Places

Date: [ca 17 Nov 1986]

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

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1986/5797-F

Description: Tent outside Government House, Newtown, Wellington, a temporary dining room pitched by the army, for the many guests staying with the Governor General and his wife, Sir and Lady Reeves, over the weekend. Photographs taken circa 17 November 1986, by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

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

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

From: Commons family :Assorted negatives, photographs and postcards relating to the Commons family

Reference: PA5-0091

Description: Children, supervised by two staff members, sitting at table in the dining room at Leslie Presbyterian Orphanage, Auckland, New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 87 x 140 mm Provenance: Donated by Commons family 1976

Date: 1925 - 1927

By: Nash, Walter (Sir), 1882-1968

Reference: Eph-A-FURNITURE-1926-01

Description: Includes illustrations and prices of dining suites, lounge suites, bedroom suites, bedding, seagrass furniture, kitchen safes, hatstands, writing desks, carpets, kitchen hardware, blinds and curtaining. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - (Back page): Printed by The Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers Co., Ltd, Dunedin, NZ Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of [120] pages, 135 x 220 mm. Provenance: Formerly part of the Walter Nash papers, acquired in the late 1980s.

Date: 1974

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

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-045-004

Description: Shows floor plans, sections and elevations of the additions. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on tracing paper 420 x 595 mm.

Date: 1986 - 1989

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Christchurch star (Newspaper : 1958- )

Reference: A-316-060/084

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. New Zealand switches from milk in bottles to milk in cartons. Hayley's Comet turns out to be disappointing for most star gazers. High number of requests for aid from sports and charity groups. Children deny tobacco advertising influences their smoking habits. Core samples are taken from the hull of the New Zealand entrant to the America's Cup. 1986 - the International Year of Peace - $1,746,000,000,000 spent on weapons. Mother's Day again. Burglar makes himself at home. General election candidates begin their hand-shaking tour of the rural areas. There's a big turnout for the rugby on election day. People are getting overloaded with the morning radio bad 'news'. Christmas shopping bedlum is upon us. ANZAC Day shows the difference between the self-sacrificing of the returned service men and women and the selfishness of youth. The French do another nuclear bomb test. Cups are shown off at the yacht club, some for winning races but mostly for winning court battles over yacht race rules. Parents supporting their children from the rugby sidelines are becoming increasingly violent. Over-crowding of New Zealand prisons. New Zealand's economic slump sees long ques of people waiting to get Government assistance through the Dept. of Social Welfare. Rogernomics puts the whole country into crisis. Post Offices are closed around the country. Children embrace cigarette smoking. Hospital emergency outpatients restrict their services in an effort to cut costs. Pakeha consider how they can benefit from the Maori land claim process. The law struggles to deal with complications of using force in your own self defence. Ozone layer threatened by fumes, smoke and smog. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). 24 photocopies. Physical Description: A4 size original and photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: 1950

Reference: Eph-B-FURNITURE-1950-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue showing sepia illustrations of the store frontage, lounge suites, chairs, wall to wall carpets, linos, china cabinets, tea wagons, occasional tables, writing bureaux, bedroon suites, wardrobes and dressing tables, dining furniture and dining suites, mattresses, curtain rails, quilts and sheets. A separate typescript price list, dated March 1950 is enclosed. It lists the same models of furniture and is therefore judged to be contemporaneous with the catalogue. Housed separately, rather than with other 1950s material of the same subject location Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 24 pages, each 215 x 268 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in November 2001.

Date: 1904

From: Ephemera relating to hotels, motels, hostels and other accommodation in Taupo and the surrounding area

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Taupo-1904-01

Description: Postcard shows a two photographs of the Spa, one of each side of the postcard. One side shows an exterior view of the Spa buildings, and one an interior view of the dining room. The address and message are handwritten, to Miss Baker, Napier Terrace, Napier. The message is: "Dear Miss Baker, Just a line leaving here tomorrow. Weather fair. Good time. Will drop another card later. Yours truly, M O O'Connor[?]" Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 91 x 137 mm. Provenance: Purchased from the Complete Stamp Company, Auckland, in 2013.

Date: 1970 - 1979

From: [Ephemera relating to hotels, motels, hostels and other accommodation in places beginning with H. 1900s onwards ]

By: Fotocentre Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Haast-1970s-01

Description: Front of postcard shows three images, identified on the verso as: Haast Hotel, Haast South Westland NZ [exterior view]; Waiatoto Room [interior view of dining room]; Arawata Room [interior view of carpeted bar room with seating] Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on postcard, 99 x 146 mm. Provenance: Donated by Jenny Middlemass, Wellington, 2013. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance housed in Photographic Archive (William Middlemass photographic prints).

Date: [ca1900s]

Reference: PAColl-0970

Description: Two photographic prints of Knox College, Dunedin, taken circa early 1900s by an unidentified photographer. One is an exterior view of the tennis court with men playing on it and the main building in the background; the other is of the dining room with tables set for a meal. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s) glued on to board.

Date: 1848

By: Punch (London, England)

Reference: J-065-004

Description: Two contrasting scenes. On the left ("Here". i.e England), a vagrant family of parents and four barefooted ragged children, standing outside a building, with smokestacks in the background. There is a notice on the door of the building heading 'caution all vagrants'. On the right ('There' i.e. somewhere in the colonies) is a family that has emigrated to one of the colonies, an interior scene with well-fed children and the parents at a groaning table, with hams and a animal carcass hanging above and the mother just serving a dish, while the father carves. A dog is seated at the table and a baby is in a cradle on the floor. There is a palm tree or tree fern visible through the window to the outside, and a dark-skinned native is being served a dish by the oldest daughter of the family. Digital copy available as Publ-0043-1848-15. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide of wood engraving

Date: 1966 - 1967

By: William Nees & Sons Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-FURNITURE-1967-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue with coloured photgraphic cover and central pages. The booklet includes illustrations of bedroom suites, lounge suites, dining room suites, bedding, floor coverings, Riccarton and Knightsbridge carpets, Vono foamspring mattresses, Mexicana bedspread by Erincraft, home appliances (including heaters, televisions, lawnmowers, fridges, washing machines), manchester and soft furnishings, bedroom furniture, wardrobes, chairs and divans, bookcases ansd china cabinets, nursery furniture, outdoor furniture. Other Titles - Furniture review vol. 66 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 88 pages, 135 x 217 mm.

Date: 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/109/13-G

Description: Psychiatric nurses in the dining room with patients of Porirua Mental Hospital, Wellington, photographed in 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1999 - 2001

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Christchurch star (Newspaper : 1958- )

Reference: A-316-142/160

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. Unemployed fathers as role models to their sons, the pracitical side of genetic modification, 20th century sees out-of-control war, violence and death, United States aims to curb people's access to guns, election year sees 32,000 more operations being done, study shows teenages think about girls approx. every three minutes, marriages end in divorce due to the Rugby World Cup, parents supervise their children to school, move to replace cigarettes with cannabis, supermarkets selling to underage drinkers, kiwi dollar plummets to record low, family politics of winning, cricket bribery revealed, Black Caps perform poorly in cricket, children's language shocks, 600 Air Force staff made redundant, new complications of professional rugby, moves to ban children from movies that portray smoking, travellers face uncertain choice of destinations following world terrorist attacks. Original drawings for A-316-144, -152, -156 and -160 in separate folder and individually catalogued Quantity: 15 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Reference: 1/2-112223-F

Description: Two cooks posing by tables set for a meal, in a timber camp dining room, Mokai. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Jan 1957

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Ransfield, T, active 1950s

Reference: 1/2-039596-F

Description: Dining room, Kemp home, Kerikeri, January 1957. Photograph taken for the National Publicity Studios by T Ransfield. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: [1890s-1930s]

From: Head, Samuel Heath, 1868-1948 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-007230-G

Description: Photograph taken by Samuel Heath Head, Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative register. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 8 November 1958

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

Reference: EP/1958/3796-F

Description: Mr and Mrs V E Donald in their dining room, Lansdowne, Masterton. The wall above them is decorated with hunting trophies in the form of deer and wapiti heads. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 8 November 1958. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 6 x 6 cm

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-019480-G

Description: Inside the dining room of Warner's Hotel in Cathedral Square, Christchurch, showing tables and chairs set for dining. The ceiling is decorated. Taken by Steffano Webb. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: November 1905

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

By: Winkelmann, Henry, 1860-1931

Reference: PAColl-5745-1-10

Description: Dining Room inside the Ranfurly Veterans' Home in Mount Roskill, Auckland, photographed by Henry Winkelmann in November 1905. Inscriptions: Verso - Veterans home, Auckland. Dining room.; Verso - bottom right - [stamped] H. Winkelmann 316 Victoria Arcade, Auckland. NZ. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned silver gelatin print 148 x 203 mm