This image of Joyce Una Baker 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 hospi...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of Ruahine and Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1957

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

Creator:      Joyce Una Baker
Date:          1957

This image of Joyce Una Baker 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 hospi...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of Ruahine Street and Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1957

This image of a "baby trolley" 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 hosp...

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

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
Date:          1957 to 1958

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

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

This image of a group of people, including two nurses in unform, standing next to what appears to be a private ambulance is from a series of slides that shows life at Rostrata Maternity Home in the late 1950s. Situated on the corner of Ruahine and...

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

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
Place:          Corner of Ruahine and Ferguson Streets, Palmerston North
Date:          1957

This image of a group 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 hos...

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

This image of the exterior of Rostrata Maternity Home is from a series of slides that shows life at that private hospital 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 p...

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

This image of the exterior of Rostrata Maternity Home is from a series of slides that shows life at that private hospital 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 p...

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

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 is part of the Elmar Studios negative collection. Unfortunately, no accompanying information is held.

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Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          May 1, 1963

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

This image was taken for the December 17th, 1978, edition of the Tribune weekly newspaper, and was published with the caption: “He may be flat on his back in hospital recovering from an operation, but the Tribune's ‘Inky’ cartoonist, Jim McNicol, ...

Creator:      The Tribune
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 17, 1978

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