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Railways album 12

Date: [Between 1938 and 1940]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-061

Description: Album of publicity photographs, and photographs of posters and advertisements taken by unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways. Many of the images in this album were taken for a series of articles written by Oliver Neal Gillespie between January 1939 and June 1940, published in the New Zealand Railways Magazine. The series was entitled "Buy New Zealand goods and build New Zealand. New Zealand Industries Series". These contribute the largest group of images in the album, covering a wide range of industries. They include men's and women's clothing manufacturers; electrical engineering companies such as Pallo Engineering (petrol pumps), National Engineering (Neeco electric ovens), Standard Engineering Company; tobacco factories; potteries; Nugget shoe polish factory; brushware factories; and companies associated with the manufacture of food products (eg Watties canneries, Edmonds Baking Powder, Griffins and Bycrofts biscuit makers, and Whittome & Stevenson sauce and pickle makers. There are other sequences of images, including newly built state housing in Lower Hutt, with some houses still under construction beside the Hutt River, a streetscape, and a children's playground (p 7-8); a large crowd joining in a send-off of R.S.A. men to Australia in April 1938; a train laden with boxes of oranges from Rarotonga, the "Special orange train from Auckland"; and photographs of charts showing the progress of the New Zealand Government Railways, with railways workshops staff organisation charts (for Otahuhu, Addington, Hutt & Hillside Workshops (p 28-29). On p 35 there are views of a new hangar at Rongotai Aerodrome, under construction, then views of the completed exterior and the interior with a row of Blackburn B-5 Baffin bi-planes. Several images show collection of Railway sports trophies (including cups for their cricket teams), and two views of New Zealand Railways staff member Neil Edwards, a tennis champion who represented New Zealand in Britain in 1939. Pages 39-41 show the construction of a large dredge on the West Coast; p 57 show a burst watermain on Waterloo Quary, wellington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous 7'; 41 x 61 cm

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Photographer unknown :Photographs of the Royal Tour 1927

Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

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N.Z.S.C.M. album 3

Date: 1948 to 1951

Reference: PA1-o-380

Description: Photographs of various activities, and group photographs taken at New Zealand Student Christian Movement conferences held in Christchurch, summer 1948-1949, and Auckland, summer 1949-1950. Names of members attending the conferences are fully identified in the group portraits. Some of the small photographs taken by different members have captions, but not all. A number of pages include newspaper cuttings associated with the conference and people involved. Includes an envelope containing nine small photographs of a theatrical production performed at the 1950-1951 conference. There is no identification of the play or cast members. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, red panel down the centre, entitled `N.Z.S.C.M. Summer Conference, Christchurch 1948-9; and 1949-1950'; 26 x 21 cm

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[Programmes and fliers relating to music concerts and musical performances in New Zeala...

Date: 1895 - 1897

By: Weeks Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-1895/1897

Description: Includes: 1895?: Wednesday popular concert, Wellington (with Mabel Jones, Mr F W Jones, Mr E J Hill, Miss Parsons, Mr J M Clark, Mrs H J Miller, Mr W J Haybittle). 5 June [1895?]. Flier / programme Wednesday popular concerts, Wellington (with Mabel Jones, Mr F W Jones, Mr Geo Parsons, Mrs H J Miller, Mr J M Clark, Miss Clarice Brabazon, Mr E J Hill, Mr Walter Haybittle). 5 June [1895?]. Flier / programme 1895: Auckland College and Grammar School Old Boys Association. Celebration of the twenty-sixth anniversary of the foundation of the school. Programme of smoke concert. Sydenham Presbyterian Church. Soiree and concert; welcome to Rev R S Allan. Thursday October 10, 1895. Programme /flier. Weeks, Printer, High Street, Christchurch - 13016. (With performers Mr Lovell, Miss Neave, Mr John McLean, Miss Watson, Mr Russell Halley, Misses Kissel and Bella Forrester, Miss Aggie Currie, Mr H Johnston, Miss Picken, Mr A J Sparkes) 1896: Caledonian Society of Wellington. Eleventh annual concert under the patronage and in the presence of His Excellency the Earl of Glasgow, the Countess of Glasgow & suite. opera House, 24 September 1896. Conductor Mr John McGlashan, accompanist Miss Upham, director of music Mr John Jack. Programme (With performers Mr Hugh Wright, Miss Orr, The McGregors, Mr D Campbell, Miss Jeanie Ramsay, Mr A S Paterson, Mr A Nicol) Wellington Industrial Exhibition 1896-7. Evening opening performance in Entertainment Hall, 18 November 1896. Programme (With Maugham Barnett's Musical Society performing "Hinemoa" by Arthur H Adams and Alfred F Hill; and the Festival Choral Society singing psalms and anthems, including anthem "The earth is the Lord's" composed by T Tallis Trimnell) (2 copies) Wellington Industrial Exhibition. First national night (England), under the direction of Mr Robert Parker. Programme (With performers Miss Dugdale, Mrs Burfoot, Madame Eveleen Carlton, Mr R B Williams, Mr J Murrell, Mr J Whittall) 1897: Whiteley Hall. Orpheus Musical Club's concert. 15 July 1897. Cowen's cantata "The rose maiden". Taranaki Herald Print. Programme / flier. Quantity: 7 programmes. Physical Description: Letterpress items, varying sizes up to quarto.

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Photographs of Wellington, Auckland, and Christchurch

Date: 1919-1921

From: Webster, E Norman, fl 1918-1922 :Photographs of New Zealand, 1920-1922

By: Webster, E Norman, active 1918-1922

Reference: PAColl-9534-1

Description: Photographs of Wellington, Auckland, and Christchurch. Wellington views cover the city and some adjacent districts. Included are - Reception for the Prince of Wales, Parliament, Wellington, 1920. General views of Wellington, and specifically - Lambton quay. Willis Street. Manners Street. Hawkstone Street. Cricket on the Basin Reserve and Kelburn Park. New Parliament House under construction. House in Hawkstone Street and another in Molesworth Street in which E N Webster lived from 1918 to 1922. The wooden Government Building. The Dominion Farmers Building. Hobson Street Bridge. Island Bay double decker tram. Lion in Wellington Zoo, Newtown. Rose garden, Newtown Park. Summer house and begonia display, Botanic Garden. Wellington Harbour, Wharves, and ships. Portraits of individual ships include - Remuera. Wahine. White Pine (barque). Rewa (barque). Pampa (sailing ship). France (barque). HMS Renown. William E Burnham (four masted schooner). Moeraki. Ulimarua. Pakeha. Matatua. Megantic. Rona (barque). At Island Bay Wellington. Wellington water reservoir, Orongorongo River valley. Pororua Harbour. Kapiti Coast, Kapiti Island, and Paekakariki. Wellington heads. General views of Auckland and harbour. General views of Christchurch, its streets, buildings, and trams. Views of the River Avon, bridges, and people in boats. The rose garden in the Christchurch Botanic Garden. The Scott memorial. New Zealand Airforce Avro 504 aircraft at Sockburn (Wigram) Aerodrome, and aerial views of Christchurch. Some prints in this collection have notes on the back in a consistant, neat handwriting. In three cases these are signed E N Webster, who advises that he arrived in Wellington 5 February 1918, and left 15 June 1922. During this period, as well as photographing Wellington and district, he travelled on holiday to New Zealand cities and tourist destinations. The photographs were taken between 1919 and 1921 judging from the prints that have dates. His second name was Norman, and this is the name he used to sign letters on postcards sent from Christchurch in 1919 to his mother, and a friend called May. There is also a note attached to an illustration of Ben Lomond in the collection on which he signs himself Norman Webster. Information on the back of postcards indicate that he came from Australia, and in 1916 lived at Nambour, Queensland. Quantity: 150 b&w original photographic print(s).

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N.Z. Shipping Co. album 2

Date: [Between 1870s and 1880s]

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd.

Reference: Pa1-o-389

Description: Early photographs of New Zealand, mostly taken by unidentified photographers. One collage of Union Steam Ship Company ships, ship captains and the head office building in Dunedin was photographed and issued by David Alexander De Maus. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album cover pink and white pattern with gold tracery, red spine; 24.0 x 32.5 cm

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[Music programmes 1920].

Date: 1920

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-1920

Description: Includes: Auckland Community Singing Committee. Community song book. Printed by Abel Dykes Ltd, Auckland. Cover design by Carlton Studios. 1920s. Bohemian Orchestra, conductor Colin Muston. Second concert, seventh season (1920). Town Hall Auckland, 1 July [1920]. Programme Christchurch Professional Orchestra, Conductor Albert Bidgood. Third Sunday concert. With soloists Mr J Glaysher and Mr J Cocks. Opera House, 22 February 1920. Programme Christchurch Professional Orchestra, Conductor Albert Bidgood. Fifth Sunday concert (With soloist Mr A Cade. Opera House, 2 May 1920. Programme (2 copies) Christchurch Professional Orchestra, Conductor Albert Bidgood. Ninth Sunday concert. With soloist Miss Jean Wagner. Opera House, 5 September 1920. Programme Farewell complimentary concert tendered to Mr W W Crawford, under the auspices of the Orphan's Club and other Clubs of Wellington. Town Hall Wellington, 23 March 1920. Programme Leon de Mauny of the Liege Conservatoire [and] Evelyn de Mauny. Portrait photographs in booklet [1920?]. Amy Evans and Fraser Gange, assisting artist Mr Harold Elvins (pianist). Australasian tour under the sole direction of Chappell & Co. Second programme. Town Hall Wellington, 19 August 1920. Programme HMS Renown. Band of the Royal Marines, Plymouth Division. Visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to New Zealand and Australia, 1920. Grand recital under the auspices of the Wellington Municipal Tramways Military Band. His Majesty's Theatre and Oriental Bay, 9 May 1920. Mothes, May & Bowman print [1920]. Programme (2 copies) Hawera Male Choir. 24th concert, eighth season.With Mrs J F Woodward (soprano). Opera House, 14 December 1920. Programme Misses Constance and Margaret Izard (violin and cello respectively). Celebrated English artists. At the piano Mr Bernard Page. Dominion tour [1920s?] Programme with photographic portraits of the two women Gertrude Johnson - Horace Hunt Concert Company. With assisting artists Mr Charles Russell (flautist), and Mr Eric Waters (accompanist). Programme of first and second concert (pink with portrait photograph of Miss Gertrude Johnson). [1920?]. Gertrude Johnson - Horace Hunt Concert Company. Programme of first, second and third concerts [1920?] Daisy Kennedy (violinist). Pianist Miss Topsie Doenau. Four violin recitals. Town Hall Concert Chamber, 10, 13, 15, 17 January 1920. Promotional flier with portrait photograph Daisy Kennedy - "of her sex, the foremost living violinist". Second and third recitals. Town Hall Concert Chamber, 13 and 15 January 1920. Programme. Daisy Kennedy - "of her sex, the foremost living violinist". Third and fourth recitals. Town Hall Concert Chamber, 15 and 17 January 1920. Programme (2 copies) Daisy Kennedy. Extra farewell recital; at the piano Miss Topsie Doenau. Town Hall Wellington, 4 March 1920. Programme flier (2 copies) Bernard F Page. Wellington City Council organ recitals. Town Hall Wellington. Programmes for recitals on 7 February (2 copies), 17 April (2 copies), 5 June, 10 July (2 copies), 14 August (2 copies), 18 September (2 copies) Wellington Stage Employees Sick and Benefit Society. Grand concert (with the Grand Combined Paramount and Artcraft Orchestras (conductor A R Jerome), Mr Verdi Mackenzie, Pollard & Jackson, Mr J Bryant, Mr Louis Spiro, Miss Hazel Fuller, Mr Zante Wood, Mr Rupert Meates, Miss Lucas, Mr J Byrn, Mr F A Campbell, Miss Maggie Foster, Mr C Melvin, Mr Culford Bell, Mr W Goudie, Miss Sullivan, Mr H Scaife and Miss Irene Byrn). Grand Opera House, 23 May 1920. Programme (2 copies) Quantity: 25 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Printed programmes, up to octavo size, some illustrated.

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Saxby album 2

Date: 1870-1890

From: Saxby, Stephen Hector, 1907- :Photograph albums

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Ring, James, 1856-1939; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-q-213

Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand and Pacific scenes, compiled ca 1870s-1880s. Includes views of Nelson. Bridge over the Waiau River near Hanmer. Hutt Valley (showing junction of Belmont Road), Manaia (showing Dr Hector, and oysters in foreground). James Hector's house `Ratanui,'near Petone, his family, and views from the house. Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu (showing flooding, acclimatisation ponds, and the road between Queenstown and Martin's Bay). Greymouth. Castle Hill. White Island. Mount Ruapehu. Otira Gorge. Arthur River. Milford Sound (with steamship Rotorua). Christchurch. Auckland (including a series of interior views of Kilbryde, the home of Sir John Logan Campbell). Cable car over Taramakau River. Hawks Crag. Brunnerton. Arnold river. Arthur's Pass. Buller River. Denniston (showing coal mines and incline). Mount Cook. Wellington (including views of the Botanic Garden). Lake Mapourika. Sutherland Falls. Tahiti. Wanganui. The Wainuiomata Reservoir. Napier. Photographers represented include W T L Travers (scenes on Waiau river), Hart, Campbell & Co (Queenstown and Wakatipu), James Ring (Greymouth, Castle Hill, and Buller), H T Lock (Hawks Crag and Denniston), Wheeler & Son (Christchurch), Connolly & Co (Wellington Botanic Garden) and Burton Brothers (Sutherland Falls). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded maroon cover, entitled "New Zealand ferns"; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

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McKenzie, Albert Lyndsay fl 1940: Photographs of Christchurch, Wellington, and Auckland

Date: ca 1938-1940

By: McKenzie, Albert Lindsay, active 1940; McKenzie, Andrew E, active 1998

Reference: PA1-o-909

Description: Album of photographs taken by Albert Lyndsay McKenzie, showing Haywards substation, Centennial Exhibition, Union Airways aircraft at Rongotai airport, and views of war memorials, other monuments, some buildings and parks and gardens in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. There are also some scenic views of rivers and landscape, and one photograph of bee keepers at work on hives. Albert Lyndsay McKenzie, the father of the donor, was born in Christchurch. He started an apprenticeship as a process art engraver, which was interrupted by World War 2, and never completed. He returned to Christchurch after the war. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Mitchell Library :New Zealand postcards

Date: 1906-1907

By: State Library of New South Wales. Mitchell Library

Reference: PAColl-8031

Description: Postcards of New Zealand made ca 1900s, from photographers who include Frank Denton, Henry Winkelmann and James Valentine. The largest groups are images of Auckland, Christchurch, Dundedin, Invercargill, and Lake Wakatipu. Other places include Wellington, Te Aroha, Nelson, Gore, Pukekura park New Plymouth, Ngaruawahia Bridge, the pink and white terraces, Lake Tarawera, the Whanganui River, Lake Te Anau, the Southern Alps, the Hermitage, and Milford Sound. There are also four portraits of Maori. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 66 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards, many of which are hand coloured. Provenance: This group of postcards belonged to a Miss A H Jeffs of Hurstville, Sydney, and were sent to her by New Zealand correspondents, who like her, were interested in collecting post card images. The postal dates for all of them are 1906 and 1907.

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Bank of New Zealand, Christchurch, and other buildings in Auckland and Wellington

Date: [ca 1958]-1977

From: Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd :Photographs relating to New Zealand architectural projects

Reference: PAColl-9842-36

Description: Includes - Views of Christchurch, some showing the new Bank of New Zealand building on The square in the later stages of construction, mid 1964. Photographs of the Christchurch Star offices. These relate to the new Bank of New Zealand building constructed ca 1964. Interior views of the new Bank of New Zealand building on The Square, Christchurch, ca 1965. New buildings, Auckland Hospital and Medical School, 1977. Mon Desir Hotel and surroundings, Hurstmere Road, Takapuna, auckland, ca 1958. Perspective drawing of the Guardiam Trust building, Wellington, 1965. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 84 b&w original photographic print(s). 19 colour original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd, Wellington, in 2011

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[Scenes in Christchurch, Temuka and Mount Roskill]

Date: [ca 1903]

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: PA1-f-195-76

Description: Scenes in Christchurch, Temuka and Mount Roskill, taken by unidentified photographers The upper photograph (PA1-f-195-76-1) shows a group at the back of a grand stand in Christchurch, circa 1903. The middle photograph (PA1-f-195-76-2) is a group portrait taken in Temuka, circa 1903. Lord and Lady Ranfurly are 3rd and 5th from the left respectively. Dudley Henry Alexander is on the far right. The lower, left photograph (PA1-f-195-76-3) and the lower, right photograph (PA1-f-195-76-4) depict the laying of the foundation stone for the Ranfurly Veteran's home, in Mount Roskill, Auckland, in 1903. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Four photographic prints mounted on album page, 416 x 286 mm (page size)

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Coast Towns of New Zealand

Date: 1905-1909

From: Berwick, S W (Mr) :Albums of New Zealand scenes and coastal towns

Reference: PA1-o-833

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Mellor, C W (Mr), fl 1901-1917 :Photographs relating to World War I and New Zealand sce...

Date: 1901-1916

By: Mellor, C W (Mr), active 1901-1917

Reference: PAColl-9559

Description: Collection comprises: Album pages of New Zealand scenes including views of Dunedin, Invercargill, Wellington, Whanganui River, Rotorua, Rimutaka Incline, Christchurch, 1901. Some of the photographs are attributed to C W Mellor. Group portraits of officers during World War I, including C W Mellor Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). 17 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009

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Grant, F J (Mr), fl 1981 :Photographs of the tour of the Prince of Wales in 1920 and Ne...

Date: [1903-1920]

By: Grant, F J, active 1980s; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-0362

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of New Zealand made by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Many of the images are of military inspections and displays by school children. There are also displays of Maori dancing and singing, the sailors of the HMS Renown, on which the prince had travelled , prior to their soccer match in Dunedin, the prince addressing the crowds etc. A number of the images are in two-part panoramas. Also included are four scenic photographs by the New Zealand Tourist Department which may have been taken in 1903. The photographer for the tour photographs was Guy. Other - Similar images at 1/2-032642, 045102 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

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[Posters promoting peace, and denouncing war. 1920-1969]

Date: 1920 - 1934 - 1969 - 1946

By: Young People's Peace League of New Zealand; Lyttelton Times Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-PEACE-1920/1969

Description: Includes: 1920: Young People's Peace League of New Zealand. To our fellow citizens of the British Empire. The war, in shaking the very foundations of ordered civilisation, has driven all thoughtful men to examine the bases of national and international life ... Published throughout the world on Saturday the 3rd day of January 1920, as a New Year's message from the Prime Ministers of the British Commonwealth of Nations ... Printed by the "Lyttelton Times" Co. Ltd, Christchurch. 1920. 1934: Lantern lecture, "The ghastly horrors of war" will be delivered by Mr Robert Semple at Municipal Concert Hall, Christchurch on Sunday May 13, 7.30 p.m. Come in your thousands. [1934]. 1935: National Peace Council of New Zealand. Mem re Italo-Abyssinian Crisis and Appeal to Prime Minister to support economic organisation, thus preventing violence ... Chas R N Mackie (Hon Secretary). September 26th 1935. 1946: The National Petition for a New Peace Conference [organised by Lincoln Efford]. Blank petition page 1969: Quakers Hall, 115 Mt Eden Road. With the Very Rev Dean W G Chandler in the chair, Dr Keith Sinclair, Professor of History Auckland University, "War, peace & neutrality". Thursday 25th September 1969. Quakers Hall, 115 Mt Eden Road, ... Mr Rudolph Baeyertz, lawyer & author of "Living Water" [will speak on] "Churches need shock treatment for a world in torment". Thursday 9th October 1969. Quantity: 5 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying below 550 mm. Provenance: One item donated by Mrs M Efford in 1970.

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[Programmes and fliers relating to music concerts and musical performances in New Zeala...

Date: 1940

Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-1940

Description: Includes: 1940s?: Concert programme (Carbon typescript featuring Jack McDonagh, Miss Betty Rosenthal, Master Feehan, Geo Simmons & Jim White, Miss Marjorie Clifford, Geo Stent, Miss Janette Briggs, Mr Walter Nash (speech), Chas H Burridge, Mrs Rosenthal, Jim Taylor's Band) 1940: Auckland Centennial Music Festival. 7-16 June 1940. (With Sir Ernest Davis, Hewitt Edwards, Andersen Tyrer, Isobel Baillie, Gladys Ripley, Heddle Nash, Oscar Natzke, Raymond Beatty, Frank Bermingham, T W M Ashby, J S Stewart, James Shelley, Harry Woolley, Dr S Kenneth Phillips, Colin Muston, Albert Bryant, H C Luscombe, etc). Programme [Cover design by A J C Fisher]. (2 copies) The British Music Society New Zealand (Incorporated). Second concert, 1939-40 season. (With Marie Vandewart, Nora Gray, Lawrence A North, Audrey Gibson Foster, Mrs Ernest Porter). James Smiths' Ltd, 22 April 1940. Programme / flier Canterbury Centennial Music Festival. Theatre Royal Christchurch, 24 May - 2 June 1940. (With Andersen Tyrer, Len Barnes, Harison Cook, James Shelley, Professor J C Bradshaw, Isobel Baillie, Gladys Ripley, Heddle Nash, Oscar Natzke, Alfred Worsley, Frederick Bullock, Raymond Beatty, Frank Bermingham, Maurice Clare, Frederick Page, Fred C Penfold, Victor C Peters, James Hight, Leonard C Travers, Eric Craighead, Mrs N W Robbins). Souvenir programme (2 copies) Centennial celebrity concerts, July 1940. (With photographs of Isobel Baillie, Gladys Ripley, Heddle Nash, Oscar Natzke, the Centennial String Quartet, Clifford Huntsman). Souvenir programme (2 copies) Ignaz Friedman, eminent Polish pianist. Pianoforte recital. Town Hall, 24 October [1940]. Programme (2 copies) Farewell pianoforte recital by Ignaz Friedman, eminent Polish pianist. Town Hall Wellington, 19 November [1940]. Programme (2 copies, one with cover damage) Wellington Centennial Music Festival, 22-29 June 1940. With photos of Isobel Baillie, Heddle Nash, Stanley Oliver, Oscar Natzke, Gladys Ripley, Frank Bermingham, Harison Cook, Raymond Beatty, Andersen Tyrer, Maurice Clare. Programme (2 copies) Wellington Training College Choral Society. Fifth annual recital, 27th September 1940. (With Vesta Emanuel, Loretto Cunningham, T A Larsen, H Warburton, Joan Wollerman). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and offset print, varying sizes up to quarto.

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Hewitt, George R :Postcards of Christchurch, Auckland, Wellington, Picton, Lyttelton an...

Date: ca 1920

By: Hewitt, George R, active 1920-1985

Reference: PAColl-0601

Description: Postcards collected by the depositor while working as an able seaman on HMS Renown during the tour by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Black and white postcards of Auckland, Christchurch, particularly the botanic gardens, Lyttelton, Picton, and Samoa and colour postcards of Wellington. Quantity: 43 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

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[Theatre programmes for drama productions in New Zealand, mostly Wellington, in 1984]

Date: 1984

From: [Programmes and ephemera of octavo size for drama productions in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-1984

Description: Includes: New Players present "Absent friends", by Alan Ayckbourne [Ayckbourn]. Directed by Geoff Swallow. [Newlands, 1984]. Programme Manawatu Theatre Society presents "The diary of Anne Frank", dramatised by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett. Directed / designer Garry Bott. Globe Theatre, 12-21 April 1984. Programme Roger Hall's "Glide time". TVNZ Enterprises. Wellington State Opera House, 7 November 1984. Programme (2 copies) Hawkes Bay Community College summer school 14. Theatre, in association with the New Zealand Theatre Federation Inc. Pamphlet and enrolment form You are invited to an evening of entertainment, featuring the Christchurch theatre group Here are Five. Also performing: Ourselves alone, The Four Vaults, Nick Swan. Wellnigton Unemployed Workers' Union, 8 Oriely Ave [off Boulcott St, Wellington]. 13 october [1984?]. Flier "A midsummer night's dream", by William Shakespeare. Directed by Richard Huber; set by Ronnie van Hout. [Christchurch?, group unknown, 1984?]. Programme Theatrevue presents "Once on Chunuk Bair", by Maurice Shadbolt. Directed by Marc Shaw. [Left bank Theatre Hamilton, opening Anzac Day 1984]. Programme (2 copies) React Theatre presents Greg McGee's "Out in the cold". Directed by Barry Empson; design Julia Morrison. Presented at 250 Durham Street, Christchurch, 14 April - 5 May 1984. Programme (2 copies) Workhouse Co-operative. "The ragged trousered philanthropist". Director William Walker; musical director Danny Mulheron. Newtown Community Centre, 31 May [1984]. Flier The Actors' Company, sponsored by Auckland Metro magazine presents the N.Z. premier of "Skirmishes", by Catherine Hayes. Directed by Aileen O'Sullivan (With Ellie Smith, Teresa Woodham, Hilary Cleary) [Auckland, 1984]. Programme (2 copies) Corner Theatre Inc. presents "Space pirates", by Lionel Crawley. Director Vesta Gormack. Newtown, [Dec 1984]. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on programmes and fliers, sizes below 250 mm. Provenance: One item donated from the collection of Raymond Hedges 2002; one from the collection of Rodney Murphy 2014; one by Beverley Thomson, Wellington, in 2013.

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Various photographs relating to different places and events

Date: ca1930-ca1935

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

Reference: PAColl-7167-14

Description: Various photographs relating to different places and events. One seems to be a trip to Sydney. There are views of a ship's deck and coastal cliffs. Also several views of the almost completed Sydney Harbour Bridge from what is probably a ferry. Other photographs are from Christchurch, Wellington and harbour, and of Auckland. There are a number of Auckland buildings; the Greenhouse in the Domain, the University, and the Museum. There is a sequence of views of a thermal area and three photographs of Maori. Another group relates to an unidentified sailing ship, and a third to the flax industry in the Horowhenua Many others are views if countryside and coastal land scape Quantity: 137 b&w original photographic print(s).

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