Hardware stores

Date: 1890 - 1899

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

Reference: E-278-q-003-01

Description: View of Lambton Quay looking south-west with premises of Cameron Christie, ironmonger, in foreground on immediate right. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photoengraving 74 x 122 mm

Date: 2011

By: Bunnings Group Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-2011-01

Description: Map of the layout of 59 ranges of shelving in the Lyall Bay branch of Bunnings Warehouse, with an alphabetical store directory. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on both sides of sheet, 297 x 420 mm, folded to 297 x 146 mm. Provenance: Donated in 2011.

Date: 1940

Reference: Plans-80-1170-1

Description: Shop and office premises for McLean & Archibald, Ironmongers, at 10 Bond Street, Wellington. Plan view showing shop area, a lift well, stairs, two toilets and office (or workshop) areas. Almost the same as the plan at Plans-80-1170, but lacks dimensions Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil on tracing paper, 534 x 365 mm

Date: 1878

By: G H Munt (Firm); Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1878-01

Description: An arrangement of text. The sale was to run for one month only as the premises needed to be given up. The address was Lambton Quay, opposite Wilson & Richardson. Dated by provenance. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on green paper, 218 x 141 mm. Provenance: Found in pages of the Evening Post for 19 July 1878.

Date: [ca 1890-1927]

From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); France, J W, active 1890s

Reference: PAColl-0348

Description: Mounted photographs by the Burton Brothers of the junction of Eden and Tees Streets, Oamaru showing St Luke's Church, shops, tram lines and part of the Council Chambers; looking down on the wharves of Port Chalmers with the Presbyterian Church in the right foreground; and the Kakahi Falls, near Tawhata on the Whanganui River. Two smaller mounted photographs of a river in the Catlins District. Three pages from a photograph album holding five photographs of the building of the Arapuni Dam on the Waikato River including the buried forest exposed by the Waikato River diversion. Three loose prints by J W France of an early settlers' cottage made of ponga with a turf roof and with the family outside; a group of six workmen standing on the road they were building with long handled shovels and a boy and a dog in front of them; and the funeral procession of Sir John MacKenzie in 1901 led by a pipe band up the main road in Oamaru working. Finally a loose print of the bridge over the Waiho River. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-68928 to 1/2-068934. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.

Date: 1960

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-133-112

Description: Shows a man and his wife walking out of a hardware shop. The man is carrying a ladder and pots of house paint and he is being accosted by a friend who is expecting to see him at Athletic Park to watch the rugby trials. The man's wife is looking displeased at the suggestion. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone on paper, 293 x 266 mm Provenance: Donation:

Date: 1940

Reference: Plans-80-1170

Description: Shop and office premises for McLean & Archibald, Ironmongers, at 10 Bond Street, Wellington. Plan view showing shop area, a lift well, stairs, two toilets and office (or workshop) areas. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil on graph paper, 375 x 452 mm

Date: [ca 1924]

Reference: PAColl-7008

Description: 8 views: HMS Hood in Wellington harbour 1924; man punting a waka through the flooded streets of Wanganui with a woman standing in the prow; a lot of people coming over the bridge into the Wanganui floods, some on a waka; the premises of Park, Davis & Co fruit and produce auctioneers; men getting into two small sailing dinghies on the Whanganui River; people boarding a paddle steamer on the Whanganui River; two men, three children and a dog outside a meeting house; and a page from a book with a map of the Bay of Islands. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-097254 to 097261 Quantity: 8 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: ca 1880s-1890s

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-7466

Description: Spargo's Gladstone Coffee Palace next to the Harbour Board offices with a ferry at the wharf; looking up Queen Street from the wharf with Spargo's Gladstone Coffee Palace on the right, Waverley Hotel on the left and a horse drawn tram on the wharf; view of shops on Queen Street with an ironmongers on the right; the Supreme Court building; and a man mowing the lawn in front of Government House. The photographer was Burton Brothers. Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1870s

Reference: 1/4-010012

Description: View of W. Gibson's iron merchant shop on Featherston Street, with some passers-by outside. Photographer unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1, 8, 21, 29 June and 13 July 2011 - 01 Jun 2011 - 13 Jul 2011

By: Oldham, Philippa Jane, 1957-; Macaskill, Stuart Alisdair, 1931-2012; Local Government New Zealand

Reference: OHColl-1055-01

Description: Interview with Stuart Macaskill, born 1931 in Lower Hutt. Macaskill discusses his family history and Scottish heritage, childhood and education, business life, engagement with local and regional politics, and his role on national representative bodies, including the NZ Catchment Authorities, the Regional Government Association, and Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ). Abstracted by - Pip Oldham Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham The oral history project was funded by Local Government New Zealand Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-7671. 34 Electronic document(s) Adobe PDF. 2 digital photograph(s). 14 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 3 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Deposited by Wayne Facer, Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ), Wellington, November 2011 Search dates: 1931 - 2011

Date: 27 Jul 2000

From: Otaki oral history project

By: Gimblett, Frederick George, 1929-; Thorpe, Agnes Anne, 1939-

Reference: OHInt-0673-06

Description: Frederick George Gimblett, known as Ted, was born in Northcote, Auckland in 1929. Talks about how his family moved to Otaki in 1939, where his father, bought the general store within days of the start of World War II. Mentions his father being rejected for enlisting in the war. Describes in detail the store, and products sold. Talks about a fire that gutted the store in 1942 and getting a government permit to restore it. Talks about the store's conversion to a Four Square shop, which his brother Jack took over in 1968. Talks about taking over his father's hardware store the same year. Talks about his father's involvement in the community, including the Otaki Council, president of the Grocers Association, golf, Masonic Lodge, school committees, and his love of English cars. Describes how his father looked after key townspeople, such as the bank manager, police and stationmaster. Refers to the bank manager as the 'lord of the manor'. Talks about class structures in the town, and to Maori being called 'Natives', and only being allowed to play golf on Wednesday afternoon. Talks about neighbouring families, and describes shopkeepers and shops. Talks about helping in the shop after school, stamp club and boys brigade. Talks about school, teachers, and discipline. Mentions a lack of jobs in Otaki after the war when soldiers returned. Refers to Paraparaumu, and describes Waikanae. Mentions his first car, a Morris 25. Describes Jim Sievers, the local undertaker, and related stories. Talks about the Civic Theatre. Talks about premarriage entertainment, dancing, courting at badminton and tennis, and the rifle club. Describes involvement with golf and rotary. Mentions children and siblings. Accompanying material - Notes on Gimblett family on Main Street, including photocopies of photos of their stores (4) Interviewer(s) - Anne Thorpe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-11063 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 80 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3871. Photos of Gimblett's first shop (interior) and Gimblett's Hardware Ltd (exterior) Search dates: 1939 - 1960

Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10645-02

Description: Prints chiefly of welding industry events, Miramar Gas Works, and nature, taken by Les Cleveland, circa 1960s to 1980s. Contains prints developed by Wellington Photographic Supplies in eight separate photo wallets. Prints include: - Demolished buildings at the Miramar Gas Works with the Taubmans paint factory in the rear of one image. - Machinery and welding demonstration of Argon Arc technology at Industrial Gas Co, Gracefield, with onlookers, 1962. Delegates and speakers at a welders conference. - Heraldic display at Hopwood Hardware, Palmerston North and the adjacent G H Bennett and Company Ltd Booksellers and Stationers in 1971. Also cars and pedestrians on Broadway. - Car wrecks and cutover bush in the Ruahine Ranges. - Skiers on the National Downhill slope, Whakapapa Ski Field, as well as tow house and tow repairs. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 115 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 item(s) of photographic ephemera original print wallets. Physical Description: Photographic prints and print wallets

Date: 1913

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1911-1919]

By: A W Page (Firm); Wilson & Horton (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1913-01

Description: Mail order catalogue for A W Page at Kingsland, Auckland. Items for sale were grocery items, food, oils, patent medicines, kitchen equipment, gardening tools, enamel paints, household ironmongery and brushware, stoves, heaters, firewood, seeds. Advertisements for: Tucker's family baking powder, Acorn brand coffee, Brown's Cornflour, "Champion" roller flour, Oak brand tinned peaches, Lymm pure salt, Amberine soap, Page's teas, Nicholls' Bros patent "Orb" ranges, "Perfection" blue flame oil stoves, Sharland's Port Quinine wine, Oak Leaf butter, "Nazol" ointment. Other Titles - A W Page's popular price list Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 152 pages, each 238 x 160 mm.

Date: 1916

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1916-01

Description: Sales catalogue for the company which merged in 1918 with the Farmers' Union Trading Company, to become the Farmers' Trading Company. Inside front cover shows a calendar for the last part of 1915, and January-September 1916. There is a foreword by company founder Robert Laidlaw, photographs of the Auckland sales staff, photographs of the showrooms of each department and portraits of the staff who ran them; photographs of office staff at work and the shop equipment (entrance stairs, elevator, employees dining room, currant cleaner and raisin stemmer, the packing department), and an illustration of the warehouse on the corner of Hobson and Wyndham Streets. There follows an advertisement for the company's book of plans and specifications for houses, and an account of the way the war was affecting prices and supplies of goods (See pages 18-21). Information about ordering, paying and freighting follow. The illustrated catalogue of goods is arranged in the following sections: grocery, patent medicines, ironmongery, tools and household ironmongery, stoves (Dover, Orb, Zealandia, Champion), sheep shearing machine, roofing iron, tinware, enamelware, cutlery, aluminium, brushware, handbags, pipes, wallpaper (with 2 colour sample pages), stationery, books, cameras, rifles and pistols (guns), tennis rackets, bicycles, telephones, gramophones, violins, electroplated goods, jewellery, watches, clocks, windmills, pumps, buggies and wagons, engines, ploughs, crockery (2 colour plates), lamps, saddlery and harnesses, luggage, boots and shoes, clothing, hats, drapery, haberdashery, lace, rugs, sewing machines, furniture, linoleums (2 colour plates), toys (including Meccano). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 500 pages, each 277 x 220 mm, blue paper covers, bound in brown suede with gilt lettering Provenance: Purchased at Webbs Auction, 19 November 2008, lot 33

Date: 1960 - 1961

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to agriculture, farms and farming]

By: J Jones Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-FARM-1960/1961-01/03

Description: Lists goods for sale, some illustrated. Merchandise includes hardware, fencing, wheelbarros, Cyclone tubular framed buildings, Armour sheep gates, poultry requisites vitamins & remedies. Quantity: 3 album(s). Physical Description: Booklets of around 16 pages, each 275 x 217 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2004.

Date: 1947 - 1949

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

By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-1025/1064

Description: Includes alterations and new fittings to offices, display fittings, lettering for hardware section, detail of sports department, amendments to counters and shelving, lighting plan, details of fibrous plaster ceiling, hardware and household departments, details of fittings for garden tools, method of hanging balconyconnection of hangers to joists, new tile and hardware section, new paint department. Quantity: 40 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings and diazo prints, sizes varying around 560 x 760 mm.

Date: 1947

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

By: Kelly & Mair (Firm)

Reference: Plans-93-0506/0507

Description: Includes floor plans, section, side elevation, and a perspective drawing of the interior of the shop and an interior view of the wallpaper display area. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying

Date: ca 1900

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PAColl-7353

Description: Photographs by James Ring of: Hokitika wharf and bar - showing the surrounding shops and commercial buildings, Wade & Spence, Pollock & Bevan and the Belfast Hotel; a horse drawn tram on the Greymouth to Kumara tramway; a row of houses in Greymouth looking towards Cobden Hill; looking west over Greymouth with an ironmongers in the centre of the town; sluicing at Humphrey's Gully No.1 face - a single jet of water aimed at a rock face; and looking across the river towards Brunnerton with coal wagons on a railway in the foreground, the Brunner bridge on the right, and the shops F McParland and J Taylor amongst the houses. Arrangement: Negative at 1/2-004429-F Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1910

By: Watkinson, Arthur Edgar, 1882-1918

Reference: 1/2-003515-F

Description: View of Thain's hardware merchants on a corner of Victoria Avenue with other shops such as R Price, saddler visible. A tram and three men on bicycles are passing the building. Photographer was A E Watkinson. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative