Staircases

Date: 1916

By: J & W Faulkner & Sons (Firm); Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-FENCE-1916-01

Description: Illustrated booklet showing different fences and gates available: wrought iron single gates, posts and fencing, wrought iron fencing, double gates and posts, cast iron pillars; photographs of the gates at Auckland Racing Club's racecourse at Ellerslie, Botanical Gardens Dunedin; ornate wrought iron staircases, balustrades, finials and weather-vanes; porch brackers, lamps and street-lamps, wrought iron grilles (including collapsible ones for elevators and the elevator cars themselves); counter grilles (for bank tellers, etc); lockers, screens, tomb railings; garden furniture. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume, 62 pages, 218 x 280 mm.

Date: 1904

By: Swan, John Sydney, 1874-1936

Reference: Plans-80-0617

Description: Shows details of staircases in a retail store Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - John S Swan no. 2573 21.3.04. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing

Date: 1896 - 1898

By: Swan, John Sydney, 1874-1936

Reference: Plans-80-1658

Description: Details of newell posts and balustrades Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink on cartridge paper, 580 x 685 mm

Date: 1903

By: Swan, John Sydney, 1874-1936

Reference: Plans-80-0481

Description: Shows details of staircases Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - John S Swan, Architect, Wellington NZ. 17.4.03 Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing Provenance: Donation: Mrs F H Swan, Wellington, 1958

Date: 1980 - 1989

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

Reference: A-398-067/073

Description: Includes two perspective drawings of a church interior, floor plan for a proposed apartment at 130 Khandallah Road, an elevation and plan of a staircase, door joinery details. Original file numbering was 004.01.04.004 Quantity: 7 plan(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink drawings on tracing paper, 297 x 420 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: 21 October 1992

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

Reference: EP/1992/4346-F

Description: Mainzeal workers, Colin Smith (left) and Paul Meo, on the Parliamentary Library's charred marble staircase. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 21st of October 1992. In 1986 the name `General Assembly Library' was changed to `Parliamentary Library.' During the early stages of restoration in 1992, fire destroyed the entrance hall of the Parliamentary Building, Wellington, New Zealand. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler film negative, 35mm

Date: Oct 1949

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-163

Description: Photographs published in NZ Free Lance, Oct 1949 Includes: Display of aircraft at Society of British Aircraft Constructors' Exhibition held at Farnborough; RNZAF Berlin Airlift crew and shield (a gift from RAF comrades at Lubeck); RMA Ararangi, Solent flying-boat at Mechanics Bay, Auckland (built specially for Tasman Empire Airways); Sir Leonard Isitt with Capt C G Griffiths; members of the Ararangi crew. Also: National Chinese Sports Tournament held in Auckland to celebrate Chinese National Day - Betty & Mona Kwok playing table tennis; teams from Auckland, Hamilton, Otago & Wellington; Lion dance and Charles Wah Lee & Willie Wong playing Chinese drum and cymbals. Also: Timaru Main School 75th anniversary celebrations - Pioneer group; drill display; march past of present-day pupils; John Wilds (first day pupil) laying wreath on the war memorial. Also: Hyrdo-electric works on Molyneaux River, diversion at Roxburgh hydro works (J D S Roberts, photographer); veterans of South African campaign at 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the South African War (includes H R Wright, Surgeon-Captain Eugene J O'Neill, C Quinn, J W Horne, F Lange, C Ashenden and R Rose); floods at Greymouth; `Aiki', the 20 year old magpie and her egg; staircase in the home of Mr & Mrs F W Dunnage of Papanui, Christchurch (bought out from England in 1851). Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1890

By: Clere, Frederick de Jersey, 1856-1952

Reference: Plans-80-0462

Description: Shows architrave, part of staircase, newel post, handrail and skirting Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on dressed linen, 510 x 630 mm. Provenance: Donation: Mrs F H Swan, Wellington, 1958

Date: 1977

By: Fidel, 1944-2001

Reference: A-345-066

Description: Shows the exterior end of a three-storey concrete building of the 1960-1970s, with an open stairwell between floors. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Fidel 77; Verso - top right - Hobas Zeranguy Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on sheet 285 x 224 mm (sight)

Date: 1903

By: Swan, John Sydney, 1874-1936; Swan, Francis Herbert, 1885-1958

Reference: Plans-80-0491

Description: Shows details of staircases Scale: 1:8 Apartment buildings for Herrman Lewis Inscriptions: Recto - centre - John S Swan, Architect, Wellington NZ. 29.1.03 Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on linen, 550 x 740 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs F H Swan, Wellington, 1958

Date: 1970 - 1979

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-1970s-undated

Description: Includes: Aluminium Distributors Limited. The Japanese understand economy of space. Supreme Alvista [Pamphlet and pricelist] Aluminium Distributors Limited. Product catalogue of heat, light and ventilation control Aluminium Distributors Limited. "Supreme" aluminium patio sliders. Standard range Aluminium Distributors Limited. "Supreme" aluminium windows. Standard range (full frame) R A Graham Limited. Classic all timber spiral staircase Tube Industries Ltd, 503 Great South Road. Colonial Lace Reproductions. N.Z. Forest Products Ltd. Fixing instructions for tongue & grooved Pinex acoustic tiles and panels. Odlins joinery mouldings and exterior sheathing Odlins mouldings, supplied in native timbers and radiata Samuel Parker Ltd. Flashings and mouldings [1970s]. Flier Samuel Parker Ltd. Rainwater products [1970s]. Flier Sarlon Reid Limited. Do it yourself Sarlon shadehouse Sarlon Reid Limited. Garden pagoda by Sarlon Quantity: 1 folder(s) of fliers, pamphlets and booklets. Physical Description: Offset print and typescript, sizes varying below 320 mm.

Date: 1967

From: Boyce, Raymond Stanley, 1928-2019 :[Forty-seven sheets of costume and set design drawings for productions in Wellington by New Zealand Ballet, Downstage, New Zealand Opera, and the Puppet Theatre 1957-1969]

Reference: C-164-003

Description: Shows a design of a stage from which rise six poles. There is a mezzanine floor at the right, accessible by a spiral staircase. Title is written on a paper frame wrapped and stuck to the thick card on which the image is painted. Other Titles - Scenes Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing on thick card, 470 x 650 mm.

Date: 1967

From: Boyce, Raymond Stanley, 1928-2019 :[Forty-seven sheets of costume and set design drawings for productions in Wellington by New Zealand Ballet, Downstage, New Zealand Opera, and the Puppet Theatre 1957-1969]

Reference: C-164-012

Description: Shows a design of a stage with several poles placed, and a spiral stairway to a mezzanine floor at the far right. There are flats and drapes in purple and orange, including one at the back which has the words "La ville de B..." written on it. Five orange spheres or light hang at centre right. Title is written on a paper frame wrapped and stuck to the thick card on which the image is painted. Other Titles - Scene Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing on thick card, 450 x 625 mm.

Date: 1967

From: Boyce, Raymond Stanley, 1928-2019 :[Forty-seven sheets of costume and set design drawings for productions in Wellington by New Zealand Ballet, Downstage, New Zealand Opera, and the Puppet Theatre 1957-1969]

Reference: C-164-004

Description: Shows a design of a stage from which rise six poles. There is a mezzanine floor at the right, accessible by a spiral staircase. Three dancers in purple tutus dance across the stage, and another in white stands on the mezzanine. Title is written on a paper frame wrapped and stuck to the thick card on which the image is painted. Other Titles - Scenes Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing on thick card, 445 x 625 mm.

Date: 1876

From: Walsh, Philip 1843-1914 :[Waitara sketchbook]

By: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: E-357-015/016

Description: Shows several decorative pieces of wood panelling Inscriptions: Recto - beneath one image: wood panel Colchester E.... and beneath 2nd image - newel staircase - Lincolnshire Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 110 x 180 mm

Date: [ca 1938]

From: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.): Photographs

Reference: PAColl-0811-06-01-1

Description: View, including staircase, inside the Gisborne and Districts War Memorial in Gisborne (architects: Glengarry, Glengarry & Corson) constructed circa 1938. Photograph taken at night by Lloyd Cornish in 1938. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1990

From: Brockie, Bob :[One hundred and three cartoon photocopies. Dated from 1984 to 1991].

Reference: H-548-085

Description: Shows an Escher-style continuous staircase in the form of a square. On it walk David Caygill, Geoffrey Palmer, Jim Bolger (sleepwalking in pyjamas), Ruth Richardson declaiming, and Roger Douglas. Signposts lead them on: Promised land, 1987 crash, 1984, The Millenium [sic], Balance of trade deficit, Rainbow's end, 1990. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopy

Date: 1967

From: Boyce, Raymond Stanley, 1928-2019 :[Forty-seven sheets of costume and set design drawings for productions in Wellington by New Zealand Ballet, Downstage, New Zealand Opera, and the Puppet Theatre 1957-1969]

Reference: C-164-001

Description: Shows a spiral staircase at the right, and a figure moving a rectangular sign which bears the words "Offenbach; the beginning". Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash drawing, 280 x 380 mm.

Reference: Plans-80-0737

Description: Shows detail of stairs Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour

Date: 1970

From: Penlington, John, b 1940 :[Church House, Island Bay, the home of J W Chapman-Taylor. Four pencil drawings. ca 1970]

Reference: A-442-005

Description: Shows a detail of decoration on a carved newel post at the point where a banister rail is attached. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 345 x 281 mm.