Creator:      Public Health Unit, Manawatū Wanganui Area Health Board

Date:          circa 1993

This is the home of the Rockstrow family, located at 59 Cuba Street. Johann Friedrich Rockstroh (1834-1913) was a Prussian born in Erfurt, Germany. As a young man he migrated to New Zealand, where he practiced medicine in the goldfields of Otago a...

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1889

A photographic series prepared by the Prime Minister’s Department in 1947 to attract British migrants. The Evans family of 5 Mansford Place, Palmerston North were selected to show the living conditions of a typical New Zealand family. Jack Evans c...

Creator:      New Zealand Government
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1947

This photograph came from a small photograph album that belonged to Mrs R Andrews of Rangitikei House. This photograph bears the caption, "Nurse Parmer Northcote Private Hospital PN May 1928." The woman meant is perhaps Gertrude Palmer, a nurse wh...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Grey Street, Palmerston North
Date:          May 1928

Doctors and nurses working in the operating theatre. Palmerston North Hospital was opened in 1893. This is probably the new operating theatre, opened 1909. Louisa Brown (later became Mrs V F Person) is the nurse at far right.

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1919

Mr Rockstraw was a Prussian born in Effurt, Germany. As a young man he migrated to a older colony of New Zealand, where he practiced medicine in the goldfields of the West Coast. In 1873, Prime Minister Fox persuaded him to go north and serve as m...

Creator:      Bunting Studio
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1892

The Palmerston North Ambulance Division attending the opening of Milson Airport. The Ambulance Division was registered in Palmerston North 7 October 1931.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 5, 1931

Dr John McIntyre was one of Palmerston Norths pioneer medical men. John was educated at Jersey College. He graduated L.S.A. in 1876 and was admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) the following year. John was employed as a house surgeon a...

Creator:      Billens and Bunting
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1895

The young women in this photo are members of a Catholic organisation, a sodality called the Children of Mary, for girls aged 10 to 18, dedicated to good works in the name of the Virgin Mary. The sodality was instituted in Paris in 1835 by Saint Ca...

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Unknown
Date:          1940s