Kempthorne, Prosser & Company

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Artist unknown :[Wellington scenes. 1890s].

Reference: E-278-q-003-02

Description: View of Lambton Quay with businesses in Regent House on immediate right. Next door is the Queens Hotel. Further along the street are the premises of Kempthorne & Prosser. Opposite the Queens Hotel are the premises of the Federal Plumbing Works. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photoengraving 74 x 122 mm

Date: 1976-1977

From: Angus Corporation: Photographs of building construction

Reference: PA1-q-478

Description: Photographs of the construction of an acid plant for Kempthorne Prosser Chemical Works, Whanganui, from July 1976 to February 1977, and an addition to St Mary's Church, Whanganui, July to August 1976, photographers unidentified. Source of title: title from album cover

Date: 1900s

From: [Ephemera of octavo sizes relating to fertilisers and manures]

Reference: Eph-A-FERTILISER-1900s

Description: Includes: 1917: Harola lime sulphur. Cut 90 per cent off your losses. 1917. Carter's Print, 377 Sussex Street, Sydney. Pamphlet 1927: White Island Products Ltd. White Island fertilizers. Proof!. Wilson & Horton Printers, Auckland [1927]. Booklet 1930: Dominions Potash Supply Co. Ltd (Australasian Office). Potash on your pasture will increase production, improve quality and lengthen the season [1930?]. Pamphlet 1935: Hodder & Tolley Ltd, Palmerston North. Autumn topdressing season 1935 ... Seychelles guano [1935]. Booklet 1936: Conserve the wealth of the Empire and purchase pure British basic slag "Albert brand". [ca 1936-1938]. Pamphlet (2 copies) 1939: N.Z. Farmers' Fertilizer Co. Ltd. Price list of Taranaki fertilizers and other lines. 1 July 1939 Wanganui Chemical Works. Price list of K.P. Westfield fertilizers for delivery Hawkes bay, Wellington and Taranaki provinces. 1 July 1939 1940: Heskett Slag Sales Organisation. On the question of manures; an ounce of practical experience is worth more than a ton of theoretical talk by Experts. [1940]. Booklet 1950s: Every shilling spent on Nodulaid dry powder inoculant can return you 10 [pounds sterling] in nitrogen. [1950s?]. pamphlet 1952: "GAFSA" North African phosphate. [ca 1952]. Pamphlet Hodder & Tolley Ltd. Keep abreast of the times with Gafsa (Phosphate). 1952. Booklet 1960: Belgian basic slag. To every New Zealand farmer, fertiliser facts that can mean [pounds] to you [ca 1960] 1975: Maxicrop liquid seaweed for biological balance and health in crops & livestock [1975]. Booklet 1977: Dominion Fertiliser Company Limited. Statement by directors ... in respect to the second take-over offer from Kempthorne Prosser & Co. Limited, 8 August 1977. Dunedin, 19 August 1977. Booklet Palmerston North Jaycee Fertilizer Drive. Delivery date 20th August [1977] 1979: [NZ Humic Compost Club]. The cycle of life. Soil is life [1979] 1981: N.Z. Farmers' Fertilizer Co. Ltd. Rural Wuxal, the proven plant booster! [ca 1981] 1996: [Plunket Society]. Fertiliser - free delivery, 20 July 1996. All proceeds go to help your local Plunket. Flier Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1895 - 1948

By: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.); Deighton, Leslie Howard, -1955

Reference: PAColl-1771

Description: Photographs of Kempthorne Prosser & Co on Woodward Street, with H C Gibbons & Co and the Wairarapa Farmers Co-operative behind it, presumably the site of the Woodward Street Congregational Church or the building which was used by it; the interior of the Terrace Congregational Church, looking towards the organl decorated for its 60th jubilee in 1948; a group of people including a number of clergymen outside the Terrace Congregational Church with the notice boards behind them; and a group of people in front of the organ of the Napier Congregational Church taken by Deighton Studios. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Apr 1947

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-06082-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1880]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-12-33

Description: View of Jacob Joseph & Co. To the left are the premises of William Webley, and wholesale & retail ironmonger; to the right Kempthorne Prosser & Co. Photograph taken in 1870s-1880s by W H W Davis. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1943

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Fielding, William, 1876-1946

Reference: Plans-91-1386

Description: Shows roof plan, details of sections, and the upper part of street elevation to Victoria Street with the sign announcing the company's name and the original building date 1879. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo print with some watercolour, 430 x 770 mm.

Date: 1906-1907

From: New Zealand. Department of Labour :Photograph albums for the International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-1907

By: New Zealand. Department of Labour; Hemus & Hanna (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-370

Description: Photographs of various factories and businesses in Auckland, taken circa 1906. They include interior and exterior views and employees. Photographers not identified except those of D S C Drapers shop and furniture factory which were taken by J. Hanna of Hemus & Hanna. Other Titles - N.Z. Department of Labour Other Titles - Factories and workrooms, Auckland Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with tan leather cover, entitled `N.Z. Department of Labour. Factories and workrooms, Auckland. N.Z. International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-7'; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1933

From: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 :[Original art works for, and print of, advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals, mostly 1920s-1930s. Artwork by Neville L and Trevor Rykers, 1940s and 1950s].

By: Star (Christchurch, N.Z.); Robson, Edward Thomas, 1875-1953

Reference: B-185-085

Description: Periodical issue with front cover illustration by Les Rykers. The back cover shows an advertisement for J Ballantyne and Company, and inside are colour advertisements for Edmonds baking powder, K.P. life salt and Yardley Lavender. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Annual periodical booklet of 36 + xxxii pages, 408 x 297 mm.

Date: [Circa 1888?]

From: Dalton, M :Photograph albums entitled "Views in and around Wellington"

Reference: PA1-o-126

Description: Includes views of Wellington City streets and suburbs, public buildings, churches, Karori Reservoir, Wellington College, the Governor's banquet and a procession; the Hutt railway bridge, river and bush scenes; the Ohau railway bridge, and the Thorndon suspension bridge Other Titles - Dalton II Album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 25x16 cm, maroon board covers Finding Aids: Indexed in Photographic Archive album index.

Date: 1950

By: H W Bullivant Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-EDUCATION-1950-01

Description: Cardboard cover used to protect children's individual issues of the "School journal". Text and illustration is completely advertising - for the following products: Woods' great peppermint cure; Post Office school savings account; New Zealand Railways; "Every bite pure delight - eat apples; Sargood Son & Ewen clothing; Childswear garments; Kruse's fluid magnesia (Kempthorne Prosser & Company); Jockey Juniors; Drink milk for health. Two copies held, one over-written with 1952 date, one with 1954 date. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on folded cardboard cover, 230 x 145 mm.

Date: 1921

Reference: Eph-B-STATIONERY-K-1921-01

Description: Shows letterhead of Kempthorne Prosser with a circular inset of their Westfield Chemical Works at top left. Main office was at Albert Street, Auckland. Exhibited in 'To market, to market' Exhibition of advertising and commercial ephemera from the Printed Ephemera Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library. First Floor foyer, National Library of New Zealand, 5 August - 16 September 1997. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) with typescript added.. Physical Description: Steel engraving and letterpress, 286 x 205 mm.

Date: 1924-1968

From: New Zealand Truth : Files of the Financial Editor

Reference: MS-Papers-1188-169

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1950 - 1969

By: Lee, Owen Raymond, 1918-2002

Reference: A-356-015

Description: A watercolour drawing of a group of medicine bottles and boxes including a box labelled "Cerebos" health saline. There is a tall blue bottle in the centre. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, on sheet, 280 x 373 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane auction, Wellington, 13 May 2004, lot 333. From the estate of Owen R Lee.

Date: 1920 - 1949

By: Broadway Motors; Dominion Dental Supplies Ltd; Glaxo Laboratories (N.Z.); Kempthorne, Prosser & Company; Petrolagar Laboratories Inc (Wellington, N.Z.); Sharland and Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-BLOTTERS-Box

Description: Box of blotters contains both New Zealand and non-New Zealand blotters. New Zealand blotters include some from Glaxo Laboratories, Broadway Motors, Petrolagar Laboratories (Wellington), Sharland & Company (Auckland), Dominion Dental Supplies (Wellington), Kempthorne Prosser. Grouped alphabetically by the name of the advertising company. Quantity: 1 box(es) 300 (approx) blotters. Physical Description: Photolithographs on blotters, sizes varying up to 160 x 240 mm.

Date: 1924-1968

From: New Zealand Truth : Files of the Financial Editor

Reference: MS-Papers-1188-170

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1949

By: H W Bullivant Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-EDUCATION-1949-01

Description: Cardboard cover used to protect children's individual issues of the "School journal". Text and illustration is mainly advertising - for the following: Woods' great peppermint cure; Thomson's Purity Ltd (beverages, Dunedin) "Every bite pure delight - eat apples"; Kruse's fluid magnesia (Kempthorne Prosser & Company); Government Life Insurance Office, Hallenstein Brothers Ltd; "Tune into your ZB station"; Drink milk for health; "Don't run out from behind parked vehicles - stop and look before you cross the road, issued by the Transport Department". Two copies held, one over-written with 1951 date, one with 1956 date. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on folded cardboard cover, 230 x 145 mm.

Date: 1890 - 1910

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

By: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-A-PHOTO-EQUIPMENT-1890/1913

Description: Includes: Aldis Brothers, Birmingham. Aldis Anastigmats 1910 special editions. Baker & Rouse's new catalogue. Sydney 1896-1897. Central Photo Stores, Main Street, Palmerston North. Advance sheet; catalogue of everything photographic ... [ca 1907] Central Photo Stores, Main Street, Palmerston North [Sales catalogue. ca 1907] Central Photo Stores new illustrated catalogue [ca 1910] Century Camera Company (Rochester N.Y.). Century cameras, 1905. Harringtons N.Z. Ltd. Price list of Harringtons' cameras [ca 1910] Harringtons' catalogue no. 1c. Cinematographs, lecture lanterns and accessories [ca 1912] Thomas Illingworth. Free guide to photographic printing [ca 1908] Imperial Camera Co., Jervois Quay, Wellington. Photographic apparatus and supplies 1906. Johnson & Sons (London). Scaloids, photographic tablets. [ca 1900] Kempthorne Prosser & Co's New Zealand Drug Company. Up-to-date photographic requisites. Victoria Street and Jervois Quay Wellington [1905] The Kodak book [ca 1910] J Lancaster & Son, opticians. [Extract from the British journal almanac advertisements. ca 1892] Mawson & Swan (London and Newcastle0on-Tyne). Mawson's dry plates [and] films [ca 1898] Photo Supply Stores' new illustrated catalogue and price list of photographic apparatus and materials ... Pamerston North, N.Z. [1903] Photo Supply Stores, Palmerston North. Supplementary catalogue of down-to-date photographic equipment, 1906. Rochester Optical Company, Rochester, New York. The Premo camera. 1899 Ross' Improved hand cameras and apparatus. 111 New Bond Street, London [1890s] Sharland & Co. Ltd., 286 Lambton Quay. Sharland cameras and accessories. 1910. Sharland & Co. Ltd., 286 Lambton Quay. Sharland cameras and accessories [ca 1913] Sharland & Co Limited. Sharland's exposure guide for New Zealand (chart bound in green buckram, with advertising for Sharland's Toneezy, Sharland's Developol, cameras and Goerz & Zeiss binoculars. ca 1909) Quantity: 23 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying below 230 mm.

Date: 1938-1949

From: Consolidated Gold Fields of New Zealand Ltd : Records

Reference: 76-083-12/09

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1937

From: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 :[Original art works for, and print of, advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals, mostly 1920s-1930s. Artwork by Neville L and Trevor Rykers, 1940s and 1950s].

By: Pawson, Ambrose Charles, 1877?-1950

Reference: B-185-077-2

Description: An advertisement for K.P. life salt shows a coloured head and shoulders portrait of a smiling young woman in a hat and scarf. There are three smaller vignettes arranged around her: herself with three men at a cocktail party, herself with two men in tennis gear, herself on the beach with two men in bathing suits. At lower right is an illustration of a bottle of K.P. life sale, "effervescent, refreshing, cooling", with a kiwi logo. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on page 408 x 297 mm.