Businessmen - New Zealand - Auckland Region

Date: 1908 - 1915

From: [Ephemera up to octavo size, relating to business enterprises, firms and companies]

By: W A Wilkinson (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-COMPANY-1910-01

Description: Text of a letter from Joseph Miller offering himself as a candidate to a position of which he was the Incumbent. He lists four principles or issues which he would address as Director. Date estimated. Mr Miller was first elected director of the Auckland Co-Operative Terminating Building Society in 1906. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on flyer, 168 x 133 mm (irreg.) Provenance: Donated by Colin Feslier, Wellington, in 2012. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed in Serials, Manuscripts..

Date: 1882

From: Various artists :Observer cartoons; supplement to the "Observer" [Auckland, Wilson & Horton, ca 1882]

By: Palmer, Charles, 1841?-1928

Reference: A-442-026

Description: Shows an oval head and shoulders portrait of Edward Isaacs, in a pose similar to that in a photograph from the Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]. He has very long muttonchop whiskers. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, on sheet 348 x 244 mm.

Date: 1882

From: Various artists :Observer cartoons; supplement to the "Observer" [Auckland, Wilson & Horton, ca 1882]

Reference: A-442-012

Description: Shows a full-length portrait of Francis Hull a gum merchant (later a sharebroker) of Auckland. He wears a three piece suit. His left hand is in his trouser pocket while his right hand is tucked inside the left side of his buttoned jacket. At the far right is part of a sign for Hull Broth[ers] Mer[chants], a business he was in with his eldest brother until 1884. The initials BH are inscribed faintly at lower left. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 406 x 241 mm.

Date: [August-October 1883]

By: Bullock-Webster, Harold, 1855-1942

Reference: E-115

Description: Volume X of Harry Bullock-Webster’s illustrated diaries describes the author’s activities mainly in Auckland and Waikato 1883-84, immediately prior to his marriage to Maud Williamson, daughter of the Hon. James Williamson, one of the most powerful and influential businessmen in New Zealand. By 1883, when Volume X of the diaries was compiled, Bullock-Webster was mainly operating in Auckland and developing his own business interests, which included semi-professional sports journalism and illustration, but more predominantly trading in horses. He was also at this time courting James Williamson’s daughter Maud Williamson and was a frequent visitor to the Williamson’s lavish residence, the Pah (now the Pah Homestead in Hillsborough, Auckland). Bullock-Webster worked for the financier and land speculator Thomas Russell as an estate manager from 1881 until his marriage to Maud Williamson in 1884. The heavily illustrated diary shows mainly horses or horsing events, as well as various individuals and interiors of buildings. The 12 diaries formed the basis for Bullock-Webster's book 'Memories of sport and travel fifty years ago: from the Hudson's Bay Company to New Zealand (Auckland N.Z. : Whitcombe & Tombs, 1938) Pagination in pencil by the author on recto pages, top right. The diary is Volume X of a sequence of 12 diaries by Harry Bullock Webster, 11 of which are in the collection of the Waikato Museum. The Library holds a microfilm copy of 10 of the diaries, made in 1972, at Micro-MS-0762. Bullock-Webster, Harold 1855-1942 : Notebooks. 1882-1886. Quantity: 1 volume(s) illustrated diary. Physical Description: Diary in black leather binding with simple blind tooling, marbled endpapers, and laid paper; 185 x 115 mm (cover) Provenance: Prior to purchase, acquired by Modern First Editions Ltd in the UK and offered for sale at £3500; sold at auction by Reeman Dansie Auctioneers & Valuers, Colchester, Essex, UK, in May 2018; prior to that, in a private collection, Essex, UK.