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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Frances Benjamin Johnson
6th Division mathematics class on a street paving problem, ca. 1899 A class at the zoo - the bird cage, ca. 1899 A class in dressmaking, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, 1899 Art class...
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Tennis
Some vintage photos of tennis. Early 1900s tennis fashion French tennis player Suzanne Lenglen competing at Wimbledon, 1926 Ginger Rogers and Jinx Falkenburg at a celebrities tournament at the...
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Louis John Daroux
Mr. Daroux was another New Zealand photographer. Coaching, probably South Island, ca. 1900s Flooding at Wanganui, showing Taupo Quay, 1904 Flooding at Wanganui, showing Victoria Avenue, 1904...
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Edgar Richard Williams
Deserted hut, Waitati Bush, Dunedin, 1896 or 1901 Edgar Williams with a cockatoo, November 1896 Lydia Myrtle Williams, and members of the Mountfort family, at afternoon tea, 1880s Lydia...
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Fiji
These photos of Fiji were taken by New Zealand photographer William Hall Raine. Barges transporting sugar cane, Rewa River, Nausori, Fiji, ca 1930s Cattle walking along a road in Fiji, ca. 1930s...
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Detroit Publishing
Band concert at Barber Park, Bellows Falls, Vermont, 1900-10 Club house, Kennebunkport, Maine, 1890-1901 Excursion logging train, Harbor Springs, Michigan, ca. 1906 Pond and arch bridge,...
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Frank Denton
Hotel Braeburn, Wanganui, 1920s Manganuiateao River, Ruapehu district, ca. 1920s Mayor of Wanganui, Mr Hope Gibbons, placing soil from the battlefields of Belgium in the Maori Memorial, 25 April...
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G. G. Bain
13 theatre players named on negative Curling, Van Cortlandt Park, New York May Day in Central Park, New York, 1908 May Day Parade, NY, 1910 Small twin girls in front of 1911 Buick roadster
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Samuel Heath Head
Dancers, probably from the Cook Islands, performing as part of the Christchurch Exhibition, 1906 Group of unidentified Maori girls laughing, ca. 1910s Holiday celebration, Avon River,...
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Henry Norford Whitehead
A family outside their house in the Hawke's Bay Region, 1930s A group of unidentified men having a tea break, with a caravan cart, machinery and a pile of hay in the background, Pakowhai, Hastings,...
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Jack Delano
Rainy day on the main street of Roxboro, North Carolina, May 1940 Spectators at soapbox auto race during July 4th celebration at Salisbury, Maryland, 1940 The "gossip corner" in Stem, North...
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Misc New Zealand
Children planting trees at Toko School, Taranaki, 1900 Farm labourers working a threshing machine, ca. 1900 Group of people at a picnic, Samoa, December 1894 (Wm Krause's picnic) Houses on...
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Marion Post Wolcott
Fourth of July celebration, St. Helena Island, South Carolina, 1939 Fourth of July celebration, St. Helena Island, South Carolina, 1939 Relatives and friends of the family of the deceased going...
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Sydney Charles Smith
Crowd at New Brighton beach, Christchurch, ca 1910 Crowd at Worser Bay, Wellington, 1909, for the Miramar Carnival Employees of J J Bourke and flax fibre, Miramar, Wellington, March 1909...
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