Places

Date: 1889

By: Hooper & Company (Wairarapa, N.Z.); Wairarapa daily (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-D-COSTUME-1889-02

Description: Arrangement of text. Stock for sale included: ladies' Garibaldi jackets, ladies' and children's dust cloaks, mantles, lace boas, light summer jackets, pretty pinafores, new parasols, sunshades, sashes and sash ribbons, gloves, silk handkerchiefs, fancy drapery, Zephyr prints, muslin dress fabrics. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on poster 565 x 359 mm.

Date: 1905

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

Reference: Eph-D-RETAIL-1905-05

Description: Arrangement of text listing items on sale. Items include blankets, fabrics and curtains; men's suits and hats; towels and sheeting; women's undergarments. Other Titles - Our last word here - we ask our Petone and Hutt friends, customers, and the public to come along for AULD LANG SYNE. ... Right down, clear out, snorter sale, Jackson Street, Petone Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Evening Post Print - 11094. Dated by Evening Post print number, in relation to other posters of the same era. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on poster, 515 x 318 mm.

Date: 1867

From: Beatson, William, 1807-1870 :[Architectural plans of buildings in England and Nelson. 1840-1870].

Reference: Plans-99-020-151

Description: Shows the ground plan and elevation of the shop frontage, with two double doors and verandah, and balcony above. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on sheet, 377 x 530 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Patrick Beatson, in 1999.

Date: 1926

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

By: Atkins & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-063-001/003

Description: Includes floor plans, sections and elevations, a part elevation of the facade and part section of the shop interior. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on waxed linen paper, 530 x 750 mm.

Date: 1913 - 1919

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to interior decoration, room design, household decorative items, tableware, in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-DECOR-1913-01

Description: Richly illustrated booklet including calendar months as a small component, shows frieze and dado designs of various widths, and decor themes, with wallpaper, edgings and borders, paired with cretonnes for curtaining and soft furnishings. Themes are: January: The Hartz February: The Mendoza March: The Stuyvesant April: The Formosa May: The Dorothea June: The Chelmsford July: The Melrose August: The Manchu September: The Georgia October: The Woodhull November: The Shah December: The Roxbury Booklet is in pieces Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, on pages of calendar / sales catalogue, 300 x 165 mm.

Date: [190-?]

Reference: PAColl-9236

Description: Horse and cart belonging to G Hefford & Co, Draper of Ashburton. Photograph taken ca 1900s by an unknown photographer. The driver is probably George Daniel Horace Hefford, the proprietor. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 8.7 x 13.8 cm

Date: 1867

From: Beatson, William, 1807-1870 :[Architectural plans of buildings in England and Nelson. 1840-1870].

Reference: Plans-99-020-153

Description: Shows the first floor plan, with central staircase, showroom, bedroom, and rooms for carpetting and clothing. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on sheet, 330 x 533 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Patrick Beatson, in 1999.

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: 1867

From: Beatson, William, 1807-1870 :[Architectural plans of buildings in England and Nelson. 1840-1870].

Reference: Plans-99-020-154

Description: Shows the elevation of the storefront, and the back of the building. There is a narrow frieze along the top of the front. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink on sheet, 377 x 550 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Patrick Beatson, in 1999.

Date: 1958 - 1962

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Southland-1960-01

Description: Shows a view of a lake and snowy mountains seen through a window with flowers in a vase on the sill, and curtains stirring in the breeze. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on brochure cover.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 228 x 102 mm.

Date: 1917

By: Farmers' Union Trading Company; John Sands Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-Farmers-1917-01

Description: Sales catalogue for the Famers' Union Trading Company. The first few pages shows portraits of the Farmers' Union presidents and leaders, including the Auckland Provincial Executive. There are also notices from the New Zealand Dairy Association, and exterior and interior photographs of the Farmers' Union buildings at various sites around Auckland, Contains illustrations of merchandise for sale include shoes and boots, china and glassware, electroplated goods, cutlery and jewellery, grocery and foostuffs, stationery, pipes, drapery, hats, coats, Petone rugs (colour plate), women's clothing, lace, boy's clothes, haberdashery, timber supplies, mantelpieces, pianos, sewing machines, beds, chairs, wardrobes and dressing tables, perambulators, tools, domestic hardware, rubber goods, guns, cars, farm machinery, bicycles, motorcycles, carpets, linoleums, curtains, linens, men's clothing, saddlery, horse collars and harnesses, horse coats, stirrups. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Soft-bound book of 344 pages, each 310 x 245 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Webbs Auction, 19 November 2008, lot 31.

Date: ca1878

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

Reference: PAColl-3332-11-3

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1940 - 1959

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch; Smiths City Market; Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-FURNITURE-1950s-01

Description: Shows a bedroom with two single beds, two rugs, a corner drawer and bookcase unit, table lamp, mirror, window with yellow curtains and venetian blinds. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph and screenprint, 1015 x 760 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2007.

Date: ca 1880

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

Reference: PAColl-3332-17-2

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca1873

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

Reference: PAColl-3332-11-2

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: 1/1-011359-G

Description: Exterior view of Everett Brothers drapery shop in Victoria House, Nelson, circa 1910. Photograph taken by Frederick Nelson Jones. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: ca1900

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

By: James Smith's (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3332-17-1

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1898

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947

Reference: A-182-124

Description: A frontal view of a young woman, measuring out ribbon behind a counter, a bentwood chair in front of the counter Other Titles - Woman measuring out ribbon [former title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 155 x 105 mm

Date: 1908

From: Tesla Studios :Negatives of Wanganui and district taken by Alfred Martin, Frank Denton and Mark Lampe (Tesla Studios)

Reference: 1/1-016784-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: ca 1880s

Reference: 1/2-049208-G

Description: Unidentified street, and row of businesses, in Westport, circa 1880s. Whyte & Pirie drapery, in Westport House, is on the left. Photographer unidentified. Note on back of file print reads: "Before the flood". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative