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New Zealand. State houses
Date: 1940-1945
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
Reference: PAColl-4161-01-207
Description: Photographs of state houses, mostly in the Wellington region, taken in the 1940s, mostly by National Publicity Studios photographers. No captions supplied. Arrangement: Prints from box labelled `Plates of NZ Industry State Houses, Factories, etc'. Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Members of the Wanganui Builders' and Contractors' Union, January 1904
Date: 1904
From: Carpenters Association: Group portraits of members of the New Zealand Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners
Reference: PAColl-D-0429
Description: All names indexed in Name Field Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Title and names Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 220 x 285 mm on card
New Zealand Department of Labour album 1
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
Interview with Emlyn (Tim) Barnes
Date: 17 May 2006
From: Oral history of Cook Strait Whalers based in Tory Channel
By: Barnes, Emlyn, 1933-
Reference: OHInt-0856-01
Description: Interview with Emlyn (Tim) Barnes, born in England in 1933. Discusses doing a shipwright's apprenticeship and later working in the merchant navy as a ship's carpenter. Refers to emigrating to New Zealand after several visits, living first in Napier and Wellington before settling in Picton. Mentions working as a boatbuilder and farm labourer until he was invited by Athol Perano (first mate) to crew on the Orca where he worked for two years. Talks about the boat, its crew, catching whales, and towing them inshore. Comments on not having much contact with workers in the whaling station factory, which was a dangerous place to work. Recalls that the Orca developed a boiler problem which ended its days at sea. Discusses his feelings about whaling. Mentions working later as a builder and boatbuilder and working on the waterfront. Interviewer(s) - Loreen Brehaut Accompanying material - Digital abstract accompanied by a brief biographical document Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015994 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 40 Minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word; Image file - Jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5765, OHDL-001387. one colour portrait (OHDL-001388) Search dates: 1933 - 2006
Photographs mainly relating to Piha and the Auckland area
Date: 1894-1899
From: Jenkin, Robert :Albums of photographs by Arthur Jenkin, ca 1895-1898
By: Jenkin, Arthur, active 1890s
Reference: PA1-o-1048
Description: Opens with Queenstown and Dunedin, and closes with the SS Rotorua in George Sound and Mitre Peak, Milford Sound. But most of the rest of the album relates to the Auckland region. There is a strong emphasis on Piha its coastal features like Lion Rock, and on groups of mainly men who went there on camping, hunting and fishing weekends or holidays. There is also one image of a group of surveyors and their camp at Piha dated 1894. Many images record social outings and picnics, especially at Northcote. These include both men and women dressed up for the occasion. There is a goup image of the St James Football Club dressed for the game dated 1895. Two photographs show a horse and buggy driven by a youthful Uncle Harold accompanied by Grandpa Jenkin and baby Irene. Another shows Mr Ogles's horse and cart, and another Jim Bailey's (of Cabbage Bay) ox team. There is also an image of a team of horses and a sled taking the milk to the factory at Onewhereo. There are images of waterfalls at Karekare and Nihotapu (Waiatura), and of the Nihotapu Creek. Some views of Auckland City and one of Waitemata Harbour probably on a weekend with yachts out on the water. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Public housing projects
Date: 1940s
From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :Photographs of private houses, public housing, and some furniture.
Reference: PAColl-5870-5
Description: Aerial views of state housing projects in progress in the Hutt Valley, Wellington. Views of streets with state houses in them and of individual state houses. High rise public housing apartment blocks, and a couple of designs for town centres. There are also some photographs of builders working on construction, and one view of piles of timber. Quantity: 52 b&w original photographic print(s).
"Renovating makes you appreciate the old building ways.. like nailing the foreman's lun...
Date: 2003
From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0009179
Description: Shows two builders working on the renovation of the Embassy Theatre. As they work they appreciate the craftmanship of the building including how they brick in building inspectors. Refers to the renovation of the Wellington Embassy Theatre. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
House, and premises of T Gormann, carpenter, in Nelson
Date: [between ca 1863-1888]
From: Bloch, Theodor Thorlacius, 1844-1935 :Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: PA1-q-035-28-1
Description: House, and premises of T Gormann, carpenter, in Nelson. Photograph taken by Theodor Bloch between circa 1863-1891. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Nelson Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 8 x 13.1 cm, mounted on album page
Carpenter constructing a food store for the United States servicemen's camps at Paekaka...
Date: ca 1942
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-000135-F
Description: Carpenter constructing a food store for the United States servicemen's camps at Paekakariki. Photograph taken by John Pascoe circa 1942. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
State houses under construction, Titahi Bay, Wellington
Date: [ca 12 Apr 1949]
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: PAColl-9150-23
Description: State houses under construction, Titahi Bay, Wellington, circa 12 April 1949. Shows tradesmen working. Photograph taken by an unidentified staff photographer for the Evening Post. Publication date - Published in the Evening Post, 12 April 1949. Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of print, and from back of print mount. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 12.8.x 19.1 cm
Farmers Trading Company :Carpenter's tool kit. H1021. Cash price £17. August 1955.
Date: 1955
From: Farmers' Trading Company :[Sales catalogues of A3 size. 1950-1961]
Reference: Eph-C-RETAIL-Farmers-1955-01-15-1
Description: Shows carpenter working at a saw horse, with the opened carpenter's kit at the right. It shows saws hanging onm the door panels, with screwdrivers, chisels, drill, hammer and other tools in the racks. Extended Title - From, its sales catalogue, August 1955, page 15, top left. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 100 x 130 mm, on page 370 x 240 mm.
Carpenter working on the construction of a state house in Naenae, Lower Hutt, Wellington
Date: 1944
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-001172-F
Description: Unidentified carpenter working on the construction of a state house in Naenae, Lower Hutt, Wellington, 1944. Photograph taken by John Pascoe. Other - Pascoe's heading from the Photographic Archive file at 6/1/30, for the set of photographs at 1/4-001168 to 001184 reads: "State homes in New Zealand" Caption - Caption with Pascoe file at 6/1/30 in Photographic Archive reads: "Under manpower retulations many tradesmen today must work in centres far from their own homes. Solution of housing problem demands sacrifices from many in the community." Source of descriptive information - File print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
[Fox, William] 1812-1893 :Landing of passengers at Port Lyttleton [Lyttelton] 17 Decemb...
Date: 1850 - 1851
By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Cridland, Henry John, 1821-1867; Burnand, William Henry, active 1843-1850s
Reference: A-195-015
Description: View of Lyttelton Habour from the Bridle Path, on the hills above the town. The first four ships are in port, with passengers leaving the Cressy via a wharf and walking up into the town. Several large buildings are near the water's edge, including immigration barracks, John Robert Godley's house and the offices of the Lyttelton Times newspaper just below the hill on the left. The Sumner Road is formed. Other small houses and tents are dotted around. Immigrants are carrying baggage and some have wheeled carts. A family is greeting a man building his house in the left foreground and a clothes line is in the right foreground. A building on the far right is marked in pencil "C Store H" [?]. On the verso is a schematic map of the location of Christchurch, showing the River Courtney (Waimakariri), Papanui Bush, the Avon River and Riccarton with William and John Deans' property, notes about land purchases and a list of names of land-owning Canterbury settlers. Possibly Fox's original drawing for the etching entitled "Port Lyttelton. Passengers by the Cressy landing" published in 'Four Illustrative Views of the Canterbury Settlement" in 1851. However the style suggests that it may be a copy of the etching by H. J. Cridland - cf A-195-016, especially the foreshortening of perspective and the manner of drawing people. A watercolour in the Hocken Library by Fox entitled "Port Lyttelton. Immigrants luggage disembarking, Jan 1851" is also similar. Other Titles - Lyttelton Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - [title in ink]; Recto - bottom left - Office of the Lyttleton Times [in pencil]; Verso - [notes and a map in pencil, ink and watercolour] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on blue laid paper 204 x 322 mm Provenance: Originally tipped in to Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull's bound copy of the New Zealand Journal. Before being acquired by Turnbull, the volumes had belonged to W H Burnand.
Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886 :The Waimate, New Zealand, the Bishop's house. March...
Date: 1850
By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961
Reference: A-196-023
Description: The Waimate North Mission Station, a 2-storied building with dormer windows in its upper storey, and other single-storey houses to its right, plants in tubs to the left, two trees and a woman and child on the front verandah. The buildings to the right are, from left, the carpenters' shop, the Native Teachers' School and the Hospital (on the far right). The copyist, if the last initial is W rather than M, could be a member of the Williams family. Inscriptions: Recto - above and below image: title, date and initials of the copyist (JRW or JRM) along with an indication that the original artist was T. B. H. (Thomas Biddulph Hutton). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 88 x 126 mm on embossed card, 169 x 202 mm Provenance: Collection of Captain A. W. F. Fuller.
Carpenter fitting a cope iron to a motor tow-boat being built for the United States arm...
Date: 1943
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-000591-F
Description: Henry, a carpenter who came from England some years ago, fitting a cope iron to a motor tow-boat being built for the United States armed forces, during World War II. Photograph taken in Auckland, in 1943, by John Dobree Pascoe. Other - Pascoe's caption, from the Photographic Archive file at 6/1/30, for the first of the set of photographs at 1/4-000581 to 000620, reads: "War purposes have made extensive developments to the shipbuilding industry in New Zealand. Hundreds of units have to be built for the Allied mosquito fleet of the Pacific area. This series of forty photographs show how eight motor tow-boats were built for the United States Armed Forces, and give some of the personal background to the story..." Caption - Pascoe's caption for this image in Photographic Archive file 6/1/30 reads: "Carol and June get up early. Breakfast is an important meal; on it hard work must be done. Before the war these girls were partners in an art novelty shop in Wellington. Now, they are competant on the farm and would not leave the life." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
HINTS FOR APARTMENT BUILDING IN AUCKLAND... Progressive Building, 19 September 2003
Date: 2003
From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0009178
Description: Shows a series of frames showing carpenters how to build apartments in Auckland - need to practise hammering in confined spaces as it will prepare you for building Auckland living rooms; remembering that a Dunedin wardrobe is the same size as an Auckland double bedroom; throw away all flashings as they won't be required until 6 months after completion; a cup of instant coffee and gib finishing compount with polystyrene and wool batts laid over makes an acceptable cappuccino; hire a lawyer as an apprentice; build anything, sell it and retire rich. Refers to the booming apartment building developments in Auckland. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Dismissed carpenters marching, Queen Street, Auckland
Date: 22 Feb 1949
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-7171-14
Description: Dismissed carpenters march along Queen Street, Auckland, 22 February 1949, protesting at the result of a dispute with the Auckland Master Builders' Association that left them unemployed. Photographer unidentified. Original caption from the New Zealand Free Lance, March 2. 1949, page 25 reads: Auckland Carpenters' Protest. After a meeting in the Town Hall, Auckland, which about 1,200 carpenters attended to hear speakers trace the history of the dispute with the Auckland Master Builders' Association, about 700 dismissed carpenters marched down Queen Street and up to Albert Park. The pictures show the carpenters marching along Queen Street with their placards. They later enrolled for unemployment benefits." Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.8 x 21 cm