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Date: 1894 - 1899 - 1901 - 1895

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to education trends and methods, teachers and teaching, career-specific education]

By: North Canterbury Education Board; Butcher, Charles Stanley, 1923-2016

Reference: Eph-B-EDUCATION-1894/1901-01

Description: Ceritificates issued to Charles Henry Butcher for good attendance in 1894 and 1895, and for Merit in 1899 and 1901. The merit certificates have ornate borders and use illustrative printers' blocks of birds and chrysanthemums on the right side. Quantity: 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithographs on certificates, 250 x 316 mm.

Date: 1898 - 1903

By: Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RELIGION-M-1899/1903

Description: Certificates show an arrangement of text, in a central panel, surrounded by a border of white lilies. Above the text is a handshake, with the words "Union is strength", and there is a circular inset of an open Bible at top right. Text below reads: "Consider the lilies, how they grow". Quantity: 3 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithographs on card, 315 x 250 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Hobsons, Wellington, in 2007.

Date: 1906 - 1907

By: Lyttelton Times Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-EXHIBITION-1906-01

Description: Certificate for the execution of a chest of drawers. The certificate shows a Maori man and women at the left, the man engaged in carving wood, while the woman looks on. Several Maori artifacts are shown in front of them: carving, woven fabric, patu. There is clematis around the couple. Along the top is a panel showing the exhibition buildings. John Johnson lived in Island Bay at this time. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured lithograph, gold, brown and green, 360 x 435 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Transferred from Manuscripts & Archives 84-145, June 2003..

Date: 1900 - 1910

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to the Temperance Movement in New Zealand. 1900-1929]

Reference: Eph-A-ALCOHOL-Temperance-1908-01

Description: Shows a photograph of a group of around 30 bandsmen in uniform with their instruments on a grassy field. The border has ornate gilded scrolling. Dated around 1908, because of dating of poster about Ashburton under no-licence, at Eph-E-ALCOHOL-Prohibition-1908-01. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print with gilding, on postcard 90 x 139 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2006.

Date: 1908

By: Palmer, Charles, 1841?-1928

Reference: E-600-q

Description: The left page addresses the recipient Maxwell Walker on the eve of his departure for a visit to Europe, and thanks him for his contribution to literary culture in Ponsonby, especially among young men. The address mentions his membership of the Committee of Management of the Leys Institute, and its affiliated Literary and Debating Society, and Shakespeare and Rhetoric Club. His position as lecturer in Modern languages at the Auckland University College is also mentioned. At the top of the left page is an illustration of the Leys Institute Library in Ponsonby Auckland, and a general view of Auckland Harbour with North Head and Rangitoto. Bothe pages have ornate borders. The address is signed by Thomson Leys of the Leys Institute, John Gittos and one other (Literary and Debating Society), and T H Wells, H Hemus, and E T Hart (Shakespeare and Rhetoric Club). Other Titles - Esquire, New Zealand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Two pages of ink and watercolour, in leather folder, each page 297 x 222 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in 2002.

Date: 1890 - 1900

By: Thorp, Nigel, active 1978-2018

Reference: Eph-C-THORP-04

Description: Shows arrangement of text inside paved and floral border. Colours of border are orange, blue and red. Extended Title - Who are Lester and Co? Why, the realisers and cash buyers of bankrupt estates, which enables them to almost give goods away at such prices that people stand and wonder. N.B. Our grand stock consists of drapery, fancy goods, American novelties, etc. Remember, we only stay a short time in each place. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Printed at the Wairarapa Daily office. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint on tissue, 368 x 368 mm.

Date: 1900

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to education trends and methods, teachers and teaching, career-specific education]

By: Caxton Printing Company (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-B-EDUCATION-1900-1

Description: Certificate shows a text panel at centre right, with a decorative border featuring a soldier standing resting his hands on his upright rifle. At lower left is a photograph of a two-storeyed stone school building. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on card, 300 x 250 mm.

Date: 1906 - 1907

From: [Ephemera relating to exhibitions in New Zealand in 1906-1907, including the New Zealand International Exhibition, Christchurch]

By: Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-EXHIBITION-1907-01

Description: Certificate featuring a Maori in a cloak standing at the left, with a kiwi in front of him. At right is a read seal, and in the lower centre is an oval inset illustration of the exhibition buildings. The whole is surrounded by a border of Maori design. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 202 x 271 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Transferred from Manuscripts & Archives 84-145, June 2003..

Date: 1900 - 1920

From: Gear Meat Company :Scrapbook of labels. 1890s-1920s].

By: Wilson & Horton (Firm)

Reference: Eph-F-MEAT-Gear-130

Description: Marlborough Rabbit Trapping and Meat Export Co label shows a sailing ship being loaded in a port at the right, and a still life arrangement of fruit with fish, pheasant (?) and rabbit at left. The borders are decorative. The S Kirkpatrick label is a generic one with a space for the specific food contained. It has floral and decoative motifs. Extended Title - From Gear Meat Company Scrapbook of labels, page [130]. Quantity: 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on labels.. Physical Description: Photolithographs, labels for tin, 108 x 342 mm, and 114 x 322 mm.

Date: 1908

Reference: Eph-A-FURNITURE-1908-01

Description: Envelope shows an ornate border design with scroll and floral elements at top and at left side. The envelope is hand-addressed to Mr T[?] R Ford, Waitara. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on envelope, 88 x 152 mm. Provenance: Purchased from the Complete Stamp Company in 2015.

Date: 1902

From: [Ephemera of quarto size concerning tea, its sale and culture]

Reference: Eph-B-BEVERAGE-Tea-1902-01

Description: Flyer advertising a brand of tea shows an arrangement of text around an image of a three-masted sailing ship. The border is in red with a stylised botanical appearance. The verso has text advertising the pure quality of the tea. The three-masted yacht shown may be the "Sunbeam" on which Lady Annie Allnutt Brassey and her husband sailed in 1876-1877. She wrote a book about the voyage. This flyer was found with pages of the Ashburton Guardian. An advertisement for this brand of tea appeared in the Ashburton Guardian in 1902. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 220 x 265 mm.

Date: 1904

From: [Postcards by Benoni White and A D Willis. 1902-1905]

By: Bock, William Rose, 1847-1932; New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-White-04-B

Description: Postcard shows a view of Lake Rotorua from near Ohinemutu, with St Faith's Church at the far right. In the left foreground stands a group of Maori beside a raupo hut. In the right foreground the shore is steaming. There are waka and a steamship on the lake, with Mokoia Island in the background. The scene is bordered on three side by a grass fringe, and there are Maori tools and carvings at left and right. Verso shows an engraving by W R Bock, of Mt Earnslaw, head of Lake Wakatipu, with a Maori prow carving overarching it. Inscription on lower edge of recto: Meet me for certain tonight at His Majesty's to view the charms of the Country Girl. The postcard is addressed on the verso to Miss Mabel Drury, New North Road Auckland. J C Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company performed "The Country girl" at His Majesty's in Auckland in early 1904. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on postcard, 91 x 139 mm.

Date: 1901

By: Marshall, Ryan and Company; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-Taupo-1901-01

Description: Poster with Maori pattern border shows illustrations of a Maori waka on Lake Taupo with Ngauruhoe smoking at the top, the small steam-sailing ship 'Tongariro' cruising on water at lower right, and inset views of the Karangahape Cliffs and the Waihi Waterfall at either side. The text explains that the mail steamer 'Tongariro' leaves Taupo every Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the summer months, going to Tokaanu, and returning to Taupo the following day. The service is reduced to twice a week during winter months. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, brown on toothed cream paper, 507 x 395 mm.