Places

Date: 1922

From: [Music programmes 1922]

By: A E Purse (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-1922-01

Description: Programme featuring works by Wagner, Massenet, Weber, song by F David (Sung by Rose Alba), Liszt, Rossini, Tschaikowsky, Alfred Hill ("Waiata Poi"), Percy Grainger, Mendelssohn. The cover shows a head and shoulders portrait of Henri Verbrugghen. Alfred Hill was the assistant conductor. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, each 217 x 142 mm.

Date: 1970 - 1978

By: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery; Driver, Donald Sinclair, 1930-2011

Reference: E-278-q-080/083

Description: Postcard reproduction of four of Driver's works of art in the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, ca 1970s Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithographs, 170 x 115 mm

Date: [ca 1880-1910]

From: Scenery Preservation Board :Scenic photographs of New Zealand

By: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Scenery Preservation Board

Reference: PAColl-0444-1

Description: Photographs of the following: a set of seven photographs by Collis and annotated by F P Corkill, land agent, re landholding around the Waiwhakaiho River; scenic views such as waterfalls, lakes, and the Pink and White Terraces; bridges with annotations re height etc; sixteen numbered photographs mounted two to a card of scenic views in the Taranaki Region, Rotorua and the far north (including ones of Taumaha Gorge, Taranaki and Lake Ora - location unidentified); a set of seven photographs of the Waipu Caves including Lot's wife, the anvil and the sugar loaf in Morrison's Cave; a clipping of St Paul's Cupola and a photograph of Kauri Gully, Northcote with annotations on resolutions passed re the establishment of reservations; a panorama in two photographs of Flagstaff Hill, Dunedin with annotations re a potential reserve; and two of a tramping party of three men and five boys resting at a waterfall. Includes a recent hand-written list of the photographs. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted prints

Date: 1848-1986

By: Bagnall, Austin Graham, 1912-1986

Reference: MS-Group-1901

Description: Comprises three boxes relating to NZ Historic Places Trust; library survey (1959) with correspondence; papers re NZLA; papers re National Library; files re Bagnall's position as librarian, National Library Centre (box 5) and including correspondence, visit to Australia, National Bibliography file, manuscript in Taranaki Museum, Judy Hornabrook; Carnegie Corporation, library group papers; and a box of papers re the NZLA (box 6). Includes manuscripts of, and research material on, William Colenso; correspondence and notes on his history of the Wairarapa and files on the National Library. Further personal papers including correspondence, reports, research notes, literary drafts and printed material related to his local historical work, professional life as a librarian, bibliographer and author. Includes extensive newspaper cuttings collated for Bagnall's research into local histories of the Eastern Bays of Wellington and the Wairarapa. Source of title - Supplied by Library Librarian, bibliographer, author and local historian. Bagnall was Chief Librarian of the Alexander Turnbull Library from 1966 to 1973. One of his most significant achievements was his 35 year involvement compiling and editing the New Zealand national bibliography. Quantity: 25 box(es). 4 folder(s). 9.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, ephemera, photographs and printed matter Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into the Manuscripts Section, transfers made from there. - To Book Collections - 5 boxes of book catalogues and published material - To Ephemera Collection - 2 boxes of booklets and printed material - To Photographic Archive - 38 Black & white photographs, 10 colour photographs, and negatives (PA-Group-00656).

Date: [Between 1880s and 1890s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-079

Description: Views of the Otago Region taken by unidentified photographers, circa 1870s to 1895. Many show buildings in Dunedin, including one house `Lisburn House' built for the Fulton family in 1865; also commercial buildings, church buildings, school buildings (Otago Boys' High School), and Dunedin Gaol. The church buildings include the Chapel in Leith Street, the Chapel in Great King Street, and the Baptist Chapel. Beyond Dunedin there are views of Naseby, Butchers Gully, Port Chalmers, Cromwell, Kyeburn, Shag Valley, and Lake Hayes, Lake Wanaka and Lake Hawea. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover decorated with gold birds, lettering and decorations outlined in black; 30.5 x 25.5 cm

By: Clark, Garry Trevor, active 1981-1984

Reference: PAColl-5506

Description: Photographs of early Manakau. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-057397 to 057412 Quantity: 16 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1949-ca1970

By: Larsen, Malcolm Richmond, 1923-1985

Reference: PA-Group-00072

Description: Mostly about commercial bus tours run by Larsen from 1949 to some time in the 1960s or early 1970s. Tours relate to New Zealand and Australia. Included are photographs of a ceremony relating to building of Wellington City Mission's Russell Kemp Home at Titahi Bay. Other photographs relate to the Larsen family. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at F 69904 1/4 - F 70111 1/4. Album at PA1-q-112 (Donald Hansen Album) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). 454 b&w original photographic print(s). 21 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1860-1900

By: Masterton Historical Society

Reference: PAColl-7329

Description: Photographs of Masterton including: Bannister's farm on the north bank of the Waipoua River at Akura with Charles Bannister standing on the bank; the militia of 1866, presenting arms, led by Captain Walter Perry (all names given in the caption); the Coles' house on Bridge Street (now Queen Street) and a studio portrait of what may be the Coles family; views of Queen Street; a crowd in the street for the opening of the new Post Office with the Public Institute behind it; a sale of sheep at the saleyards; a procession by friendly societies past the Prince of Wales stables; James Wrigley and his family outside his bootmaking business; James Wrigley and his wife and son John; a cart travelling over the Te Ore Ore bridge; the Anglican church; the first Post Office next to Iorn's Bannister store ca 1856; panoramic views of the town; the Waipoua River near the site of the old Kaikokirikiri Pa; Masterton school picnic at Woodroofe's farm; a painting of Worksop Farm owned by the Dixons by Charles Barraud; a band and procession on Queen Street passing Westlake's saddlery and Winzenberg's photography shop; Masterton's first band outside the Royal Hotel with E Braggins, the licencee and conductor (other names given on the reverse of the print); a ballast train coming from the ballast pit near the railway train with men standing on the carts; the Wrigley family in a field of cattle at their farm; a baby show; an 1854 land receipt for a section purchased by Iorns; a group of eighteen blacksmiths holding their implements; Liberal Party celebrations at Solway Show Grounds after the 1905 election with Seddon, Ward and others (named on the reverse of the print); William Hodgson Donald; Sergeant Price of the Masterton police; Donald Solway Donald; Mr and Mrs Charles Dixon; W W McCardle; and a tinsmith, one of the early residents. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 30 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Processing information: Negatives were allocated at 1/2-003434 to 1/2-003471 and 003673 to 003674 (duplicate at 1/2-004343) although only sixteen of these were made. Replacement negatives for two images at 1/2-132742 and 151351. 1/1-000763 to 1/1-000778 may also relate to this collection.

Date: 1904

From: [Posters deposited on long-term loan by Michael Kenna. 1980]

By: Kenna, Michael, active 1980-2000

Reference: Eph-E-KENNA-1904-01

Description: A circus herald advertising the Fitzgerald Brothers' Circus. Recto shows portrait illustrations of the two Fitzgerald Brothers at the top corners, and below is a large scene showing many acts going on in the Big Top. Performers included: The Zenobia Brothers (globe on a tightrope), Gilleno (musical clown), dog show introduced by Manzoni (from the Folies Bergeres), Mdemoiselle Onra (tightrope), Miss Beryl Loraine (contortionist and dancer), Eric and Reano (aerial trapeze comedians), The Flying Meteors, Benato the Clown, The Marottos (horizontal bar) Contains a warning that any swindlers, gamblers, fakirs making false claims and undermining the circus affidavits, will be arrested if found on the grounds. The verso advertises an orangutan on display. Lower side of verso is overstamped with Palmerston North dates and venue. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on green poster.. Physical Description: Relief print, black on green poster 900 x 570 mm

Date: [1873?]

From: Burt, William Beverland, 1912-1992: Photographs, chiefly relating to the Chatham Islands

By: Barker, Samuel Delabere, 1848-1901

Reference: PA1-q-041

Description: Photographs of various areas in the Chatham Islands and the people who lived there in the 1870s. Group photographs include those of the Hunt family, the Gregory family, the Langdale family, the Beamish family, and groups of unnamed Moriori. At least some of the photographs were taken by Samuel Barker who visited the Chatham Islands in 1873. Information from comparison with images in published items. Arrangement: Images are numbered sequentially throughout album At one time this album apparently belonged to the Shand family (also of the Chatham Islands) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Grey covered album, 32 x 27.5 cm Provenance: Donated by W B Burt, Christchurch, 1972

Date: [ca 1865-1940]

By: Guest, Ernest Matthias Capewell, 1873?-1957; Guest, Joseph John, 1864-1943

Reference: ATL-Group-00805

Description: Photographs of the Chatham Islands taken circa 1900-1920 by Mr Ernest Matthias Capewell Guest. Some images may be copies of photographs taken by his cousin J J Guest. Includes photographs of Mitai Tini. Title supplied by Library. Some photographic prints also reproduced in an album at Library reference PA1-o-045. Arrangement: Negatives also at; 1/2-034873 to 034879, 034889 to 034892, 037597 to 037700 (half plate); 1/4-21396 to 21464 (quarter plate). Quantity: 201 b&w original negative(s). 74 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Negatives and photographic prints Transfers: Photographic prints held in Original prints from file print collection: - PAColl-10563-074; 21, 23-28, 30-32, 37, 43-46, 48, 49, 51-54, 58-60, 66, 72-77, 79. - PAColl-10563-075; 02, 04, 13-16, 18, 19, 22, 23, 39, 54-56, 58, 61, 62, 65, 66, 69, 71,75-77, 79-83, 86, 87. - PAColl-10563-076; 02-06, 09, 12-14, 16, 18-28, 31.. Processing information: Collection description enhanced December 2022. Previous reference: PAColl-4872.

Date: 1973 - 1892 - 1894

By: Cockerell, E A, active 1890s; Hawcridge, Robert, 1866-1920; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: D-001-014/016

Description: Auckland, New Zealand, panoramic views of city and harbour from Birkenhead, by W.D.S. 1892; Wellington, New Zealand, panorama of city and harbour, by E.A. Cockerell. 1893; Dunedin, New Zealand, panorama of city and harbour, by R.H. Hawcridge. 1894. Issued with descriptive text sheet. First published as col. chromolithographs, reproduced from paintings, in Christmas issues of Weekly graphic, 1892-94, Auckland, New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing. Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Col. photolithographs 262 x 748 mm; 261 x 748 mm; 257 x 748 mm, on sheets 427 x 890 mm

Date: 1933 - 1935

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1930-1939]

By: Simpson and Williams Ltd; Southwell, Cynthia, active 1997

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1934-01

Description: Booklet advertising goods for sale from various Christchurch retail outlets: Provincial Hotel (for liquor supplies), H C Urlwin Ltd (electrical appliances), Ashby Bergh & Co Ltd (household, sporting and camping goods), Butlers (N.Z.) Ltd (Ekco radios), Penrose's Shoe Store, Minson's (tableware and household goods), Knowles (poultry and fish), Blackwell Motors (Chevrolet), Watkinson's Ltd (automobile electrical supplies) , Simpson & Williams Ltd (books and gifts), Alston's (bags and luggage), Stacey & Hawker ("S.X." bread), Smart & Son's Ltd (pavers, concrete and asphalt work), Meltzer Bros (tents), Waddell's (grocers), Canterbury Frozen Meat Co (butchers), Herb Laban Ltd (menswear). Other Titles - Christmas Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 20 pages, each 240 x 180 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs C Southwell, in 1997.

Date: 1913 - 1919

Reference: Eph-B-DANCE-1913/1919

Description: Includes programmes and flyers for: 1913: J C Williamson Ltd. Genee the world's greatest dancer with M Volinin, premier danseur classique & directeur choreographique from the Imperial Opera House, Moscow and the Imperial Russian Ballet, in a magnificent programme, including "Coppelia" ballet in 2 acts. Opera House Wellington, commencing Saturday Oct. 25th [1913]. Brett Printing Co. - 2493. Programme "Bringing the dance to the Dominion". Article by Jan Bolwell about Adeline Genie's 1913 tour of New Zealand (cutting from unknown periodical ca 1982?) 1914: Grand dance recital presented by Miss Estelle Beere. Town Hall Wellington, Friday August 21, 1914. Programme. Printed by Watkins, Tyer & Tolan Ltd [1914] Maud Allan and Leo, Jan and Mischel Cherniavsky. Accompanist Frank St Leger. Programme no. 2. Daily Times print. Verso shows a reproduction of a drawing of Maud Allan by Chas (Charles) Buchel. Maud Allan and Leo, Jan and Mischel Cherniavsky. Accompanist Frank St Leger. Programme no. 6. [Otago] Daily Times print, [1914] 1915: Great dance festival by the pupils of Miss Cecil Hall in aid of our Wounded Soldiers' Fund. Town Hall [Auckland], 13 November 1915. Flyer only 1917: Patriotic dance recital by Miss Beere and pupils in aid of St John Ambulance Brigade, Red Cross Depot. (With Gynette Kirk, Ronald Crichton, Rene Taylor, Zelda Bailey, Joan Beere, Bob Clementson, Thurza Rogers, Florence Heyworthe, Kathleen O'Brian, Private Thomas O'Carroll, Lynne Edwards). Opera House, 3-4 July 1917. Programme 1918: A stupendous attraction, "The dancing star", Verna Bain, the phenomenal child dancer of the world. James C Bain, the famous comedian and character impersonator. Wilkinson Print, 26 Durham St., W [Christchurch. 1918]. Promotional flyer Quantity: 7 programmes and flyers. 1 clipped article. Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying under 300 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1949

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1940s

Description: Includes: 1940s?: Sheet of pins. New Zealand has a "charm" of its own [describing tiki] Memorial service for members of the Maori Battalion and thanksgiving for the first Maori Victoria Cross 1940: An Arawa souvenir. Wahiao Meeting House Whakarewarewa. Official opening by the grace of His Excellency the Right Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, 16 November 1940. Pamphlet with salutations to Hoani te Heuheu, and genealogical tree from Tamatekapua down to Wahiao. Otakou Maori Centennial 1840-1940. Foundation stone laying ceremony. 24 February 1940 [Order of ceremony] 1941: "Maori carving", by W J Phillipps, Dominion Museum. Publication flyer 1943. Election campaign booklet in Maori for Right Hon Peter Fraser New Zealand Centennial 1840-1940. Tihee! Mauri Ora! Official opening ceremonies of the third and fourth Te Arawa Centennial Memorials, Tawakeheimoa (Whare Wananga at Te Awahou) and Tamatekapua (national whare runanga at Ohinemutu), by His Excellency the Governor-General ... Sir Cyril Newall. 24 March 1943 [Order of ceremonies; includes 2 sheets containing translations of some passages] 1946: Maori national welcome to the 28th Battalion of the 2nd NZEF. Imperial Government Shed at Aotea Quay, 22 January 1946 [Invitation card to Hon HGR Mason] 1948: Rangiatea restoration 1848-1948. Diocesan Maori Mission. Pamphlet. 1949?: New Zealand National Party. Te Maori a ona ra e tuku iho nei: The Maori and the future. He who stands at the prow of the canoe shall be renowned (critical of the Labour Party's policy for Maori) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying below 250 mm. Processing information: Ngarimu Investiture souvenir programme; [and] Supplement to souvenir programme. Ruatoria, 6 October 1943: Combined into Te Whaiti family collection ATL-Group-00753, October 2022.

Date: 1967

From: [Ephemera of around A3 size relating to tourism nationwide and the tourist industry in New Zealand. 1960-1969]

By: Fortune (Periodical)

Reference: Eph-C-TOURISM-NZ-1967-01

Description: Booklet promoting New Zealand, giving facts and statistics. Front cover shows: a sheep muster, sunbathing on a beach, aerial cropdusting, inside a steel works, harnessing steam at Wairakei, mountaineering, Mt Taranaki and Taranaki farmland. Advertisers include: New Zealand Government Tourist Office, Air New Zealand, New Zealand Insurance Company Ltd, Wright Stephenson & Co Ltd, New Zealand Apple and Pear Marketing Board, Ford Motor Company of New Zealand Ltd, Crown Lynn, Ivon Watkins-Dow Group of Companies, Dalgety & N.Z. Loan Ltd, Lincoln International, PYE Electronics Ltd, Fisher & Paykel Ltd, U.E.B. Industries Ltd, New Zealand Information Service. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, each 335 x 265 mm. Provenance: Donated by Jill Goodwin in 1998.

Date: ca1928-ca1995

By: Wassiliewa, Galina, 1925-1999

Reference: PAColl-6125

Description: This collection includes photographs of Galina Wassiliewa's family life in Lithuania, her career in dance in that country and later, her life in Wellington, New Zealand, (including work as a chambermaid in a Salvation Army home), and her activities in ballet in Wellington over the past half century. The collection includes portraits of many prominent dancers with whom she was associated, or admired, and reviews of her school and ballet productions in local and international publications. Accompanying information - Identifying notes placed in print enclosures at PAColl-6125-04 have been made by Judy Siers, a colleague of Galina Wassiliewa's and Library researcher. Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm,25972 to 35mm,27383. Transparencies at PA12-6125. Lantern slides at PA11-216. Albums at PA1-o-935 to 941; PA1-q-731 to 734; PA1-f-216 Galina Wassiliewa was an only child. She was born Galina Ranten (though the most common form of the name used by her on documents and photographs is Rantenaite) in Panevezya, Lithuania, on the 21 September 1925. Her family was well off and able to employ during the 1920s, a maid and a nanny. Her father, Vladimir Ranten (though the most common form of the name used by him was Rantenas), a lawyer, also held the post of Lithuanian State Prosecutor. As a consequence of the Russian occupation of Lithuania in June 1940, her father was dismissed from his position, and in 1941 he and his family fled to Germany. From the age of eight Galina had studied ballet at the Lithuanian State Theatre Ballet School. After graduating she attended master classes in Berlin conducted by Tatjana Gsovsky. She subsequently danced for eight years as a soloist with many of the major ballet companies in Germany, a career, possibly in part resulting from her family's move to Germany in 1941. In September 1944 Galina got a job as a soloist at the Vienna Opera House and was performing there when allied bombing forced the German authorities to close it. In 1945 Galina and her mother fled the advancing Soviet armies, ending up in Munich. There she was employed for three years as a member of a dance group engaged by the American entertainment unit. This work was much better paid than salaries offered by German ballet companies during a period of rampant inflation at the end of the war. Unfortunately, when the occupation ended she found herself unemployed in a displaced persons camp, and being a foreigner she could not get a job. For Galina and her mother return to Lithuania was impossible as Russia had occupied the country for a second time in 1944 and middle class Lithuanians whom it could be construed had collaborated with the Germans were vulnerable. Mass executions and deportations to Siberia were a feature of the new Soviet regime. With her professional experience Galina could have migrated to a number of countries, but only New Zealand would take her 54 year old mother as well. Having lost her Grandmother, her father, and her favourite cousin, during the war, Galina and her mother were all that was left of her immediate family. Determined not to be separated, they signed two-year domestic service contracts and sailed for Wellington in 1949. She met her husband, Wassili (d1983), a musician, in Wellington, very soon after and married him in 1951. They established the Galina Wassiliewa School of Russian Classical Ballet in Wellington in 1953. Sometime in the late 1950s they also became the New Zealand Branch of the British Association of Russian Classical Ballet. In 1987 Galina retired from running the ballet school which continued until about 1992 as a cooperative. Galina continued to teach, taking private pupils, until shortly before her death in November 1999. Though she talked of returning to visit Lithuania and the countries of her youth, Galina Wassiliewa never left New Zealand after settling here. Quantity: 13 album(s). 226 colour original photographic print(s). 2278 b&w original photographic print(s). 1303 b&w original negative(s) comprising 49,414 images. 108 colour original negative(s) comprising 379 images. 8 colour original transparency/ies comprising 12 images, 3 of which are glass lantern slides.

Date: 1916 - 1919

Reference: Eph-A-ANZAC-1915/1919

Description: Includes: Undated: Hellenic Travellers Club. Gallipoli ceremony [1916-1950s?] 1916: Anzac Day, first anniversary. Town Hall Auckland, April 25 1916. Programme ANZAC Day, Masterton, April 25th 1916 Anzacs' Concert. Town Hall, Friday Dec. 1st 1916 in aid of Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association Funds. Programme and songbook with loose sheet music for "God save the Tzar". Souvenir to commemorate the exchange of flags between New South Wales Railways and New Zealand Railways, unfurled on Anzac Day, 25th April 1916 at Petone Railway Station. (Poem "The day" by Henry Chappell on verso) Programme, 1st anniversary of the Landing at Anzac. Military sports held at Tel-el-Kebir, April 25th 1916. Programme Anzac Day, Easter Sunday, April 23rd 1916. (The Parish Church of the NZ Depot, England). Service; the 1st anniversary of the landing of New Zealand troops in Gallipoli, April 25th 1915. 1917: Wellington Returned Soldiers' Association. Remember Anzac. Anzac dinner to commemorate the landing at "Anzac", held in the Town Hall Wellington on Arpil [April] 25th 1917. [Printed by] N.Z. Free Lance, Wellington. [Menu and toast list]. 1918: Souvenir programme of The Landing at Anzac Cove on Sunday, 25th April, 1915. Programme of proceedings on Anzac Day, Thursday, 25th April, 1918, by the New Zealand Forces stationed at Sling Camp. [Printed by] Geo W Jones, Typ., at the Sign of the Dolphin in Gough Square, London, E.C.4 [1918] To the memory of our brave comrades. Anzac Eve gathering at Grand Opera House, Wednesday April 24th, 1918, under the direction of the Wellington Returned Soldiers' Clubhouse Society, J I Fox manager. New Zealand Times print [1918]. Third anniversary of ANZAC Day; celebrations held at the New Zealand Infantry Base Depot, France, April 25th 1918. Programme (Together with a letter from the Dunedin Returned Services' Association to the Dunedin City Librarian, 21 May 1952 enclosing the programme) 1919: Anzac Day celebration. Government Gardens, Rotorua. Friday April 25th 1919. Chronicle Print Rotorua. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Engravings and offset prints sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1979 - 1400 - 1499

By: Auckland Public Library

Reference: E-278-q-084/087

Description: Reproductions of three 15th century illuminated manuscripts and the frontispiece to `Europe a prophecy' by William Blake. Published by the Auckland Public Library in 1979 Donated 17 Dec 1979 Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-lithographs, 102 x 152 mm

Date: 1907-1970

By: United Mine Workers' Union of New Zealand

Reference: MS-Group-0407

Description: Minute books, correspondence and miscellaneous papers from several West Coast mines; includes awards, West Coast Trades Council minutes, agreements, papers relating to the Westland Labour Representation Committee. Labour Party reports, photographs of the ship Awatea Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 box(es) (24 folders). 3 volume(s). 0.80 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter, photographs Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Provenance: Possibly collected in the 1970s by Ray Grover Includes material originating with James Begg Kent, a former MP for Westland, and photographs and a ship's specification, which were originally owned by the Union Steam Ship Company Transfers: To Book Collections - Various pamphlets, agreements, rule books and constitutions - To Drawings & Prints Collection - 6 Chinese coins.