Aitken, John Guthrie Wood, 1849-1921

Date: 1920

By: Muir and MacKinlay (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-D-0822

Description: Group photograph of members of the Legislative Council taken on the steps of the General Assembly Library in 1920 by Muir & MacKinlay All names indexed in Name Field Inscriptions: Mount recto - above image - Title; Mount recto - beneath image - Names Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 370 x 490 mm with mount 560 x 675 mm

Date: 1908 - 1947

By: St. John's in the City (Church : Wellington, N.Z.); Andrew, Earle William, 1909-1986; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Jauncey, Philip Henry, 1902-1982; Pattillo, Cecil Wright, 1875-1968; Thomson, James, active 1928-1929

Reference: PA-Group-00499

Description: Photographs of church leaders; Young Men's Bible Class, particularly camps attended by them in the 1930s and 1940s; the harrier team in 1932; soccer team in 1908; Douglas and Dulcie Ward on their wedding day at the doors of the church with choir members; senior girls' camp in 1931; J G W Aitken with boys from the Boys Institute; a studio portrait of the wife of an undertaker who lived near the cemetery ca 1920s (from notes with photograph); a bed with the caption "the John Boal cot" and others. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 97 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 album(s) Album(s). Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-0268 (82-230) : St John's Church : Records. Processing information: Originally arranged and described in 1994. Reference number changed from PAColl-2823 to PA-Group-0499 in 2009. Prints originally housed at framed prints 65, 223, 228, 229, 231-234, 238, 242, 243, 249

Date: 1900 - 1939

Reference: Eph-A-LOCAL-Wellington-1900/1939

Description: Includes cards and fliers for the following candidates: 1906: Harold Beachamp 1908: A R Atkinson 1909: F M B Fisher (photograph); Robert Fletcher; James Dykes (photograph); Albert H Casey (photograph); John Guthrie Wood Aitken; F Townsend; Thomas Mason Wilford; John Aston (photograph); F G Bolton (photograph). 1910: E W G Coleridge 1911: W Scott Bedford; Hubert L Nathan 1912: Ed Tregear 1923?: H A Huggins (controller of P O Savings Bank) Also includes a programme for the Wellington Harbour Board Jubilee Harbour Excursion, 28 January 1930; an invitiation from Mayor Mr G A Troup to attend the farewell to the Prime Minister Hon G W Forbes on the eve of his departure to England to attend the Imperial Conference in 1930; a programme for the Wellington Historical Pageant and Bazaar, Newtown Park and Town Hall. 25 October - 1 November 1913; a souvenir programme for the Historical Pageant representing important historical events, Petone 7 May 1920 (2 copies). Quantity: 20 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on fliers and cards. Physical Description: Letterpress on fliers and cards, sizes varying below 200 mm.

Date: 1902

From: St John's Church (Willis Street, Wellington) :Photographs of church personalities and activities

By: St. John's in the City (Church : Wellington, N.Z.); Fisher, Mr, active 1902

Reference: PAColl-D-0137

Description: Group photograph of members of the St John's Association Football Club, winners of the Senior Championship in 1902. taken by Fisher of Manners Street, Wellington. All names indexed in Name Field. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - above image - Title; Backing board recto - beneath image - Names of those in photograph Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 265 x 350 mm mounted on card

Date: [1900-1937]

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-6904-13

Description: Deeds, leases, transfers, life insurance policy and other legal documents including a grant of a right to connect with Railway waterservice at Waikanae between Field and His Majesty the King (1924) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Includwes map of Seddon and Utauta streets, Waikanae

Date: 1903

From: St John's Church (Willis Street, Wellington) :Photographs of church personalities and activities

By: St. John's in the City (Church : Wellington, N.Z.); Isaacs, Jacob Nathan, 1877-1962

Reference: PAColl-D-0142

Description: Group photograph of members of the St John's Association Football Club, winners of the Senior League Championship and Charity Cup in 1903. Taken by J N Isaacs, Victoria Studio, Manners Street, Wellington. All names indexed in Name Field. Identical image to PAColl-D-0139 Inscriptions: Backing board recto - above image - Title; Backing board recto - beneath image - Names of those in photograph Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 265 x 348 mm mounted on card

Date: 1917

By: Empire Service League

Reference: Eph-B-ASSOCIATION-ESL-1917-01

Description: Flyer shows the names of the officers of the League: Hon J G W Aitken (president), Captain de R Barclay (hon secretary), James Macintosh (hon treasurer), Percival Witherby, Napier (hon general secretary of the Dominion). The text outlines the aims of the League, to unite in defence of the Empire, support efforts to improve the moral and material conditions of life in the Dominion, improve relations between employers and their workers, discourage waste and extravagance, and support those risking their lives at the Front during the war. The lower edge of the Library's copy is perforated, indicating that an application form has been torn off. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on flyer 322 x 170 mm.

Date: [between 1900-1904]

From: Tait, Ethna Bessie J, fl 1960 :Photographs of early Wellington

By: Herrmann, Louisa Marian, 1864-1955

Reference: PAColl-D-0021

Description: Group photograph of the mayor, J G W Aitken, and councillors taken in chambers during a meeting of the Council, by Louisa M Herrmann ca early 1900s Inscriptions: Backing board verso - centre - Wellington City Council 1900s? Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 29 x 37 cm on card

Date: 1899

Reference: PAColl-D-0678

Description: All names indexed in Name Field except one where name had fallen off Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Names Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Various sizes on board 995 x 675 mm

Date: 1903

From: St John's Church (Willis Street, Wellington) :Photographs of church personalities and activities

By: St. John's in the City (Church : Wellington, N.Z.); Isaacs, Jacob Nathan, 1877-1962

Reference: PAColl-D-0139

Description: Group photograph of members of the St John's Association Football Club, winners of the Senior League Championship and Charity Cup in 1903. Taken by J N Isaacs, Victoria Studio, Manners Street, Wellington. All names indexed in Name Field. Identical image at PAColl-D-0142 Inscriptions: Backing board recto - above image - Title; Backing board recto - beneath image - Names of those in photograph Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 265 x 348 mm mounted on card

Date: 1906

From: [Ephemera up to quarto size, relating to business enterprises, firms and companies]

Reference: Eph-B-COMPANY-1906-01

Description: The report to shareholders was published in London on 15 November 1906, signed by the secretary William S Hogg. The front page shows the names of the British directors, and gives the names of New Zealand local board members Nicholas Reid, J G W Aitken, and William Fraser. The New Zealand manager M Macpherson is also listed as are other personnel in Australia and Britain. The New Zealand Land Association was incorporated as the Waikato Land Association in 1879. In 1893 it was "the company at present carrying on the business of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, pending reconstruction". Another copy of this report may be house with other papers at: 76-291-66 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on sheet folded to 260 x 205 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2014.

Date: 1970-1979

From: [New Zealand ephemera of quarto size, relating to narcotics, drugs, drug abuse, party pills, substance abuse]

Reference: Eph-B-NARCOTICS-1907-01

Description: Article printed on single sheet reports on the meeting of the Anti-Opium Association on 12 December [1907?]. Speakers included Captain H S Blackburne, Mr Aitken, Rev D C Bates, Mr Justice Button, Rev J J North. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on sheet 330 x 163 mm.

Date: June 1900

By: Worsley, Charles Nathaniel, 1862-1923

Reference: PA1-o-243

Description: Album of photographs of an illuminated address presented to the Duke of Cornwall by the Mayor and councillors of Wellington, on his visit to New Zealand in June 1900. Photographs include views of an ornately carved wooden cover; the front cover decorated with a pattern of oak leaves and acorns; the back cover with the City of Wellington coat of arms, motto `Suprema a situ'. As well as the illuminated address, the album includes eight photographic reproductions of paintings by C N Worsley, all relating to the Wellington area. Signatories to the address include the Mayor, J G W Aitken (John Guthrie Wood Aitken), and R M Tolhurst (Robert Molesworth Tolhurst). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, with gold initials which read `A.H.T. from G.E. & R.M.T.'; 22.5 x 20.0 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available. Possibly given to Alexander H Turnbull by George Edmeades Tolhurst and Robert Molesworth Tolhurst.

Date: 1905 - 1910

By: Blomfield, John Collis, 1878-1942; Burson, Ethel Mills, active 2001

Reference: A-121-007

Description: Shows a full-length profile caricature of a man standing casually with his hands in his pockets. This may be a caricature of the Wellington politician John Guthrie Wood Aitken, who never married. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J C Blomfield Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on sheet 164 x 120 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Ethel Burson in 2001. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A2001-352.

Date: [ca 1874-1895]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1031

Description: Most of the papers relate to R D D Maclean; identified persons entered under Name. Included is correspondence relating to farming, property management, land deals, letter to Capt McLean of Glenorchy re pedigrees of horses, farm equipment including flyer for cream separator, information re library and rail services in London, copy of Andrew's essay on New Zealand, business, insurance, stocks and shares and financial affairs, clubs and membership, freight, especially wool, examination instructions of the Inns of Court. Letter to Mrs McLean re artist's proof at the Dore Gallery, London (1891); note re Florence Maclean's inheritance on her mother's death, nd. Some draft outward letters. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: Jan 1892

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-183

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level list available.

Date: [1900-1974]

From: St John's Church (Willis Street, Wellington) : Records

Reference: 82-230-36/4

Description: Comprises `Souvenir Knox College, Dunedin, NZ' (ca 1924) for the St John's Young Men's Bible Class, Wellington; clippings; clipping and report on the memorial window for the late John G W Aitken (1923); St John's song book (duplicated typescript) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1873-1910

From: Fisher family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0103-01

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: See inventory for piece-level description of contents.

Date: [ca 1902]

From: St John's Church (Willis Street, Wellington) :Photographs of church personalities and activities

By: St. John's in the City (Church : Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-D-0149

Description: Studio portrait of Hon J G W Aitken, first layman moderator, St John's Church, Willis Street, Wellington, early 1900s. Photographer unidentified. This copy print made by by S P Andrew Studio. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Hon J G W Aitken, (first layman moderator) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 570 x 430 mm on card

Date: 1900

By: Bowring, Walter Armiger, 1874-1931; Christchurch Press Company Ltd; Cameron, Mary Jessep, 1922-2010

Reference: B-094-024

Description: Caricature and full-length portrait of a stout man in a suit, standing in front of a large pile of coins and notes, surmounted by a flag inscribed Patriotic Fund Published as: supplement to the Weekly Press, January 1900 The Patriotic Fund was presumably for the South African War Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 393 x 280 mm