Places

Date: 1933 - 1935

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1930-1939]

By: Simpson and Williams Ltd; Southwell, Cynthia, active 1997

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1934-01

Description: Booklet advertising goods for sale from various Christchurch retail outlets: Provincial Hotel (for liquor supplies), H C Urlwin Ltd (electrical appliances), Ashby Bergh & Co Ltd (household, sporting and camping goods), Butlers (N.Z.) Ltd (Ekco radios), Penrose's Shoe Store, Minson's (tableware and household goods), Knowles (poultry and fish), Blackwell Motors (Chevrolet), Watkinson's Ltd (automobile electrical supplies) , Simpson & Williams Ltd (books and gifts), Alston's (bags and luggage), Stacey & Hawker ("S.X." bread), Smart & Son's Ltd (pavers, concrete and asphalt work), Meltzer Bros (tents), Waddell's (grocers), Canterbury Frozen Meat Co (butchers), Herb Laban Ltd (menswear). Other Titles - Christmas Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 20 pages, each 240 x 180 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs C Southwell, in 1997.

Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

Reference: PAColl-6338

Description: Postcards of King Street, Temuka; Invercargill Railway Station; the water tower and pumping station in Invercargill; Dee Street, Invercargill; Invercargill Hospital; the botanical gardens in Invercargill; Dunedin from Bell Hill, passengers on the Waikare just before the shipwreck; an elevated view of Clyde; the shelter on Stop Island built by the passengers of the Waikare after the shipwreck; Waratah and Mt Bischoff, Tasmania; Magnet Mine ore shed, Tasmania; fountain in Princes Square, Launceston, Tasmania; and a river near Latrobe, Tasmania. Photographer for some of the images was Muir & Moodie. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 1 b&w copy negative(s) of Dunedin from Bell Hill. 1 b&w original photographic print(s) postcard.

Date: ca 1870s

Reference: PAColl-4511

Description: Photographs of Queen Street, Auckland; sailing ships moored in Auckland harbour; Government House, Auckland; the Auckland Supreme Court; Lyttelton, with a church in the middle distance and commercial buildings in the foreground; Dunedin Hospital (built in 1864); view looking down Princes Street towards the Exchange Building (built as the Post Office but never used as such) with business premises on either side of the street and a sign for a dentist's on the right; the Exchange Building with a horse and cart to the left; and the town reservoir, Dunedin. Photographer unidentified but they have similar captions below the image. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-002193, 002206, 002207, 002215, 002367, 002368, 002370, 002379, and 002838 Quantity: 9 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: ca 1850s-1908

By: Ferrier, William, 1855-1922

Reference: PAColl-7526

Description: The Canterbury Farmers Co-operative Association building on Beach Road ca 1900; a procession for the Queen's jubilee on Stafford Street with men in uniform and a union banner; people on the beach at Caroline Bay with bathing machines in the sea captioned "The first lawn, Caroline Bay" ca 1890s; the band rotunda at Caroline Bay with a children's playpark behind and people swimming in the sea ca 1910; two of waves breaking over the breakwater ca 1898; the Timaru Shipping Co landing with the Lady of the Lake beached ca 1873; the interior of St Mary's Church looking towards the altar; Stafford Street, looking south from the corner of George Street with the Union Bank of Australia, a furnishing warehouse and J Trist ship chandler on the left; Sophia Street with the Wrecks memorial to those who tried to save lives on the City of Perth and the Benvenue in the foreground and the post office on the right ca 1880s; a man sitting on the beach on the site of the breakwater ca 1860s; Stafford Street looking south from Cannon Street with a boarding house on the right ca 1860s; and a row of workers' cottages on Bank Street with Parr's windmill behind. The photographer was William Ferrier and the photographs were taken ca 1890s-1908 or in some cases possibly re-printed from earlier images. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-005333, 005339 to 005340 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s). 10 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1920-1943]

By: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962; Deste, Eileen, 1909-1986; Hastings Public Library (N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-0365

Description: A collection of photographs including views of Nelson by F N Jones, buildings and earthquake damage in Wellington in 1943 and others from around the country including three hand-touched photographs of Napier and Hastings. The photographs of Wellington are captioned with the building the weather conditions when the photographs were taken and whether flash was used. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1920-1945]

Reference: PAColl-6962

Description: 15 images including: three of young men practising life saving skills in the sea with a rope on a winch; two of girl guides helping at a kindergarten; two of East Street, Ashburton showing the different businesses parked cars and trees opposite; a car broken down in the middle of a ford; flooding on the road to the Harihari Hotel, with cattle being driven along it; a timber camp of five tents in the bush; a house at Kennedy's Bush on Banks Peninsula ca 1920; decorated boats on the Avon River with crowds on the banks watching and Ward & Co factory in the background; Cashel Street ca 1920 busy with trafic and pedestrians; and the Free Lance offices on The Terrace, Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059480 to 059494 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s) film. 12 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1962 - 1964

Reference: Eph-A-ELECTRICITY-1963-01

Description: Lists radios, television, amateur radio, components, electrical goods. Includes valves, condensers, transistors, etc. Includes a photograph of the interior of the Christchurch shop. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 24 pages, 246 x 178 mm.

From: Bextaud, E J (Mrs), fl 1976 :Photographs of New Zealand

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PAColl-4253-1

Description: Mounted photographs of Maori Point above the Shotver River, a bridge over the Shotover River, the White Terraces, and Montreal Street, Christchurch looking south with a gunmakers and a sewing machine agency visible and the Avon River crossing the road in the middle distance. Photographer was F A Coxhead. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1903-1920]

By: Grant, F J, active 1980s; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-0362

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of New Zealand made by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Many of the images are of military inspections and displays by school children. There are also displays of Maori dancing and singing, the sailors of the HMS Renown, on which the prince had travelled , prior to their soccer match in Dunedin, the prince addressing the crowds etc. A number of the images are in two-part panoramas. Also included are four scenic photographs by the New Zealand Tourist Department which may have been taken in 1903. The photographer for the tour photographs was Guy. Other - Similar images at 1/2-032642, 045102 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1930s-1940s

Reference: PAColl-6610

Description: 9 views of Canterbury towns: Lincoln hotel, supply store and railway station; Hawarden Post and Telegraph Office; Waikari Post and Telegraph Office; street scene in Waikari; the promenade at Caroline Bay with a large hotel above it; the premises of the Dominion Compressed Yeast Company in Christchurch; and an unidentified town which is probably Timaru with boats moored in the harbour. Photographer unidentified. The image which is probably Timaru is identified in the negative accession register as Rotheram but this town is inland and near neither a lake nor a river therefore this is not likley to be correct. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-018080, 1/4-018082 to 018088, and 1/4-018170 Quantity: 9 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1870 - 1875

By: Stack, James West (Rev), 1835-1919; Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985

Reference: C-081-003/009

Description: Sketch drawings with colour notes, showing early Christchurch houses and churches, and the Provincial Council Chambers, St Michael and All Angels Church, a windmill, flax and cabbage trees along the river bank, a bridge, and the Port Hills in the distance. Artist may be Rev James West Stack (see similar style of image at A-210-016; Government Buildings Canterbury. [1860?]) One of the images C-081-007 has the name Thompson on the verso. One drawing shows three shops including Albion House [milliner] and Papp[rill, tailor]. These two are listed in Canterbury almanacs for 1860-early 1870s. Another drawing shows St Michael and All Angels, which was built in 1872. Quantity: 8 drawing(s) on seven sheets. Physical Description: Pencil drawings, sizes varying from 240 x 410 mm, to 265 x 660 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A85-097. - Other material from the same provenance is at MSS 85-097, PAColl-0931, NegColl-246, A-367-028/029, B-163-014/026, E-787 and E-788..

Date: ca 1920

By: Hewitt, George R, active 1920-1985

Reference: PAColl-0601

Description: Postcards collected by the depositor while working as an able seaman on HMS Renown during the tour by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Black and white postcards of Auckland, Christchurch, particularly the botanic gardens, Lyttelton, Picton, and Samoa and colour postcards of Wellington. Quantity: 43 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1907

From: [Ephemera and horticulture sales catalogues issued by New Zealand plant nurseries, 1900-1909].

By: Lyttelton Times Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Buxton-1907-01-081

Description: Shows interior of shop with three male customers, and three serving attendants at the counter at left. At the right are a selection of potted plants. Extended Title - From Buxton's descriptive catalogue 1907-08. Printed by the Lyttelton Times Company, Christchurch. The seed store was in town, but the nursery was in St Martin's Road, in Opawa. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) in sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on page 243 x 185 mm.

Date: 1953

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958- : Collection

By: Hays Ltd; J W Baty Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-ROYAL-1953-03

Description: A greeting card from Hays Department store in Christchurch. The front cover shows a coloured photograph of one of the floats in the Canterbury Centennial floral procession (1950?), with a crown and orb on a red cushion, the whole float composed of flowers. The back cover shows a calendar for July 1953-June 1954. From the Te Ara website: “Canterbury's centennial celebrations in the summer of 1950–51 featured two celebratory processions. The first was '100 years of progress', which was a historical pageant. The second was a floral procession reflecting Canterbury's pride in the fertility of its soil and Christchurch's identity as the garden city. This was the float of Hay's department store, which expressed the province's continued loyalty to the British monarch” Exhibited in ‘Humble: the life of 100 small objects’, exhibition curated by Barbara Lyon, in the Turnbull Gallery, National Library of New Zealand, 27 August - 17 November 2017. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on greeting card, folded to 102 x 142 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dylan Owen, Wellington, in 2006.

Date: 1859-1889

From: Dyson, Mrs, fl 1958 :Photographs, chiefly of scenic views in the South Island in New Zealand, and Victoria in Australia

By: Dougall, William, 1845-1924

Reference: PAColl-4346

Description: Loose pages from the Dyson Album PA1-q-069. Views of: the water tower in Invercargill, designed by William Sharp and photographed by W Dougall; Arrowtown; the waterfront of Queenstown showing the Victoria, McBeath's and Bracken's Queen's Arms Hotels and the Boatman's Home; view of public building possibly in Oamaru; the main street in Westport with Whyte & Pirie on the corner; a log cabin in the bush with two men standing outside it and a separate kennel for the dog; the general store in Waimate; a bridge in Canterbury; the Main North Road in Timaru showing a drapers, a jewellers, a medical dispensary and a photographer's studio; the government landing service in Timaru; and the construction of the Timaru breakwater. Taken between 1859 and 1889. Quantity: 4 album leaves with 11 b&w original prints.

Date: [ca 1900-1920]

By: Walker, George Allen, -1915; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945

Reference: PAColl-0524

Description: Collection comprises: Postcards of scenic attractions in the Rotorua and Waitomo area and others of Auckland and Christchurch including one of a young boy, F Shadbolt, on a pony and trap and a soldier in uniform named Howard Photographs of of an elderly woman called Mrs Stevenson and Miss O'Grady Photographs of soldiers at camp during World War I Photographs of children in hot pools, possibly at Whakarewarewa, and of the Blue and Green Lakes at Rotorua, taken by Blencowe Photograph of F O'Grady in a car belonging to Mr Pountney of Carr, Pountney & Co Photograph of a house in Waihi built 1900-1902 with a mother and two children standing outside Photograph of taxis outside a hotel in Onehunga, taken ca 1911 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). 30 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 2 b&w original photographic print(s) coloured by hand. Physical Description: Photographic prints Provenance: Donated by Charles O'Grady, Wellington, 1964

Date: 1938

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1930-1939]

By: Cash Order Purchases Ltd; S A MacDougall (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1938-01

Description: Booklet advertising the Christchurch retail stores where C.O.P. cheques could be used. This was a system of buying, using the cheques and having 20 weeks to pay of the loan. The stores included: Hay's, Downings, Fashion House Ltd, Drayton-Jones Ltd, Watsons Jewellers, Mason Struthers, James McGibbon, Glasson's Warehouse (men's clothing), Tisdalls Ltd, Turner & Le Brun Ltd, Herbert Shoe Co. Ltd., London Dental Institute, Alstons Handbags, Bell Cycle & Motor Co., Penrose's Shoe Stores, Stevens & SOns Ltd (radio and appliances), Joe Bierman, Plimsoll's, Wholesale Boot Company, Butler Cycles, Stewart Dawson & Co Ltd., Herb Laban Ltd, Kayser silk hosiery, Williams Bros (furniture), Beath's (advertising the "Sunbeam" electric [vacuum] cleaner), Hallensteins, Archbold's, Ashby Bergh & Co Ltd., Pattison Ede, Feltex, Lakes Shoe Store, Drewerys, Mundays Ltd, Monarch Shoes, Oxley Prams, Sutherland's, Pannell & Co Ltd, Petersens Limited, M Gould & Co., Phit-U Tailors, E R McDonald & Son (auctioneers), Tingeys Ltd, Lomak Furniture, Smith & Smith Ltd, Land's Bag Shop, Procter's Opticians, Farrier (tailor), the Farmers' (shows Thor washing machine) Date estimated from the advertisement for "Furs for 1938" on page [7] Two copies held. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 56 pages, 190 x 133 mm. Provenance: One copy purchased from Christchurch Book Auction, 29 August 2009, lot 118. Another copy donated by Carol Stigley in 2013, formerly owned by Eric Stigley.

Date: 1954

From: [Sales catalogues and ephemera of octavo size concerning photographic equipment, cameras, darkroom supplies]

By: Cameracraft Photographic Supplies

Reference: Eph-A-PHOTO-EQUIPMENT-1954-01

Description: Sales catalogue with advertisements by H E Perry Limited. There are photographic illustrations of the following brands of camera: "Gloriette", "Norca", "Paxina", "Kinax", Linhof, Vredeborch Box Camera, "Robot", photographic developing studio supplies of all kinds, films and papers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 40 pages, each 218 x 142 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2006

Date: 1957

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising of octavo size, for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1955-1959]

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1957-01

Description: An illustrated catalogue of magic tricks equipment, with prices. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 40 pages, 206 x 137 mm.