This ANZAC Day quilt was created by staff and customers of the Palmerston North City Library in 2017. Each year it is hung in the library around the ANZAC Day time period.
Creator: Alexander Robertson for PNCC
Place: 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 2019
Interior view of staff at work, with women on sewing machines. In 1902 Frederick Johansen was listed as a bootmaker in Palmerston North, possibly at 48 Bourke Street. he later moved to Main Street.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1904
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1967
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1966
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 31 July 1958, page 17: "An attractive finale to the sewing ballet was executed by these dancers when they held aloft the letters to form the words mannequin parade. Thes...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Linton Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 31, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 13 September 1960 "This industrious group of women has been meeting over the past months and has made a wide variety of garments and novelties for the forthcoming Eventi...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1960-09-13T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 September 1960 "Yesterday afternoon the Happiness Club held its annual bazaar in aid of the club funds. Above is a group of the many stallholders. They are Mrs. Aubre...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1960-09-21T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 02 September 1960 "Stalls at the Labour Party's bazaar held in the Astoria Ballroom this morning were kept busy with a steady stream of customers. A variety of goods wer...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: George Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1960-09-02T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 1 October, 1959. "These seven pupils of the College Street School acted as mannequins at a special children's parade yesterday in the school hall, modelling to full adva...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: 402 College Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1959-09-01T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 22 December 1958: "Garners Department Stores Ltd., staged a fashion parade for children on Friday. The clothes were made by the children's mothers. Here is the age group...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Between Main Street and Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: December 22, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 02 December 1960 "The results of the year's work by the sewing classes of Form I and II pupils of the Palmerston North Intermediate Normal School were presented to a lar...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Linton Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1960-12-02T00:00:00+00:00
This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on unknown date. Unidentified seamstresses at unidentified workplace.
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1959-12-07T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 2 September, 1959."No task is too difficult for the small energetic band of workers of the Eventide sewing bee that have met weekly at the home of Mrs O. Walker, Feather...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1959-09-02T00:00:00+00:00
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 photograph shows the interior of Jacquard Hosiery Mills Limited, including a shot of two men working on the knitting machines. Published in the Manawatu Standard 12 February 1968. In the 1967 Palmerston North phone book the factory is listed ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 601 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: February 1968
This photograph shows the interior of Jacquard Hosiery Mills Limited, including a close up shot of the sewing and knitting machines. Published in the Manawatu Evening Standard 12 February 1968 In the 1967 Palmerston North phone book the factory is...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 601 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: February 1968
This photograph shows the interior of Jacquard Hosiery Mills Limited, including the knitting machinery. The Jacquard Hosiery Mills Ltd, were knitters of underwear and outerwear, that went under the brand name 'Jacquard. The mill was situated at 60...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 601 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: February 1968
This photograph shows the interior of Jacquard Hosiery Mills Limited, including machinists sitting sewing machines. The Jacquard Hosiery Mills Ltd, were knitters of underwear and outerwear, that went under the brand name 'Jacquard. The mill was si...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 601 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: February 1968
This photograph shows the interior of Jacquard Hosiery Mills Limited, including the seamstresses working at sewing machines. The Jacquard Hosiery Mills Ltd, were knitters of underwear and outerwear, that went under the brand name 'Jacquard. The mi...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 601 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: February 1968
This photograph shows the interior of Jacquard Hosiery Mills Limited, including a shot of a workman standing next to machinery. Published in the Manawatu Evening Standard 12 February 1968.In the 1967 Palmerston North phone book the factory is list...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 601 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: February 1968
E. Edmund Smith is listed as a tailor in Foxton, in the 1902 Wises Didrectory.
Creator: R.O. Hornblow, Foxton
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1905 to circa 1906
Percy Robêrt with workers inside the regalia workshop on Main Street. Percy took over the family business following the death of his father, Charles Robêrt.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1914
The staff of Rex Tailoring, Fielding, pose for a photograph on what appears to be an upper story partially enclosed balcony.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Feilding, Manawatu
Date: 1947
Rex Tailoring Co. Ltd head office was in Wellington at 86 Riddiford Street. The women were probably machinists.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Feilding, Manawatu
Date: 1947
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: November 1969
A brief illustrated history of Robért Embroideries, a long standing business in Palmerston North. Archives of the business are held at the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 2007