Patent medicines

Date: 1917

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1911-1919]

By: R W Gallaugher Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1917-01

Description: Sales catalogues for the general merchant R W Gallaugher of Victoria Street West, Auckland. Lists goods in the following categories: Groceries and provisions; patent medicines, pills, ointments, toilet requisites; ironmongery (including garden tools), cutlery, lamps (illustrated); electroplated ware; aluminium ware and tinware (illustrated); enamelled ware; crockery and glassware; woodware; bedding; tents; churns and separators. Quantity: 1 catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 80 pages (first 8 pages missing), each 243 x 155 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Maison Jolie in 2004.

Date: 1911 - 1912

By: Smith and Caughey Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1911-01

Description: A sales catalogue listing products for sale, including dress fabrics, clothing, umbrellas and sunshades, underwear, hosiery, art needlework, quilts, lace, handkerchiefs, belts, patent medicines and toilet requisites, men's sports clothing including riding breeches, oilskin coats, and raincoats. The first page shows a group photograph of the 170 male members of Smith & Caughey's staff in the firm's furnishing department on October 9th, 1911. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Coverless booklet of 64 pages, 270 x 212 mm.

Date: 1916

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1911-1919]

By: Smeetons Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1916-01

Description: Sales catalogues for Smeetons in Auckland, with a timetable of the trains running from Auckland and what stations they stop at on various days of the week. Lists goods available, arranged in the following sections: Grocery; Biscuits and confectionery; Provisions; Patent medicines, toilet brushware & requisites; Ironmongery. Colour plate shows hams & bacon. Quantity: 1 catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 128 pages, each 245 x 152 mm.

Date: 1909

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1900-1910]

By: R W Gallaugher Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1909-01

Description: Sales catalogues for the general merchant R W Gallaugher of Victoria Street West, Auckland. Lists goods in the following categories: Groceries and provisions; patent medicines, toilet requisites; crockery and glassware; electroplated ware; aluminium ware, tinware; enamelled ware, fencing ware, tents and flys. Quantity: 1 volume(s) catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 48 pages, each 240 x 155 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Maison Jolie in 2004.

Date: 1906

From: [Ephemera relating to chemists' shops, pharmacies, the pharmaceutical industry, patent or quack medicines and home remedies. ca 1900-1920]

By: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-A-PHARMACY-1906-01-back

Description: Shows two young women pausing in the doorway of a chemist's shop which advertises Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills on its front window. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on cover of booklet.. Physical Description: Offset print on cover 222 x 148 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Les Cleveland in 1965.

Date: 1925

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1920-1929]

By: R W Gallaugher Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1925-01

Description: Sales catalogues for the general merchant R W Gallaugher of Victoria Street West, Auckland. Lists goods in the following categories: Groceries and provisions; patent medicines, household requisites; kapok and flock bedding, woven wire mattresses and wire stretchers, horse covers and cow covers, oily canvas coats and rubber boots. Quantity: 1 volume(s) catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 20 pages, each 216 x 141 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Maison Jolie in 2004.

Date: 1938

By: Gem Press

Reference: Eph-A-PHARMACY-1938-01

Description: Shows head and shoulders portrait of young Maori woman in costume, on front page. The brochure contains testimonies from various users of the mixture. Brochure printed by Gem Press, Newton, Auckland. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on pamphlet.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 195 x 455 mm.

Date: 1898

By: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-C-PHARMACY-1898-01

Description: Arrangement of text on both sides of poster. Gives testimonials from many users. Dated from dates of testimonials quoted. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Caxton Printing Company, Manse Street ... Dunedin. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 383 x 254 mm.

Date: 1903

From: [Ephemera relating to chemists' shops, pharmacies, the pharmaceutical industry, patent or quack medicines and home remedies. ca 1900-1920]

By: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014; Bambrough Ltd (Fulham, London); Gilbert & Rivington Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-PHARMACY-1903-01

Description: Price list from a drug and photographic store at 207 New King's Road, and 781 Fulham Road, Fulham, London. Products included invalid specialities, drugs and chemicals, patents medicines. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 32 [+ 4] pages, 212 x 137 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Les Cleveland, Wellington, in 1994.

Date: 1908 - 1912

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1900-1910]

By: Robert Rew (Firm); Abel, Dykes Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1910-03

Description: Mail order catalogue for the Country Order department of a retail store in Auckland. Merchandise is listed in the following categories: grocery, provisions, patent medicines, toilet requisites, stationery, ironmongery, rattan bamboo & rush furniture, china glassware and crockery, Japanese (mainly tableware), boots and shoes, woven wire mattresses, flax and kapok mattresses, manures, agricultural seeds, garden and vegetable seeds, separators, children's page (with confectionery and Christmas stockings) Other Titles - Three Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 56 pages, 248 x 155 mm.

Date: 1926

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1920-1929]

By: R W Gallaugher Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1926-01

Description: Sales catalogues for the general merchant R W Gallaugher of Victoria Street West, Auckland. Lists goods in the following categories: Groceries and provisions; patent medicines, household requisites; kapok and flock bedding, woven wire mattresses and wire stretchers; baths, boilers, churns, clockskitcxhen utensils, cutlery, hot water bags, kettles, lamps, mirrors, paints, suacepans; aluminium ware, tinware, enamelled ware, crockery and glassware, rubber, boots, tents, "Orb" cooking ranges. Quantity: 1 volume(s) catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 48 pages, each 216 x 141 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Maison Jolie in 2004.

Date: 1907

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1900-1910]

By: R W Gallaugher Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1907-01

Description: Sales catalogues for the general merchant R W Gallaugher of Victoria Street West, Auckland. Lists goods in the following categories: Groceries and provisions; patent medicines, toilet requisites; household requisities; fencing wire, tents, basketware; crockery and glassware; enamelled ware. Quantity: 1 volume(s) catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 34 pages, each 240 x 155 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Maison Jolie in 2004.

Date: 1916

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1916-01

Description: Sales catalogue for the company which merged in 1918 with the Farmers' Union Trading Company, to become the Farmers' Trading Company. Inside front cover shows a calendar for the last part of 1915, and January-September 1916. There is a foreword by company founder Robert Laidlaw, photographs of the Auckland sales staff, photographs of the showrooms of each department and portraits of the staff who ran them; photographs of office staff at work and the shop equipment (entrance stairs, elevator, employees dining room, currant cleaner and raisin stemmer, the packing department), and an illustration of the warehouse on the corner of Hobson and Wyndham Streets. There follows an advertisement for the company's book of plans and specifications for houses, and an account of the way the war was affecting prices and supplies of goods (See pages 18-21). Information about ordering, paying and freighting follow. The illustrated catalogue of goods is arranged in the following sections: grocery, patent medicines, ironmongery, tools and household ironmongery, stoves (Dover, Orb, Zealandia, Champion), sheep shearing machine, roofing iron, tinware, enamelware, cutlery, aluminium, brushware, handbags, pipes, wallpaper (with 2 colour sample pages), stationery, books, cameras, rifles and pistols (guns), tennis rackets, bicycles, telephones, gramophones, violins, electroplated goods, jewellery, watches, clocks, windmills, pumps, buggies and wagons, engines, ploughs, crockery (2 colour plates), lamps, saddlery and harnesses, luggage, boots and shoes, clothing, hats, drapery, haberdashery, lace, rugs, sewing machines, furniture, linoleums (2 colour plates), toys (including Meccano). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 500 pages, each 277 x 220 mm, blue paper covers, bound in brown suede with gilt lettering Provenance: Purchased at Webbs Auction, 19 November 2008, lot 33

Date: 1894 - 1896

By: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-B-PHARMACY-1890s-01

Description: Arrangement of text. Shows head and shoulders portrait photograph of Mr W P Townend, the inventor of Townend's Cinnamon Cure, at top left, and gives patients' testimonials beneath. Verso advertises Spencer Vincent's Benjamin Gum for coughs and colds. Dated from poster for Loasby's "Wahoo" Embrocation. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Caxton Printing Company, Manse Street ... Dunedin. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 287 x 225 mm.

Date: 1923

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1920-1929]

By: R W Gallaugher Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1923-01

Description: Sales catalogues for the general merchant R W Gallaugher of Victoria Street West, Auckland. Lists goods in the following categories: Groceries and provisions; patent medicines, household requisites; dinner ware; "Orb" cooking range, Methven boilers, "Red Ball" brand rubber boots, riding coats. Quantity: 1 volume(s) catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 26 pages, each 228 x 143 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Maison Jolie in 2004.

Date: 1906 - 1907

By: Johnson & Sons (Wellington, N.Z.); Patterson, Slack and Company

Reference: Eph-C-PHARMACY-1907-01

Description: Arrangement of text on broadsheet, with illustrations of eucalyptus leaves superimposed with the names of the two products being advertised. The text gives testimonials from doctors in Wellington and Marlborough, a butcher in Ashburton, a doctor in Palmerston North, a farmer in Blenheim, and from Frank Ralston of Brown's Antiseptic Hairdressing Saloon at 20 Willis Street Wellington. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 268 x 424 mm.

Date: 1915

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1911-1919]

By: R W Gallaugher Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1915-01

Description: Sales catalogues for the general merchant R W Gallaugher of Victoria Street West, Auckland. Lists goods in the following categories: Groceries and provisions; patent medicines, pills, ointments, toilet requisites; crockery and glassware (illustrations); toilet ware; dinner ware; ironmongery (including garden tools), cutlery, lamps (illustrated); electroplated ware; aluminium ware and tinware (illustrated); enamelled ware; woodware; basketware; fencing wires; tents; churns and separators, cow covers; post-hole borers; manures, horse covers. Quantity: 1 catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 80 pages, each 235 x 152 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Maison Jolie in 2004.

Date: 1920 - 1939

By: Cooper, Frederick J, active 1900-1930s

Reference: Eph-A-PHARMACY-1920/39-01

Description: Six small labels for medicine bottles, including labels for: Musk lavender water, Menthol snuff, Rhubarb and Magnesia, Aspirin, Chlorate of Potassium tablets, and Female pills. F J Cooper's Pharmacy was called the Victoria Pharmacy, and was at the corner of Victoria and Hobson Streets, Auckland. Quantity: 6 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Six labels, sizes varying

Date: 1906

From: [Ephemera relating to chemists' shops, pharmacies, the pharmaceutical industry, patent or quack medicines and home remedies. ca 1900-1920]

By: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-A-PHARMACY-1906-01

Description: Includes advertising and testimonials from satisfied users of the pills. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Offset print and letterpress, 222 x 148 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Les Cleveland in 1965.

Date: 1900 - 1929

From: [New Zealand calendars and blank diaries of octavo size]

Reference: Eph-A-CALENDAR-1900/1929

Description: Includes: 1902: Calendar 1902. Pringle's, the art needlework depot, 69 Lambton Quay Wellington. (Folded card featuring illustrations of violets) 1903: Calendar 1903, with compliments from R W King, hairdresser & tobacconist. Hotel Cecil Buildings, Wellington (Folded card featuring illustrations of forget-me-nots) 1904: Calendar 1904, with the compliments of J Mather, bookseller, stationer and newsagent, music and fancy goods depot, Broadway, Marton. [Printed by ] H I Jones & Son. (Folded card) 1907: Singer Manufacturing Company :The Singer almanac of Australasia for 1907, presented with the compliments of the Singer Manufacturing Co., sole makers of the Singer sewing machines. S.T. Leigh & Co., printers, 155 Clarence St., Sydney. 1909: Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. The Dickens [calendar for 1909] (12 openings, illustrated with scenes of places relevant to Dickens' novels) 1914: Waipawa County Permanent Building and Investment Society. Calendar 1914-1915 (Folded card) 1927: Old Moore's almanack 1927. This is Blakemore's edition. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying up to 240 mm.