Showing posts with label Frederick Nelson Jones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frederick Nelson Jones. Show all posts

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Frederick Nelson Jones

 Group alongside a Newman's service car, Murchison, ca. 1929
  
 Group at a diving pool, ca. 1910
  
 Spring-board jumping, ca. 1910s
  
 Two rows of Newman's buses and service cars filled with passengers, Murchison, 1927
  
Typesetting workshop with linotype machines, 1926

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Friday, March 6, 2015

Frederick Nelson Jones

 A view of Buller Gorge showing three men and a woman, 1930s
  
 Demonstration of hypnotism, ca. 1914
  
 Duke and Duchess of York in Wellington during the 1927 royal tour
  
 Selling tickets by auction for a concert in aid of the War Fund, Nelson, 13 August 1914
    
Tasman Street School, Nelson, ca. 1910. Children play in the grounds
 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Frederick Nelson Jones

 A Ford motor car, ca. 1916
  
 Crowd walking along Nelson wharf during farewell to 
25th New Zealand Regiment, World War I, 9 January 1917
  
 Hospital supplies being packed and sent to Egypt and 
England from the Nelson Red Cross depot, ca. 1915
  
 Regatta (?) at a Nelson wharf, ca. 1910
  
Road damaged by earthquake and flood, Tahuna Hillside, Nelson, 1929
  
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Monday, September 29, 2014

Frederick Nelson Jones

 Construction of a power house at Nelson, ca. 1922
  
 Group of men pose with new 1915 model cars parked outside 
the premises of the Commercial Garage on Hardy Street, Nelson
  
 Hockey tournament at Nelson, Taranaki v. Wanganui, 1910
  
 Men, women and children gathered for a picnic at the racecourse in Nelson, ca. 1910s
  
 The ferry Duchess, alongside the H.M.S. New Zealand, Nelson, June 1913
  
 The house 'Fairfield', in Nelson, 12 March 1913, during a 
New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union garden party
  
 Tilling a paddock, ca. 1920s
  
 Waikoropupu Springs, Takaka, ca. 1910
[apparently also known as "Bubu Springs"]
  
Young women playing netball and a group of spectators at the sideline, ca. 1925

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Friday, September 12, 2014

Frederick Nelson Jones

 Children's gala day, Nelson, ca. 1928
  
 Sacks of hops being piled on to a horse drawn cart, Nelson, ca. 1915-20
  
 Scene at a ford, with a man pushing an Oldsmobile motorcar, ca. 1905
  
 Scene by the Workers' Co-op General Store, Tahunanui, Nelson, ca. 1930
  
 Scene in Nelson, with a horse and carriage, ca. 1912
  
 School cadets before Nelson College, ca. 1910s
  
 Sheep on a Nelson wharf, alongside the ship Rotomohana, ca. 1910
  
 South Island representative women's hockey team, 1924
  
 Star motorcar taxi with driver and passengers, ca. 1912
  
Street scene in the town of Murchison, Tasman region, 1929

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Frederick Nelson Jones

 A police cycle patrol in Christchurch, which was raised to thwart a horse fiend, 1896
  
 Brewery worker and a vat of beer being worked, ca. 1910
[I like the "after" picture better :)]
  
 Bride about to enter a horse drawn carriage, ca. 1910
  
 Dr Oxnam and others, feeding stray dogs after the 1929 Murchison earthquake
  
 Haven Street, alongside Nelson Harbour, showing a group returning 
after farewelling World War 1 soldiers, 24 August, 1915
  
 Maori group standing alongside a carved figure of the Maori chief Tu-Kai-Taua. Each person holds a carved wooden Maori weapon, ca. 1915
  
 Mechanical engineering workshop and students, ca. 1925
  
 Men repairing a washed out bridge, ca. 1928
  
 Row of motorcars, with passengers, during an outing for 
returned World War 1 soldiers, Nelson, 23 January 1916
  
Row of unidentified young female (music hall dancers?) 
in costume, standing barefoot in a dance pose, 1904-33

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Monday, July 21, 2014

Frederick Nelson Jones

 At Onekaka Creek, ca. 1910
  
 De Havilland DH9 biplane, 1921
  
 Grocery shop interior, ca. 1910
  
 Men standing in flood waters near a partially submerged car, ca. 1930
  
 Motorcycle racing in front of a crowd at a beach in Nelson, ca. 1925
  
 Nelson wharf scene, ca. 1920s
  
 Newman Brothers passenger vehicle, with postal bags attached, Nelson, ca. 1920s
  
 Pilot Thomas Newman, and others, alongside the first 
aircraft to land at Nelson, 11 November 1921
  
 Pupils sitting outside the Bishops's School, Nelson, ca. 1915
  
Retailers barrow parade, Hardy Street, Nelson, 4 August 1917. A barrow is 
decorated with American flags, marking the entry of the USA into World War I.

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand