Billboards

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

Reference: PAColl-6741

Description: Ten views of Wellington: two of a man sitting on a bench next to a cabbage tree, probably in Kelburn, looking out over the harbour; a tram car for Island Bay approaching the corner of Manners Street and Cuba Street; lorries and a tram car on Cuba Street; looking along Museum Street towards The Terrace with the parliament on the left and the Terrace Congregational Church on the corner of Bowen Street; a view over Wellington and the harbour towards Mount Victoria probably from Tinakori Hill; a man selling fruit from a cart on a street corner with pedestrians crossing the street; a view looking across the harbour towards Mount Victoria from a building on the water front; the Empire Motors Garage Ltd; and a view along Manners Street towards Mount Victoria including a tram for Lambton Station. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-029801 to 029809 and 029830 Quantity: 10 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: 1967-1968

By: Tonks, Hylton Gary, 1940-

Reference: PAColl-6606

Description: Three views of Te Aro: one of Tonks Avenue, one of Frederick Street from the Taranaki Street corner and one of the top of Cuba Street. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-016180 to 016182 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1922 to 1923

By: d'Oisly, Maurice, 1882-1949; Morrison, George Scott, 1918-2004

Reference: PA1-o-351

Description: Photographs, chiefly taken by Maurice D'Oisly, when on tour through New Zealand and Australia with his wife, the singer Rosina Buckman, and her mother Henrietta Buckman. Images begin on the RMS Ionic, travelling from Southampton to New Zealand, including scenes of shipboard life; Panama Canal; various passengers and crew on the ship. Shipboard staff include Captain (also called Commander) Jones, Chief Engineer Scott, Purser Gregson, and Dr Irving. Passengers include Mrs Guthrie-Smith and her daughter Barbara Guthrie-Smith. Inscriptions: Album page - "Tour 1922-23" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown leather cover; initials M. d'O. stamped into leather; 24.5 x 31.5 cm

Date: [1879]

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA7-57-08

Description: Photograph of the steam tram locomotive `Victoria' pulling a Wellington Tramways Company carriage full of passengers along Lambton Quay. The Athenaeum (with NZ Educational Deposit on ground floor) is on the left and the building housing the Colonial Bank and the South British insurance Company is on the right. A poster on the building on the far right advertises George Darrell's farewell performances. Photograph taken by James Bragge in 1879 Published in Bragge's Wellington and the Wairarapa / William Main [Wellington: 1974], p 79 Identical print at PAColl-D-0010 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 25.5 x 38 cm

Date: 1994

From: Clark, Laurence [Klarc] 1949- :New Zealand Herald cartoons. 3 - 31 May 1994

Reference: H-102-012

Description: Shows Jim Bolger in a car which is driving past a row of billboards bearing portraits, including his own. Bolger is tearing in half a piece of paper headed "Petition on East Timor". Refers to a billboard bearing Bolger's portrait in Indonesia and to the government's refusal to condemn the massacre in East Timor instigated by Indonesia Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: ca 1891-1901

Reference: PAColl-0731

Description: Photographs of a military parade on Lambton Quay as part of the visit by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York consisting of teams of eight horses pulling small carriages on their way to the Battery with spectators lining the street; No.3 Gun Detachment at a military tournament in November 1891 at Hutt Race Course standing with their gun the participants being Sgt Carter, Br Daniels, Gunners Brown, Petrie, Curtis, Bott, Renwick, Raynor, and Quilice(?); No.1 (Gun Detachment?) with their gun, standing next to a tent in Miramar in 1898 the participants being Gibson, Coombes, Coleman, Pettiecuck(?), Lyon, Boyes, Fraser, Feeney, Hill, Brown, Spence, Courtney, and Truman; and a large group of men possibly of D battery of Wellington militia holding poles with paddles at the end with circles painted on them (markers). Some of the men are in uniform or partial uniform and there are targets behind them. Photographer(s) unidentified. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1930s]

Reference: PAColl-6944

Description: Views of various buildings in Wellington including: three of the Victoria Laundry Co Ltd and Mike Walsh, tobacconist probably on Molesworth Street with a bill board advertising a show at the Opera House called So Long Letty; two of Scots College; a house either under construction or renovation; a public hall; and others of rather delapidated houses in other parts of the city. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-057714 to 057726 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: [between 1884-1887]

From: Government House Collection : Prints of Te Aro flat, Lambton Quay, Parliament Building, Government Buildings, Post Office and Governor's residence

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-D-0324

Description: View of the front facade of the General Post Office building on Customhouse Quay. Dinghies can be seen hoisted on davits on the quayside. St Andrew's-on-the-Terrace church is to the right of the building in the far distance. The time on the clock in the clock tower is quarter to ten. Photograph taken by Burton Brothers between 1884-1887 (see historical note). Advertising on the seaward side of the shed on Customhouse Quay for Wilson & Richardson (Drapers, outfitters & importers), and S Danks & Son (Brassfounders & coppersmiths, Brandon Street). Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - General Post Office about 1880; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 2223 [?] Post Office - Wellington. Burton Bros, Dunedin; Recto - bottom left - Fronting Customhouse Quay; Recto - bottom right - Boat Harbour in foreground Originally erected in 1884, burnt down in 1887 and rebuilt Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 283 x 375 mm

Date: 1999

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1303

Description: Ring binder storing photographs taken by Les Cleveland during his travels in Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico in 1999. Contains 35mm negative strips in sleeves and the corresponding contact sheets as well as interleaved notes providing information on the content of some of the photographs (mainly their location). Photographs feature contemporary and historic buildings (some derelict), businesses, street scenes, art galleries, bars, motels, sculptures, cemeteries, billboards, murals, farmer's markets, horseback riders, dogs, parades, desert landscapes, vehicles (some wrecks), industrial sites, petroglyphs, and largely unidentified people. The specifics of some of these photographs are listed below. Les and Mary Cleveland appear in a number of photographs. Photographs in which Les Cleveland appears are likely taken by Mary Cleveland. Photographs of Texas include Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, Pecos, Vidor, Vega, Wildorado, San Juan Mission, Frederiksberg, and El Paso. These include photographs of a Goodwill store, Thriftland, the Kimbell Art Museum, Admiral Nimitz Museum, a limousine pickup truck [utility vehicle], Fort Worth Stockyards, longhorn cattle, the Happy Tracks Horse Motel, Arizola's Cantina, and Robert Summers' cattle drive sculpture at Pioneer Plaza in Dallas. Photographer George Krause is photographed. New Mexico content features Santa Fe an these photographs include numerous images of the Santa Fe Fiesta and includes parade participants, spectators and the statue of La Conquistadora. Santa Fe photographs also show buildings such as the Cathedral Basilica of St Francis of Assisi, San Miguel Mission, and the Palace of Governors (with street vendors selling jewellery outside) as well as folk dancers and other performers, police, a farmer's market, international Folk Art Museum, Canyon Road district, and Shidoni Gallery and Sculpture Gardens. Further New Mexico images are taken in Arroyo Hondo, Madrid, Fort Union National Monument, Albuquerque, Chama, Española, Bandelier National Monument, Carrizozo, Socorro, Las Vegas, and Puye Cliff Dwellings. These photographs include a bridal party in Albuquerque and band [Mollys?] playing in the Old Town, a mariachi band, the Arroyo Hondo swimming hole, a RV park, and landscapes with a storm brewing outside of Albuquerque. Colorado photographs show Silverton, Telluride, Creede, Victor, and La Mesilla. Telluride buildings include the Good Time Society house and the Mahr Building. Silverton photographs include a series of a piano player, sculptor Mick Reber and his sculpture garden, and Rick Parks with his family and dog. Title transcribed from item. Arrangement: Prints and negatives originally stored in a ring binder labelled "USA Southwest 1999 (1)" on the spine. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 197 b&w negative strips and 33 contact sheets. Physical Description: 35mm film strips, contact prints, and holograph notes. Transfers: Loose negative removed from album to facilitate apropriate storage is to be found at 35mm-108764.. Processing information: Due to the high likelihood of the presence of PVC in the plastic covering of the original ring binder, the photographic materials were removed and placed in a new binder that met with the Library's conservation standards. The original binder has been disposed of. Not all names associated with this item have been indexed.

Date: ca 1870s

Reference: 1/2-002908-G

Description: A view looking along Church Street at its intersection with Queen Street. On the left is an advertising billboard which has an old poster which reads "Our Boys". Next to it is the Wairarapa Star newspaper building. On the other side of Queen Street from that is a shop called W Perry. On the right is the Post Office and on the other side of Queen Street from it is a church. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass copy negative

Date: [ca 1960s]

Reference: 1/4-058344

Description: View of the railway yards and the road into Aotea Quay from Highland Park. Possibly construction work started on the new motorway in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negative

Date: ca 1890s

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 17

Reference: PAColl-7489-62

Description: Looking down Lambton Quay with Queen's Hotel, Preston & Co, J Manttan and other shops on the right and a billboard advertising a doctor on the left. A horse-drawn tram is approaching. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1985 - 1999

By: Hodgson, Trace, 1958-

Reference: Eph-D-SERIAL-1985/1999

Description: Includes advertisements for the following serials: The Management presents The Bible. Chapter 1. October 1988. Ilona Rogers pin up, with contributions by Chris Mauger, Group Sex, Maysie Bestall-Cohen, Street Life, Servilles Hairwork, Marilyn Sainty, Patrick Reynolds photographer. Cha Cha fashion & style. Dec/Jan 1985. New Zealand Home & Building. December 1985/Jan 1986. (Merry Christmas and thank you for being with us in 1985) New Zealand listener. August 15-21 1987. Designer Trace Hodgson. D"ecision '87; the big night on radio and TV" (boxing match between Bolger and Lange). New Zealand listener. Feb 13-19 1988. Designer Trace Hodgson. "M.P.s do they get what they deserve?" New Zealand listener. 50 - special jubilee issue 1939-1989. July 1-7 1989. New Zealand Listener, 16-22 July 1994. (High country sell-out) New Zealand Listener, 7-13 January 1995. "Be somebody, boy" - Temuera Morrison, Entertainer of the Year. New Zealand Listener, December 21-27 1996. Christmas surprise! [Maggie Barry and When the Cats Been Spayed]. New Zealand new idea. 10 November 1990. (Ivana Trump, Mel Gibson) New Zealand Woman's Day. Number 1 Most Wanted Women's magazine. [1994]. New Zealand Woman's Weekly. 18 July 1994. (David Copperfield, Claudia Schiffer, Princess Diana, "Charlie's Angels", Suzy Aitken and Simon) North and South. June 1988. RTR Countdown, vol 2, no 3, November 1989 (Margaret Urlich, U2, Bon Jovi, Bobby Brown) (2 copies) RTR Countdown. Vol 3, no 5 (March 1990). (Tom Cruise, Motley crue, New Kids on the Block, UB 40, Jay Laga'aia, etc) RTR Countdown. Vol 3, no 9 (July 1990) (Blind dates. Skid Row, Bobby Brown, Motley Crue, Sinead O'Connor) Rip it up. Issue 201, May 1994 (Kurt Cobain) Rip it up. Issue 207, Nov. 1994. (The Cult - Ian Astbury) Rip it up. Issue 208, December [1994]. (Pearl Jam) Rip it up: November 1999 (Rage against the Machine) Shake! Sept/Oct [1985]. Tina Turner and Mad Max, Mockers, Go West (Urban Cowboys). Shake! June 1994 (Kurt Cobain, Salt-n-Pepa, D.R.S., Luke Perry, Martin Henderson, Pearl Jam, Brad Pitt, Supergroove, The Hard Way, Smashing Pumpkins, Jason Priestley, Bitty McLean) Wellington City magazine. May 1985. (The 25 Club - bikies' club) Wellington City magazine. June 1985. (Tropical gardening in Wellington) Wellington City Magazine. July 1985. (Wine, Chris Gollins, Earthquake) (2 copies) Wellington City Magazine. August 1985. (Living with famous dads, Len Potts) Wellington City Magazine, September 1985 (Art forgery) Wellington City magazine. October 1985. (Murray Mexted) Wellington City magazine. November 1985. (Kerry hughes) Wellington City magazine. December / January 1985/[86]. (50 Wellingtonians who made a difference in 1985) Wellington City magazine. March 1986. (Festival time) Wellington City magazine. May 1986. (Petone Rugby Football Club, 1885-1984) Wellington City magazine. June 1986. (City fashion) Wellington City magazine. July 1986 (Sharon Crosbie) Wellington City magazine. August 1986. (Michael Bungay, QC) Wellington City magazine. November 1986. (Belinda Cordwell, woman tennis player) Quantity: 37 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on billboards.. Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying around 600 x 450 mm. Provenance: Trace Hodgson Listener posters donated by Mr Philip Oliver in 2004.

Date: 1976

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: PA12-3664-F

Description: Men smoking trout at riverside, furnace/kiln?, Queenstown hotel sign [possibly `Trans' ?] with Atlantic dealer forum billboard, cannery, taken in 1976 by K E Niven and Co, commercial photographers of Wellington. Other - Reference number 545/76. Redfern liba trannies (show prints) Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies with six images. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies 120 format

Date: 5 Novemeber 1993

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

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1993/3927-F

Description: Wellington journalist Jo Mackay with her mobile pro-MMP billboard. Photographed by evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson on the 5ht of November, 1993 Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler film negative, 35mm

Date: [1879]

From: Government House Collection : Prints of Te Aro flat, Lambton Quay, Parliament Building, Government Buildings, Post Office and Governor's residence

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PAColl-D-0010

Description: Photograph of the steam tram locomotive `Victoria' pulling a Wellington Tramways Company carriage full of passengers along Lambton Quay. The Athenaeum (with NZ Educational Deposit on ground floor) is on the left and the building housing the Colonial Bank and the South British insurance Company is on the right. A poster on the building on the far right advertises George Darrell's farewell performances. Photograph taken by James Bragge in 1879 Published in Bragge's Wellington and the Wairarapa / William Main [Wellington: 1974], p 79 Identical print at PA7-57-08. Copy negative of this print also at 1/4-016218 Inscriptions: Mount recto - centre - Lambton Quay about 1880; Mat recto - bottom left - On left Athenaeum, later Exchange, now Prudential Building Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 29.5 x 37.5 cm behind mount

Date: [ca 1996-2001]

From: Green Party of Aotearoa - New Zealand :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9573

Description: Photographs of the Green Party of Aotearoa - New Zealand annual general meeting in 2001, taken by an unidentified photographer. Note some of the photographs are date marked 6 May 1996. Quantity: 24 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

Reference: 1/2-002109-G

Description: A row of billboards on what is presumably a Christchurch street as one of them is for a film showing at the Liberty Picture Theatre. The film was made in 1919 so will probably have been shown in New Zealand from 1920. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ½ plate negative

Date: [between 1884-1887]

From: Christie, Hettie Florence, 1902-1988 :Photographs and album of New Zealand scenes

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA7-41-30

Description: Photograph of the post office building and Customhouse Quay. Dinghies can be see hoisted on davits on the quayside. St Andrew's-on-the-Terrace church can be seen in the distance. The time on the clock in the clock tower is half past nine. Photograph taken by F A Coxhead in 1880s. Advertising on the seaward side of the shed on Customhouse Quay for Wilson & Richardson (Drapers, outfitters & importers), and S Danks & Son (Brassfounders & coppersmiths, Brandon Street) Similar but not identical view of the building at PAColl-D-0324 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - P.O. Wellington, N.Z. 380 Originally erected in 1884, burnt down in 1887 and rebuilt. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. Physical Description: Albumen print 14.1 x 20.4 cm

Date: 1990 - 1995

By: Clark, Laurence, 1949-

Reference: B-200-002

Description: Shows a man standing alone in the rain, in front of a large billboard that reads 'Watch this space' The cartoon was in response to then Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer's announcement of the goal 'Full employment by 1995'. The goal was announced in 1990 when, on the back of the financial collapse of the late 1980s, unemployment was at its highest since the Great Depression. Palmer's prediction came to pass, full employment being defined as an umemployment rate of 5% or less (information from donor) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Klarc [in ink] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 230 x 320 mm, adhered to card 345 x 420 mm Provenance: Donation: Mike Knowles, Auckland, September 2015