Basket making

Date: 1940s-1950s

From: Rehabilitation League New Zealand Inc :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-0236

Description: Five photographs of Disabled Soldiers Basket Factory at Christchurch; Disabled Soldiers Woodwork Factory at Dunedin; Disabled Soldiers Leather Factory at Dunedin; factory staff of `Disabled Soldiers Products', Auckland. Photographs taken by an unidentified photographer, ca 1940s-1950s Inscriptions: Backing board recto - beneath image - Captions Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints, composite, various sizes mounted on card 91.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: 19 February 1959-4 August 1966

By: Larson, Charles R, 1938-; Larson, Miriam Kamphoefner, -1969

Reference: MS-Papers-12214

Description: Collection comprises eight letters from Anderson Warren to Charles and Mariam Larson written between 19 February 1959 and 4 August 1966 from Pitcairn Island and New Zealand. Also includes three envelopes, one of which has a Pitcairn Island stamp, and a newsletter `Pitcairn Miscellany' dated 31 March 1965. Subjects covered in correspondence include a 1959 'Asian Flu' outbreak, Pitcairn curios (basket weaving and woodworking), stamp collecting, lack of work opportunities on Pitcairn, lack of medical services and medical evacuations from the island, shipping (supplies, tourists, declining number of ships visiting the island), taxation, schooling, Warren family living and working in New Zealand for a period, population decline on Pitcairn, and Warren family financial troubles. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Manuscripts, typescript, printed matter

Date: 1940s - 1970s

From: Rehabilitation League New Zealand Inc :Photographs

By: Leeden, C J, active 1940s

Reference: PAColl-2129-1

Description: Photographs relating to the activities of the New Zealand Rehabilitation League Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1944-1949]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-037

Description: Photographs mainly relate to Disabled Servicemen's Centres in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Napier. Shows men (including ex-Maori Battalion) in the various workshops and therapy rooms undertaking cane-work, bootmaking and repair, basketry, embossed leather work, weaving, rug making, toy making, upholstery, cabinetry, carpentry, clock making and mop making. Photographs of men making artificial limbs and an amputee being fitted with a new limb; blind returned servicemen in the Occupational Therapy Room learning to read in braille. Photograph of Mr Tom W Cameron, who trained at Disabled Servicemen's Centre at Wellington, outside his jewellery shop with watchmaker R T Dixon; returned serviceman buying new clothes in a department store (Wellington); cafeteria at Christchurch Disabled Servicemen's Training Centre building, and Hawke's Bay Training Centre, Napier; frontage to a boot repair shop in [Wellington?]; NZ Rehabilitation Camp at the Old Park Camp, Dover showing Private Sheeran playing table tennis with M Rosenfeld; Hon C F Skinner, MP (Minister of Rehabilitation) laying foundation stone for Christchurch Branch of Disabled Servicemen's League, 30 Oct 1944 (Lt Colonel J Murphy, Chairman of the League). Photograph of an [opening?] ceremony held in front of a large concrete building with a bowling green in front. Backdrop looks like Wellington but locality and building unable to be identified. Photograph of Disabled Servicemen's Vocational Training Centre in Anzac Street A G W Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd took a number of the Auckland photographs. View of artificial limb workshop; men recuperating on the verandah of the military hospital across the road from Lake Rotorua. Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 2011 - 2012

By: Go Willow! (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-DEATH-2011-01

Description: Flyer advertising woven basketry willow coffins, animal burial coffins and memorial urns, with photographs. There is a reference to the company's website at www.gowillow.co.nz Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy on both sides of sheet, 210 x 150 mm. Provenance: Donated by Commander Denis Fairfax, Porirua, in 2012.

Date: 1929

From: [Ephemera relating to blindness, appeals on behalf of blind and partially sighted people, the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind, Braille Week, cataracts and glaucoma, protecting eyes and sight. 1900-1999]

By: Jubilee Institute for the Blind; M Smethurst (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-BLIND-1929-01

Description: Sales catalogue with photographic illustrations of goods for sale, including cane baskets, trays, bassinettes, dolls' prams, children's furniture, fishing creels, picnic hampers, fish baskets, wool baskets, coal baskets, seagrass furniture, invalid carriage, coir fibre door mats, sennit mats, ships' fenders; also shows fruit punnets made from kahikatea white pine veneer. Also advertises socks, netting and hammocks, carpet beaters; and advertises the services of blind people in a silver band, as masseurs, piano tuners and pipe organists. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 25 pages, each 247 x 190 mm. Provenance: One copy donated by Mr Errol W Martin in 1984; one purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 2007.

Date: 16 Mar 1959

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

Reference: EP/1959/0913-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 inches

From: Union Steam Ship Company :Original prints of Samoa, Rarotonga, Tonga and Tahiti

Reference: 1/2-115845-F

Description: Group of young people making baskets. They are dressed in traditional Samoan dress. A tapa cloth hangs behind them. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1918]

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013994-G

Description: An arts and crafts class organised by the YMCA at the New Zealand Convalescent Hospital in Essex, England, during World War I. Shows convalescent soldiers in a workroom. Some are working at tables, others are basket making. Several completed baskets and wicker chairs can be seen. Photograph taken by Thomas Frederick Scales. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - UK206 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: [ca 1950s]

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-033671-F

Description: Male patient weaving a basket during an occupational therapy class at Wellington Hospital. Photograph taken circa 1950s for the National Publicity Studios. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: [between 1948 and 1960]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: M-0728-F

Description: Official photograph. Photographer unidentified.

Date: [ca 1880s-1920s]

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-019504-G

Description: Photograph taken by the Steffano Webb Photographic Studio, Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: [ca 1920]

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-019509-G

Description: Unidentified returned servicemen making a motorcycle side-car at Fewing and Company's factory, Christchurch, taken by Steffano Webb, circa 1920. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print, and L S Fanning, Winning through: from war to peace : New Zealand (Wellington [N.Z.] : Govt. Print., 1919) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 16 Dec 1943]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-04853-F

Description: One of the villagers behind the forward areas of the Italian Front, in World War II, at work on basket making. Photograph taken circa 16 December 1943 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: ca1907

From: Maclay, Adam Henry Pearson, 1873-1955 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-024038-G

Description: Staff of William Cook, basket maker, 9 Stafford Street, Christchurch. The men are standing outside their workshop suported by their products. Behind them are large hampers with GPO stencilled on them. There are also a variety of cane chairs Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1845

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-047-4

Description: Probably shows several views of a bark basket, and the processes involved in constructing it. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pen and watercolour, 75 x 110 mm.