Tools

Date: 1928

By: Stewart Hardware Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-TOOLS-1928-01

Description: Includes lists and illustrations of merchandise available, including adzes, augers, awls, axes, bits, mitre boxes, braces, chisels, chucks, clamps, files, gimlets, irons, lamps, planes, squares, tapes, plasterers' tools, trowels, spanners, taps, wrenches, vices, etc. Other Titles - Stewart's Hardware Ltd, the leading tool and hardware house, Courtenay Place, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 104 pages, each 242 x 189 mm. Provenance: Purchased from New Zealand Books online auction, 23 May 2006.

Date: 1925

By: McLean & Archibald Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-TOOLS-1925-01

Description: Includes lists and illustrations of merchandise available, including adzes, augers, awls, axes, bits, mitre boxes, braces, chisels, tool baskets, clamps, files, gimlets, irons, kerosene lamps, planes, spokeshaves, squares, tapes, plasterers' tools, trowels, spanners, pocket knives, scissors, razors, vices, gardening tools. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Letterpress with engravings, 76 pages, 275 x 220 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1982.

Date: 1863

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Nairn, Francis Edward, 1819?-1910

Reference: E-372-f-017-2

Description: Four men climbing a narrow path amongst rocky mountains, carrying picks, shovels, billys, tents and other baggage. Possibly a scene in Central Otago. After a drawing by Francis Nairn Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 43, November 1863, p.505 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving

Date: 1914 - 1985

From: Northwood Brothers fl.1910-1930s :The Northwood Brothers. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of the Listener, 1985. (Imagers of a new land, series 4).

By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Listener (Periodical); Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-

Reference: C-106-019-a

Description: Shows a group of 3 seated and 6 standing gumdiggers with prods, kete and spades. Container has not been assigned location number and is therefore not separately catalogued. Other images have been separately catalogued. Other Titles - Photographs by the Northwood Brothers. Other Titles - Dirty but happy Austrian gummdiggers. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original glass plates by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of the Listener. / [Title] / Arthur Northwood photograph; Recto - bottom centre - DIRTY BUT HAPPY AUSTRIAN GUMDIGGERS. 45 A. NORTHWOOD. PPOT 1-8-14 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 258 x 334 mm, on sheet 350 x 440 mm. Provenance: Deposited on Legal Deposit, 1986.

Date: 1904

By: Buick & Young (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-MACHINERY-1904-01

Description: Shows portraits of the proprietors E R B Holben and W Kirk. Includes descriptions and illustrations of engines, boilers, cream vats, pulleys, pumps, milk cans, hoses, babcock testers, the "Neulyte" incandescent gas installation, electrical goods, cream coolers, butter printer and pounder, curd mills, rotary milk pumps, corn grinder, siphon well, turbine water-wheel, butter churns, the "Baltic" separator, "Melotte" separator, Reid's hand separator, woodworking tools, horticultural tools, "Aquarius" spray pump, side-delivery rake, Manitoba hay stacker, Thomas hay tedder, Noxon mowers and disc harrows, hoes, bone cutters, potato digger, grain grinder, pulper and slicer, Daniels Canadian incubator, O.K. washing machine, hay rake, steamship machinery, Wagner's testing glassware. Quantity: 1 sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Catalogue of 100 pages, 217 x 282 mm.

Date: 1914 - 1985

From: Northwood Brothers fl.1910-1930s :The Northwood Brothers. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of the Listener, 1985. (Imagers of a new land, series 4).

By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Listener (Periodical); Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-

Reference: C-106-019

Description: Shows a group of 3 seated and 6 standing gumdiggers with prods, kete and spades. Container has not been assigned location number and is therefore not separately catalogued. Other images have been separately catalogued. Other Titles - Photographs by the Northwood Brothers. Other Titles - Dirty but happy Austrian gummdiggers. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original glass plates by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of the Listener. / [Title] / Arthur Northwood photograph; Recto - bottom centre - DIRTY BUT HAPPY AUSTRIAN GUMDIGGERS. 45 A. NORTHWOOD. PPOT 1-8-14 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 258 x 334 mm, on sheet 350 x 440 mm. Provenance: Deposited on Legal Deposit, 1986.

Date: 1982 - 1983

By: Wanganui Hire Centre; Stone, Arthur Richard (Dr), active 1970-2000

Reference: Eph-B-HIRE-1982/83

Description: Items for hire include: air compressors, air tools, automotive tools, electric tools, hand tools, baby needs (cots, highchairs, pushchairs), cleaning equipment, compaction equipment, concrete equipment, garden tools, generators, barbecues, exercycles an gym equipment, plumbing tools, painting equipment, pumps, saws, trailers, welding equipment, catering and party hire. Quantity: 2 Other printed ephemera item(s) (sales catalogues). Physical Description: Gestetnered sheets stapled together, 340 x 210 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr A Richard Stone in 2002.

Date: 1928

By: McLean & Archibald Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-TOOLS-1928-01

Description: Includes lists and illustrations of merchandise available, including adzes, augers, awls, axes, bits, mitre boxes, braces, chisels, electrical goods, enamel paints, gauges, soldering irons, tool baskets, gimlets, irons, knives, kerosene lamps, planes, saws, squares, tapes, plasterers' tools, trowels, spanners, pocket knives, scissors, wrenches, vices, gardening tools. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photocopies, double-sided, 297 x 420 mm.

Date: 1927

By: McLean & Archibald Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-TOOLS-1927-01

Description: Includes lists and illustrations of merchandise available, including adzes, augers, awls, axes, bits, mitre boxes, braces, chisels, electrical goods, enamel paints, gauges, soldering irons, tool baskets, gimlets, irons, knives, kerosene lamps, planes, saws, squares, tapes, plasterers' tools, trowels, spanners, pocket knives, scissors, wrenches, vices, gardening tools. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 88 pages, 280 x 220 mm. Provenance: Donated by the Staffan family in 2008. Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Transfers made from here..

Date: 1930 - 1939

By: Johns Ltd; Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014; Atkinson's Books (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-ELECTRIC-Johns

Description: Annual price lists and illustrated catalogues Two copies of 1932-33 Quantity: 4 sales catalogues. Physical Description: Letterpress in volumes each approximately 80 pages, 240 x 180 mm.

Date: 1880 - 1900

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon 1840-1930 :[Marvin - Robley correspondence. Illustrated letters, post-cards, envelopes addressed to the Marvin family, between 1898 and 1913]

Reference: E-403-f-002-1

Description: Drawings of various artefacts, including a tiki, jade hook, chisel handle and a ring, held at British Museum Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Old jade at British Museum Quantity: 5 drawing(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 250 x 130 mm

Date: 1933

By: McLean & Archibald Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-TOOLS-1933-01

Description: Includes lists and illustrations of merchandise available, including adzes, augers, awls, axes, bits, mitre boxes, braces, chisels, electrical goods, enamel paints, garden tools, gauges, soldering irons, tool baskets, gimlets, irons, knives, kerosene lamps, planes, saws, squares, tapes, plasterers' tools, trowels, spanners, pocket knives, scissors, wrenches, vices. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Loose photocopies on 6, 91 + 17 sheets, 297 x 210 mm.

Date: ca 1980s and 1996

From: Eglinton, Graham Edward, 1923-2005, and Frank Malcolm: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1207

Description: Scrapbook compiled by Graham Eglinton in circa 1980s about the restoration of his cottage in Carterton. Contains black and white and colour photographs of the cottage before and during restoration. Images show interior and exterior views. Graham Eglinton's son Ray Eglinton, and other children and adults (probably Eglinton family members) are shown in many images, they are shown both working and relaxing at the cottage. They are frequently shown with tools and wearing swandris or plaid shirts, tool belts, overalls or jeans, and boots. BMX bikes are shown in several photos. One image shows a child posing with his head and hands in wooden stocks next to another child with a bottle. Also includes a copy of a 1916 photograph of the cottage with four children and a bicycle in front of it (one of the children is identified as Rita Nelson), a sketch of the cottage by an unidentified artist, and newspaper clippings. Loose accompanying material includes photographs, photocopies from a publication, and an invitation for Graham Eglinton to afternoon tea at their Carterton residence 'Bushbury' from Alison and Tommy Underhill (1996). Title supplied by library Graham Eglinton bought and started restoring (in 1982) the 1870s house at 1341 High Street in Carterton known as "Daniel Jensens' cottage". The cottage was sold by his son Ray Eglinton in 2003. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 78 colour original photographic prints, 26 b&w original photographic prints, 5 b&w photo-mechanical prints and accompanying loose manuscripts and photocopies.. Physical Description: Photograph album with hardcover and spiral binding, used as a scrapbook, 29.5 x 27.5 cm.

Date: 1886 - 1890

From: Lister, Joseph Jackson 1857-1927 :[Lister album] 1886-1890 [Watercolours by Joseph, and possibly Isabella and Gulielma Lister]

Reference: E-394-f-016

Description: A man seated outside a rough wooden shack. Shovels, axes and picks lean against a tree stump in the foreground, a fish hangs from the roof of a lean-to kitchen, a horse's saddle is hanging from a support to the right, and there are barrels, a wheelbarrow and other objects visible. The man is smoking a cigarette Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 219 x 288 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: 1925 - 1935

Reference: Eph-B-TOOLS-1930-01

Description: Includes descriptions and illustrations of products: all manner of carpentry tools (drills, gauges, levels, calipers, rulers and measuring tapes, planes, screwdrivers, pliers, saws, spanners, vices), bricklaying and plastering tools (trowels, jointers, etc), horseshoers' and blacksmiths' tools (farriers' knives, hoof parers, forging tongs), anvils, forges, grinders (pedal powered), razor hones, screwing tackle, taps, pipes, dies, pumps, spray pumps, agricultural tools (spades, shovels, forks, rakes, clippers, shears, scythes, picks, cultivators and seeders), scales and balances, household ironmongery (irons, wringers, churns, carpet sweepers, bread maker, mangles, primus stoves, kerosene stoves, kitchen utensils and cookware, baking tins, graters, enamel dishes and jugs, suacepans, teapots, kives, scissors, clocks, door handles, sporting goods (croquet, tennis, cricket, bowls). Dated by the vendor. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 86 pages, 280 x 220 mm. Provenance: Purchased from South Sea Books in 2001.

Date: 1902 - 1907

By: McLean & Archibald Ltd; C M Banks Ltd; Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-B-TOOLS-1903-01

Description: Includes lists and illustrations of merchandise available, including axes, tool baskets, bits, braces, clamps, chisels, files, gimlets, irons, kerosene lamps, planes, spokeshaves, squares, tapes, carving tools, vices, gardening tools, cutlery, razors, varnishes and stains, hinges, handles, potato chip cutters, pulleys, mangles, mouse-traps, hiar brushes, household brushes, enamel ware and saucepans. Previously thought to date from around 1910, and given reference number Eph-B-TOOLS-1910-01. Date now assumed to be between 1902 and 1907 for two reasons: (1) Dated prior to 1907, when the "Colony", described this in the catalogue, became a Dominion; (2) The Stanley Adjustable Rabbet planes model numbers 92, 93, 94 (See the unindexed supplement page 107) are reported to have been first manufactured in 1902 (Researcher J Harris, October 2012, refers to John Walter's "Antique & collectible Stanley tools; a guide to identity and value", 2nd edition 1996, pages 420-421. This book not sighted here). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Letterpress with engravings, 109 pages, 275 x 220 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Les Cleveland in 1998.

Date: 1926 - 1927

By: Farmers' Trading Company; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1926-01

Description: Illustrated mail order sales catalogue for the Farmers' Trading Company store in Auckland gives ordering instructions and rail freight details. Merchandise includes sewing machines, phonographs, radiola, furniture and carpets, motorcycles and bicycles, made to measure clothing, Wolseley cream separator, pedal cars on the roof of the Farmers', aluminiumware, banking, bedding, shoes, phonographs, crockery, cutlery, tableware, lampware, linoleum (2 colour plates on one loose sheet), grocery, haberdashery, horse and cow covers, milking machines, musical instruments, paints, patent medicines, pianos, poultrykeepers' supplies, saddlery, seeds, spray pumps, tools, toys, tents, wallpapers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 580 pages, 267 x 210 mm. Provenance: Purchased from A & S Gallagher, in 2011.

Date: [c 1960s]

From: New Zealand Association of Waterfront Employers :Photographs of ports, docks and shipping around the world.

Reference: PA12-8643

Description: 24 transparency slides relating to the New Zealand Association of Waterfront Employers, taken in the early 1960s. Places identified: Cardiff, Liverpool, Rotterdam, Le Harve (France), Avonmouth (Bristol), Antwerp (Belgium), Hamburg, Amsterdam, (9 slides with unidentified location). Cardiff: General harbour view of boat at docks. Liverpool: Image of sledges used in the hold, detail of bag sling and a tent. Rotterdam: Harbour view showing a compass adjuster in use. Le Harve (France): General view of docks across the sea showing sub pens and wind deflectors, stacked wine containers. Avonmouth (Bristol): General view of docks and cargo conveyer belt in use. Antwerp (Belgium): View of docks showing a customs van - conveyer of goods under free port facilities. Hamburg: General view of docks showing a freezer truck, grain machine, oil drill platforms. 9 slides with unidentified location: General views of docks, loading goods and wharf workers. Quantity: 24 colour copy transparency/ies. Physical Description: 35mm colour slides

By: Smith, Benjamin Israel Joseph, active 1989

Reference: PAColl-1260

Description: Advertisements for the Bettair company Photographs of the employees of the Bettair company working Quantity: 21 photocopy/ies in one envelope.