This postcard was send by someone named "Wessie". The back reads, "Wishing you a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year." It is possible the man on the postcard is the sender. The photograph was taken by A Rickard, Palmerston North. Newspaper ads for a p...

Creator:      A Rickard
Date:          1910 to 1915

Richard Slingsby Abraham (1851-1942) was a founder of the stock and station agency known as Abraham and Williams Limited. In 1876, when manager of the Bulls branch of the Bank of New Zealand, Mr Abraham acquired an interest in the firm of Stevens ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1910

This photograph shows Lieut. F D Opie, Capt. R H Whalley and Lieut. W R Kells in uniform. Francis (Frank) Dudley Opie was the first director at Palmerston North Technical College. He held the role from 1907-1924. He also served as a volunteer offi...

Date:          circa 1913

Frederick Christian was Librarian of the Palmerston North Public Library 1923-1933. His wife, Ethel, then became Librarian. The unidentified women are probably two of his eight children, and part of a larger family portrait.

According to his obi...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1920 to circa 1929

Studio portrait of a uniformed member of the Manawatu Mounted Rifles. The Manawatu Mounted Rifles were a cavalry unit, formed in 1891.

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1890 to circa 1899

The $40,000 Coleman Mall redevelopment was opened on 27 July 1973 by the Mayor of Palmerston North, Mr B.G.C. Elwood. The work was done by Palmerston North City Council workmen except for the asphalting of the parking and pedestrian areas. This vi...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Coleman Mall, Palmerston North
Date:          1973

Mrs Harvey was the first head teacher teacher in 1884. Mr G.Nye was headmaster in 1885. He was followed by D.H. Guthrie, C.H. von Blaremberg and T. F. Fairbrother in 1893.

The original Terrace End School building was situated in Main Street in 18...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1893 to 1922

The original Terrace End School was situated in Main Street but its exact locality and original use are not known. Mrs Harvey was the first teacher. In June 1884, the School was moved to Deard's Hall in Main Street and Mr A Matheson was headmaster...

Creator:      Ernest R Whalley
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1900

The son of John Coulson and Emma Isabella Fowler. Born 4 May 1881, Palmerston North.

Creator:      J E and H Cobb of Napier and Hastings
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          1887

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

The mill is thought to have been Miranui at Shannon, because the mill had a wooden floor on their yard. The Poplar mill in Moutoa also had a wooden yard. These bundles of flax have been trammed into the mill yard, where they were stored on end for...

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          circa 1910

Courting days of Mr and Mrs McQueen Murdoch (nee Rachel Port) riding side saddle across the Pohangina River from Awahou North to Pohangina. At this time James was a recent arrival from Scotland and Rachel was the eldest daughter of Richard Port. M...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Pohangina

Hare Rakena Te Awe Awe (Harry Larkins), Chief of the Rangitāne, was the brother of Te Peeti Te Awe Awe, who is remembered today with a statue in the Square Gardens, Palmerston North. In 1895, Hare Rakena Te Awe Awe petitioned the Government to be ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1880

William Penny, born 1863 at Penrose, Masterton, was a sheep farmer in the Wairarapa and Manawatu Districts. He was an acknowledged authority on sheep breeding and Lincoln and Romney sheep breeds, and was successful in the show ring. Penny was the...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1911

The CM Ross hockey team: Back row, from left: Miss J Glendhill, Miss W Boon, Miss W McFennan, Miss E Pickering, Miss E Skinner. Middle row: Mr Stebbing (dress material buyer), Miss F Browning, Miss B Crawford, Miss M Skinner, Mr J Whitehead (head ...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

When the Palmerston North Bowling Club formed in 1889 it rented a private Green in Lombard Street, at which this photograph must be taken. In 1901, land in Taonui Street was purchased, adjoining the Lombard Street Green, which was later purchased....

Creator:      J Beauchamp
Place:          Lombard Street, Palmerston North
Date:          October 16, 1895

Mr J. B. Stewart was the Manager of Union Bank of Australia on the corner of Coleman Mall and the Square in 1937.

Creator:      Lewis Studio Ltd
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1937

William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket was a former Governor of New Zealand (1906-1909). He was also a freemason and Grand Master of New Zealand's Grand Lodge. Inscription on front of the original photo reads "The Mayor and Council of Palmerston North...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910 to circa 1911

Reverend Jolly was a Minister of St Andrews Presbyterian Church. He was called to Ponsonby, Auckland in 1910 to take up a post at St Stephen's Church.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1901 to circa 1910

Family group of mother, father and two children. Photograph found at 464 Freguson Street, Palmerston North. Also see 2011P_Pg136_006123, with same small child and the father.

Creator:      J W Stevenson
Place:          464 Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1900

Palmerston North High School began in 1902 as a district high school. The first classes were held in the Old Sunday School hall of St Andrews, moving to a wooden building in Featherston Street a year later. This building was destroyed by fire in 1...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Ashley Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1902

Mr Louis Seifert was a member of the well-known flax-milling family of the Manawatu. He was associated with mills in Rangitikei and also at Rangitāne (Opiki), where he operated the two-stripper "River" mill and the one-stripper mill "Rangitāne" mi...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1907

Andrew Guy was a barrister and solicitor of Palmerston North. From left: Mary Alma Guy (Mrs M Harding, then Mrs J Macky); Elfrida Eileen Guy (Mrs S J Hanna of Auckland); Andrew Guy; Roland Wallace Guy (killed in World War One); Kenneth Graham Guy ...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1906

There were six All Black players from the Manawatu in the 1980 tour, the most to represent the province at one time. This photograph is of the group returning home after a tour of North America and Wales. From the left: Doug Rolleston, Gary Knight...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date:          1980

Albert Tingey (1863-1925) was the local manager of Messrs R & E Tingey, Painters and Decorators, Palmerston North. He served as a Borough councillor for Palmerston North 1893-1896, and was also Captain in the Fire Brigade for 25 years 1883–1908, i...

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1888

Mr John Vernon was Rector of Palmerston North High School (now Palmerston North Boys' High School) from 1902 until his death in 1918, during the great Influenza epidemic. In 1908, he founded the College House boarding establishment, which is still...

Creator:      H Billens and Co.
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

When the Palmerston North Bowling Club formed in 1889 it rented a private Green in Lombard Street. In 1901, land in Taonui Street was purchased, adjoining the Lombard Street Green, which was later purchased. Samuel Jickell, from whose album this p...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1907

Jens was the youngest son of Arthur Petersen, son of a Norwegian Prime Minister. Jens helped to found the Mauriceville Dairy Company in 1889. Sometime between 1910 – 1920 the family moved to Palmerston North, where Jen’s son George Conrad became...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1889

This photograph was taken at the marriage of William H. Collingwood and Amy. W. H. Collingwood came to New Zealand from Northern Ireland and settled with his parents in Wanganui. His sister Mary Collingwood married D. W. Low.Collingwood was the s...

Creator:      A Martin
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1890

Mr Carl Edward (Charles) Dahl was born in Denmark in 1856 and died in Palmerston North in 1929. He was a tent-maker and sail-maker by trade, but was the first storekeeper in Rongotea (then known as Campbelltown) in 1881. He commenced business in P...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1896