Shoes

Date: 1920 - 1935

From: [New Zealand ephemera of octavo size concerning clothing, costume, fashion and dress. 1920-1929]

By: W H Beck (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-COSTUME-1920s-01

Description: Recto shows six different types of wear on the soles of shoes. These are said to indicate the following character types: economical, quiet and retiring, shallow and unreliable, music humorous and witty, attentive and thoughtful, and very affectionate. At the top is a picture of four feet in action on the floor. The verso is an advertisement for the pharmacy of W H Beck. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on card, 160 x 90 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 2005.

Date: 1960

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

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-137-179

Description: Shows four scenes. In the first motorists are trying to drive in windy conditions. The second shows a fencer. The third shows a young rugby player talking to his father. In the fourth scene bowlers are looking horrified at the holes a women has made in the green by a woman wearing stiletto heels. Extended Title - No wonder the Tauherenikau race meeting is regarded as a picnic affair - Wellington punters had quite a picnic getting home from it last Saturday. Naturally enough the "jump" attack is favoured by visiting Australian fencers. "Hey, Dad! our team's in the 'glamour grade'!" And then there was the wife who rushed out to congratulate her husband on his bowls victory - wearing stiletto heels. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, chinese white and letratone on paper, 560 x 380 mm

Date: 1992

From: Clark, Laurence [Klarc], 1949- :New Zealand Herald cartoons, 17 March - 6 May 1992

Reference: H-009-005

Description: Shows two men with cargo unloaded on a wharf including a container of second-hand Phillippine shoes and several Japanese cars. Refers to dumping of cheap Asian footwear on the New Zealand market, to the enormous collection of shoes owned by Imelda Marcos, and to second-hand imported Japanese cars Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph

Date: 1999

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-554-021/042

Description: Political cartoons. Jenny Shipley waits for the corner to be turned in the tourism row. Fringe political games. 1. Murray McCully passes the buck on the tourism row. 2. Helen Clark spread the rumour. Comment on the barbarism of human behaviour as news tells us that Hutu rebels hack tourists to death in Uganda. Comment on Air New Zealand's growing service and safety problems. More Fringe political games... Dodging the issue - Jenny Shipley. Losing the plot: - Clem Simich. A TVNZ executive is put in the firing line over the John Hawkesby payout. Farmers celebrate the end of the draught. Monica Lewinsky's side of the Bill Clinton sex scandal. Saatch boss, Kevin Roberts is made to walk the plank by the Tourism Board. New developments in genetic modification. Comment on the resilience of Tourism Minister Murray McCully to withstand the tourism row. Jenny Shipley explains she won't support the Alliance's Bill calling for labelling of all genetically modified food until the Bill has been redrafted with the National Party logo on the front instead of the Alliance one. A look into the Serbian Police Handbook which identifies threats and instructs Serbian Police to destroy them. The British establishment congratulate themselves on rooting out greed and corruption from the IOC (International Olympic Committee?) and go back to their indulgent ways. Comment on the contradiction between Paul Holmes pitching his show to the ordinary kiwi while receiving a $770,000 salary. Helen Clark trails in the polls as Labour heads toward the next election. Jenny Shipley leads the charge of the firemen against unpopular reformer Roger Estall. Allied planes swoop low over a Serbian soldier about to execute a woman and her baby. Allied war planes are dispatched with personal messages, except the spelling isn't that flash. Comment on the publics feeling of helplessness in the face of mass killings in Kosovo and the Nato response to the violence. Comment on the thought that the APEC summit in Auckland would bring American tourists. Comment on voyeuristic television shows. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1993

By: Minnie Cooper (Firm)

Reference: Eph-D-COSTUME-1993-03

Description: Shows an alligator skin lace-up shoe on a blue wicker chair; the photograph is tipped 90 degrees. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 595 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated by Hamish Thompson of Wellington in 2004.

Date: 1860 - 1935

By: Carey, Alison, active 1994-2006; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Clarke, William Henshaw, 1831-1910; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm); Greenwood, Mary Elizabeth, 1873-1961; Pollard, Edwin Kelah, 1855-1905; Frisco Photographic Company; Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3724

Description: Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w copy photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1945 - 1950

By: McNamara, John Joseph, 1918-2001; Southern Cross (Newspaper : 1946-1951)

Reference: A-369-124/134

Description: Political cartoons from the end of the ministry of Peter Fraser, and the lead up to the 1949 election in which he was defeated by Sidney Holland. These cartoons mainly address Holland's link to the British conservatives (which McNamara had a very negative view of), and general electioneering. Other cartoons relate to the "baby boom" that occurred after the war, the political situation in Britain, and an electricity crisis. Some illustrations of animals are also included. Quantity: 11 newsclippings. Physical Description: Newspaper clippings glued to wallpaper, sizes vary

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: 1925 - 1935

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].

Reference: B-185-168

Description: Collaged page layout for an advertisement for Bridgens Shoes, shows a head and shoulders photographic portrait of a glamourously-dressed young woman with a pearl necklace, and three styles of shoes for the left foot. Below is a photograph of the factory or warehouse of Bridgens & Company on a street corner site in Auckland. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Collaged photolithographs, ink and pencil, on card 412 x 283 mm.

Date: 1838 - 1835 - 1843 - 1836

From: Various artists :[66 engravings of Oceanian subjects, including Tahiti, Marquesas, Tonga, Pitcairn, Vanuatu, and Polynesia in general. 1838-1843].

By: Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842

Reference: A-318-008

Description: Shows Tagalog man and woman in courtly traditional dress, the woman with a parasol and both with curled-toed shoes. On the right sits a young short-haired Aeta [?] woman in a sari-like costume. The setting is a fenced clearing, with part of a hut at the left. Plate 74 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. French edition (1835-36), has same plate and has the additional information that Danvin was the copyist. Peronard engraved the French version, but the engraver of the Italian version is not given. Other Titles - Philippines. Tugales de l'ile de Loucon et jeune montagnarde Aeta Other Titles - Tagales Other Titles - Tugalen von der Insel Loucon und junge aetanische Bergbewohnerin Other Titles - Tagalogs of the island of Luzon and young mountain-dwelling Aeta woman. Extended Title - From G L Domeny's "Oceania o quinta parte del mondo revista geografica ed etnografica della Malesia, della Micronesia, della Polinesia e della Melanesia ...". Venezia, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1838-43. (Italian edition of his "Oceanie ...". Paris, Firmin Didot freres, 1835-36). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 74 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane Ltd Winter Antique auction, 1997, lots 462, 463, 466, 468, and 470.

Date: 1839-1874, [n d]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0995

Description: Papers mainly concerning land; includes draft agreement with John Branks, farmer of Wellington, 1847; correspondence with Douglas Collins (brother-in-law) re land transactions, 1849-1850; draft agreement with Charles Nicol, baker of Wanganui, 1853; lease agreement with John Gerse, 1858; agreement with Benjamin Reeves of Porirua, 1860; document re appointment of John Elisha Smith as Deputy Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages for District of Wellington, with Strang as his deputy, 1859; lease agreement with John Glover, carter of Wanganui re land at Wanganui, 1865; copy of deed with John Lockhart, confectioner of Wanganui re land at Wanganui, 1866; letter from Colonial Secretary's Office granting a pension to Strang on his retirement, 1868. Two accounts for goods purchased in Glasgow before departure for New Zealand, one being for a large quantity of shoes, mainly for Mrs and Miss Strang, 1839. Copies of wills made by Strang in 1848 and 1867; papers re his estate, etc, 1874 Account for the funeral of Strang's wife, Susan who died in Dec 1851. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1993

By: Campion, Edith, 1923-2007

Reference: Eph-D-COSTUME-1993-02

Description: An arrangement of text with a decorative pseudo-Victorian border. Lists shoes formerly owned by Suzy Aikem, Sheilah Winn, Burton Silver, Sir Tosswill Woollaston, Sir Edmund Hillary, Keri Hulme, Sir Robert Muldoon, Sir David Beattie, Royd Kennedy, Grant Fox, Steve Parr, Barbara Kendall, Naomi Diachuk (Lange), John Walker, Edith Campion, Sir Richard Hadlee, Alison Holst, Dame Malvina Major, Mark Todd. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. 4 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 583 x 210 mm. Provenance: Donated by Edith Campion in 1993. Transfers: To Ephemera Collection - Various progammes and other material - To Photographic Archive - Various photographs - To Oral History Collection - One cassette tape.

Date: ca 1915

Reference: 1/2-174779-G

Description: Dr Scholl's foot service shop window, Willis Street, Wellington Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Half a whole plate negative

Date: 1950 - 1969

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-388-038

Description: Shows a man and his wife walking along a street at night and discussing their stolen car. The man is holding his shoes rather than wearing them. He appears to be in pain, and has possibly stubbed his toe Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and white corrector on card, 280 x 255 mm

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: 11 March 1992 - 11 Mar 1992

From: Labour Movement Oral History Project

By: Maher, Ernest James, 1914-1994

Reference: OHInt-0056/14

Description: Ernie Maher born Dunedin. Recalls floods in South Dunedin (1924). Outlines working career, starting as message boy for boot manufacturer, John Thompsons, and then a permanent job at fertiliser works until World War II. Talks about post war employment and describes business in Roslyn area. Describes conditions during the Depression (1930-1935). Recalls Labour Party coming to power in 1935 and mentions improvements in conditions. Talks about involvement in the New Zealand Freezing Workers Related Trades Union and recalls early involvement in the Labour Party in South Dunedin Branch. Is a Life member of the Otago and Southland Meat Workers Union. Discusses involvement in other activities - Cricket and football. Sport identities mentioned include: Harry Simon, Dave Travatten (players in Southern Club Test 1937); George Nepia, George Hart and Mike Gilbert with reference to Ranfurly Shield; Charlie Saxton, George Dickerson, Warren Lees and Ian Smith (cricket). Discusses boot making and names kinds of shoes made as well as changes to the boot trade. Comments on situation of superannuitants. Venue - Dunedin Interviewer(s) - Robert Paton Venue - Dunedin Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0910.

Date: 1955 - 1956

From: [Mitchell, Victor Leonard William] 1925-1980 :[Studies for the Lower Hutt War Memorial Library murals. 1955-1956]

By: Mitchell, Victor Leonard William, 1925-1980

Reference: B-125-072

Description: Inscriptions: Recto - artist's notes on colour; Recto - bottom right - Naera Pomare Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 372 x 270 mm

Date: 1978

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; E C Keating (Firm)

Reference: Eph-D-LANDS-1978-01

Description: Poster shows an illustration of a rosy-cheeked boy as seen from below, so that the soles of his shoes are visible. The left sole has on it a map of a track by a river. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on poster, 595 x 420 mm.

Date: 2000 - 2012

Reference: Eph-C-BAGS-Bailey-2013

Description: Includes bags for: Countdown brown onions. Best before 13 Aug [20]13 Fresh cherries. Bag 225 x 187 mm. Downtown Duty free; shere everything's waiting for you Pyper's Produce, Invercargill New Zealand. Carrots. 1 kg net Pams Fresh Express. Carrots. 1.5 kg net ENZA. Jazz snackers. Tangy-sweet & crunchy; ripe for snacking. Apples. 1.5 kg. Packed for Turners and Growers, 2 Monahan Road, Mt Wellington, Auckland Hannah's. Life's your catwalk. www.hannahs.co.nz [Shows a black and white photograph of a smiling young couple] NelSun Farmer fresh onions. 1.5 kg net. Marketed by R & C Conning, 83 Edens Rd, RD1, Richmond, Nelson New Zealand pears. Nelson fresh. Suncrisp by Echodale. Suncrisp Packham pears [2013?] Prime Harvest carrots, freshly picked and selected for their quality and taste. 1.5 kg net. Supplied by Plains Produce Limited, Chapman Street, Rakaia [Canterbury] Southern Cross Produce Limited. So Sweet Southland parsnips; flavour from below the 45. 500 gm. Talley's mixed vegetables. 1 kg net. Best before Nov 2014 Visique Optometrists. We take eyes seriously. EPI Sherpac 0800484888 Quantity: 13 plastic bags. Physical Description: Colour prints on plastic bags, sizes varying up to 500 mm.

Date: 1957

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-386-139

Description: Shows seven frames illustrating scenes of people going about their daily lives with no shoes on. The first frame shows a boss, and reads 'The boss, barefoot, may lose a little of his dignity and he may think twice before he gives you the boot!' The next frame reads 'What temptation for office boys!' and shows a boy putting tacks on the floor in an office. The third frame shows a woman polishing her feet and the heading reads 'And the office girl says 'What's it going to cost for rouge, powder & polish now?'' The next frame is titled 'Appropriate for Canterbury winter' and shows a man and a woman standing in the rain with umbrellas. The fifth frame reads 'The busy housewife could be even busier', and depicts a woman cooking while knitting with her toes. In the next frame, a man is using his toes to calculate how much he spends on his family's shoes. Text reads 'There would be ONE bill that Dad wouldn't have to foot, but...' In the final frame, titled '...Some politicians may double their efficiency in their particular jobs', a politician is collecting money with both his hands and feet Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and newsprint on card, 253 x 280