Beauty culture - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 17 Feb 1932

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

Reference: EP-3591-1/2-G

Description: Flashlit photograph of Miss Ruth Hay's school. Photograph taken 17 Feb 1932 by a staff photographer from the Evening Post newspaper. Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1934-1935

By: Digby, Spencer Harry Gilbee, 1901-1995; Macfarlane, Rachel, active 2003

Reference: PAColl-7838

Description: Interior view of Ruth Hay's Physical & Beauty Culture Studio, Wellington, photographed by Spencer Digby in 1934 or 1935 Ruth Hay's Physical & Beauty Culture Studio is listed in the the Wellington phone directory from August 1934 to August 1935. It is not listed after 1935. The studio operated from the McKenzie Building, 68 Willis Street, Wellington. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: ca 1938

From: Burt, Gordon Onslow Hilbury, 1893-1968 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-015466-F

Description: Unidentified women in a department store, alongside a display of Serenade "vitamised beauty aids as used by the stars and showgirls of Jim Gerald's Revue." Their clothing includes hats, veils, and fur stoles. Photograph taken circa 1938 by Gordon Burt, probably in Wellington. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative