Commercial catalogues

Date: [1901-1972]

From: Elder, Norman Lascelles, 1896-1974 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0699-42

Description: Includes notice re branding of wool bales (1917); account of Mrs Jerry Edwin (1901-1913, of Te Morihana (1912-1913), Matai Kahawai, (1904-1909), Reihana Tamati (1912-1913); copy of lease 3378, Inia Tuhata and Heni Te Rau; specifications for painter, contract for builder, letter to R Hooper re bush felling and lease of Parata Estate; statement of purchase money, Matai Kahawai and others for Ngarara West; proposals for adjustment, Elder and W H Field; brochure, Harper's steel rope suspension bridge; notes, contents to `Waimahoe' by Norman Elder Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1960-1985

By: Stott, David, active 1960-2004

Reference: MS-Group-1296

Description: Comprise (i) two large scrapbooks recording Mr Stott's promotional work as sales manager from 1964 for the Wellington department store of Kirkcaldie and Stains Ltd. Include clippings of advertisements, correspondence, tasklists, notes and photographs. (ii) Printed promotional and working papers relating to the beauty and model contests 1960-1964, and those of 1965 and 1979-1981, with which Mr Stott was involved, including the Miss Wellington and Miss New Zealand contests These were partially sponsored by department stores and run by Joe Brown Enterprises Ltd in Dunedin. Also, autographed programme from the Torvill and Dean tour of 1985. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 2 volume(s). 2 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, Typescript, printed matter, photos Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Mr David Stott, Auckland, 2004 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs of Miss World and Miss Wellington contests.

Date: [1956-1960]

From: Sutch, William Ball (Dr), 1907-1975 : Papers

Reference: 96-145-2/13

Description: Unsorted correspondence from a variety of people on a variety of topics and includes some family certificates and death notices; letter from C E Beeby re jobs at UNESCO (1960),`Monthly Review' (US) correspondence, invitation from Sir Walter Nash, Mt Egmont expedition, official letters re salaries and grading, Danish furniture catalogues and clippings (part of T) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1870-1897]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1030

Description: The folder mostly relates to R D D Maclean and include correspondence re business, farming, memberships and subscriptions, mortgage with Tollemache, accounts and receipts, insurance, shipping, company matters, equipment leaflets and other papers. Also includes Hunua Highway Board rates demand and receipt for Donald McLean. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: [1965-1972]

From: Strewe, Friedrich Georg Theodor (Odo), 1910-1986 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5921-093

Description: File comprising papers relating to prohibition against Strewe entering Fiji and includes clippings, correspondence with Fiji government officials; circular letter from Model Nurseries Lted re delayed trade list; table of annual fruit and vegetable consumption for Mocambo and Yanuca hotels; letters re the Mocambo and Yanuca appointments, including suggestions; catalgue for Frank M Winstone, seedsmen (1965-1966); `Jedes jahr kostenloses, Wohnen im urlaub' (1965-1966); note of Fiji Resorts Ltd Language - One pamphlet in German Arrangement: Part (b) of file relating to appointment to Macombo and Yanuca hotels development, Fiji Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 12 Mar 1972

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/391

Description: Diana Greenshill turns back the years and remembers the Aladdin's Cave of the old mail order catalogues and gives a list of the hundred-and-one temptations that were available through one's mailbox. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0402 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 12 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other no script available.

Date: 1879

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook

Reference: E-208-q-050

Description: Page from a seed catalogue with following 9 illustrations of plants: Branch of Balsam; Mimulus tigrinus (White ground); Scarlet invincible sweet pea; German stock; Voila `Blue King'; Helianthus globusus fistulosus; Delphinium formosum; Primula japonica; Linum grandiflorum rubrum. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 245 x 191 mm

Date: 1882-1886

From: Phillips family : Papers

By: Phillips, Coleman, 1846-1925

Reference: MSY-4801

Description: Volume of clippings of a series of articles by Phillips, `The Prime ministers of England' by Phillips (Lyon & Blair's monthly review, 1882-1886). The scrapbook has been compiled over a `Pattern book of brass & iron bedsteads made in parallel and taper tubes, children's cots in iron and brass, chair bedsteads, chairs, folders, cabinet bedsteads &c for home, foreign and colonial markets' with pages 80-107 not pasted over. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1918, 1928, 1937-1940

From: Hannah family: Collection relating to the Hannah family and R. Hannah & Co. Ltd

Reference: MS-Papers-12046-35

Description: Contains three illustrated, original R. Hannah & Co. Ltd shoe catalogues: 'Price List of Boots & Shoes April 1918', 'Hannah's Sports and Summer Catalogue 1937 '38', and 'Hannah's Season 1939-1940'. Also contains one original "Footform" shoe catalogue for 1928, and an undated photocopy of a Hannah's shoe catalogue. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1850 - 1898

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook

Reference: E-208-q-068

Description: Cuttings from plant catalogues [?] showing: Gladiolus, Hyacinth, Juniperus Viginiana alba spica, Geum coccineum, anemone, anemone japonica alba and rosea, Arisaema serotinum, Triteleia violacea. Quantity: 8 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engravings, various sizes on page 295 x 235 mm

Date: 1894-1979

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Ephemera and cut-outs

By: Black & Decker Corporation; Williamsport Machine Company

Reference: Eph-B-CLEVELAND

Description: Ephemera includes: Gardening at a glance rotatable disk (Australian but published under licence in New Zealand [1940-50s]; Artistic Photographic Co, Fine Art Department. "Miniature illustrations of genuine engravings and photogravures" [ca 1910]; McCulloch's tools advertising booklet (USA 1970s generator parts list 1970; Williamsport Machine Company, Woodworking machinery. Sales catalogue 1894 (Williamsport, Pennsylvania); Rayo Steel Works (B K Morton & Co, Sheffield, Eng). Sales catalogue [1939?]; Balfour's and "An Eagle on a Globe" brand", High grade tool and alloy steels sales catalogue [1950s?]; untitled catalogue of fireplaces (American ca 1910?); North Electric standard power supplies. Instruction manual ca 1970 - American; Tauco Quality tools. 1938 catalog ((Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Clausing Manufacturing Co. Bench lathes and accessories, and Clausing lathes. (2 catalogues, 1945 and undated); Sprayit paint sprayer manual / Burgess Power Tools Ltd, Leicester, England 1977; Electric resistance welding / British Resistance Welding Machine Manufacturers' Association, 1956.; flyer for safety spectacles, 1970s?; Vee-Link V-belt installation directions (flyer, 1945); Black and Decker catalogue (USA) 1951; Petter diesel engines operator's handbook 1950-60s; Black & Decker. Care and use of portable electric tools 1950s?; "Home chat", July 27, 1929; "Snowtime sweaters - instructions for knitting ...' Prestressed concrete (Gt Britain, 1967?); Briggs and Stratton lawnmower engine warranty 1960s?; All-state aluminium maunal (USA) 1962; Volkswagen kit set, piston and liner specification; Philips cast iron welding electrodes.. Also includes 12 envelopes/ folders of pictures/cards/scraps. ca 1880-1910. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 4 folder(s) containing 37 pieces of ephemera. Physical Description: Booklets, flyers, posters, sizes varying.

Date: 18--

From: Chew family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0401-11

Description: Includes Samuel Thornhill & Sons, manufactuers of awl blades, steel tacks, shoe knives, shoe rasps, shoe tols, hammers, pincers, nippers etc; Bristle Merchants & General Grindery Warehousemen. And others of this kind, all from England Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1996-2000]

From: Koea, Shonagh, 1943- : Literary papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7944-37

Description: Random House catalogues for 1996, 1998-1999, and one undated Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1879

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook

Reference: E-208-q-056

Description: Page from a seed catalogue with following 7 illustrations of plants: Canna warscewiczii; Amaranthus melancholicus ruber; Perilla mankinensis; Ricinus communis major; Solanum warscewiczii; Nicotiana grandiflora purpurea; Wigandia caraccasana. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 245 x 191 mm

Date: 1850 - 1898

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook

Reference: E-208-q-039-1

Description: Cutting from plant catalogues [?] showing: Aspidium filix mas; Aspidium spinulosum; Asplium filix foemina; Athyrium filix foemina Goeringianum pictum; Blechnum boreale; Cyrtomium fortunei; Osmunda regalis; Polypodium vulgare; Struthiopteris germanica. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 175 x 195 mm

Date: 1879

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook

Reference: E-208-q-057

Description: Page from a seed catalogue with following 8 illustrations of plants: Heliotrope; Double sanuitalia procumbens; Eschscholtzia, mandarin; Sutton's butterfly sweet pea; Rocket larkspur; Godetia, Lady Albemarie; Lobelia erinus compacta Crystal Palace var; Xeranthemum imperiale. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 245 x 191 mm

Date: 1879

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook

Reference: E-208-q-052

Description: Page from a seed catalogue with following 16 illustrations of plants: Myosotis dissitiflora; Mimulus tigrinus; Nemophilia insignis gr; Nigella hispaniea Alba; Oenothera lamarckiana; Oenothera macrocarpa; Single portulaca; Potentilla; Rhodanthe manglesii; Sanvitalia procumbens; German stock; Tropaeolum lucifer; Tropaeolum, Crystal Palace, scarlet; Erianthus ravennae; Hordeum jubatum; Viscaria oculata. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 245 x 191 mm

Date: 1850 - 1898

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook

Reference: E-208-q-038

Description: Cuttings from plant catalogues [?] showing: Cupressus Lawsoniana; Retinospora erocoides; Caladiums; Acanthus latifolus; Tagetes erecta fl. pleno; Nigella damascena nana fl pl; Delphinium nudicaule; Parrot tulips; Voila cornuta; Aconitum kutznezoffi; Antirrhinum majus nanum Tom Thumb; roses; narcissus; Crown Imperial. Quantity: 14 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engravings, various sizes on page 295 x 235 mm

Date: 1850 - 1898

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook

Reference: E-208-q-069

Description: Cuttings from plant catalogues [?] showing: On recto - Fritillaria persica, Hepatica, Ixia, Amaryllis purpurea, Amaryllis cleopatra, Amaryllis sprekelia formosissimus, Chionodoxa lucillae, Cyclamen persicum (Carters' prize seedlings), Amaryllis formoisissimus. On verso - Leucocoryne odorata, Morea tricuspis, Paeonia tenuifolia, Ornithogalum umbellatum, Iris Kaempferi Avon-Siebold, Arum crinitum. Quantity: 14 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engravings, various sizes on page 295 x 235 mm

Date: 1850 - 1898

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook

Reference: E-208-q-071

Description: Cuttings from plant catalogues [?] showing: Fritillaria persica, Tulipa Greigi, Cyclobotra pulchella, Calochortus venustus (2) Quantity: 4 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engravings, various sizes on page 295 x 235 mm