Dunedin Post Office

Date: [1870s]

From: Christie, Hettie Florence (Miss), fl 1973 : Photograph albums

By: Allen, Joseph Weaver, 1821-1886; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-053

Description: Album of pressed ferns, and photographs of Dunedin buildings, taken in the 1870s by J W Allen. Includes one postcard "Maori land. The Maori portraits are originals taken from life" taken by the Burton Brothers. Other Titles - New Zealand ferns Inscriptions: Album page - G.S. Christie, Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, 3rd June 1968 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album in dark green cover entitled "New Zealand ferns", 37 x 29 cm

Date: 1935

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating the the Post Office and postal and telegraph services]

Reference: Eph-A-POST-1935-02

Description: Folded invitation card shows an illustration of the Dunedin Post Office building on the front. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on folded sheet, 215 x 160 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane auction, Wellington, 19 September 2013, part of lot 320, originally collected by Melville E Hankins. Transfers: Collection accessioned in Ephemera; photographic material transferred to Photographic Archive..

Date: [ca 1880s]

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

Reference: PA7-39-20

Description: View looking south from the corner of Princes and Water streets, Dunedin. The Post Office (with clock) is on the left and on the opposite side of Princes Street are the Colonial Mutual Life Assuance Society Ltd and Wain's Hotel. The street is crowded with horse-drawn carriages and people. Photograph taken by Burton brothers in 1880s. From `New Zealand through the camera' series of photographs Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 5151 - Princes Street, Dunedin; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.4 x 20.2 cm on mount 22.8 x 29.2 cm

Date: ca 1937-1950

From: Jones, Winifred, fl 1950-2004 :Photographs relating to Frederick Jones

By: Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966

Reference: PA1-o-1230

Description: Album containing photographs relating to the work of Frederick Jones as Postmaster General and Minister of Defence, including photographs of opening ceremonies for post offices around New Zealand, the Jones family, the Achilles arriving at Auckland, and Jones meeting various personalities. Album also contains souvenir items from the opening of the Chief Post Office, Dunedin. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black leather bound album 24.5 x 31.2 cm

Date: ca 1860

From: Pharazyn, W N (Major) : W Hughes Field album

Reference: 1/2-048814-F

Description: Overlooking Dunedin city buildings, harbour and wharves, in the late 1870s. Shows rooftops in the foreground. The Dunedin Post Office (middle ground, far right), is alongside the Exchange Building (with clock tower). Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1930 - 1970

Reference: Eph-A-STATIONERY-Evans-1930/1960s

Description: Includes envelopes for: Official opening of the new Chief Post Office, Dunedin [1937] (2 colours - 1 copy blue, 2 copies brown) Centenary of the first Maori Bible, printed by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1868. With information slip inside [1968](2 copies) First official trans Tasman flight linking up the Empire Service route, the world's longest air route. Pioneers of this route Kingsford Smith & Ulm [1934] (2 copies) Tourist Promotion Society, Kaitaia. "Discover the Far North" [1950s?] (2 copies) Coronation of King George VI & Queen Elizabeth, 12 May 1937. Copies in brown, oragne and blue (1 of each) Canterbury Centennial International Philatelic Exhibition, Christchurch 1950. (Shows illustration of Mount Cook and of a statue of John Robert Godley)(2 copies) Pan Pacific Jamboree, Auckland January 1959 (2 copies) Fishing industry, 3 December 1969. [Illustration of] Discovery of New Zealand by Mauitikitiki a Taranga] (2 copies, one light-browned) Government Life Insurance Office. Souvenir cover, first day of issue [undated] Nelson Cathedral City 1858-1958. Official souvenir cover Centenary Otago University 1869-1969. First day of issue, 3rd June 1969 (2 copies) National Patriotic Fund Board [1940s?] (2 copies) Waitangi Hotel, Bay of Islands, New Zealand. [Illustration of] Treaty House. [1960s?] Souvenir of New Zealand (Shows two Maori carvings) [1960s?] (2 copies) Health stamp covers for 1956, 1957 (3 copies) and five other years undated International Labour organisation, 50th anniversary, 11 Feb 1968 International Human Rights Year 1969. Souvenir cover, first day of issue, September 19th 1968 Bay of Islands New Zealand (Shows map and jumping marlin) Colin Branch Wholesale (Rotorua). A souvenir colour picture A Kiwi Colour view; a glimpse of New Zealand's beauty Voting paper with coat of arms "Amicus certus in re incerta" Quantity: 28 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief prints on envelopes, sizes varying around 90 x 150 mm.