Mailboxes

Date: 1922 - 1940

From: Brooks, Catherine, 1884-1980 :[Thirty (30) watercolours of Auckland, Onehunga and Rotorua. 1922-1940].

Reference: A-306-037

Description: Shows a sawn-off lamppost with a red postbox attached to it, and a sign on the top reading "Summer St". There is a yellow flowering bush behind the pole beside the footpath. In 1998, there is a Summer Street in Ponsonby but not in Onehunga. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 178 x 96 mm.

Date: 1979

By: Sydney, Grahame Charles, 1948-

Reference: D-019-001

Description: Shows a group of mailboxes at the corner of a deserted road, Central Otago Limited edition of 350 copies Accompanied by certificate of authentication Same as D-019-001a Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, col., 420 x 740 mm

Date: 1986

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Sunday star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-364-001/029

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 29 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: [ca 1909-1925]

Reference: PAColl-0392

Description: Photographs of: three mounted photographs of the interior of the Pipitea Point workshops showing truck repairs and carpentry; a motor waggon for collecting mail in service in 1912 - a vehicle with one wheel at the back, two at the front and a large trunk over the front axle for the mail; two mounted photographs of a picnic in 1923 for employees and their families; four photographs of the fleet of Albion trucks for collecting mail each with its driver; photograph of the GPO fleet of Enfield motocycles with side-cars in the stores yard at Pipitea Point; employees outside the amalgamated workshops at Pipitea Point (photograph in very poor condition); three photographs of an arm boring machine manufactured in 1924; copy print of a newspaper photograph from 1909 of a mail van collecting mail from a train to take to the General Post Office in Wellington; similar print of a laden mail van; and three duplicate prints of originals in the collection. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted and loose photographic prints

Date: [ca 1900]

Reference: PAColl-0402

Description: Photograph of a girl standing outside the post office at Pukehou. There is a post box on the wall beneath one of the windows behind her and the other has advertising for Colman's starch. Photographer unidentified. 1/2-140075 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted print 154mm x 105mm

Date: 1971

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook]. 1971.

Reference: E-468-f-006

Description: Letterboxes at 215 and 217 Newlands Road Other Titles - 1971 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 375 x 275 mm

Date: 1980

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

Reference: Plans-2009-082-4112-001/002

Description: Includes plans, elevations and sections, and a perspective drawing of a letterbox for Donald Reinken at number 2 Plunket Street, Kelburn. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on draughting paper, 420 x 595 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.

Date: 1979

By: Sydney, Grahame Charles, 1948-

Reference: D-019-001-a

Description: Shows a group of mailboxes at the corner of a deserted road, Central Otago Limited edition of 350 copies Accompanied by certificate of authentication Same as D-019-001 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 420 x 740 mm

Date: Between 1958 and 1983

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8850

Description: These slides are entitled "Rozel. Illustrations for journal". They include views of eucalyptus trees, lemon and grapfruit trees, their dog "Wee Dug", their 1951 Austin A40 car, a clematis ("Travellers' Joy") and the house. One picture taken in Cambridge shows an old red pillar box; smoke over a swamp fire in the distance; the Rukuhia Swamp; clouds over Pirongia; Waikato landscape and clouds; a young boy with a prize-winning calf; Horneman's farm at Ohaupo; a group identified only by Christian name ( Percy, Lindley, Joyce and Mr Spencer at Rozel), Gubbins oaks at Rozel, and oak blossom. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 2017 - 2018

From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]

By: Macready, Sara, 1950-

Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-2018-01

Description: Scope & Contents - Calendar on the theme of rural postal delivery, reproducing the artist's sketches of birds, letterboxes, a postman on a bicycle (a repeated motif), ripe fruit, sheep. Many of the letterboxes show the names of the owners; these may be actual residents of Golden Bay. Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on calendar of 12 openings, 210 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated by Sara Macready, Motupipi, in 2017.

Date: 1969

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook]. 1968-1969.

Reference: E-464-f-021

Description: Red post box on a telegraph pole Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, in sketchbook 320 x 410 mm

Date: 1971

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Sydney and Wellington sketchbook]. 1969-1971.

Reference: E-491-f-009

Description: Letterbox at roadside Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 270 x 185 mm

Date: 1967

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook]. 1967-1968.

Reference: E-461-f-017

Description: Shows fence and the letterbox at No 52, [Kaiwarra]. The inner harbour, wharves, St Gerard's Monastery and Oriental Bay can be seen in the distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink, 324 x 395 mm

Date: 1985 - 1987

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

Reference: Plans-2009-082-4172-001/053

Description: Includes proposed boundary adjustments bordering on the property of P R and B A Chapman; plans, elevations, details and sections of an addition to the Richardson house, plans for a new letterbox, site plans, and landscape design plan including a list of 30 plant species to be used. Quantity: 53 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on draughting paper, sizes varying up to 595 x 840 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.

Date: 1967

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook]. May-November 1967.

Reference: E-471-f-007

Description: Two letter boxes on a rural road at Paparangi erected on a fence and near a shed or garage with hills in the background. One of the boxes belonged to M Waugh. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink 273 x 360 mm

Date: 18 November 1978

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016

Reference: EP/1978/3728-F

Description: Police at a property in Waione Street, Petone, take control of an early morning fracas. The grounds are strewn with empty beer bottles, and molotov cocktails, their wicks protruding from the bottle necks, are ranged along the tops of the letter boxes. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley on the 18th of November 1978 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: Specialty Trading Company

Reference: Eph-A-FURNITURE-1940s-01/06

Description: Includes: 01. Catalogue numbers 55, 60, 65, 70, 75. Fixed steps, folding steps and other stepladders 02. Catalogue numbers 80, 85, 90 and 95. Ironing boards, clothes horeses and drying racks, wooden lid for a copper 03. Catalogue numbers 100, 105, 110 and 115. Garden roller, revolving clothes line (as supplied to state houses), garden seat and letterboxes 04. Catalogue numbers 120, 125, 130 and 135. Wooden towel rolls, kauri and mahogany toilet seats, kitchen chairs and wood gratings (trellis) 05. Catalogue numbers 140, 145, 150 and 155. Plunket folding cot, drop-side cot (oak or rimu), play pen and baby's commode 06. Catalogue numbers 160, 165, 170 and 175. Tea wagon (oak or rimu), plate rack, corner wardrobe and draught screen Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on fliers 222 x 140 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Joyce Megget, Papakura, in 2009.

Date: 1961

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans. ca 1930-1980]

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: Plans-94-039-088

Description: Elevations and sections for a letter box Related plans at Plans-94-039-096/099 Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil on tracing paper

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: 23 Mar 1995 - 23 Jan 1995

By: New Zealand. Department of Conservation; Hutching, Megan Alannah, 1957-; Graham, Lindsay Marquis, 1904-1999

Reference: OHColl-0301/1

Description: Lindsay Marquis Graham born Gore 1904. Describes growing up in Napier, Ashurst and Woodville. Outlines career in Public Service, starting in Land and Income Tax Department, which was situated in the upper floor, `Tomato House', Whitmore Street, 1922, moving to Public Trust Office 1926. Describes job in Land & Income Tax and how land tax was assessed. Gives reasons for visiting Government Buildings and describes building in detail. Recalls location of Post Office and briefly describes post office. Recalls war service (2NZEF 1942-1946). Mentions appointment to Public Service Commission and in 1957 commencing work at Education Department, Government Buildings. Recalls how office was heated in winter, fire regulations and fire drills, location of tea room and other departments in building at time. Briefly mentions post office boxes. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Arrangement: Tape numbers - 0HC-011136 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3891. Search dates: 1904 - 1995