Places

Date: 1890 - 1920

From: Gear Meat Company :Scrapbook of labels. 1890s-1920s].

Reference: Eph-F-MEAT-Gear-054-1

Description: Green label shows a cooked ox tongue on a plate Extended Title - From Gear Meat Company Scrapbook of labels, page [54], top label. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on label.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on label, 82 x 373 mm

Date: 1899

From: [Ephemera and horticulture sales catalogues issued by New Zealand plant nurseries, 1870-1899].

By: Wilson & Horton (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-1899-01-back

Description: Shows a sprig of leaves and five fruit of the Clyman plum . Decorative border at top and bottom. Extended Title - Introducers of Japan mammoth chestnut and Japan walnut. Introducers of other valuable new fruits. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Wilson and Horton, Printers, Auckland Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on back cover of sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Offset lithograph, 214 x 140 mm.

Date: 1890 - 1840

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

Reference: Eph-C-HISTORY-Wellington-1890-01

Description: Shows the poem in a central panel, with inset views of Wellington in the borders: Wellington 1840; Wellington 1890; Arrival of the "Aurora" in Port Nicholson, January 1840; Thorndon 1840; Thorndon 1890; Wellington Wharf 1840; Wellington Wharf 1890. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving and letterpress, 487 x 321 mm.

Date: 1899 - 1900

By: Otago Sunday School Union; Fergusson and Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-RELIGION-C-1900-01

Description: Certificate shows an arrangement of text, with a dove of peace at the top, and two seated angels flanking the Holy Bible at the bottom. At the sides are New Zealand scenes: Maori beside a lake with tree fern at the left, and at right a church and cabbage tree in front of a snowy mountain, possibly Mt Taranaki. Denomination may be Presbyterian or Methodist. Other certificates awarded to Mary McKenzie include some from the New Zealand Methodist Sunday School Union, but there is also published evidence that the Otago Sunday School Union may have been linked to the Presbyterian Church. It may have been interdenominational. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on card, 310 x 250 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Hobsons, Wellington, in 2007.

Date: 1893

By: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; F W Niven & Company; Moody, John George, active 1893

Reference: Eph-E-BUILDINGS-Dunedin-1893-01

Description: Shows a view of Dunedin from Waverly Bay in the centre. Surrounding it from top left (clockwise) are: Sargood, Son & Ewen buildings in Invercargill and Dunedin (warehousemen and manufacturers including boot factory); Girton College; J J Arthur (tailors); McGavin and Co Union Brewery and Cellars; John Edmond (iron and hardware merchant); Evening Star Office; P Miller (importer); Grand Hotel (Watson Brothers); Bennett & Son (cordial manufacturers); James J Pryor and son (nurserymen); DIC (Drapery and General Importing Company - B Hallenstein, Cahirman of Directors); Hordern & White Dunedin Carriage Factory; Geo M Marshall (homeopathic chemist); Scoullar & Chisholm (furniture manufacturers and importers); Joseph McKay (boot and shoe manufacturer and importer); Dick & McKechnie Drapery Supply Association; The Phoenix Company (makers of jams, biscuits and confectionery); H S Fish & Son (paperhangings and window glass). Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Printed for the proprietors of the "Evening Star" Dunedin, by F W Niven & Co., and published by John George Moody, Mornington. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured, 637 x 1015 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1980.

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000494-G

Description: View of Auckland from Northcote. Boats are anchored in the bay in the middle foreground and a pipeline can be seen running along the foreshore. Northcote Wharf can be seen in the distance. Photograph taken by William A Price. An almost identical view is available at 1/2-000287-G Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Auckland Harbour from Northcote. 150E William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1900-1905]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000251-G

Description: View of Mansion House and nearby buildings taken from some distance off-shore looking towards the wharf. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Kawau. Auckland. No 1858 Relationship complexity - One of a series of three photographs taken as the ferry approached the wharf at Mansion House Bay. See also 1/2-000250 and 1/2000249 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1899-1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000245

Description: View of the ferry steamer berthed at the wharf in Mansion House Bay. Possibly a vessel belonging to the Northern Steam Ship Company vessel. Taken from a vantage point to the north overlooking the bay. Mansion House is obscured from sight by the trees in the immediate foreground. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Kawau Island. Auckland, NZ. No 1866 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1899

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

Reference: Eph-E-DRAMA-1899-01

Description: Shows arrangement of text, red and blue lettering on white, with varying lettering types. Cast members include: Mr H R Roberts, Maggie Moore, Mr J J Ennis, Mr Herbert Ashton, Mr W Rivers, Mr Fred Esmelton, Mr J Walters, Mr W J Townshend, Miss Ethel Bashford, Mr Alec Cochrane, Miss Ada Woodhill. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress 1000 x 320 mm.

Date: 1890 - 1940

By: Mills, Dick & Company

Reference: Eph-C-MEAT-1900s-09

Description: A label for a four-sided tin of meat. Shows the two larger panels (for the larger sides of the tin) incorporating insets of a circular motif showing St George on horseback fighting a dragon. One panel shows a background of a lake surrounded by hills, with cabbage tree and ferns. One panel shows native clematis. The style is late Victorian. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 117 x 350 mm (slightly curved).

Date: 1898

Reference: Eph-E-DRAMA-1898-01

Description: Shows arrangement of text, black lettering on yellow, with varying lettering. The name "Henry's Dramatic Company" is highlighted with black background. Extended Title - "From Scotland Yard" ... "Under two flags" ... "The Mysteries of Paris". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress 1000 x 380 mm.

Date: 1899

By: Atkin, Walter, 1848-1911

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-CONCERT-1899-01

Description: Maori Concert Programme - cover: Haka, poi and tangi, Greyport (n.d.) Dated from pencil note at centre right. No Westport newspapers available to check, but Grey River Argus for 5-9 October 1899, page 3, announces their appearances in Greymouth earlier in the month. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Printed by Walter Atkin, Palmerston Street, Westport.; Recto - centre right - (In pencil): 500 / 17/10/[99?] Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress 225 x 142 mm.

Date: 1893

By: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; F W Niven & Company; Moody, John George, active 1893

Reference: Eph-E-BUILDINGS-Dunedin-1893-02

Description: Shows a view of Dunedin from Logan's Point in the centre. Surrounding it from top left (clockwise) are: James Macfie & Co City Coal Depot; James Duthie & Co's Colonial Carrying Company of New Zealand, J & J Arthur (tailors); A & T Burt (engineers); Thomson & Co. Crystal Springs Mineral Water Works; H E Shacklock (ironfounder and engineer); Joseph Mackay City Boot Palace; St Domonic's Convent and High School; W Melville's Cyclists' Exchange and Sewing Machine Depot; Andrew Lees (glass importer); J W Faulkner & Sons (Ornamnetal iron and wire works); John Gillies Wholesale and retail Cabinetmaker and upholsterer, and undertaker; Findlay and Murdoch City Sawmills; Paterson & Barr (hardware importers); Duthie Brothers General Drapers; F A Hooper & Co (Furnishing Warehouse); W D Houston (Gentlemen's mercer); Joseph Braithwaite (Book and Stationery importer); New Zealand Engineering and Electrical Company (Thomas Stevenson, R H Postlethwaite); Edward Iles (Hairdresser, Wigmaker). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Printed for the proprietors of the "Evening Star" Dunedin, by F W Niven & Co., and published by John George Moody, Mornington. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured, 637 x 1010 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1980.

Date: 1893

By: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; F W Niven & Company

Reference: Eph-E-BUILDINGS-Invercargill-1893-01

Description: Advertorial poster showing a lithograph of a view of Invercargill, with a river going through the centre, and horses and carriages in the streets. Around the borders are inset pictures of some of the town's man buildings, including: Fleming & Gilkison (millers & grain merchants), Southland Times, Sloan Brothers City Boot Palace, Vicenzo Almao (hatter), St Paul's Presbyterian Church, D McFarlane (bakery and McFarlane's Coffee Palace), R W Jones Machinery and Cycling Exchange, H Carswell & Co (auctioneers), C H Macalister (chemist), Wesney brothers gift shop, Frank A Steans (importer of fishing tackle), J Manson & Co (importers of furniture and ironmongers), David Strang coffee and spice merchant, John H Kissell (saddler & harness maker), Turner & Colbran (tailors and clothiers), C J Deschler's Hotel, Alex Ferguson (watchmaker and jeweller), the Hospital, St Mary's Roman Catholic Church. There is also an inset view of Bluff harbour and town, about 15 miles from Invercargill. Lower centre has a panel listing the ships in the Union Line, and their tonnage and captains: Ruahine, Kaikoura, Rimutaka, Tongariro, Aorangi and Ruapehu. At top left is an advertisement for the agent, Wellesley A Parker of the Palace Hotel Melbourne. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 640 x 1015 mm.

Date: 1890 - 1910

From: Various artists :[Box of assorted Christmas cards. 1860s-1919]

By: Retter, David Charles, 1955-

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-Christmas-1900-01

Description: Front cover shows from top: a tiki, a map of New Zealand in a heart shape, two fern leaves, and a handshake between a man and a woman with an ocean background. Inside text: My Christmas wish / A very happy Christmas / is what I wish you dear, / With many joys and pleasures / Throughout the coming year / from [unsigned] Exhibited in ‘Humble: the life of 100 small objects’, exhibition curated by Barbara Lyon, in the Turnbull Gallery, National Library of New Zealand, 27 August - 17 November 2017. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on Christmas greetings card. Physical Description: Chromolithograph, on folded card, 132 x 79 mm, tied with green cord bow. Provenance: Donated by David Retter, Wellington, in 2006.

Date: 1893

From: [Theatre programmes for opera performances in New Zealand. 1890s].

By: J J Miller Printing Company

Reference: Eph-B-OPERA-1893-01-cover

Description: The back and front cover spread of what is actually a programme for "Carmen up to data" in Christchurch in 1893, shows scenes from the show "Forty thieves", which had played the previous year at the Princess Theatre Melbourne. The illustrations mainly feature a beautiful dancing girl. In one scene she pours oil into a jar containing a person. In another she dances, watched by an admirer in a tree. "Carmen up to data" was a musical burlesque, a spoof of Bizet's 1875 opera "Carmen". It premiered at the Gaiety Theatre London, on 4 October 1890, and toured internationally reaching Australia by 1892. This cover has been overprinted for use in the New Zealand season. Extended Title - Superprinted on top of programme for, Princess Theatre, Melbourne. Grand Xmas pantomime, "Forty thieves", 1892-3. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Designed & lithographed by J J Miller, Melbourne Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and lithograph, on cover 258 x 238 mm (unfolded).

Date: [ca 1900-1905]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000250-G

Description: Mansion House and nearby buildings, Mansion House Bay, Kawau Island, taken from off shore. Mansion House was possibly a guest house at this time. A group of people are waiting on the wharf for the ferry. Photograph taken by William A Price, early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Kawau Island Auckland NZ No 1870 Relationship complexity - One of a series of three photographs taken from the ferry as it appraoched the wharf at Mansion House Bay. See also 1/2-000249 and 1/2-000251 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1897

From: [Theatre programmes for opera performances in New Zealand. 1890s].

By: New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works; Falk, active 1893; Barnes, William Rodney, 1851-1939

Reference: Eph-B-OPERA-1897-01-cover

Description: Shows inset head-and-shoulder portraits of Mrs Brown Potter and Mr Kyrle Bellew, who played Rosalind and Orlando in "As you like it", in mid-January 1897. The portraits are from photographs by Falk. Around are scenes of stars in the shy and the balcony scene from "Romeo and Juliet". Down the sides of the cover are advertisements for Sterling Stainless Hosiery (on sale at Staerker and Fischer), and Read Brothers, jewellers. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Star and Graphic Print, Shortland Street, Auckland Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and lithgraph, on cover 281 x 218 mm.

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000287-G

Description: View of Auckland from Northcote. Boats are anchored in the bay in the middle foreground and a pipeline can be seen running along the foreshore. Northcote Wharf can be seen in the distance. Photograph taken by William A Price. An almost identical view is available at 1/2-000494-G Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Auckland Harbour from Northcote. 149E William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1890 - 1900

From: Wairakei ... the true wonderland of New Zealand. Principal sights in the Hot Lakes District, viz Geyser Valley, Arateatea Rapids, Kerapiti (The Devil's Trumpet), and Huka Falls. Printed at the Star and Graphic Office, Auckland [1890-1900].

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Wairakei-1890s-01-back

Description: Dr Allen of Napier reports his stay in Wairakei, and remarks on the geysers, the Wairakei Homestead, and the Bath, beneficial for skin affections, rheumatism and gout. Dated from the 1890s, based on the period in which W Deverell was illustrating tourism brochures. Extended Title - From, "Wairakei ... the true wonderland of New Zealand" [1890s? Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Typeset on back of pamphlet, 180 x 84 mm.