Places

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.

Date: 2001

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

Reference: H-661-001/061

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 61 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size

Date: 1990 - 2005

By: Bailey, Margaret Lockhart (Dr), 1945-

Reference: Eph-D-BAGS-Bailey

Description: Includes: Briscoes homeware. Smile; you're at Camera House. Throughout New Zealand (2 different). Civic Video. C it at Civic. www.civicvideo.co.nz Deka. Santa Sack. 10% off everything that fits in this sack. Saturday 11th December or Sunday 12th December [2004?] WOW! Deka, where saving feels good. Foodtown. Quality costs no more Foodtown. Enjoy the difference. Apples for the students Gubb's Shoe Fashions Ltd, 107 Manners Street Wellington; Gubb's Jazz & Ballet Boutique, Opera House Lane, Wellington; Gubb's Jazz & Body Boutique, Shop 5, Harbour City Centre Wellington. Hannah's sport. You'll win every time Hugh Wright's Jackies Fashion Boutique. 131 Randwick Road, Moera. Ph 687-713; The Village Gentry ladieswear, menswear - Ganges Road Khandallah. New World. Season's greetings. (Shows Father Christmas) North City [Plaza]. Sale in a bag. You could win a $2,500 shopping spree! Ocean and Ice; surf, sail, ski. 72 Broadway Ave, Palmerston North New Zealand. Pak 'n Save. Everything we do we do to save you money Postie Plus; where you can afford to look good Pure new wool - the natural choice Smart Bros; leaders in men's & boys' fashion. Cobham Court Porirua Warnocks Whitcoulls. Books, cards, videaos, stationery, magazines Woolworths. Take a fresh look; UNICEF Woolworths. Take a fresh look. Cheq-Mate; Chequer Systems Limited. Quantity: 23 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour print on plastic bags, sizes varying up to 620 x 300 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Margaret Bailey, Wellington, in 2006. Transfers: Scrapbooks from the same donation are housed at: MS-Group-1478.

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: 1911 - 1912

By: Smith and Caughey Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1911-01

Description: A sales catalogue listing products for sale, including dress fabrics, clothing, umbrellas and sunshades, underwear, hosiery, art needlework, quilts, lace, handkerchiefs, belts, patent medicines and toilet requisites, men's sports clothing including riding breeches, oilskin coats, and raincoats. The first page shows a group photograph of the 170 male members of Smith & Caughey's staff in the firm's furnishing department on October 9th, 1911. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Coverless booklet of 64 pages, 270 x 212 mm.

Date: [ca 1920s-1940s]

Reference: PAColl-6881

Description: A large collection of negatives concentrating on the Otago area. They include images of: Byrd's and Ellsworth's expeditions; Sir Joseph Ward's funeral procession along Dee Street, Invercargill; snow scenes in Dunedin; the 1926, 1928, 1938 and 1939 Saunders Cup; the 1928 Annette Kellerman cup; ploughing match in Taieri and Outram; the 1936 and 1938 Dunedin show; league test 1928; cup winners of the Cornwell Cup (possibly for yachting?); HMS Australia; yachting in Broad Bay 1927 and 1928; 1936 New Zealand surfing championships; a Karitane home in 1938; Waikouaiti races; Otago athletic championships 1937; the launch Annabella in Dunedin harbour; an athletics event including girls' hurdling; pipers round the Robert Burns statue in the Octagon; an amateur dramatics production of a play set in the 19th century; steam ships; the opening of the railway at Roxburgh; a children's party on HMS Dunedin; storm damage in 1937; celebrations in Kaikoura 1940; skating at Alexandra 1938; fire at Seacliff Hospital; Waitaki Dam; air raid precautions in 1939; trotting races; Portobello regatta 1909; Ellison's funeral; a series of 22 negatives of stuffed birds at the Otago University Museum; the opening of a Maori church at Otakou; an Auckland vs Otago rugby match; the opening of the Clydevale bridge; and Otago golf championship 1937. The photographer was Field. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-034982 to 035760, 035779 to 035871, 035916 to 036295, 036699 to 036914, 038264 to 038353, 038364 to 038476 and 052188 to 052355 Quantity: 1839 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: [ca 1890-1936]

By: Abernethy, William, 1865-1930?; Allen, (Miss), active 1910s; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945; Carberry, M V, active 1910s; Churton, C E, active 1904; Ellerbeck Studio; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Le Grice, Edward, 1881-1959; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940; Peter Pan Studio; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Raphael Tuck & Sons (Firm); Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers); Taylor, T E, active 1899; Walker, George Allen, -1915; William Beattie & Company; Wilson, William Thompson, 1882-1917

Reference: PAColl-0718

Description: A collection of postcards and printed views (possibly from a magazine) of New Zealand scenes primarily of towns and cities rather than scenic views. They include one of two Maori women washing clothes at Rotorua, another of the Royal visit in 1927 and a family group of seven men and three women possibly taken in Belfast. A number of the postcards have been used. Also included are five original photographs which have been captioned with the family connections: a soldier in uniform, possibly named Ralph Ferguson; Uncle Henry Babe's wedding photograph; cousin Violet Bradford in America; Albert and Elizabeth (Eliza) Babe (brother and sister) and four others; Thomas and Fanny Babe (grandpa and grandma) with Eliza, Harold, Albert, Olivia, Queenie and Gladys. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 55 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [ca 1944-1949]

Reference: PAColl-6734

Description: 62 images of the following scenes: two of Lyttelton harbour; 11 of a golf tournament mostly of the same man teeing off, putting etc; four of scenes in a science laboratory; two of a man weaving on a hand held loom; two of a man selling vegetables from a cart in the street; two of the hotel and the store and milk bar in Titahi Bay; two of men's lunch possibly for rotarians; 8 of various private houses; two of a man with a goatee beard in his car; two of a man writing at his desk; four of men in army uniform outside a building with the sign "Headquarters - The Army School"; two of two men standing looking through some papers; two of a man in uniform holding a trophy flanked by two officers; a group portrait of 12 women in an office; a parade of soldiers in front of dignitaries; Titahi Bay; a man and a boy at a gate to a field; a man with glasses and a moustache sitting on the steps of his verandah; St Luke's, Greytown (since burnt down); a man tending his fruit trees; a tuatara; four men in suits with badges in their lapels; a man in a suit in a room with a crucifix; four girls sitting in a row reading books; women in an audience in a hall; two men talking in front of seating possibly in the same hall; a group of men having a drink; a woman in a hat and dress; a couple standing formally in a room next to some hydrangeas; and a man in a wood panelled room reading. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-028749 to 028753, 028767, 029417 to 029432, 029534 to 029555, 029921 to 029924, 029927, 030051 to 030056, 030986 to 030991, and 031050. Quantity: 62 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Small glass negatives

Date: 1952

From: Farmers' Trading Company: [Sales catalogues of octavo size. 1920-1960s]

By: Farmers' Trading Company

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-FTC-1952-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue for the Famers' Trading Company shows men's and women's clothing, books, shoes, fabrics, blankets and towels, household linens, tennis racquets, grain and produce, tents, deckchairs, camping equipment (including thermette), glasshouses and garden sheds, toiletries, radios, appliances, cameras, movie projectors, toys, kitchenware, cleaning equipment, tools, gardening equipment, stoves, motorboats, paints, motor cycles, kitchen cupboard units, bedroom and lounge furniture. Coloured cover illustrations are of women's dresses, Monarch bicycles, Monarch sewing machines. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Soft-bound book of 98 pages, 237 x 170 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Webbs Auction, 19 November 2008, lot 31.

Date: [ca 1930s-1940s]

From: Jeffery, Cecil Albert, 1888-1970 : Collection

By: Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Coster, Howard, active 1930s; Digby, Spencer Harry Gilbee, 1901-1995; Lafayette Ltd; Rawood Ltd; Swaine, F A, active 1919-1938; Topical Press Agency Ltd; W H Grove & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4431

Description: Personal and political photographs comprising: Michael Savage and Frederick Jones with an unidentified woman in a garden; three of formal dinners held in London attended by George Forbes, one of which was for Dominion Prime Ministers at Claridges Hotel in May 1935; three of Reginald Aitken, one taken on board the Queen Mary; Forbes and a delegation visiting a fruit market with apples on sale; Forbes and senior officers inspecting American troops; Forbes and others photographed in Santa Monica, the photograph insribed on the reverse with "compliments of William H Carter, mayor City of Santa Monica"; studio portrait of Emma Serena Forbes; studio portrait of Mark Fagan taken in August 1939; three of Michael Savage, one a photograph of a painting; studio portrait of Janet Fraser; studio portrait of Peter Fraser; and the shop of F Jeffery in Roxburgh, a booksellers, chemists, stationers and newsagents and an agent for HMV gramophones and records and Kodak supplies, with a car outside it; portrait of Michael Joseph Savage reading a booklet; three images of public works camps at Kopuawhara, Hawke's Bay, taken before and after the February 1938 floods that killed 21 people. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-1014 : Jeffery, Cecil Albert, 1888-1970 : Papers.

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: [ca 1860s-1880s]

By: Bett, Francis Arnot Blackader, 1873-1957

Reference: PAColl-7528

Description: Copy negatives of photographs and sketches in the Bett album. The photographs are: view of Alexandra; two views of Thames Street, Oamaru showing shops such as London House; J & T Meek's mill on the river at Oamaru; the Bank of New Zealand in Timaru; the Presbyterian Church in Timaru; looking up Trafalgar Street towards Christ Church Cathedral, Nelson with the Examiners Office on the left; probably the bridge at Pirongia in the Waikato (some doubt as to identification); St Pauls's Church and the parsonage at Spring Grove; Rev Godrington's house on Norfolk Island; early settlements at Nelson; Hope Farm homestead and garden; St Michael's Church; the residence of Colonel and Mrs Lane; full length standing studio portraits of Colonel Thomas, Lieutenant Colonel C J Thomas, Captain J G Kennedy, Captain Davidson, Captain E R Blair, Lieutenant Colonel J D MacPherson, E A Blundell, and two of Mrs E A Blundell; full length seated studio portraits of Najor T G Kennedy, Doctor Monro, Doctor A Davidson, and Major General J D Kennedy; and a three quarter length seated studio portrait of Major General Blundell. The sketches are of: the bush at Wai-iti; a watercolour of Wantwood homestead by R H G; a watercolour of haystacks at Spring Grove; and rocks at Norfolk Island. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-005389 to 005424 Quantity: 36 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1926 - 1927

By: Farmers' Trading Company; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1926-01

Description: Illustrated mail order sales catalogue for the Farmers' Trading Company store in Auckland gives ordering instructions and rail freight details. Merchandise includes sewing machines, phonographs, radiola, furniture and carpets, motorcycles and bicycles, made to measure clothing, Wolseley cream separator, pedal cars on the roof of the Farmers', aluminiumware, banking, bedding, shoes, phonographs, crockery, cutlery, tableware, lampware, linoleum (2 colour plates on one loose sheet), grocery, haberdashery, horse and cow covers, milking machines, musical instruments, paints, patent medicines, pianos, poultrykeepers' supplies, saddlery, seeds, spray pumps, tools, toys, tents, wallpapers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 580 pages, 267 x 210 mm. Provenance: Purchased from A & S Gallagher, in 2011.

Date: 1926

From: [New Zealand ephemera of octavo size concerning clothing, costume, fashion and dress. 1920-1929]

Reference: Eph-A-COSTUME-1926-01

Description: Contains advertisements and lists of available clothing. Exhibited in 'To market, to market' Exhibition of advertising and commercial ephemera from the Printed Ephemera Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library. First Floor foyer, National Library of New Zealand, 5 August - 16 September 1997. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 72p., illus., some col., 25 cm. Provenance: Purchased in 1994.

Date: 1906 - 1907

By: E Feist & Company; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-RETAIL-1906-01

Description: Arrangement of text. Lists prices of goods in the manchester department, dress department, ribbons, lace, embroideries, haberdahsery, men's clothing and mercery departments. Date estimated from Evening post print job number - 15255. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 500 x 315 mm.

Date: [ca 1910-1925]

Reference: PAColl-6963

Description: Assorted views of army life and family photographs many of them taken on a beach. One of a hot air balloon is advertising Hudson's Baking Powder with the slogan "Bound to Rise". Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059554 to 059869 and 106041 to 106083 Quantity: 316 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1955

From: Farmers' Trading Company :[Sales catalogues of A3 size. 1950-1961]

Reference: Eph-C-RETAIL-Farmers-1955-01

Description: Shows products available, including men's and women's clothing and accessories, bedding, manchester, furniture, radios, washing machines, appliances, tools, sewing machines, lawnmowers, clocks & watches, billiard tables, saddles, crockery garden supplies. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Offset print on 24 pages, 370 x 240 mm.

Date: 1889

By: Wholesale Drapery Company; Wairarapa daily (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-D-COSTUME-1889-01

Description: Arrangement of text. The company "desire to inform the inhabitants of Masterton and the surrounding district that we will continue our surplus stock sale for a further period of seven days". Listed sale items included: fancy lace cloth, figured alpaca, Camilli Cloth, French beiges, fancy nuns' veiling, tweeds, costume cloth, cashmeres, wide wincy, unbleached sheeting, white twill sheeting, cotton shirting, unbleached damask, prints, gingham, ladies black cloth jackets, maids tweed ulsters, ladies fur cloaks, children's beaver hats, infants pellises, children's trimmed hats, ladies' Macintoshes, children's stuff costumes, youth's military sox [sic], boys' tweed overcoats, men's Oxford and regatta shirts, men's French braces, youths' pilot overcoats, men's tweed overcoats, men's tweed hats, men's black hard hats, men's merino sox [sic], boys tweed knickerbockers, boys' and youths' black felt hats, men's black worsted coats, boy's and men's cotton shirts, boys' and youths' paper collars. The store was situated "opposite Prince of Wales Hotel, Queen-Street, Masterton". Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on poster 557 x 355 mm.

Date: 1884

By: Otago Co-operative Association; Evening star (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1884-01

Description: The price list of an association that aimed to supply goods directly from manufacturer to purchaser, with no charges incurred by middlemen. Purchasers paid an annual fee of 5 shillings for membership of the association. Merchandise included grocieries, drapery, shirts, boots & shoes, stationery, earthenware, ironmongery, coals and wood, jewellery, baskets, chemicals (drugs & medicines), and pianos. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Letterpress on pages of booklet of 38 pages, each 217 x 142 mm. Provenance: Purchased from New Zealand Book Auctions postal auction, November 2004, lot 146.

Date: [ca 1910-1930]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000192-G

Description: View looking along Church Street with the Masonic Hotel on the right and the Bank of New Zealand on the corner diagonally opposite on the lefthand side. A horse and cart is turning into Church Street near the BNZ. Pedestrians are walking along the road. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Part of the Strand series. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Strand Series; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Church St. Opotiki. NZ 2192D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches