Electric apparatus and appliances

Date: 1933

From: [Ephemera of quarto size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

By: Electric Lamp House Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RADIO-1933-01

Description: Sales catalogue for products of the company, including accumulators, adaptors, aerial wires, batteries, bells, chokes, condensers, connectors, cords, dials, electric jugs, radiators, cookers, toasters, clocks, lamps, kettles, headphones, amps, meters, microphones, plugs, radios, resistors, sockets, telephones, valves, etc. Quantity: 1 volume(s) catalogue book.. Physical Description: Catalogue of 64 pages, illustrated, 278 x 218 mm.

Date: 1928

By: McLean & Archibald Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-TOOLS-1928-01

Description: Includes lists and illustrations of merchandise available, including adzes, augers, awls, axes, bits, mitre boxes, braces, chisels, electrical goods, enamel paints, gauges, soldering irons, tool baskets, gimlets, irons, knives, kerosene lamps, planes, saws, squares, tapes, plasterers' tools, trowels, spanners, pocket knives, scissors, wrenches, vices, gardening tools. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photocopies, double-sided, 297 x 420 mm.

Date: 1962 - 1964

Reference: Eph-A-ELECTRICITY-1963-01

Description: Lists radios, television, amateur radio, components, electrical goods. Includes valves, condensers, transistors, etc. Includes a photograph of the interior of the Christchurch shop. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 24 pages, 246 x 178 mm.

Date: 1927

By: McLean & Archibald Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-TOOLS-1927-01

Description: Includes lists and illustrations of merchandise available, including adzes, augers, awls, axes, bits, mitre boxes, braces, chisels, electrical goods, enamel paints, gauges, soldering irons, tool baskets, gimlets, irons, knives, kerosene lamps, planes, saws, squares, tapes, plasterers' tools, trowels, spanners, pocket knives, scissors, wrenches, vices, gardening tools. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 88 pages, 280 x 220 mm. Provenance: Donated by the Staffan family in 2008. Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Transfers made from here..

Date: 1930 - 1932

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

By: A & W McCarthy (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-1931-01

Description: Lists and illustrates radios and their components, motors, generators, telegraph keys, torches and spotlight, electric lamps, light switches, model trains and aeroplanes, carpentry tools. Dated from an advertisement for the 1931 NZ Radio handbook annual on page 94. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 128 pages, 217 x 138 mm.

Date: 1930 - 1939

By: Johns Ltd; Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014; Atkinson's Books (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-ELECTRIC-Johns

Description: Annual price lists and illustrated catalogues Two copies of 1932-33 Quantity: 4 sales catalogues. Physical Description: Letterpress in volumes each approximately 80 pages, 240 x 180 mm.

Date: 1933

By: McLean & Archibald Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-TOOLS-1933-01

Description: Includes lists and illustrations of merchandise available, including adzes, augers, awls, axes, bits, mitre boxes, braces, chisels, electrical goods, enamel paints, garden tools, gauges, soldering irons, tool baskets, gimlets, irons, knives, kerosene lamps, planes, saws, squares, tapes, plasterers' tools, trowels, spanners, pocket knives, scissors, wrenches, vices. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Loose photocopies on 6, 91 + 17 sheets, 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 1944

By: Electric Lamp House Ltd; Blundell Brothers Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-ELECTRICITY-1944-01

Description: Sales catalogue for products of the company, including electrical accessories, lighting, electrical appliances, radios, crystal set parts, radio hardware, valves, electric circuitry. Gives a 14-page list of American and other international radio stations and their call numbers. The front cover shows a composite illustration of the use of radio communication in wartime. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 192 pages, 220 x 140 mm.

Date: 1948

From: [Ephemera of quarto size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

By: Electric Lamp House Ltd; Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014; Lamphouse Properties Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RADIO-1948-01

Description: Sales catalogue for products of the company, including lighting, irons, toasters, electrical appliances, handyman's sundries, war surplus bargains (microphones, remote control units), radio harware, valves, electric circuitry, and finishing with a list of short wave stations of the world. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on cover 277 x 217 mm.

Date: 1961 - 1962

From: [Ephemera of quarto size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

By: Radford Radio Laboratories Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RADIO-1962-01

Description: Sales catalogue listing adaptors, aerials, amplifiers, batteries, bulbs, cables, coils, condensers, connectors, couplers, earphones, electric jug ferrules, fuses, gramophones, electric guitars, headphones, electrical appliances, amplifier kit-sets, speakers, microphones, oscillators, pick-up arms, television picture tubes, radiators, radio receivers, relatys, resistors, sockets, soldering irons, television aerials, toasters, transformers, transistors, radio valves, voltmeters, and many other items. Supplements include circuit diagrams, a retail price list for receiving valves, 1 July 1962; price list for Mullard electronic valves, 1 October 1961; price list for semiconductor products, 1 July 1962 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Mimeographed typescript in staple-bound book of 59 pages, plus index and supplements, 335 x 210 mm. Provenance: Donated by Donald Beswick, Wellington, in 2014.

Date: 1994

From: Tremain, Garrick fl 1970s-1990s :Editorial cartoons. 23 March - 14 June 1994

Reference: H-106-062

Description: Shows a man reading a newspaper headlining the Auckland water crisis. His wife is approaching the goldfish bowl with an electric jug in one hand and a ladle in the other. One of the fish says to the other, "Quick! Look cute!". Refers to the water shortage in Auckland Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1940

By: Electric Lamp House Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-ELECTRICITY-1940-01

Description: Sales catalogue for products of the company, including lighting, irons, radios, car aerials, a radio dictionary, condensers, coils, heaters, toasters, electrical appliances, handyman's sundries, electric fences, remote control units, radio hardware, valves, electric circuitry. Other Titles - Catalogue Quantity: 1 volume(s) catalogue book.. Physical Description: Catalogue of 136 pages, illustrated, 276 x 220 mm.

Date: [ca 14 July 1992]

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

By: Pigney, Ray, active 1988

Reference: EP/1992/3326-F

Description: Fire damaged flat in Pomare, Lower Hutt, Wellington, and Donald Quigley examining the electric blanket that may have started the fire. Photographs taken circa 14 July 1992 by Evening Post staff photographer Ray Pigney. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1950

By: Electric Lamp House Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-ELECTRICITY-1950-01

Description: Sales catalogue for products of the company, including lighting, irons, radios, perming kits, toasters, electrical appliances, handyman's sundries, war surplus bargains (microphones, remote control units), radio harware, valves, electric circuitry, morse code oscillator Other Titles - Catalogue Quantity: 1 volume(s) catalogue book.. Physical Description: Catalogue of 128 pages, illustrated, 270 x 220 mm.

Date: 1937

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

By: F J W Fear (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-1937-01

Description: Lists and illustrates radios, aerial equipment, batteries, chokes, condensers, cords, dials, cycles and cycle accessories, headphones, insulators, lights, plugs, resistors, switches, transformers, valve equipment, wire. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 68 pages, 248 x 188 mm.

Date: 1945 - 1950

By: McNamara, John Joseph, 1918-2001; Southern Cross (Newspaper : 1946-1951)

Reference: A-369-001/020

Description: Includes a collection of political cartoons from the 1940s as well as charicatures and drawings depicting various sportsmen who flourished in the 1940s and 1950s. The political cartoons refer to an electricity crisis as well as issues concerned with the Wellington City Council. In one of the Wellington cartoons the name MacAlister is mentioned. The sporting portraits feature speedway champion Percy Coleman and boxer Dave Sands, as well as wrestlers Lofty Blomfield, Earl McCready, and Bill Kuusisto. Includes a number of smaller illustrations, most of which feature gardening and its related materials. Quantity: 19 newsclippings. Physical Description: Newsclippings stuck onto paper and wallpaper, sizes vary.

Date: 1950 - 1969

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-387-161

Description: Shows a man cooking on a small fire in his back garden. He is wearing a flax skirt and his wife is wearing a sack. The couple's garage is packed full of electrical appliances and a newspaper headline reads 'Electricity to go up 50%'. Another couple is visiting the pair, and they look alarmed Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on card, 255 x 280 mm

From: Society for Research on Women: Interviews on women and retirement

Reference: OHInt-0524/17

Description: Annette talks about how she and her partner intend to spend retirement. Refers to televesion and newspaper advertising on retirement saving. Discusses own financial retirement savings plan and importance of having home designed to suit growing old - lack of stairs etc. Compares close family communities in grandparents era with the isolation of families today. Also mentions lack of domestic appliances long ago when compared to modern conveniences, e g microwaves, washing machines etc. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011689 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s) (side one). 1 transcript(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4057.

Date: 1974

By: Electrabox Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-ELECTRICITY-1974-03

Description: Illustrated product catalogue of electrical utility boxes, fuse boxes, circuit breaker cabinets, switch plug boxes, cast pillar boxes, screw and tool boxes, mains entry boxes, etc. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 22 pages, 300 x 212 mm.

Date: 1958 - 1968

From: Ladyman, Jack, 1925- (Collector): [Ephemera relating to electricity, household appliances, building supplies and housing. 1950-1980s]

By: H E Shacklock and Son Ltd; Spincraft Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-ELECTRICITY-JL

Description: Includes: Spincraft Ltd. Betalite light fittings, designed for quality and efficiency. Catalogue [March 1958] H E Shacklock Ltd. Spare parts list (accompanied by packing slip dated 22 November 1968) Quantity: 2 album(s). Physical Description: Softbound volumes, sizes up to 360 mm.