James Smith's (Firm)

Date: 1987

Reference: Eph-B-COSTUME-1987

Description: Includes: Benson & Hedges Fashion Design Awards 1987. in association with Helena Rubinstein. Michael Fowler Centre, 12 March 1987. Programme (cover design by Reidy) EziBuy Summer 1987. Sales catalogue Miramar Plunket and Oriental-Rongotai Football Club. Spring fashion spectacular. Oriental-Rongotai Club Rooms, 18 September 1987. Flier James Smith's. Winter '87 children's catalogue Warnock's. Right for fashion; right for price [1987]. Flier Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1934

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: King & Dawson (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-010-100/103

Description: Includes floor plans, sections and elevations of a cinema, with projection box, surge room, fan chamber. Includes roof plans and details of roof support. Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Photographic copies, on sheets 530 x 740 mm.

Date: 1952

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-010-104/113

Description: Includes floor plans, sections and elevations of a cinema, with steelwork to new projection box. Includes details of roof support. Quantity: 10 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying around 560 x 800 mm.

Date: 1963-1966

From: Angus Corporation: Photographs of building construction

Reference: PA1-q-470

Description: Photographs of the construction of Radfords furniture and appliance store, probably Porirua, between July and December 1963, and of the construction of the James Smith's Department Store extension from October 1963 to August 1966, all taken by William E Toms, Eastbourne. Source of title - Title from album cover Transfers: 15 prints removed to PAColl-3456-2.

Date: 1885

By: Turnbull, Thomas, 1824-1907

Reference: Plans-80-0506

Description: Te Aro House, James Smith, showing elevation to Cuba Street Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Thos. Turnbull Architect Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing

Date: 1983

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-D-10-049/053

Description: Includes floor plans, elevations and sections. Quantity: 5 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings, on tracing paper 420 x 595 mm.

Date: 1909

By: Thomas Turnbull & Son (Firm)

Reference: Plans-80-0513

Description: Shows details of section C-D Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Thos. Turnbull & Son, Architect, 235 Lambton Quay, Wellington 1909; Recto - top centre - Wellington, 16th April, 1909. These are the drawings (nos 1 to 8) referred to in our agreement of this date, William M Page (witness) James Trevor & Sons Ltd. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing

Date: 1853 - 1855

From: Ephemera and auction catalogues for auctions held in New Zealand]

By: Wellington independent (Newspaper); New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-AUCTION-1850s

Description: Catalogues for the following auctions: 1853:Bethune & Hunter. Catalogue of goods which will be sold at the Exchange, 21 February 1853. Printed at the "Independent Office". Hervey, Johnston & Company. Catalogue of goods to be sold by public auction on Wednesday 2nd March 1853. Lombard Street. Printed at the office of the "New Zealand Spectator". 1855: Bethune & Hunter. A catalogue of ... goods which will be sold at auction at the Exchange on Friday next, 16th March 1855. Printed at the "Independent" office. James Smith. A catalogue of thirty-one crates of nicely assorted crockeryware, Parianware and glassware to be sold without reserve by public auction at the Britannia Saloon on Thursday 12th April 1855. Printed at the office of the "New Zealand spectator". Quantity: 1 folder(s) 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying around 230 x 140 mm.

Date: 1885

By: Thomas Turnbull & Son (Firm)

Reference: Plans-80-0517

Description: Shows details of first storey plan Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Thos. Turnbull & Son, Architect; Recto - top left - (Very faint) - Robert Orr, Thomas Turnbull, James Wilson Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing

Date: 1942

Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-1942

Description: Includes programmes featuring: British Music Society New Zealand Incorporated. Third concert 1941-1942 season. (With Beryl Caigou, Lawrence A North, May Hyam, Fanny McDonald, Audrey Gibson-Foster). James Smith's Ltd, 15 April 1942. Programme / fier British Music Society New Zealand Incorporated. First concert 1942-1943 season (With Kate Jourdain, June Harris, Marie Vandewart, Nora Gray). Blue Triangle Hall, Boulcott Street, 10 December 1942. Programme / flier (2 copies) Zillah Castle Chamber Music Society (Zillah Castle, Dorothy Davies, Mona Castle, Ronald Castle). Nimmo's Hall, Willis Street, 8 July 1942. Promotional flier (Typescript) Celebrity concert: Ignaz Friedman and Andersen Tyrer with the N.B.S. Orchestra. grand Opera House, 20 December [1942]. Promotional flier with photographs of Friedman and Tyrer Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed programmes, up to quarto size, some illustrated.

Date: 1915

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

By: James Smith's (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1915-02

Description: Ticket worth ten shillings cash for five coupons, or 12/6 value in goods for five coupons. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, rubber stamp and ink handwriting on pink ticket, 60 x 92 mm.

From: Estate of Mr and Mrs E S Knight :Photographs of Wellington

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: PA1-o-252

Description: Photograph album of views of Wellington, ranging from copies of early paintings from the 1840s, and early photographs up to the 1870s, to a series of postcards from the 1920s. Most of the early images have clear descriptions, giving year made, location, and in some cases further information about buildings that can be seen. For example, one view shows Kebble's house, now the site of the Grand Opera House. Views in the postcards are identified, but no dates are given. Most of the postcard views were taken by Sydney Charles Smith Inscriptions: Album page - `To E.S.K. with all good wishes for the 8th Nov. 1925, from a wellwisher' (illuminated inscription inside front cover) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Black album, entitled `Photographs'; `E.S.K.' lettered in lower right-hand corner; 26 x 33 cm

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

Reference: Plans-91-1791

Description: Shows elevation to Pringle Avenue, floor plan, and roof pplan. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on tracing paper, 590 x 323 mm.

Date: 1930-1985

From: James Smith Ltd :Photographs of personnel, activities and shops

Reference: PAColl-3332-01

Description: All relates to James Smith Wellington, its Wellington Store, staff and staff activities and events like Christmas parades. There are also aerial views of Porirua City, window displays, views of shop interiors, and a display of porcelain table-ware by Rosenthall. Quantity: 74 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1970 - 1979

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-D-BUILDINGS-Wellington-1970s-01/04

Description: Four sheets, with a black and white aerial photograph of a part of the Wellington Region on one side, and a coloured advertisement on the other: Sheet [1]: A view northwards in the fast growing Upper Hutt Valley; on verso is a coloured advertisement by General Motors for Holden cars Sheet [2]: "Notable in the heart of Wellington City these days is the receding harbour and steadily climbing sky-line"; on verso is a coloured advertisement for Jantzen swimwear from James Smith's Sheet [3]: "Wellington as air travellers landing from the north see it"; on verso is a coloured advertisement by Carpet & Linoleums Ltd for Armstrong-Nylex embossed floorcovering Sheet [4]: The southern sector of downtown Wellington as seen by a "Post" photographer flying over the Clyde Quay area; on verso is a coloured advertisement by Todd Motors Ltd for Chrysler cars. Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on newsprint 430 x 600 mm.

Date: [Between 1840s and 1890s]

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Tyree Brothers (Firm); Reade, M A (Mrs), active 1969

Reference: PA1-o-429

Description: Recent prints from old photographs of Wellington, originally taken between about 1840s and 1890s. Includes one photograph of a painting by William Mein Smith of Wellington waterfront and Te Aro flat, painted in 1842. Only one image identifies the photographer. A photograph of Oriental Bay taken in the 1890s, was by the Tyree Brothers of Nelson. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red mock-crocodile textured cover, entitled `Photographs'; 26.0 x 36.5 cm Processing information: All the photographs have reference numbers linking them with items in the Alexander Turnbull Library photographic collections

Date: 1939 - 1961

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm); Mitchell & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-D-10-038/040

Description: Includes perspective drawings of the corner, with window alterations (1939), and plans of 1961 for Plaza Theatre entrance, Adams Bruce Ltd, a cake shop and James Smith Ltd. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings, on tracing paper sizes varying up to 410 x 700 mm.

Date: ca 1880s

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4754

Description: Photograph of Cuba Street looking south towards Mount Cook. Te Aro House, James King watchmakers, John Young ironmongers, New Zealand Clothing Factory and other premises can be seen. Photographer was Wrigglesworth & Binns. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1976

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-D-10-041/048

Description: Includes floor plans, electrical plans, drainage layout, and sections. Also includes details of dough handling table, and sign. Quantity: 8 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings, on tracing paper 595 x 810 mm.

Date: 1927

By: James Smith's (Firm); Hutcheson Bowman & Johnson Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1927-01

Description: Includes advertisements and illustrations for items on sale at James Smiths store in Wellington. Green cover has a gilt illustration of a kiwi, a tree fern and a mountain, and the back cover shows a gilt illustration of a flag superimposed on a picture of the department store building. Inside are tourist promotion photographs framed in Maori motifs, of a Maori hongi, Lake Whakatipu [sic], the Arthur River, Pukekura Park, the drop scene on the Wanganui River, The Hermitage and Mt Sefton, Waitomo Caves, the Buller Gorge, Queen Charlotte Sound, and a montage of photographs of various departments within James Smith's store. There are also advertisements throughout for Parisian neckwear, Phoenix hosiery, Coty toilet goods and perfumes, Abelco shirts, retail advice from John Sincerity, and subscriptions to McCall printed pattern books. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Sales catalogue of 16 pages, 182 x 250 mm.