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Date: [Circa 1890s?]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-199

Description: Album of photographs in the Godber collection, taken by unidentified photographers. None of the people in photographs are identified. Photographs include scenes in the Nelson area, and particularly New Plymouth, with a number of the Domain at New Plymouth. Two photographs are linked with the Star Boating Club in Wellington, one with a rowing group in a whaler, and one showing a number of rowing prizes won by Jack Hume. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 112 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 27.5 x 22.5 cm

Date: [ca 1885-1945]

By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PAColl-0422

Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1882 - 1889

By: Aulsebrooks & Company; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-FOOD-1880s-01

Description: Biscuit tin label shows the recto and verso of a medal awarded to the Aulsebrook Company for excellence in food manufacture. The medals are surrounded by a wreath of wheat ears. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Colour lithograph, 222 x 232 mm.

Date: 1861

Reference: Eph-C-PEOPLE-Colenso-1861-01

Description: Notice announcing a reward for information leading to the apprehension and conviction of the person or people who "besides stealing therefrom several articles, have wickedly and maliciously done a very large amount of damage in destroying Glass, Books, Writings, Natural History Specimens, Medicines, &c., &c." Ten pounds would be awarded on receipt of the information, and a further twenty pounds paid when the culprit was convicted. There follows text in Maori: "E ta ma, e nga Maori, titiro mai, ETORU TE KAU enei Pauna Moni hei utu mo te tangata e hopu ranei e whaka-atu ranei i te whanako nana i pakaru kino te toa a Te Kore-neho ki Waitangi" Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 228 x 286 mm. Processing information: Former numbering: EMI 1378 NIW 356 (178696)

Date: 1875 - 1880

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to the activities and exhibitions of horticultural societies in New Zealand]

By: Auckland Herald (Newspaper); W C Wilson & Sons (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-HORT-SOC-Auckland-1875-01

Description: A Gillespie won prizes for begonias, fine foliage plants, primulas, table bouquets, and cut flowers. The 1875 cards are lithographed by W C Wilson, Auckland, and the 1880 card is lithographed by Herald litho. Note from a descendant, Jean Erbacher (28 October 2008), indicates that A Gillespie is likely to have been Mr Alexander Gillespie, the head gardener at Government House in Auckland at that time. Quantity: 11 colour art print(s) on certificates. Physical Description: Lithographs on cards, 115 x 150 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in November 2000.

Date: 1882 - 1889

By: Aulsebrooks & Company; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-FOOD-1880s-01

Description: Poster shows an illustration of Aulsebrooks steam biscuit factory and flour mills in Christchurch in the 1880s. At top and bottom are the recto and verso of a medal awarded to the Aulsebrook Company for excellence in food manufacture. In around 1879 or 1880 John Aulsebrook and his business partner built a new factory at the corner of Montreal and St Asaph Streets (Information retrieved 12 September 2015 from http://www.auspostalhistory.com/articles/1755.php ). Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Colour lithograph, 335 x 228 mm.

Date: 1867

By: Hutchinson & Company Ltd (Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-B-CATTLE-1867-01

Description: Certificate with decorative border of ferns, wheat, and other foliage and seed heads. The certificate is not filled in Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Hutchinson & Co, litho, Auckland. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on light card. Physical Description: Chromolithograph with gold, on card 279 x 210 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in September 2001.

Date: 1898 - 1899

By: Young, Henry William, 1840-1903; New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works

Reference: Eph-D-MEAT-Gear-1898-01

Description: Shows arrangement of text with decorative border. Near the top is an allegorical female head in a wreath (perhaps representing Industry). Main scene shows Auckland Harbour, and an inset at bottom left shows the exhibition buildings. There is a large tree-fern at left, and clematis at lower right. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Lithographed at the Star Printing Works, Auckland, N.Z.; Recto - bottom right - H W Young Des. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 630 x 500 mm.