Violin

Date: 1934-1940

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-60

Description: Includes Native Land Court documents of the Wellington region; newspaper cuttings dealing with major and minor issues of the period including the Report of the Native Affairs Commission and Apirana Ngata; tributes and obituaries, horse racing, comic caption competitions, Maori land settlements of the time, articles on brothels, concerts, Maori history, New Zealand flora and fauna Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1928

From: Greek Orthodox Community of Wellington and Suburbs Inc : Photographs of Greek life and culture

Reference: PAColl-4924-008

Description: Group in front of Mr & Mrs Mastrogeorgiou's house, Edge Hill, Mount Victoria. At left is Mr Janis, holding his daughter Marika. The violinist is Apostolos Linardis, the guitarist is Dimitrios Andonaras, and the mandolin players are Manolis Andonaras and friends. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies.

Date: 1987

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-363-001/031

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 31 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1928-1957

By: Greek Orthodox Community of Wellington and Suburbs Inc

Reference: PAColl-4924

Description: Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-177645 to 177655, 177888 to 177900, 177927 to 177936, 177939 to 177948, 178038 to 178047, 178082 to 178091, 178212 to 178221, 178241 to 178250, 179278 to 179287, 179512 to 179521-F. Documented photocopies of all images on shelf at PAColl-4924. Quantity: 103 b&w copy negative(s) (copies of original prints returned to owners). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives 10 x 12.5 cm

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: 1982-1985

From: Hames, Jenny :Negatives and photographs

Reference: PAColl-5811-2

Description: Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1986

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-362-139/159

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 21 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1990-1992

From: New Zealand International Arts Festival : Records

Reference: 98-227-12/2

Description: Venues, events, prices, ticket layout and seats on hold Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 20 November 1975

From: Minhinnick, Gordon, 1902-1992 :[111 original pencil and ink cartoons. 1930s-1980s]

Reference: C-171-043

Description: Depicts Prime Minister Bill Rowling as Sherlock Holmes. He is playing "Oh, promise me" on the violin while Mr Watson looks on. A bank vault labelled 'Your savings' has been broken into, with a calling card left saying 'Inflation strikes again!'. 'Sherlock Rowling' comments to Mr Watson that it is "Perfectly easy, my dear Watson..." A third man, standing behind Rowling, gestures to the smoking hole in the vault with a look of distress. Title taken from cartoon text. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Minhinnick. [in ink]; Recto - beneath image - "Speaking of Bank Strikes ..." [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Felt pen, Letraset and pencil on paper, 390 x 500 mm

Date: 1990-1992

From: New Zealand International Arts Festival : Records

Reference: 98-227-09/4

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1905-1911

By: Edwards, William James, 1857-1930

Reference: MS-Papers-2944

Description: Postcards have all a musical, and more particularly a violin, theme Quantity: 1 folder(s) (17 cards). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, printed matter

Date: 1980

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-135-638

Description: The subject of this cartoon is the introduction of Saturday shopping. The scene is outside a shop, with shoppers walking along the footpath. A man is busking on a violin. The sign beside him says 'Wife and Saturday shopping to support'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone, 454 x 320 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: [1930-1977]

From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 : Further papers

Reference: 86-105-088

Description: Articles, clippings and publication (see Other Titles) re the violin Other - See also 86-105-064 Other Titles - Wm C Honeyman - The Secrets of violin playing Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1990-1992

From: New Zealand International Arts Festival : Records

Reference: 98-227-07/5

Description: File re accompanists, T Dennis, A Lander, D Miller, K Spiegel-Neumann; conductor, V Cavdarski; luthier, T Warren; billets; publicity material; technical matters; and unsuccessful applicants Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1990-1992

From: New Zealand International Arts Festival : Records

Reference: 98-227-07/1

Description: Brochures and requests file Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1893-1974]

From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 : Further papers

Reference: 86-105-064

Description: Letters, notes, clippings and photocopies of photographs of violinists (Olaf Ruhen, Mischa Elman and one unidentified) relating to Lawlor's interest in violins and violinists in Wellington and New Zealand in general; includes programme for Jascha Heifetz Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs of Olaf Ruhen, Mischa Elman and another violinist who played in Wellington in 1947.

Date: ca 1910-ca 1916

Reference: PAColl-6339

Description: The Ellwood Trio, and the Wanganui Orchestra about 1916. These are part of a larger collection which includes correspondence, papers on the Marian Rayward Scholarship, music in colonial New Zealand, the Victoria University gamelan orchestra, and "The Young Idea". Also papers on the history of music, musicians, brass bands, and church organs in Hawera Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1990-1992

From: New Zealand International Arts Festival : Records

Reference: 98-227-12/3

Description: Venues, events, prices, ticket layout and seats on hold Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2 Aug 1926

From: Alexander Turnbull Library (Wellington) : Correspondence files

Reference: MS-Papers-0181-155

Description: Letter offering the Alexander Turnbull Library a violin made by Mr J Williamson and lately shown at the Dunedin Exhibition Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1990-1992

From: New Zealand International Arts Festival : Records

Reference: 98-227-12/1

Description: Venues, events, prices, ticket layout and seats on hold Quantity: 1 folder(s).