Places

Date: 1900 - 1950

Reference: Eph-A-LOTTERY-1900/1950

Description: Includes : Undated: New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union (Inc). Tainted money! 'Tain't yours! 'Tain't mine! Prizes gained from art unions or lotteries, no matter what the object, are tainted money. [1910-1940s?] 1939: "The romantic career of George Adams (Tattersall). (Melbourne, 1939. Booklet of 32 pages. 1941: New Zealand Academy of Fine arts. Autumn exhibition 1941. Public art union, to be drawn on Wednesday 4 June 1941. Ticket 1949: "The evils of betting shop queues". [1949] Tickets include: 1914: Eastbourne Bowling Club. Grand Art Union. To be drawn 7th November 1914. 1924: Grand Military Tournament and Citizen-Soldiers' Pageant. Art Union in aid of community club and regimental funds. To be drawn at the Town Hall Wellnigton, 21 June 1924. Ticket 1925: Dominion All Gold art union. To provide playing areas for Rugby Union football and other amateur sports. Drawn not later than 20th October, 1925. W G Compton, secretary-organiser, Dominion All Gold Art Union, Invercargill. 1936: Alluvial Gold art union, Central Military command, in aid of forthcoming searchlight tattoo in aid of regimental funds. Closes 6 June 1936. 1945: "I may be lucky" Art Union. 5000 pounds. Closes 10th November 1945. 1950: Great Easter. 5000 pounds in prizes. Closes 1sy April 1950. Ticket Quantity: 5 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on lottery tickets. 3 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on flyers. 1 booklet. Physical Description: Photolithographs and letterpress, sizes ranging below 200 mm

Date: 1961 - 1962

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to the aged, elderly, old age resthomes, retirement villages]

By: Wellington City Mission; Blundell Brothers Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-OLD-AGE-1962-01

Description: A pamphlet carrying an appeal from Wellington City Missioner Padre Heerdegen, for funds to complete the Home at Titahi Bay, and containing supporting statements from Prime Minister Holyoake, Opposition leader Walter Nash and Mr Stick the chairman of the Mission's Board of Trustees. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Pamphlet folded in three, to 120 x 254 mm. Provenance: Donated from the papers of Tony Murray-Oliver, 1987.

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-497/519

Description: Cartoons commenting on social and political life in 1962 including the economy, sport and recreation. Quantity: 22 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings, sizes vary

Date: [ca 1895-1916]

By: Hogg, Alexander Wilson, 1841-1920

Reference: MS-Papers-1618

Description: Notebooks and jottings of reminiscences of his early life and his political career; also short stories, poems and newspaper cuttings Source of title - Supplied title Hogg was MP for Masterton, 1890-1911 and Minister of Roads, Labour and Customs under Sir Joseph Ward. Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1918-1923

By: Mary Magdalene (Sister), 1884-

Reference: MS-Papers-1656

Description: Letters to family from Sister Mary Magdalene, an American member of an Anglican order sent to establish St Anne's Home for Girls at Papanui, Christchurch; includes her monthly diary, `Bulletins of the Antipodes, Sep 1920-Mar 1923,' giving details of religious and daily life, impressions of NZ, etc Source of title - Supplied Sr Mary Magdalene of the Sisters of St Anne came out from the United States to the House of the Sacred Name, Christchurch, to establish a school; the order is Anglican Quantity: 1 folder(s) (48 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescript and printed matter

Date: 1953-1993

By: Strathmore Park Townswomen's Guild

Reference: MSY-5312-5313

Description: Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, memorabilia and photographs, illustrating the activities of the Strathmore Park Townswomen's Guild, and to a lesser extent, those of the Dominion Federation of Townswomen's Guilds. Includes obituaries and lists of guild officers for each year. Source of title - Supplied The Strathmore Park Townswomen's Guild was founded in 1953 Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter, photos

Date: 1905

By: Abel, Dykes Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-LOTTERY-1905-01

Description: Shows six inset photographs of the prizes in the lottery, separated by ornate decorative framing. First prize a piano (100 guineas); second prize a hooded phaeton (80 guineas); third prize a ladys' diamond bangle (60 guineas); fourth prize a bicycle (lady's or gent's) (25 guineas); fifth prize a dining room suite (25 guineas); and sixth prize a Densmore typewriter (25 guineas). Accompanied by a letter from the committee, signed by R Leslie Hunt and A Denniston, honorary secretaries. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Abel, Dykes Limited, Printers, Auckland Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph and photolithograph, on cover of booklet, 134 x 260 mm.

Date: 12 April 1957

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

Reference: EP/1957/0955-F

Description: A chimpanzee from Wellington Zoo buying a poppy from RSA collector K M Bennett, outside the zoo gates in Newtown, Wellington. Photograph taken 12 April 1957 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Other - Published in the Evening Post newspaper, 12 April 1957 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches