Special sales

Date: 1890

By: Te Aro House Drapery Co. Ltd; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-RETAIL-1890-01

Description: An advertising poster showing an illustration of the Te Aro House building and listing a range of dresses and jackets available at an upcoming sale. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on sheet 420 x 285 mm.

Date: 1904 - 1910

From: Kirkcaldie & Stains Ltd: Papers and records

Reference: Eph-A-KIRKCALDIE-4-1904/1910

Description: Includes: 28 March 1904: Postcard showing a photograph of a small girl sitting on a rock, and announcing sales of gloves, knitted golf jerseys, French flannel and Delaine blouses. 28 March 1904: An identical postcard with the image of the small girl reversed. 28 March 1904: Five further postcards with the images of the same girl, announcing special reductions in the glove department. One postcard is annotated in pencil. 1904: Postcard featuring the same girl, advertising a "great summer sale" in the manchester and furnishings departments. 1904: Three further postcards with images of the same girl, advertising "money-saving bargains in every department". 8 September 1904: Postcard shows an embossed nymph seated on the from of a photographic view of the Wanganui River. The verso announces the availability of Spring suitings, and is addressed to W Read esq, 22 Austin Street. Rubber stamp postmark is 8 September 1904. 29 April 1905: Two postcards announcing special bargains in silks and furs. The verso of each postcard show a nymph seated on the front of photographic views of a river and a geyser. 20 February 1906: Four postcards announcing "our first grand display" for autumn and winter. The verso of each card show hand-drawn scenes of a young boy and girl wearing rabbit ears and holding a basket of Easter eggs. 25 October 1907: A further postcard featuring the same children, advertising the arrival of new children's summer clothes to Kirkcaldie & Stains. 1910: Blank postcard, with the verso showing a photograph of the Kirkcaldie & Stains building, captioned "Lambton Quay Wellington, N.Z., looking south". Printed in Saxony ca 1910. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 21 postcards. Physical Description: Embossed postcards with advertisements printed on one side, each 135 x 90 mm.

Date: 29 July 1991

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

By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s

Reference: EP/1991/2153-F

Description: Crowd at the opening of the Kirkcaldie and Stains winter sale. The sales director, Graham Roche is at the far left, having opened the door. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin on 29 July 1991. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35 mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1879-1889, [ca 1910s], 1928, 1930-1942, [ca 1950s-1970s]

From: Hannah family: Collection relating to the Hannah family and R. Hannah & Co. Ltd

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Batchelor's Candid Studio; Don & Beatrice Peat Studio; Redfern Studios Ltd; Russell Orr Ltd; Filmograph Company (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-10468-2

Description: Contains photographs of Hannah's shops throughout New Zealand, the R. Hannah & Co. Ltd factory in Leeds Street, and company staff. Photographs were taken between 1879 and the 1970s by the Filmograph Company Wellington, F. G. Barker, Russell Orr, Batchelor’s Candid Studio, Redfern Studios, K. E. Niven Studio, Don & Beatrice Peat Studio, Jerome Studios, and other unidentified photographers. Photographs relating to Hannah's shops show building exteriors and window displays throughout New Zealand between 1928 and circa 1980s: Ashburton, Napier (showing earthquake damage in 1931), Masterton, Wellington (Cuba Street and Lambton Quay), Greymouth, and Auckland (Queen Street, Otahuhu). Other prints depict staff, customers, and shoe displays inside shops in Blenheim, Tauranga, and at 230 Heretaunga Street, Hastings. Further photographs also relate specifically to Hannah’s shops in the Hawke’s Bay, likely during the 1940s and 1950s. Eight prints depict the exterior and interior of a shop identified as “Hastings Branch”. Twelve prints relating to the opening of Hannah's 48th branch on Emerson Street, Napier, show signs announcing an opening sale, customers waiting outside, and the shop filled with staff, customers, shoes, and price signs. Other prints depict similar sales in Greymouth and Whakatane. Nine prints depict the Leeds Street factory interior and successive stages of the mechanised shoe manufacturing process, circa 1908. Prints show the factory layout, women sewing, men using different machines to assemble shoes and attach soles or heels, people packing shoes for dispatch, supervisors in white lab coats, and stacked raw materials or half-finished shoes. One print depicts the view towards Wellington Harbour over houses and commercial buildings on Cuba, Marion and Leeds streets. Several buildings are labelled: R. Hannah & Co., Aspro, People’s Palace, and C & A Odlin Timber & Hardware Co. Ltd. A 1952 copy print is an oblique projection line drawing of the Leeds Street factory. Photographs of staff include portraits of Robert Hannah (circa 1880s), William Hannah (circa 1930), S. L. Blank (1964), R. J. McAsley (1971), and Finance Director N. East (circa 1960s). Group portraits include two prints depicting workers outside the entrance to the R. Hannah Co. Ltd Cuba Street factory and first Cuba Street shop in 1879. Six other group portraits depict possibly managers in the Wellington warehouse "Conference Room" (1966), and supervisors "on occassion of retirement party" (1975). Named staff include: D. C. Brown, D. R. Watt, W. Davis, A. Dowdle, W. Muller, R. McIntyre, F. Owers, A. D. Anton, H. C. Campion, R. Parkes, H. T. Hutton, A. W. Pike, D. G. Finlayson, D. L. Travers, A. Cornish, R. J. Laffan, F. Wigney, J. F. Crump, G. T. Hedges, H. J. Lichtwark, Ray Jones, Denny Dawe, Doug Askew, Hal Crooks, Doug Luke, Ian Walker, and Rex Gardiner. Remaining prints show a Hannah’s shoes display at the 1952 Wellington Winter Show, Robert Hannah and another man with a car (1928), and a horse-drawn float displaying Hannah’s Christmas advertising in a parade at the Basin Reserve (1928). Arrangement: Chronological. Quantity: 81 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: 83 photographic prints

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-387-194

Description: Shows two women standing outside a clothing shop which is having a big sale. Both women have a broken arm and a black eye as a result of a fight they had while shopping there. Two other women are leaving the store, and both have ripped clothes and messy hair Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and blue coloured pencil on card, 255 x 280 mm

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-387-119

Description: Shows three frames. The first frame is titled 'Some parents object to children answering school quiz.' It shows a teacher testing a student and the student saying, 'Is that an educational research quiz - or do I have to answer that one?' The next frame is titled 'Lyttelton's Mayor has suggested a keg in one corner and a TAB in the other to entice voters to the polling booths.' It shows a man attempting to stop a crowd of men who are forcing their way into a polling booth. The final frame is titled 'Why not, then, have some entertainment for our women voters?' It shows a clothing sale inside a polling booth. A sign reads, 'Monster sale of new season's hats, all at 1/4 price' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and white corrector on card, 255 x 280 mm

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-387-162

Description: Shows a woman who has just arrived home from a shopping trip. Her husband is sitting by the fireplace, waiting to hear what she bought. The woman is in the kitchen, standing next to a large pile of parcels, and a newspaper on the kitchen bench reads 'Winter sale'. She looks nervous, and is putting a tranquiliser pill into her husband's cup of tea Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and blue coloured pencil on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: 2010

From: Ekers, Paul, 1961-:[Digital cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald and other publications]

Reference: DCDL-0029353

Description: Black and white cartoon shows a man reading a newspaper with a large advertisement regarding sales and promotions for Queen's Birthday. The man frowns and thinks to himself, '20 per cent off tvs, manchester, kitchenware, the number of public holidays we actually got in 2010.' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1965

By: Vance Vivian Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-COSTUME-1965-01

Description: Poster printed black on white on recto, and red and black on white on the verso. The recto lists in detail the prices for many goods: suits, raincoats, knitwear, underwear, trousers, shirts, pyjamas, heavy overcoats, cuff links, hats, sports shirts, reefers, sportcoats, socks, and a number of ladies' raincoats. The verso has a special invitation in red, to "valued preference" customers, to attend two whole days of sale buying on 8-9 March "before the crowds arrive". The branches of the store are listed: Cuba Street, Hutt City, Upper Hutt, Masterton. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on both sides of sheet, 630 x 338 mm.

Date: 2014

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0030226

Description: Shows a sign 'Sale 1/2 price!' for Boxing Day. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1901 - 1983 - 1910

From: Kirkcaldie & Stains Ltd :[Digitised documents, fliers, postcards and sales catalogues]

Reference: EPHDL-0276-04

Description: Includes: Postcards: 8 Sept 1904, Sale #1 1904; Sale #2 1904, Autumn 1906, Autumn #2 1906, Sept 1906; 1910, Oct 1910; card 1983 1901: We are going to show tomorrow some very pretty trimmed millinery all at 21/- (Shows photo of Kensington Gardens). Verso shows address of Mrs M Clark, 210 Willis St. and rubber date stamp 14 October 1901 28 March 1904: Postcard showing a photograph of a small girl sitting on a rock, and announcing sales of gloves, knitted golf jerseys, French flannel and Delaine blouses. 3 September 1904: Postcard showing an embossed nymph perched on a photograph of a quiet stream. The verso advertises a first display of Spring goods 7-10 September and is addressed to Mrs W French of Mein Street. Rubber stamp date is 3 September 1904 8 September 1904: Postcard shows an embossed nymph seated on the from of a photographic view of the Wanganui River. The verso announces the availability of Spring suitings, and is addressed to W Read esq, 22 Austin Street. Rubber stamp postmark is 8 September 1904 Sale #1 1904: Postcard shows a photograph of a small girl seated on a seat inset into a rocky wall. The verso advertises a "great summer sale" in the manchester and furnishings departments. Sale #2 1904: Postcard shows the same small girl, smiling this time. The verso advertisement is the same Autumn 1906: Postcard shows an illustration of a boy and girl seated together, both wearing rabbit ears, and with a basket of Easter eggs on the ground beside them. Meanwhile a real rabbit peeks at them from behind a tree trunk. The verso is dated 20 February 1906 and advertises "our first grand display" of novelties for Autumn and Winter wear to be held on 23 February Autumn #2 1906: Postcard shows an illustration of two girls both wearing rabbit ears. One is holding a basket of Easter eggs. Two rabbits run past in the background. The verso advertises the same "first grand display" on 23 February September 1906: Silk sale; purchase of a London warehouseman's stock of summer silks. (Shows a photograph of the Tower of London). Verso shows address to Mrs Roskruge[?] of Goring Street, and is datestamped September 6 1910: Lambton Quay Wellington, N.Z., looking south [Postcard showing a photograph of the Kirkcaldie & Stains Building on Lambton Quay. Printed in Saxony. ca 1910] October 1910: Our tailoring department is full of the new season's tweeds and suitings. Let us build you a suit; our prices are reasonable (Shows photograph of London Bridge and Monument). Verso shows address of Mrs M Clarke, Bank [of] NZ, Wellington. Rubber date stamp for Oct 10. 1983: Be part of Kirkcaldie's 120th birthday celebrations. 120, 1863-1983 Quantity: 12 Electronic document(s).

Date: January 2024

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0042772

Description: Five digital cartoons by Mark Winter on political and social issues in New Zealand and internationally. Published in the Southland Times or on Stuff.co.nz in January 2024. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 5 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Sunday star times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0027080

Description: Cartoon depicts a herd of people and pigs running towards a trough filled with animal parts marked 'Post Xmas sales'. Refers to the New Zealand Boxing Day sales. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0027094

Description: Under the caption 'The Forecast...' a television weather presenter announces "Severe Gales", with the 'G' deleted and replaced by 'S', to make the announcement read "Severe Sales". The weather for the Christmas holiday period of 2013 had warnings of severe gales. Coinciding with the weather were the post Christmas and Boxing Day sales. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0027089

Description: A man and woman are looking through a variety of bargain sales catalogues. The woman says "It's such a big occasion. I'd like to get them something really unique...any ideas?" The man replies "Something that's not on special...If we can find anything..." Many shops have sales immediately after Christmas, lasting well into January. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0027096

Description: Two cartoons, both captioned 'record Christmas Eve and Boxing Day trading...' In one a hand holds a placard stating "The Spend is High!" In the other, a parody of a Christmas carol is featured, reading "Tills the season to spend some lolly...$$$$$...Fa la la la la la lah..." Multiple versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016475

Description: The cartoon shows crowds of people taking advantage of sales to do their Christmas shopping; a small boy is curious to see Santa Claus standing in the queue with a trolley piled high with presents. Colour and black and white versions available. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1877

From: [Miscellaneous ephemera related to selling and advertising of merchandise in retail outlets. 1800s]

By: W A M'Dowell and Company; Daily telegraph (Napier, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1877-01

Description: Arrangement of text announcing a clearing sale of the Napier draper W A M'Dowell, including stock bought from the estate of Mr M L Marks, formerly a draper in Picton and Blenheim. Merchandise was to include silk parasols, gentlemen's silk coats, linen cuffs, ladies' gloves, bonnet ribbons, tweed trousers, ladies' silk jackets, ladies' velvet jackets, hats, men's super Galatea suits, fabric remnants. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on blue-green paper, 27 x 155 mm. Provenance: From the papers of Mr A G Bagnall, donated 2010.

Date: Sep 1975

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/4-022834-F

Description: Crowd inspecting goods during a fire sale inside a McKenzie's department store in Wellington. Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper by an unidentified photographer in September 1975. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 2011

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0016497

Description: The title of the cartoon reads 'As the "silly sales" season continues...' Two salesmen stand outside the window of their shop; the window is covered with 'sale' signs and offers in huge print '105% off!' The salesman responsible for the display explains to his colleague 'I think get their attention for a start and worry about turning a profit later'. Refers to post Christmas sales with huge price reductions. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).