward Collins came to New Zealand on a whaling ship in 1842 and became a farmer in the Hawkes Bay, near Waipawa. He sold his farm to the Johnston family and moved to Abbotsville – near Waipawa – and then to Newbury, on the outskirts of Palmerston...
Creator: Bunting Studio
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1860 to 1887
This postcard looks from Main Street East to Church Street. The building second from left is the United Farmers' Cooperative Association, which occupied the building from 1895-1908. Millar and Giorgi's building was opened in 1902. The second build...
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1907 to 1908
This image is from a series of postcards intended for tourists around the 1920s. Visible are Arthur Hopwoods, the Nonpareil Cycle Company, Audie Whitworth Cycles and Giorgi Hairdressers. The domed tower is Everbody's Theatre - it became the Midlan...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1920 to 1928
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
Panoramic view taken from close to the railway line in the centre of The Square, Palmerston North, with Main Street East on the left, the Church Street East corner at centre and Fitzherbert Street (now Avenue) on the right. The photograph was tak...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1895 to 1902
The east section of the gardens are in front, with the statue of Te Peeti Te Awe Awe behind (built in 1907). The Clarendon Hotel is on the back right on the photo (rebuilt in 1904)
Creator: Muir and Moodie
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1904 to 1907
From left: The Bank of New Zealand building was erected on the corner of Fitzherbert Avenue and The Square in 1878. It stood on part of Section 671. In 1902 the building was transported to a site in Church Street West. The building occupied by W D...
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1883
These men are all unidentified.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Unknown
Date: unknown