James McAllister

 James McAllister and family, outside, with musical instruments, 1912

  

 James McAllister and family, outside, with musical instruments, 1912

  

 Ladies nail hammering competition, Tututawa picnic, 1910

  

 Men loading horse-drawn carts with milk cans ready for 

transport to a factory in the Taranaki district, ca. 1900

  

Timber industry workers, Taranaki district, early 1900s

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Steffano Webb

 Kaiapoi Woolen Factory interior, 1909

  

 Maori girl with a typewriter, 1906

  

 Preston wedding, Christchurch, 24 February 1914

  

Public telephone box in Christchurch, August 1912

 

Raphael family and their house, Christchurch, 1908

Steffano Webb Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Women Pilots

From the National Library of Australia come these photos of women airplane pilots.

 Australian Women Pilots' Association Air Reliability Trial entrants 

Meg Cornwell (left) and Margaret Sincotts in the cockpit of an 

Auster J/4 Archer monoplane on the tarmac at an airfield, 1953

  

 Australian Women Pilots' Association Air 

Reliability Trial New South Wales entrants, 1953

  

 Australian Women Pilots' Association member Meg Cornwell 

(second from left) and three other women having a picnic on a field 

next to Auster J/5G Cirrus Autocar monoplane VH-ADY, 1954

  

 Australian Women Pilots' Association scholarship entrant Margaret Pines (left) is shown flight controls in the cockpit of an Auster J/4 Archer monoplane by pilot Jacqueline Smith at an airfield, New South Wales, November 1952

  

 Australian Women Pilots' Association scholarship entrants, Jean Lotter, Tessa Williams and Paula Stafford (from left) in front of Auster J/4 Archer monoplane VH-AAL at an airfield, New South Wales, November 1952

  

Freda Thompson sitting in the cockpit of a 

de Havilland DH.60G-III Moth Major, ca 1935

  

 Margaret Sincotts turns the propeller while Meg Cornwell sits in the cockpit

of Auster J/4 Archer monoplane VH-AET on the tarmac at an airfield

for Australian Women Pilots' Association Air Reliability Trial, 1953

  

 Nancy Bird and Jack Kingsford-Smith standing next to a de Havilland 

DH.60M Moth (VH-UOZ), Mascot [?], New South Wales, ca. 1933

  

 Portrait of Begum Haroom wearing flying cap in the cockpit of a biplane, ca. 1953

  

Portrait of two aviators, one male and one female, 

being welcomed by five unidentified men, Bathurst, 1932

Leo White

 Austin 7 car at petrol station with owner filling car, 

children and movie poster for Stella Maris, 1928

  

 Austin 7 car motoring on muddy road, Northland, 1927

  

 Barge transporting a car, Paihia, 1940

  

 Camping near the bush, Mercury Bay, Northland, 1940

  

Canoeing on the Waikato River, 1938

 

Whites Aviation Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Frederick James Halse

Another New Zealand photographer.

 Beach at an unidentified location, possibly Marlborough Sounds, ca. 1880s

  

 Group of men, women and children, 1904

  

 Miss Thode and party at Kohimarama mission station, February 1885

  

 Picnic on a bank, 1892

  

Yachting picnic at Lowry Bay, Eastbourne, 1891

 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Croquet

The game of croquet took the Anglophone world by storm in the late 19th century. Eventually eclipsed by tennis as a social sport, croquet remained hugely popular through the early 20th century.

 Croquet at camp, Rye, New Hampshire

  

 Croquet at Crystal Lake Park, June 25, 1936

  

 Croquet on the lawn

  

 Croquet, 1906

  

 Playing croquet in side yard, Fort Pelham Farm

  

 Playing croquet, Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, ca. 1900

  

Shirley Temple playing croquet, 1930s

William Archer Price

 Ngutunui Bridge, Te Rauamoa, 1900-10

  

 Paddle steamer Manuwai, and passengers, on the Whanganui River, 1 January 1907

  

 Parade of British sailors marching down lower 

Queen Street, Auckland during Fleet Week, ca. 1920

  

 Railway locomotive with logs, on a bridge 

over the Arnold River, at Kokiri, 1900-30

  

Steam log hauler, kauri forest, main trunk line, North Island, early 1900s

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand