Vintage New Zealand

Children in the children's ward of Wellington Hospital, ca 1928

  

Deer hunters in a dinghy, ca 1920s

 

Group of people watching the eruption of Mount Ngauruhoe, Waikato, 1926

 

Primary school classroom and pupils, ca. 1920s

 

Women strawberry pickers, Lower Motueka, early 1920s

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Charles Yates Fell

A group of members of the Fell and Atkinson families in 

fancy dress outside at Totaranui, January 1890

  

Photographer, camera and a group of women in a rock-walled 

stream valley overhung by native trees, Falls River, 1890

 

Picnic at McKay Bluff, Nelson, 1892

 

Richmond Fell in bed with a broken leg, June 1890

 

Walter Fell and daughters, with Mary Richmond, Wellington, ca 1890

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Adam MacLay

Family group outdoors, showing a man, woman and nine children, 1905-26

  

Group of four women and a man wearing hats, 

in an unidentified outdoor location, 1905-26

 

Outdoor wedding group portrait with bride and groom, 1905-26

 

Studio portrait of unidentified couple and a baby, 1905-26

 

Unidentified small boy playing a bugle in a garden, 1905-26

 

Source: Adam MacLay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Vintage New Zealand

Cross-country runners run along the beach at Lyall Bay, August 1950

  

Debutantes at a ball at Government House, 21 June 1951

 

Dominion lifesaving championships, Lyall Bay, Wellington, 1950

 

Off-course betting shop in Feilding, 5 April 1951

 

Train at Opua railway station, January 1952

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Sydney Charles Smith

A scene during the seamen's strike of 1922. Two policemen stand in 

the foreground and are separated from a crowd of men by four containers

 

Crowd alongside the Southern Cross aeroplane 

at Wellington Airport, Rongotai, 1933

 

Crowd at a Mahanga Bay military camp 

open day, Miramar, Wellington, 1907

 

Diving platform at Island Bay, 1926

 

Te Aro Baths, Oriental Bay, Wellington, 

during the Wellington Carnival in 1908

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Adam MacLay

Family group, showing unidentified men and women 

in a garden, possibly Christchurch district

 

Six people sitting at a table having a cup of tea, cakes 

and sandwiches in front of the tent, ca. 1902-03

 

Studio portrait of a small girl on a rocking horse, 1905-26

 

Studio portrait of a young woman in an high lace neck 

collar pleated white dress, Christchurch, 1905-26

 

Wedding portrait in front of toitoi bush and wooden house beyond, 1905-26

 

Adam MacLay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew

These are arranged chronologically.

Three young women, probably of the Riley family, 

dressed in lace and hats, 22 April 1908

    

Victoria University College women's hockey team, Wellington, 1911

 

Portrait of Violet and Margaret A'Deane, 1913-20

 

Titahi Bay beach, late 1930s

 

Three unidentified women tram conductors in uniform with 

leather ticket pouches, probably taken during World War II

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Vintage New Zealand

British Isles versus Wairarapa-Bush rugby game, 20 June 1950

 

Egg standing party, 22 February 1951

  

Four couples practising the quadrille for the Plunket Ball, 17 July 1951

 

General view of Lake Ida, showing skaters on the 

ice and mountains in the background, 1949

 

Group of young women and Model T Ford car, 1950

 

View, from a distance, of the Ballantyne's department 

store fire, Christchurch, 18 November 1947

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Leo White

 Unidentified Maori women wearing traditional dress, Rotorua, 1936

  

 Unidentified members of the [Royal New Zealand?] Air Force, standing in formation 

in front of Vickers Vincent aircraft, an an unidentified aerodrome, 1940

  

WAAF, RNZAF, Hobsonville, January 1942

 

Woman bathing a baby beside a tent while camping, 1940

 

Whites Aviation Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Misc New Zealand

Caravans at Eastern Beach, Manukau City, 

Auckland, New Zealand, ca 1938

  

Cart on road submerged by flood waters, ca. 1930

  

 Ngati Poneke concert party on the promenade 

deck of the Wanganella, 1935-1939

  

People on the beach, Oriental Bay, Wellington, 1939

  

Two unidentified women on a swing, and 

a man unloading stores, Milford Sound, 1930s

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand