Stores, Retail - New Zealand

Date: 1987

Reference: Eph-B-COSTUME-1987

Description: Includes: Benson & Hedges Fashion Design Awards 1987. in association with Helena Rubinstein. Michael Fowler Centre, 12 March 1987. Programme (cover design by Reidy) EziBuy Summer 1987. Sales catalogue Miramar Plunket and Oriental-Rongotai Football Club. Spring fashion spectacular. Oriental-Rongotai Club Rooms, 18 September 1987. Flier James Smith's. Winter '87 children's catalogue Warnock's. Right for fashion; right for price [1987]. Flier Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1951 - 1954

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1951/1954

Description: Includes: 1950s?: Farmers' Co-Op, 27 Queen Street, Palmerston North, Book mark [1950s?], and small folded pamphlet advertising brochures one could write away for 1951: Arts & Crafts Ltd Masterton. 1951; further thumbnail sketches of great people and their wares ... [1951] Cash Order Purchases Limited. C.O.P. shopping guide. 1951 Hay's. Open your window to Spring! It's Spring furnishing time at Hay's [1951]. Pamphlet Lands For Bags. [Weight machine ticket with "lands for Bags" slogan]. 17 November 1951 W T Rawleigh Company Ltd :Mail order card. I called at your home today, but regret that you were not at home. ... Check this list for everyday needs. Printed in N.Z. - 200M-9/51-4293 jkl nag mn [Postcard. 1951] 1953: Arts & Crafts Ltd Masterton. 1953; continuing thumbnail sketches of great people and famous wares ... [1953] Kirk & Brandon Ltd :South Island mail order catalogue. Oct-Nov 1953 edition. 1954: Arts & Crafts Ltd Masterton. 1954; this year's thumbnail sketches of great people and famous wares ... [1954] Cubanews; shop in Cuba Street week 30/4/54 - 7/5/54 Greig & Esterman Ltd. furnishers. Statement of account for March 1954 to January 1955 to Mrs E E Yates Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm. Provenance: Donated or purchased from various sources including Anah Dunsheath (2000), Rowan Gibbs (2001), Norman Brayshaw (2005), Dylan Owen (2005)

Date: 1955 - 1959

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1955/1959

Description: Includes: 1955: Arts & Crafts Ltd Masterton. 1955; our presentation of thumbnail sketches of great people and famous wares ... [1955] H H Brandon Ltd :North Island mail order catalogue. [1955] 1957: Bond & Bond Ltd. Retail Accounts Department. Statement of account for January - October 1957 to Mrs E E Yates De Larno's Magic Centre. Magic by De Larno, Chancery Lane Christchurch. [Sales catalogue]. 1957. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm. Provenance: Donated or purchased from various sources including Anah Dunsheath (2000), Nash papers (1980s)

Date: 1980

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1980

Description: Includes: Atrium on Elliott. Elliott Street, Auckland. Incentive spender [1980/1990s?] A better business and more profit; owner-manager retail workshop. Willow Park Motor Hotel, Tauranga, 4-6 May [1980]. Pamphlet / registration form D.I.C. Gifts to Britain. 1980 D.I.C. 14 easy ways to pay at D.I.C. [1980] Dalgety Country Garden, 57 Hutt Road, Thorndon. [1980s?]. Card The Discount coupon book. [Wellington] 1980 Distribution Industry Training Board. DITB training programme 1980. North Island - Northern Regions Kirkcaldie & Stains Ltd. envelope [1980s?] Nargon Conference. Rotorua, 17-19 May 1980. Programme New Zealand Retail Hardware Federation (Inc). Hardware agencies, June 1980 W T Rawleigh Co. Ltd. Rawleigh's shopping guide [1980s?] Wayne Wentworth (N.Z.) Ltd. [Invitation to go on "Bargain roster list". 1980] Whitcoulls Limited. Postal shopping service. Blank order card [1980] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm.

Date: 1981

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1981

Description: Includes: Associated Wholesalers Ltd. [and] L D Nathan (Wholesale) Ltd. August 1981 [Sales catalogue] Cuba Street Advancement Association. Shoppers parking guide [1981]. Blue flier L V Martin & Son. Receipt book of Mr J P Sullivan [1981/1982] Lambton Square Shopping Centre, 180 Lambton Quay. Pamphlet showing layout of the businesses within the centre. (2 copies) Mobil summer savers. See your Mobil man now and save a total of $51.35 [1981]. Pamphlet incorporating coupons Reserve Bank of Caravanserai. Fifty dollars [flier in the form of a banknote, issued by an unknown Auckland shop as an advertising gimmick. 1981] Wellington Duty Free Shop. 1981-82. Sales catalogue Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm.

Date: 1977

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1977

Description: Includes: The Investment Store. The new alternative, where everybody's welcome! Folded pamphlet Johnson & Johnson. Tear off 55c; save money on 3 great Johnson & Johnson products! [coupons in folded pamphlet] Reserve Bank of Cuba Street. Cuba St Crazy Cash makes shopping fun. $1 [Yellow "pretend" bank notes] These $1 notes were given away with every real dollar spent during the week preceding auctions (Cuba Mall 12 August and Town Hall 19 August) (Eleven copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm.

Date: 1970

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1970

Description: Includes: Cook St Market. Cook St. - opposite Town Hall [Auckland. 1970s] Corner Village Market Place [Auckland]. One dollar bank note [1970s] (2 copies) Facts about L V Martin & Son, your Fisher & Paykel dealer [1970s?] Farmers' Santa Parade [double-sided flier. 1970s] Home Appliance news; sales and servicing. 1970 trade-in handbook [1970] How to get the most from your GSW Coronet Stainless Steel Cookware. Booklet [1970s?] McKenzies make big Christmas parties easier to organise [1970s]. Flier The nicest way to send a gift to Great Britain and most of Europe, for Christmas and all those special occasions throughout the year [1970s?] Wright Stephenson. We enclose your credit identification card. This pamphlet explains what it will do for you [1960-1970s?] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm.

Date: 1971-1976

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1971/1976

Description: Includes: 1973: James Smith Limited, Wellington's leading department store. Invoice to A A S Murray Oliver, 1973 RPD Retail. Your Christmas Club record card [1973] 1974: Paget's Store, Havelock, 28 May [19]74. Till docket 1975: Haywrights. Win a fabulous P & O 'cruise for two'. [Entry form / flier. 1975] Nees Hardware Limited. 1875-1975; an unbroken family chain serving the public for 100 years. Robert Holt & Sons Limited, Napier. Who's who in 1975. Wellington Duty Free Shop. Price list 1975-1976 1976: Gifts of New Zealand Ltd: Choose your unique New Zealand gift and leave the rest to us. [With price list, 1st September 1976] Sensorama gift pack; send a breath of New Zealand overseas. Your family and friends can see ... hear ... taste ... smell New Zealand [1976] Things; hand craft shop. 41 Cleveland Street, Brooklyn, opening 6 May [1976]. Flier Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm.

Date: 1936

By: Andrews, Cecil Herbert, 1907?-1970

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-EQUIPMENT-1936-01

Description: Booklet discusses preferable designs for shop display cases, with photographs of the haberdashery department and toiletry department at James Smith Ltd Wellington; the hardware department at England McRae Ltd Timaru. All of these were designed by C H Andrews. The booklet discusses and promotes the design ideas of Montgomery Ward, and includes a testimonial from James Smith's Ltd. Page 11 shows various layouts of counter units. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, 216 x 140 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs C H Andrews in 1971.

Date: [ca 1995]

From: Friar, Denis Ashwood, 1952- :Transparencies of public and private gardens in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-9859

Description: Interior of a room furnished in the art deco style. Shop display cabinet filled with ceramics and metalware from the 1920s and 1930s. Quantity: 12 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1995]

From: Friar, Denis Ashwood, 1952- :Transparencies of public and private gardens in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-9858

Description: Interior views of an unidentified antique shop showing stock, and details of a chest of draws and a dish. Quantity: 12 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1995]

From: Friar, Denis Ashwood, 1952- :Transparencies of public and private gardens in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-9860

Description: Interior of an antique shop showing stock. Display cabinets filled with ceramics, glass and metalware from the 1900s to the 1930s. Quantity: 9 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1965

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to machines, machinery, engines, mechanical engineering]

Reference: Eph-A-MACHINERY-1965-01

Description: Lists and illustrates items for sale, including abrasives, angle plates, saw blades, boring bits, drills, mills, files, hand tools, hammers, knurling tools, lathes, measuring instruments, milling machinery and accessories, reamers, screwed shank tools, socket sets, wrenches, vices, etc Quantity: 1 sales catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of variously numbered pages, 212 x 170 mm, joined with metal clasp

Date: 2015

By: Cosmic (Firm)

Reference: Eph-C-RETAIL-2015-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue for the Cosmic retail chain shows clothing (ponchos, leggings, onesies, hoodies, band t-shirts, beanies) and accessories (sunglasses, cosmetics) as well as other gifts (sea-monkeys, coffee mugs, selfie sticks, pocket hotties, eight ball, zombie desk set; e-cigarettes and e-liquids; toys (hacky sacks, cookie cutters, etc), hip flasks, bottle openers, zippos, body jewellery for piercings, incense, dream catchers and crystals. Back page shows the locations of stores in Christchurch (3), Dunedin (1), wellington (2) and Auckland (2). Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, 273 x 273 mm. Provenance: Donated by Joan McCracken, Wellington, in 2016.

Date: 2012-2013

Reference: Eph-B-COSTUME-2012/2013

Description: Not yet listed Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 2010-2011

Reference: Eph-B-COSTUME-2010/2011

Description: Not yet listed Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1986

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1986

Description: Includes: Kirkcaldie's. Flier advising renovations to the store in 1986. Radio New Zealand Sales & Marketing. Household shoppers research study [conducted in December 1985] [Woolworths]. Remember Mrs Collins of Waitara? Mrs Collins was the major prize winner in our last promotion and is now enjoying her monthly cheque of $1000.00 which will continue for the next 30 years. [Flier announcing another similar promotion] Includes sales catalogues: Farmers' Trading Company. Mail shop magazine. May 1986 L D Nathans Variety. The great Easter wish. Week One [17-22 March 1986] L D Nathans Variety. Easter wishes. Week Two [24-29 March 1986] L V Martin & Son. Mail order catalogue March - May 1986 PSIS discount stores for best value. [1986] PSIS news April/May 1986 Woolworth's Variety. Christmas gift selection. 13-24 December [1986]. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on flyers and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1985

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1985

Description: Includes sales catalogues: Clubcard, the NZ card. June 1985 Rigby House - Ezibuy. Discoveries Spring 1985 Farmers' Trading Company Limited. Spring news [1985?] Kirkcaldie's. Flier advising renovations to the store in 1986. Narnia. Warehouse sale: clothes, handicrafts, furniture, material seconds, damaged end runs. 104 Dixon Street, 20-27 April [1985]. Flier PSIS Investment Stories. Red Spot [sales catalogue. 1985] The great Winter coupon cash-in sweepstake [7 coupons]. September 1985 Woolworth's Variety. Spring things. Rio. [3-7 September 1985] Woolworth's Variety. Week One [and] Week Two joined [10-15 June 1985] Woolworth's Variety. Week One [19-24 August 1985] Woolworth's Variety. Week Two [26-31 August 1985] Woolworth's Variety. Week One [30 September - 5 October 1985] Woolworth's Variety. Week Two [7-12 October 1985] Woolworth's Variety. Week One [14-19 October 1985] Woolworth's Variety. Week Two [21-26 October 1985] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on flyers and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1982

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1982-1

Description: Includes: Associated Wholesalers Ltd. [and] L D Nathan (Wholesale) Ltd. Ideal gifts for the Easter bride. Valid 16 April 1982. Catalogue Associated Wholesalers Ltd. [and] L D Nathan (Wholesale) Ltd. Mothers Day / Winter heating. Valid 28 May 1982. Catalogue Avon Cosmetics Ltd. Avon slashes prices. [Sales catalogue]. 1982 Cut Price Stores. "Spell Price" competition ticket / mystery envelope [1982] Evans's [Drapers]. Collection of sales dockets. 1982] L V Martin & Son. receipt book of Mr J P Sullivan. 1982 Monsieur Ltd Mens Shoes. We're moving to the Gresham Plaza, Lambton Quay, next Monday 3 March [1982]. Flier PWF home decorating centres. Something special for you. [1982]. Catalogue (2 copies) Safeway C.P.S. 140 Cuba Street, Wellington. Sales flier [1982] T & W Young. Discover Wellington's biggest open-to-the-public wholesale secret! [1982] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm.

Date: 1982

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1982-2

Description: Includes: D.I.C. Just what you wanted; your guide to Christmas gift shopping at D.I.C! Catalogue (2 copies) Merchandise Incentives Co. Gold medal gift hampers. [Catalogue and order form. 1982] Smith & Smith. Get-ready-for-Xmas-sale now on! [1982]. Catalogue Woolworths Variety. Santa's gift book. 29 November - 4 December [1982]. Catalogue Woolworths Variety spring sale. 27 September - 2 October [1982]. Catalogue (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm.