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Date: 1927-1934

From: Pedersen, Doris Taur, 1907-2001 :Photographs relating to Doris Pedersen's career in nursing

Reference: PA1-o-1005

Description: Album begins with Wellington Hospital in about 1927/28 and shows the new buildings which opened in 1928, the nurses home and Toxwood's hospital buildings of 1880. There are many photographs of nurses, some staged in operating theatres with doctors and nurses arround the patient, one administering chloroform onto a fabric pad over the patients face. The rest of the photographs in the album relate to Doris Pedersen's work in maternity hospitals and hospitals specialising in the care of very young children. These include Alexandra Children's Hospital, Karitane Hospital, a hospital in a large late victorian house with a big garden, and Dr Doris and William Gordon's Marire Private Hospital in Stratford.. Associated with these hospitals are many images of nurses and the children in their care. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1997

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-418-001/021

Description: Political cartoons. The Auckland Blues win Super-12 game. As Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark soar in the opinion polls Jim Bolger considers a sex-change. Tim Shadbolt becomes deputy leader of the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party. Tuku Morgan is accused of seeking a fee for an exclusive interview with the media. Public opinion on Tuku Morgan's behaviour. Maori bashing continues over Tuku Morgan, as Maori hit themselves and ask why he just doesn't resign. Maori occupy land in Waiouru during winter as temperatures hit a low. They are protesting against the wild horse mustering? Winston Peter's accepts Tuku Morgan's apology and assumes the moral high ground. International study shows kiwi kids poor at maths but good at bullying. Bob Jones suggests that the Beehive be dynamited. A look at genetic makeup in terms of race. Comment on teacher inaction over bullying in school play grounds. Jim Bolger comments on a meeting between National Party and New Zealand First MPs held in his home. Buyer beware - used car importers rip people off. Comment on what iwi-based Treaty settlements mean to many Maori. The International Rugby Board (IRB) threatens to clamp down on New Zealand style rugby. The law forbids the rich and the poor from living in shoddy housing that leads to unneccesary fires and death. School leaving age kept at 16. Winston Peters finds himself on a high-wire with pressures all around him like, 'fiscal restraint', 'Maori hopes', 'social spending' and 'NZ First's last chance'. Winston Peters goes off to Hong Kong leaving Jim Bolger and Bill Birch defending the budget. Winston Peters at the handover of Hong Kong to China, continues to warn about the Asian take over. Quantity: 21 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 5 July 1997

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Simcox, Craig, active 1983

Reference: EP/1997/1911-F

Description: Big Fresh Supermarket employees, Taahoe Steeleand Les Innes, celebrate the arrival of wine at the supermarket. Photograph taken by Craig Simcox Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler film negative, 35mm

Date: 1890 - 1901

By: Shaw, Allen Desmond, 1944-; Child, Edward George, 1860-1949

Reference: PAColl-2171

Description: Photographs of: seven men leaning on shovels outside a hut and two men with shovels holding the reins of drays at the harbour side (both taken by Anglo New Zealand photo); the railway line and water tank at Rata with men, women and children in an open railway carriage on the right; D class locomotive with four men standing next to it; men cutting flax on a wooden jetty next to a river; men outside a hut with piles of flax bundles; the Delphic captioned as "the largest boat that trades to New Zealand" moored in Wellington (taken by E G Child); a large crowd outside the Parliament Buildings for the memorial service on the death of Queen Victoria; and a group of men and one woman outside a corrugated iron hut. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.

Date: [ca 1960s-1970s]

From: Newcomb, Stanley Peter, 1934-2008 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9453-5

Description: Photographs of the Pacific Area Travel Association's 10th Annual Conference at Auckland in April 1970 and also another tourism conference called "Tourism; Everybody's Business" held in Wellington. Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 13 July 1982

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1982/2258-F

Description: Staff of the New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department above Ngauranga Gorge, Wellington. Photographed on the 13th of July 1982 by an Evening Post staff photographer Group of Tourist and Publicity Department staff at the beginning of a familiarisation tour of the North Island. The purpose of the trip was to give staff first hand experience of tourist destinations in New Zealand which they were promoting in the course of their work. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 2001 - 2002

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-674-001/026

Description: Cartoons on political and social issues. Shows a destroyed bus (peace process) destroyed first by the Palestinian suicide bombers and them by Israeli war planes. Health spending priorities promote huge salaries for the CEO and a pittence for everyone else. Cartoon obituary to Sir Peter Blake. A dolphin weeps. Shows a flag at hslf-mast over the sea and a poem for Sir peter Blake. Peter Jackson, Director of Lord of the Rings dresses up for the New Zealand premiere. Debate in the Parliamentary Chamber on proposed changes referred to as the 'wipe the slate clean' Bill. Helen Clark hides from the anger of the grounded NZ Air Force capability. Children's perception of the difference in pay rises between MP's and teachers. Shows a tour guide explaining the virtues and down-side of New Zealand to a group of travel writers. Shows Bin Laden jumping the cue at the plastic surgery clinic. Shows MP's defending themselves at a press conference against charges of triple-dipping from public funds. Shows the men calling the tune on America's anti-terrorism campaign. Shows the leader of the National Party, Bill English asking Santa Claus for a Christmas present. Santa and his reindeer narrowly avoid being hit by airborne missiles. Shows an All Black selector recruiting new talent from a war zone. Shows Helen Clark and Jim Anderton clucking over their new baby (Air New Zealand), while Michael Cullen advises them not to get too attached as it'll be up for adoption as soon as it can stand on it's own feet. Winston Peters climbs up to his attic to dust off his 'super scare monger' suit. Slobadon Milosevich stands in the War Crimes Tribunal dock with his hands dripping in blood, he defys the authority of the court. A tribute to New zealand Criketerl, Chris Cairns as 'King of the Oval.' Shows Tranzrail passengers being shown a pick-axe they are to use in case of a derailment. Shows detainees at Guantanamo Bay being asked by their detainers if they have any complaints. They wear something like a gas mask so their answer is impossible to understand. Refers to anti-terrorism war and those captured by American-led forces. Shows politicicians as children engaged in petty squabbles as the election draws near. Comment on asylum seekers in Australia seeking help from the rest of the world. Shows Israeli troops in a armoured tank trying to force Yasser Arafat to end Palestinian violence. Shows an Australian teacher explaining to his students that only those arriving in Australia between 1840 and 2000 are 'fair dinkum Aussies'. National Party leader, Bill English dons a judges cloak, a hangman's noose and an executioners hood as he campaigns on a law and order platform. ACT leader, Richard Prebble outlines his stand on immigration policy. Quantity: 27 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1907 - 1913

By: Harry H Tombs Ltd; Art in New Zealand (Periodical)

Reference: Eph-A-POST-TM-1907/1913

Description: Christmas greeting cards sent by the telegraph messengers and postal workers, mainly in the South Taranaki district (Eltham, Stratford, Waverley, Patea, Opunake), but also from Wanganui, Woodville, Dannevirke, Marton, Foxton, Onehunga, Christchurch, Hokitika, Nelson, New Plymouth, Wellington, Feilding, Hastings and Thames. Quantity: 43 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Embossed cards, sizes varying up to 90 x 140 mm. Transfers: Collection accessioned in Ephemera, and photographic cards transferred from there to Photographic Archive PAColl-9266..

Date: Ca1900-ca1970

By: Crosado, Douglas Armstrong, 1921-1994

Reference: PAColl-4914

Description: Negatives and Photographs relating to railway trades, General elections, and people and personalities Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-072062 to 072085 Quantity: 354 b&w original photographic print(s). 24 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1908

By: Isaacs, Jacob Nathan, 1877-1962; Andrews, W H (Mr), active 1970s

Reference: PAColl-D-0045

Description: Photograph of Wellington and Manawatu Railway Way and Works staff taken outdoors by J N Isaacs of Wellington. Back row: J Hore, H Jamieson, W Nelson, W Smith, L Andrews, H Tredgett. 5th row: W Miller, T Faulkenburgh, R Street, W Mitchell, T Walker, W Dredge. 4th row: J Carroll, W Cummins, F Tolhurst, A pointon, R Mardon (clerk), A Ferguson, J Ashby, W Symons, J Hay, E Williams, D Lewis, G Smales, A Peacock, W R Richardson. 3rd row: T Barnes, A Hutcheson, W Watson, D Williams, H Clemo, W Andrews, P R Miller (Bridge foreman), C Merrett, L C Mossong, H Cook (Draughtsman), A J Harley, W Humphrey (Storeman), F Barrett, H Daniel, J Walsh, T Luff, E Auld. 2nd row: J Johansen, P Rush (Concrete foreman), J Reid, M Barr (Foreman of Painting Dept), T Street (Bridge inspector), J McNair (Asst engineer), J Marchbanks (Chief engineer), A Williams (Foreman of Way & Works), W Pirie (Carshops foreman), D Thompson (Chief draughtsman), H Ames, J R Jones, C Neich, A Ross, H Rees. Front row: P Duffy, W Fettes, H Tolhurst, L Tatham, R Cook, W Westerby, F Stanley, W Souter, J McLeod, H Pickles. Identical image at PAColl-D-0754 Inscriptions: Mount recto - above image - Title; Mount recto - beneath image - Names Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. Physical Description: 26 x 35 cm on mount

Date: 1982-1983

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PAColl-0011

Description: Photographs illustrate rolling stock, electronic equipment, personnel and other aspects of NZR operations Quantity: 32 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1906-1907

From: New Zealand. Department of Labour :Photograph albums for the International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-1907

By: Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); New Zealand. Department of Labour

Reference: PA1-o-367

Description: Photographs taken for the N Z International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-7, by various photographers Interior and exterior photographs of various factories and businesses, showing employees at different activities. Other Titles - N.Z. Department of Labour Other Titles - Factories and workrooms, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with tan leather cover, entitled `N.Z. Department of Labour. Factories and workrooms, Wellington. N.Z. International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-7'; 25.5 x 31.0 cm

Date: 15 July 1999

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1999/2092-F

Description: Tangi Commings (left), Barry Conner, and Carol Tom photographed in the factory of New Zealand Electric Lamp Manufacturers, Miramar, Wellington. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin 15 July 1999. This photograph accompanied an article about the factory closing down. Quantity: 2 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strips comprising 6 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-655-001/037

Description: 37 cartoons on political and social subjects published in the Otago Daily Times. A panda bear sits and swings the five Olympic rings in its paws with Olympic officials commenting on China's successful bid for the Olympic games. Comment on ASH's view of underage smoking - two children walk past a cinema and a man in an alleyway furtively offers to show them pictures of people smoking. Comment on Jim Anderton's aim for a 'Peoples Bank' - Jenny Shipley is portrayed as a bank teller sitting under a signd your breath'. Public cynicism of Michael Cullen's proposed Superannuation scheme. Farmers discussing their lack of confidence in ENZA. Cartoonist's reaction to the disparity between the financial levels of sports peoples and other people when being assessed to be published on the 'rich list'. Comment on the publication that 'kiwi kids' are overweight. A male ironing clothing offers comment on Helen Clark Jenny Shipley Silvia Cartwright Sian Elias and Michelle Boag being in positions of power. Comment by a male sitting down to breakfast that deer velvet being a sex aid is 'bunkum'. Michael Cullen is shown standing next to a poker machine called 'Future Super' indication it is the helath and education monines that the poker machine needs to work on. Comment on the outcome of Max Bradford's electricity reforms. Max Bradford is in an electricial repair shop being told that if the article he brought for repair was not broken before Bradford tried to fix it it is broken now. Helen Clark Parekura Horomia and Michael Cullen presenting their individual position on the issue of Maori TV A schoolteacher chastises Max Bradford for blaming others. Michael Cullen and Helen Clark watch two overweight dogs named Super and Maori TV eating while two thin dogs named Education and Health are straining at their leads for food. A nurse opens the expectant fathers waiting room door to tell Mr Anderton to go home and he will be notified if there is any sign of labour getting serious. Early visitors arrive on the shores of New Zealand with the comment that the natives may regret not having an immigration policy. Christine Rankin wears two very large earings one labled 'winzum' the other 'lose some'. Comment on the news that the right-of-way road rule is to be revised. Jim Anderton Helen Clark and Michael Cullen cling to a life raft identified as Beneficiary Voting Block with two boaties in the background commenting that even the knowledge wave did not loosen their grip. Comment on Helen Clark's support for funding going to the arts. Comment on Laila Harre and holiday shopping Finger pointing from Pete Hodgson and Max Bradford as to who is to blame for the electricity reforms not working/ Rugby fans pay their first visit to Dunedin and pass comment on the wearing of tartan trousers. Shows a bloody battle of Gengis Khan's army. Word is being passed around to forget about the plundering and go for the 'bonus point'. Refers to the NZ cricket teams decision to stop their point scoring run glut against Australia and take the bonus point offered by a technicality. Shows two young school boys discussing public educations failure to teach reading, writing and numeracy. Shows Jim Anderton on the steps of Treasury with water flooding under the front doors and down the steps. Comment on Anderton's attempts to stop the 'leaks' coming from Treasury. Comment on the public boredom over multi-millionaire Steve Fossett's attempts to fly around the world non-stop in a hot-air balloon. Shows Marian Hobbs with a large wind instrument wrapped around her playing 'NZ Music' to a man who represents the NZ public. He has a large flat neck collar on representing the new NZ music quota. The collar prevents him from putting his fingers in his ears should not wish to listen to the music. Shows mother explaining to her crying children that their father is now going to play golf rather than take them sailing. The change is due to their father being agitated by NZ Professional Golfer Grant Waite's performance. Comment on prison staff's industrial 'go-slow' and the opportunities it creates for prisoners to escape. Shows a large area of forestry being felled for the sake of sending 'positive signals' to overseas companies. Shows an elderly couple, justifying to a squad of police officers at their front door, that they are doing all they can in the nationwide drive to save electricity. Shows Marian Hobbs introducing a rock band called 'Marian and the quotas'. Shows Sam Neill at the Jurassic Park 3 movie premiere with an old pre-historic friend. Shows a woman in an art gallery asking if a framed display is a piece of art. The gallery worker assures her it is and explains that it is Creative New Zealand's justification for their travel expenditure. Quantity: 37 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies on sheets 297 x 210 mm.

Date: [Circa 1915-1950], 1966

From: Hoskins, Barbara, active 1941-2015 : Photographs relating to the Philps, Nimmo, and Anton families

By: Don & Beatrice Peat Studio; Harringtons (Firm); Leicagraph Studio (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-10138-2

Description: Comprises black and white prints relating to Kathleen Frances Viard Nimmo and the Nimmo family. Several images feature Kathleen Nimmo. Contains formal studio portraits and informal photographs of family and friends. Taken by a range of photographers, some unknown, circa 1915 to 1950, and 1966. Many photographs are inscribed in pencil with names. One group of photographs features the Nimmo family and their extended families, the Grady family, the Callis family and the Carter family. Shows William Henry Nimmo, Edith Agnes Nimmo (nee Fitzgerald), Peter Nimmo, Ursula Nimmo, Sybil Edith Anton (nee Nimmo) at their Standen Street, Karori home. Includes extended family on paternal side, the Grady family, Margaret Grady (nee Nimmo), Wynne, Frank, and the Callis family, Elizabeth Aitken Callis (nee Nimmo). Also shows the extended family on the maternal side, Kate (Catherine), Dulcie, Vera Jacobsen, Enid Curtis. Includes mounted print of Thelma Thomson, later a RSCJ nun (Religieuses du Sacre-Coeur de Jesus). Includes the Palmerston North home of aunt Agnes Carter. One group of photographs relates to the life of Kathleen Frances Viard Nimmo and Sybil Edith Anton (nee Nimmo), mainly showing their friends and family on outings and at the beach circa World War One to 1920s in Wellington region. Shows Fred Elwyn, Clarice Aldridge, Don Mackie, Bill Main, Len Butcher, Ina Rollins, Elizabeth Mackie, the Zimans family. Includes bathing belles at Lyall Bay beach (sea wall and bathing sheds visible), Oriental Bay (pre 1933, without Band Rotunda), a sea plane near wharf shed. Also includes Royal Tour of Duke and Duchess of York 1927, shows crowds on street watching procession of cars, the Duke and Duchess outside Wellington Town Hall, crowds watching brass band and men march to Newtown Park for display to the Duke and Duchess. Includes Sybil Edith Nimmo with her workmates (telgraphists of the Eastern Extension Australian and China Telegraph Company) posing on top of the Nathans building, Wellington. Another group of photographs relates to the life of Kathleen Nimmo when she worked as a telegraphist in Auckland circa 1920s showing various friends at beach or on outings, including Renee Cassin, Sadie Wilson, Geoff Cardin, Rita Murdoch, Stella Pryor. Scenes of interest show men lawn bowling near large pavilion, friends visiting friend Zita sick in hospital wearing a lace net cap. Also includes photographs of Chas Williams in Java (with tiger he shot) and high angle view of Waiwera Hotel, Waiwera beach and Mahurangi Island One group of photographs relates to Kathleen Nimmo during the 1940s and early 1950s, and 1966. Shows her with friends at Cabaret Majestic, Wellington, Joyce Knight and family, Kathleen with others at the wedding of nephew Colin in 1966. Quantity: 117 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints, including three prints mounted on card

Date: 1906-1911

By: Herrmann, Richard, -1892; Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0427

Description: Photographs of Wellington Workingmen's Club Picnic Officials 1910 taken in a billiards or snooker room with the following names given: H Guppy, W McCarlie, G Stott, Petersen, J Kennedy, A Wimpory, W Noot, D McPhee, H Chainey, H Hollis, J Apperley, J Andrews, R Williams, R Mapplebeck, P Woods, W Lightfoot; the staff of P Hayman & Co taken September 1906 in a yard with planks and a ladder against the wall behind them (one of the men is on the ladder); Wellington Plumbers' Union members and others taken in a dining room after a meal and captioned "social to NZ delegates 19.4.1911" (the photographer Zak has also noted that it was taken with flashlight); and a Labour Day picnic at Days Bay with Days Bay House in the background and what may be the start of a race with spectators looking on. 1/2-072000, 1/2-072005, 1/2-072010 to 072011 Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-072000, 072005, 072010, and 072011 Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted photographic prints

Date: ca 1917-ca 1981

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: PAColl-7817

Description: Comprises photographs of Gear homestead, Porirua; site of Gear Point School, and industrial land development in the vicinity; group portrait of engineering staff, 1916-1917; board of directors, 1977; kosher killings with ritual slaughtermen (shocatim) flown out from Israel; visit of Japanese girl students to Gear Meat Company; group portrait of Nelson Freezing Co Ltd staff, 24 July 1969; and loading meat at Wellington wharves. Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s). Transfers: Transfer from Manuscripts & Archives - Reference 81-295 (Further records of the Gear Meat Company Ltd).

Date: 1970 - 1974

From: Robinson, Peter Franklin, active 1970-2017: Colour slides of Wellington City and suburbs, and railways images

Reference: PAColl-1616-1

Description: Quantity: 34 b&w original photographic print(s) in three envelopes.

Date: [ca 1944-1949]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-037

Description: Photographs mainly relate to Disabled Servicemen's Centres in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Napier. Shows men (including ex-Maori Battalion) in the various workshops and therapy rooms undertaking cane-work, bootmaking and repair, basketry, embossed leather work, weaving, rug making, toy making, upholstery, cabinetry, carpentry, clock making and mop making. Photographs of men making artificial limbs and an amputee being fitted with a new limb; blind returned servicemen in the Occupational Therapy Room learning to read in braille. Photograph of Mr Tom W Cameron, who trained at Disabled Servicemen's Centre at Wellington, outside his jewellery shop with watchmaker R T Dixon; returned serviceman buying new clothes in a department store (Wellington); cafeteria at Christchurch Disabled Servicemen's Training Centre building, and Hawke's Bay Training Centre, Napier; frontage to a boot repair shop in [Wellington?]; NZ Rehabilitation Camp at the Old Park Camp, Dover showing Private Sheeran playing table tennis with M Rosenfeld; Hon C F Skinner, MP (Minister of Rehabilitation) laying foundation stone for Christchurch Branch of Disabled Servicemen's League, 30 Oct 1944 (Lt Colonel J Murphy, Chairman of the League). Photograph of an [opening?] ceremony held in front of a large concrete building with a bowling green in front. Backdrop looks like Wellington but locality and building unable to be identified. Photograph of Disabled Servicemen's Vocational Training Centre in Anzac Street A G W Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd took a number of the Auckland photographs. View of artificial limb workshop; men recuperating on the verandah of the military hospital across the road from Lake Rotorua. Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1970 - 1975, 1981

From: Robinson, Peter Franklin, active 1970-2017: Colour slides of Wellington City and suburbs, and railways images

Reference: PAColl-1617-1

Description: Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s). 17 colour original photographic print(s).