Argosy Studio (Argosy Industrial Photos) was a photography business owned and operated between 1950 and 1980 by Joe Greening (formerly employed by Elmar Studios). Originally located in Broadway, Argosy later moved to Cuba Street on the corner with...

Creator:      Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          March 14, 1967

Argosy Studio (Argos Industrial Photos) was a photography business owned and operated between 1950 and 1980 by Joe Greening (formerly employed by Elmar Studios). Originally located in Broadway, Argosy later moved to Cuba Street on the corner with ...

Creator:      Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1961

Argosy Studio (Argos Industrial Photos) was a photography business owned and operated between 1950 and 1980 by Joe Greening (formerly employed by Elmar Studios). Originally located in Broadway, Argosy later moved to Cuba Street on the corner with ...

Creator:      Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1961

Argosy Studio (Argos Industrial Photos) was a photography business owned and operated between 1950 and 1980 by Joe Greening (formerly employed by Elmar Studios). Originally located in Broadway, Argosy later moved to Cuba Street on the corner with ...

Creator:      Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1961

Argosy Studio (Argos Industrial Photos) was a photography business owned and operated between 1950 and 1980 by Joe Greening (formerly employed by Elmar Studios). Originally located in Broadway, Argosy later moved to Cuba Street on the corner with ...

Creator:      Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1961

Argosy Studio (Argos Industrial Photos) was a photography business owned and operated between 1950 and 1980 by Joe Greening (formerly employed by Elmar Studios). Originally located in Broadway, Argosy later moved to Cuba Street on the corner with ...

Creator:      Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1961

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. From 1885, property owners paid a special rate to support the poor in the community. Administering assistance for poor people from 1902 to 1930 was the job of the charitable a...

Creator:      Margaret Tennant
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          January 4, 2025

This image of nurses holding babies 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...

Creator:      Joyce Una Baker
Date:          1957

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

“Sgt. P. E. T. Pidgeon of the Palmerston North Police receives nursing sympathies while convalescing in hospital after being shot in the arm and...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          November 1960

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

“Sgt. P. E. T. Pidgeon of the Palmerston North Police receives nursing sympathies while convalescing in hospital after being shot in the arm and ...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          November 1960

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

Caption: “Mr. D. Sutherland Vice-President of the Air Force Association (Manawatu Branch) is seen presenting Mrs. T. W. Loveridge with an aquari...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          November 1960

Manawatu Photorama was published between 1959 and 1964 by Frank Goldingham. It featured social occasions, sports events and city events and perfomances photographed both by Mr. Goldingham and contributing photographers.

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          November 1960

This image was taken for a story that appeared in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 21 December 1994, published with the caption: "A bronze tablet to commemorate the first 100 years of the Palmerston North Hospital was unveiled last night. Hospit...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Date:          December 21, 1994

This image of nurses holding babies 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...

Creator:      Joyce Una Baker
Date:          1957

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 August 1961 "The Manawatu branch of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries inspected the cobalt bomb at the Palmerston North Hospital yesterday. Dr. D.W. Urquhart (fo...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmeston North
Date:          August 24, 1961

[Photograph of two nurses discussing things with a patient in the seating area of the ward.]

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Between Ruahine and Heretaunga Street, Palmerston North

This image of two women in fancy dress, including a Father Christmas outfit, 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...

Creator:      Joyce Una Baker
Place:          Corner of Ruahine and Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1957 to 1958

This image of a Christmas party 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 hos...

Creator:      Joyce Una Baker
Place:          Corner of Ruahine and Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1957 to 1958

This photograph shows officers from the New Zealand Medical Corps. It is thought to have been taken at Awapuni around the time of World War One. Awapuni Racecourse was the home of the NZ Medical Corp during the First World War years.

Creator:      Charles Allen
Place:          Racecourse Road, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1914 to circa 1919

This Bronze plaque which show a profile of James Nash in relief, was originally in a vestibule of Ward 14 next to the elevator.  The area was called The J. A. Nash Memorial Wing.  This plaque commemorates James A Nash's time on the Pa...

Creator:      Leanne Hickman
Place:          50 Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          August 17, 2019

This is the administration building at Palmerston North's hospital. It was built in 1936 along with other red-brick buildings on the complex. It is accessible via Heretaunga Street.

Creator:      Benjamin Foster
Place:          Palmerston North Hospital, Heretaunga Street
Date:          June 29, 2020

Aerial photograph of Palmerston North Hospital.

Creator:      Peter Legg
Place:          Roslyn, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1970 to circa 1989

Aerial photograph of Palmerston North Hospital.

Creator:      Peter Legg
Place:          Roslyn, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1970 to circa 1989

Aerial photograph of Palmerston North Hospital.

Creator:      Peter Legg
Place:          Roslyn, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1970 to circa 1989

Aerial photograph of Palmerston North Hospital.

Creator:      Peter Legg
Place:          Roslyn, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1970 to circa 1989

Aerial photograph of Palmerston North Hospital.

Creator:      Peter Legg
Place:          Roslyn, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1970 to circa 1989

Aerial photograph of Palmerston North Hospital.

Creator:      Peter Legg
Place:          Roslyn, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1970 to circa 1989

Aerial photograph of Palmerston North Hospital.

Creator:      Peter Legg
Place:          Roslyn, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1970 to circa 1989

Aerial photograph of Palmerston North Hospital.

Creator:      Peter Legg
Place:          Roslyn, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1970 to circa 1989

Aerial photograph of Palmerston North Hospital.

Creator:      Peter Legg
Place:          Roslyn, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1970 to circa 1989