New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition (1925-1926 : Dunedin, N.Z.)

Date: 1905 - 1930

From: [Metal filing cabinet containing postcards]

By: Strauch, Dorothy Ida, 1917-2011

Reference: Eph-POSTCARDS-Strauch-1905/1930

Description: Postcards depicting New Zealand scenes. Includes some images from the New Zealand and South Seas exhibition, Dunedin, 1925-26. Quantity: 62 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) om postcards.. Physical Description: Photolithographs, 89 x 140 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms Dorothy Strauch in 1998.

Date: 1926

By: Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd; Hamilton, I, active 1984

Reference: B-110-053

Description: Subject: The buildings, showing flags, trams and other vehicles bringing visitors Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 242 x 317 mm from a photograph Provenance: Donation, Mr I Hamilton, Winton, 1984.

Date: 1925

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1052

Description: Album recording a motoring and camping holiday through the South Island of New Zealand. This took in the New Zealand South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and included the West Coast, Otago, and Canterbury. The central part of the album has images of Khandallah, Wellington, and the family home in that suburb. Family photographs include Doug on his Norton Motorcycle, and Jack and Neville similarly posed on a Douglas Motorcycle. Rene and Frank stand at the net holding tennis rackets, and mother has several images with young Joyce. The last part of the album recordes something of a holiday to Auckland where the family camped at Brown's Bay and took a trip to Kawau Island. A group shot on Mt Messanger on the way back and some views of Pukekura Park New Plymouth complete the album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1925-1945]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-046

Description: Includes: Construction, etc of 4th General Hospital, Dumbea, New Caledonia; unidentified Pacific campaign (US servicemen); NZ Military Forces display at the Dunedin Exhibition, 1925 (Series 30/1); aerial photographs of Whangaroa Harbour showing battery position, etc, 1942 (Series 23/12); aerial photographs of Whangarei Heads, including Bushy Head, 1942 (Series 23/11); Wellington (Series 23/16) including Garrison Hall in Buckle Street 1938, magazines at Kaiwarra, Central Park Camp, Kaiwarra US Camp, Anderson Park US Camp, Gracefield US warehouses; Wanganui (Series 23/7) showing Drill Hall 1938, position of aerodrome & coastal battery; Warkworth (Series 23/8) showing general area, Camp No 6, 30-bed hospital. Includes some photocopied prints Quantity: 174 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1925 - 1926

From: New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition (1925-1926; Dunedin): [Ephemera. 1925-1926]

Reference: Eph-A-EXHIBITION-1925-05

Description: Shows a general view of the exhibition buildings, with the entrance gate, domed building and other buildings on either side of the Grand Court. There are cars and a tram near the entrance gate and people walking about the entrance. A closer view than that at Eph-EXHIBITION-1925-01. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard 91 x 141 mm. Provenance: Donated in 1967.

Date: 1925

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-1925

Description: Includes programmes featuring: Paul Althouse and Arthur Middleton. Town Hall, Auckland. 28 September 1925. Souvenir book of words. Australian Silver Band. Programmes no 1 and 4. 1925. Hubert Carter. Booklet of press opinions, season 1925. Buckner's Dixie Jubilee Singers. No 1 and 2 programme in one. 1925 (2 different programmes) Kendall String Quartet. [Programme. ca 1925] (2 copies). Kreisler "The musical soul of the world". Programmes for first and second concerts, and programmes for concert in Wellington Town Hall 8th and 10th June, and 9 & 11th June 1925 (4 programmes in all) Stella Murray. New Zealand tour 1925. Town Hall Wellington [1925]. Programme Stella Murray. Recital. Theatre Royal Christchurch [ca 17 September 1925]. Programme and book of words. [1925]. Royal Albert Hall (London). Concerts featuring Rosina Buckman, Maurice D'Oisly, Antonio Brosa, Susanne Morvay, Elsie Owen, Laffitte. January 25th and February 22, 1925. (2 programmes in all) N.Z. and South Seas International Exhibition, Dunedin 1925-26. Festival Hall Official Amusements programme. Primary Schools Choir (3-4 December 1925), and "The Dream of Gerontius" by the Exhibition Choir (17-18 November 1925). Newcastle Steel Works Champion Band. Four different programmes. 1925. Orpheus Musical Society. "Tom Jones". Concert Chamber, Town Hall. 8 December 1925. Bernard Page. Organ recitals at the Town Hall Wellington, for 5 April, 12 April, 7 June, 5 July, 12 July 1925 (5 programmes in all). Palmerston North Choral Society assisted by the Orpheus Society. Haydn's oratorio "The Creation". Opera House Palmerston North. 15 July 1925. Shannon Choral Society. Wm B Bradbury's "Esther". Century Hall, Levin. 9 July 1925. Programme. Soloists of the Sistine Choir. Australasian tour. Souvenir programmes no. 1 (three copies varying slightly), 4, 6 and 8. 1925. Stralia. Australasian tour of the world famed dramatic soprano. Programmes no. 1 (1 copy) and 2 (2 copies). 1925. Edna Thomas, "the lady from Louisiana" in plantation songs and spirituals. Town Hall concert room, Wellington. 14,16,18 April 1925. Programme. Wellington Professional Orchestra. Programmes for concerts on 31 May (3 copies), 12 July (1 copy), 23 August (1 copy), 4 October (1 copy), 8 November (3 copies) 1925. (5 different programmes in all). Wellington Stage Employees' Sick & Benefit Society. Annual concert. 31 May 1925 (3 copies, two pink and one green). Quantity: 23 album(s) in 2 folders. Physical Description: Printed programmes, up to octavo size, some illustrated. Provenance: Donated and purchased from various sources, including Mr Joe Barnao, Levin, 2016.

Date: 1926 - 1950

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to timber, the timber industry, wood products]

By: Ellis Veneer Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-TIMBER-1950-02

Description: One side shows the Grand Court and reflecting pool at the Dunedin Exhibition. The other side shows a wooden house being built. Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Physical Description: Relief print on plywood, 90 x 139 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2003.

Date: 1925-1926

By: Great Britain. High Commission (New Zealand)

Reference: MSX-4691

Description: Visitors book kept by the British High Commission in Dunedin during the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition 1925-1926. Signatures, names and home addresses of visitors are included. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Strides' Sale, Chichester, 1997

Date: 1925 - 1926

From: New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition (1925-1926; Dunedin): [Ephemera. 1925-1926]

By: Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-EXHIBITION-1925-04

Description: Shows a general night view of the exhibition buildings, with the entrance gate, domed building and other buildings on either side of the Grand Court. Almost identical to Eph-A-EXHIBITION-1925-03, except for differences in colouring. Also similar to the daytime scene at Eph-A-EXHIBITION-1925-01. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard 91 x 141 mm. Provenance: Donated in 1967.

Date: 1925-1926

By: Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd; Blaikie, William Nicol, -1938

Reference: PAColl-6930

Description: Photographs of the exhibition held at Logan Park, Dunedin. Two photographs of the pavilions of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition at night, one showing the lights reflected in the ornamental lake in front of the Grand Dome; one of the front entrance to the exhibition area with a tram and cars passing; one showing more of the frontage of the exhibition area including advertising; and one negative with two images of panoramas of the whole site. At least one photograph taken by Blaikie and all printed by Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd. Pelichet Bay was drained to create the land on which the exhibition pavilions were built. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-002373 to 002376 and 1/2-002378 Quantity: 5 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1926

By: Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd

Reference: C-065-020

Description: An exterior view of the Exhibition buildings, Logan Park, Dunedin Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 335 x 445 mm

Date: 1925 - 1926

Reference: Eph-C-EXHIBITION-1925-03

Description: Souvenir pale blue cotton handkerchief commemorating the Dunedin exhibition of 1925-1926, shows an illustration of the central fountain and garden court with the exhibition buildings around it. A central domed building flies the Union Jack. The name Murray is embroidered in blue at the top left. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print and embroidery on cotton handkerchief, 280 x 278 mm. Provenance: From the collection of Tony Murray-Oliver, 1987.

Date: 1924-1925, 1928

From: Johnston, Phyllis, 1904-1998: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1895

Description: Photograph album formerly belonging to Phyllis Johnston. Contain images taken during visit to South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and a North Island road trip. Compiler of albums, and photographer(s), are unidentified. Album is extensively captioned. - Images of Dunedin area are taken during a holiday to the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition in 1924-1925. Photographs of sights include a bus trip to Waipori via Outram (including the Waipori River and power station), St Clair Beach (including the Baths and Tomahawk), waves at Ocean Beach, Dunedin Botanic Gardens, Portobello, Harbour Ferry, Octagon and Cathedral, Dunedin Train Station, Stewart Street Cable Car, Otago University Clock Tower, Otago Boys High, Evansdale river scenes, and North East Valley. Exhibition photos show the Exhibition Buildings, the grand court water feature, 'Maori House', and Amusement Park 'The Three Castles' (including the entrance and the 'Ye Old Mill River Caves' roller coaster and 'Giant's Mouth' rides). - Album also covers a January 1928 North Island road trip in a Model T Ford, departing from Levin. Camping grounds, camping sites, the preparation of meals and washing up, car with camping awning erected and camping gear packed on side, picnics, and tourist sites are featured. The route travelled, as suggested by the order of the images, is via Hastings, Napier, Taupo and lake area, Wairakei thermal area, Rotorua and Ohinemutu and lake area (including Rotoiti, Tarawera, and Rotomahana), Hamilton, Auckland (including Titirangi, Henderson, and Devonport), Waitomo, New Plymouth, and Inglewood. Notable sights and activities photographed include: Hastings Garden entrance with Maori carvings; Taurangakuma River; Mohaka River; Lake Taupo scenes from boat tour; Huka Falls; Aratiatia Rapids; various thermal sights including the Opal Pool and Eagles Nest Geyser at Wairakei; Whakarewarewa thermal area with model pa, tour group, and children diving for pennies; Boiling Lake and other sights in Waimangu Valley; Rotorua Sanatorium including Bath House and entrance to Government Gardens; Okere Falls; Hinemoana's Bath; fish at Fairy Spring; hunting for oysters, Titirangi; Albert Park, Auckland; polar bears at Auckland Zoo; tourist series of Waitomo Caves; Mokau bridge; Pukekura Park and Paritutu Rock, New Plymouth; and an unidentified house and tennis match. - Album contains portraits of two children called Joyce and Beverley. Joyce is also photographed at the South Seas Exhibition with a woman identified only as 'B.G.K' [Miss B G Kirk?]. The North Island Road trip images include numerous image of three unidentified women; this series also includes a family portrait of the Bailey Family beside a car. - Loose prints show Whitianga (Mercury Bay and Buffalo Beach), an unidentified group by pool of fish [Fairy Spring, Rotorua?], a print with two images (Ball Hut and Lake Pukaki), and an unidentified city scape [Dunedin?]. Source of information - for identifying BGK as Miss B G Kirk see album caption in album reference number PA1-o-1896 Arrangement: Loose prints have been collated and put in an acid free folder at the front of the album. The original pages in which they were interleaved bear no known relationship to the images. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown leather album with pastoral scene of hay rickets and cottage tooled on the leather, 15 x 22 cm

Date: [between 1925-1926]

By: Blaikie, William Nicol, -1938

Reference: PA6-801

Description: Panoramic view of the front entrance to the New Zealand and South Seas International Exibition in Dunedin (1925-1926), taken between 1925-1926 by William Nicol Blaikie. Source of title - Title from photolithograph of the same image (C-065-022) Source of descriptive information - Name of photographer/creator from record of C-065-022. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16.4 x 50.4 (at longest portion) cm Provenance: No provenance information available.

Date: 14 June 1901 - 1925-1930

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12909-4

Description: Letter addressed to S. Percy Smith, dated 1901, and three packets of postcards featuring Antwerp, and the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin in 1925. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: The other material from the same box is at MS-Papers-12909-2, MS-Papers-12909-3 and MS-Papers-12909-5.. Processing information: Housed by Library staff in a photographic archival box along with other material. The material has been separated out across several folders for conservation and storage reasons.

Date: [ca 1912-1925]

By: Peter Pan Studio; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-1177

Description: Photograph album of photographs and postcards relating to an unidentified New Zealand family. Compiled by unidentified person, possibly Gladys. Some images are annotated with names, dates and scene descriptions. Taken by photographers Wrigglesworth and Binns, Peter Pan Studios (Wellington), and unidentified photographer(s) between circa 1912 and circa 1925. - Images chiefly show family and friends at home and on holiday, and participating in various recreational activities, cricket, tennis, boating, swimming, and visits to the zoo, deer park and seaside. Also includes wedding scenes and adults and children with household pets and horses. Includes women in 1900s and 1920s fashions, wearing fur coats, cloche hats and carrying parasols. - Identifiable images include: the Hydro Grand Hotel, Timaru; the gravestone of Elizabeth, wife of Robert A Lilley (died 30 Nov 1925); and New Plymouth city and Pukekura Park. Also includes the post office, water tower, the band rotunda and tea kiosk in King Edward Park in Hawera, and St Pauls Church in Normanby. Also includes the old Government Buildings and Pipitea Wharf sheds in Wellington; the HMS 'Chatham'; Auckland city and harbour; and three ladies in a airship theme peep board at the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition in Dunedin 1925-1926. - Images of identifiable people include: Ken Impett (?), Frank Fahey, G Nairn, T Brankin in army uniform (circa World War One). Also shows Leonie Kirkman (dated May 6 1925) and British comedian Wee Georgie Wood at the Christchurch trots on 13 August 1925. - Includes a small set of pictures taken in a Pacific or Melanesian location showing local children and adults, and an European woman. Includes a photographic calendar containing a scene of a man carrying a child, inscribed on reverse with New Year greetings from 'May' and identifying the image as 'Isaac and Joeli' . - Also includes three sets of tourist photographic postcards featuring beaches, landmark buildings and street scenes in Wellington and in Christchurch circa 1912 to 1925, plus scenes at the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition Dunedin 1925 to 1926. - Album contains loose prints. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey cardboard cover, titled 'Scrap Book' with coloured illustration of a girl and boy on a see-saw, 28.5 x 23cm Provenance: The donor works as a prop buyer for films and had purchased the album from Ethel Anne Antiques in Hawera ca 2010. The album was used for reference purposes, e.g. set dressing ideas, during the making of the film 'Predicament'.

Date: 1900 - 1925

From: Mullis, Adelaide (collector): [Four postcard albums, and loose cards. 1900-1920s]

Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-27

Description: Album of postcards of New Zealand scenes, including cards sent to Adelaide Mullis. Locations include: Dunedin International Exhibition buildings 1925-26; Ohinemutu, Queenstown, Christchurch, Dunedin, Hungerfords Point (Catlins Lake), Owaka River near Pounawea, Diamond Lake (Wakatipu), Nelson, Caroline Bay, Oamaru, Lake Manapouri, Cannibal & False Island (Catlins District), Devonport, Napier, Seatoun, Korokoro Reserve (Petone), New Plymouth (3 postcard/booklets of views), Wellington, Lake Kaniere, Mount Egmont, Rotorua, Edward Travis (endurance pianist), West Coast. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Volume of postcards, hardbound, 35 numbered pages, 282 x 225 mm.

Date: 1925-[1930s]

From: Mosen, Neville Herbert, 1914-2004: Photographs

By: Nicol, Ethel Vera, 1894-1953

Reference: PA1-o-1972

Description: A photograph album given to Vera Nicol at Christmas 1925 by "Dorrie", which contains commercial and amateur photographs taken by unknown photographers between 1925 and the 1930s. Some photographs are identified; many are not. Includes family photographs, possibly at home in Marton as well as on family trips to Rotorua and Castlecliff. Also includes many photographs of scenery at Marton, New Plymouth, Rotorua, Rotoma, Castlecliff, Dunedin, Oamaru, Taranaki, Auckland, Cambridge, Coromandel, and Tauranga. Includes scenes of the University of Auckland Clocktower Building, Auckland Zoo, and Oamaru Gardens. Includes three photographs taken in India, possibly sent to Vera by Grace and Alice Clemance, who are pictured in one photograph. There are also photographs of a Presbyterian Bible Class Conference in Oamaru in 1926-1927, the Dunedin Exhibition 1925-1926, a scene of several of Nicol family members and others wearing feather cloaks and standing at the front of a painted, carved whare (possibly near Rotorua or Rotoma), and scenes from the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York in 1927 (likely commercial photographs). Some photographs have been torn out. Two prints from the album are also in another group of Nicol family photographs. A group photograph at the Bible Class Conference is at PAColl-10552-2-9 and a print of a family picnic is at PAColl-10552-2-5. Manuscript material and photographs relating to Frank Nicol are held by Archives Central in Rangitikei District Council Collection. See RDC 00087:6/N/3; RDC 00087:11/N/8; RDC 00087:12/N7; A/2013/43:8 - 15. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 443 prints. Physical Description: Photograph album, 24.5 x 30, with soft suede cover tooled with a flower spray and the word "Snaps", and papers bound with a brown ribbon tie. One page has been stapled to the last bound page. Inscribed on the inside front cover "To Vera from Dorrie with lots of love Xmas 1925".

Date: 1930 - 1979

From: Miller, Adam, 1960-: Collection of New Zealand sound recordings and record sleeves

Reference: Eph-C-PHONO-Miller-W/Z

Description: Includes sleeves for the following firms: Webley's, High Street, Christchurch, for all things musical (Pan pipes and dancers between trees) (2 sizes) Webley's, 243 High Street, Christchurch (plain, 2 different) Webley's, High Street, Christchurch, "freighted with melody" (Sailing ship) (2 copies) Sedley Wells Music Store, High Street, and Riccarton Road. For the best in records! Wisemans, Queen St., Auckland. A selection or orchestral masterpieces (4 different) K G Wyness Ltd, Oxford Street, Levin, phone 620. The world's finest music on His Master's Voice, Columbia, Parlophone, Regal Zonophone, M.G.M., Decca, London, Vogue, Beltona, Capitol, Ducretet-Thomson, Felsted, Oiseau-Lyre Allan Young Ltd, gramophone specialists, 17 Octagon, Dunedin Allan Young Ltd, Regent Theatre Buildings, The Octagon, Dunedin (2 different sizes) Allan Young Ltd. New Zealand and South Seas Intern[ational Exhibit]ion, 1925-26 (Circular hole in centre) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset and relief prints on record sleeves, sizes ranging up to 400 mm.

Date: 2019-2020

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-2020-01

Description: Spiral-bound calendar featuring twelve black and white photographs of band rotundas from the Alexander Turnbull Library's collections: January: Point Erin Park, Auckland, ca 1905. February: The Esplanade at Napier, ca 1910s March: Band rotunda, Auckland Exhibition, 1913 April: Band stand Ngaruawahia, ca 1910 May: Band rotunda, Te Koutu Domain, Cambridge, ca 1910s June: Seymour Square - park in Blenheim, 1911 July: Edmond's band rotunda, Avon River, Christchurch, 1920s? August: Band rotunda, Greymouth, ca 1907 September: Oamaru Gardens, ca 1910s October: Grandstand and band rotunda, Wanganui Racecourse, ca 1910 November: Wellington Botanic Garden, late 1940s December: New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition at night, 1925 The images were originally selected in preparation for the exhibition "An ornament to the town; the band rotunda in New Zealand". Turnbull Gallery, 13 March - 2 June 2017 Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Physical Description: Digital prints on spiral-bound calendar pages 420 x 300 mm.