Shoemakers

Date: 1910, 1951

From: Scott, Richard George, 1923-2020: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9508-3

Description: Photographs relating to the 1951 waterfront dispute. Includes photographs of trade union meetings, trade union members, and working conditions of waterfront workers, used for the publication '151 days; history of the great waterfront lockout and supporting strikes, February 15-July 15, 1951'. Includes a group portrait of the Auckland Waterside Workers' Union, Womens Auxillary and the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation, Fourth Annual Conference, Lyttelton, August 16th, 1910. Quantity: 96 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: 1928 - 1929

By: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1929-02

Description: Illustrated booklet showing views of the various retail departments and workshops, in the building on the corner of Hobson Street and Wyndham Street, Auckland. Shows the following departments: office, grocery (icluding tea and spices, hardware, cycles, boot factory, drapery, furniture, pianos, farm machinery, seeds, saddlery. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume, 12 pages, 285 x 223 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Les Cleveland in 1998.

Date: [1981]

By: Tredlite Footwear (NZ) Ltd

Reference: ATL-Group-00862

Description: Two sets of transparency slides of images, taken circa 1981, that promote and document Tredlite Footwear. Includes a cassette tape. The sets appear to have been compiled for Tredlite, for promotional purposes, by Reynolds Film Productions. Both sets and the cassette are labelled "'Leading the way' Hytest A/V ES 3609". Photographer of slides is unidentified, probably Reynold Film Productions. Both sets show mens shoes and boots being made, by hand, and machine. Safety footwear, and soles, are featured. Some unidentified people are shown working. Some slides show graphs and logos including one for "Hy-Test protective footwear" and one for "Reidrubber". Probably compiled for a tape-slide show where the slides may have been on dual screens, or on the same screen interspaced. Some of the slide mounts are dated 1981. Quantity: 159 colour original transparency/ies. 1 C60 cassette(s). Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic slide mounts with annotations on the mounts, audiocassette Provenance: The donor thought the collection came to them in 1970 as part of a deceased estate but the collection appears to be from a later date. There was no apparent link between the deceased estate and the transparencies. Processing information: Slides received mainly in two Kodak circular slide trays labellled "A" and "B". Slides were removed from trays for preservation purposes. Within each tray the slides were mainly numbered and this order has been maintained. The following slides were received loose and were inserted into their numberical order: 40A, 1B, 53B, 55B, 59B, 61B, 74B and 78B. The following numberes were not located: 39A, 44A, 38B, 42B, 60B, and 66B. Eight un-numbered slides were left in the order received, these include two silver blackout slides.

Date: 13 June 1993 - 13 Jun 1993

From: Women in a Mining Town, Waihi 1883-1993, Oral History Project

By: O'Dwyer, Olive Florence, 1916-2003

Reference: OHInt-0067/050

Description: Olive O'Dwyer born Waihi and has lived there for 77 years. Outlines family background - grandparents came from Australia and England in the 1800s. Father was a bootmaker - apprenticed to Pat McLeay - brother, Charlie was engine driver on rake (mine train). Recalls leaving school at the age of 12 years to help look after younger members of family as mother died. Remembers electricity coming to Waihi. Describes Main Street Waihi in her early days. Refers to teachers, Miss Morton and Douggy Young. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Waihi Interviewer(s) - Rose MacBeth Venue - Waihi Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005857A; OHV-0262B Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB-1264.

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: 1/4-023492-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1896]

From: General Assembly Library :Parliamentary portraits

Reference: 35mm-00142-a-F

Description: David Pinkerton, circa 1895. Photographer unidentified. Dated assuming the subject was approximately 60 years old at the time this photograph was taken. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1890-1939

From: Head, Samuel Heath, 1868-1948 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-007267-G

Description: Billboard advertising the firm Crockett & Jones, boot and shoemakers. The billboard reads " When we buy British made goods We support the Empire - We support New Zealand. Crockett & Jones Boots & Shoes are made in England - They are world famous". Photograph taken by Samuel Heath Head, probably in Christchurch between 1890-1939. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Date unknown

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 7

Reference: PAColl-6001-51

Description: R H Wyche's Wellington shoemaking shop, and sign commenting on the cruelty of the Wellington Land Board. The man standing alongside is probably R H Wyche himself. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1905

From: Tesla Studios :Negatives of Wanganui and district taken by Alfred Martin, Frank Denton and Mark Lampe (Tesla Studios)

Reference: 1/1-021130-G

Description: Interior of the boot and shoe making business of Benjamin Studley Ltd Taylorville/Durietown, Wanganui, 1905. Photograph taken by Frank J Denton. Business listed as being in Taylorville on file print. Listed as being in Durietown in Wise's Post Office Directory of 1906. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [1906 or 1907]

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

Reference: PA1-o-367-33

Description: Female machinists working at boot manufacturers Staples and Company, Wellington, 1906 or 1907. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Inscription in album. Date from description of PA1-o-367. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1868-[ca 1990s]

By: R. Hannah & Company Ltd; Hannah, Robert, 1846-1930; Hannah, James Alexander, 1876-1936; Johnson, Neal Grenville, active 1950s-1990s

Reference: ATL-Group-00028

Description: Collection comprises the papers of Robert Hannah and the Hannah family, and records relating to R. Hannah & Co. Ltd collected by the family. Material covers the period 1868 – [ca 1990s] and includes financial records, correspondence, diaries, ephemera, publications, and photographs. Family papers include letters and telegrams sent by Robert William, George, and Alfred Hannah to their parents, and letters or cards sent to the Hannah family by extended family and friends after Robert Hannah’s death in 1930. Robert Hannah’s papers include two diaries, his personal letter book, and a ledger recording private financial transactions. Material related to R. Hannah & Co. Ltd includes original financial records (ledgers, balance sheets, receipts, cashbooks), company guidelines (Hannah’s rules and regulations, sick benefit society booklet), newsletters, and administrative correspondence. Correspondence also relates to Robert Hannah’s broader commercial and official activities (executing wills, sale and purchase of land or property). Photographic material includes loose and mounted prints depicting R. Hannah & Co. Ltd staff, the three R. Hannah & Co. Ltd factories in Wellington, and Hannah's shops throughout New Zealand. Images were taken by various photographers, mainly between 1940 and 1970. Photographs related to Hannah's shops depict building exteriors, window displays, retail staff, shop interiors, and customers shopping at sales. Prints related to Leeds Street factory include group portraits of staff in the courtyard and staff at work inside the Leeds Street factory, circa 1908. One 35mm negative strip shows multiple views of entrance to 'Midas' shop in Auckland. Collection also contains material relating to the history of R. Hannah & Co. Ltd, the Hannah family, and Antrim House collected by the family. This includes research notes, published outputs, documents or publications of historical interest, and company records or secondary resources likely collected for research purposes (newspaper clippings, advertising, industry reference guides). Some items include notes referring to a company archive. Arrangement: Negative strip held at 35mm-101596-F. Robert Hannah immigrated to New Zealand from Northern Ireland in 1866. He opened his first shoe shop in Charleston, on the West Coast of the South Island, in 1868. By 1874 Hannah had moved to Wellington and was running R. Hannah & Co. Ltd, a boot and shoe manufacturing, importing, and retail business. The company had well-known factories on Lambton Quay and Leeds Street in Wellington, as well as retail branches named Hannah's throughout New Zealand. In 1875 Robert Hannah married Hannah Ferguson and they had seven children: James, George, Robert William, Lilian, Edith, Jessie, and Kathleen. From 1905 the family lived in Antrim House, on Boulcott Street. James Hannah joined his father in the family business. Lilian Hannah married Frederick Hills Johnson and their son Neal also worked in the family firm. Quantity: 96 b&w original photographic print(s). 47 folder(s). 13 volume(s). 2 b&w copy photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Manuscript and typescript material, photographs, ephemera, bound volumes, and published works. Provenance: Donated by Robert Hannah's great-great-grandson, Richard Johnson, Wellington, 2015. Processing information: Not all names associated with collection have been indexed.