Places

Date: [ca 1897]

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

Reference: 1/2-049635-G

Description: Jack (right) and Rudolph Lousich collecting donations for their father Louis Lousich. The sign reads: 'Deserving Case. Be so kind as to patronise the blind man a widower with five children who lost his sight and right arm by an explosion of dynamite at Kumara. Smallest donation thankfully received.' Photograph taken ca 1897 in Kumara by Steffano Francis Webb. The accident occurred in May 1884 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass plate stereographic negative 12 x 16.4 cm

Date: 1916

From: [Ephemera relating to patriotism, fundraising for the war effort, during World War I. 1914-1918. Folder 1]

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

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-Patriotic-1916-01

Description: Booklet listing all 237 lots for sale at a patriotic auction of bottles, and describing the process of collecting the bottles, which will be ground down for the war effort. Bottles for the following products were included: whisky, wine and claret, Hayward's pickle, coffee essences, sauces, Koefoed sauce, honey bottles, jelly jars, flasks, vingar bottles, ink bottles, Bennett's Carbonated waters, Lane's Carbonated waters, Thomson's carbonated waters, meat paste and tongue containers, Lane's, West's and Sharpe's 1-gallon screw-top jars, Nileson Vickers 1-gallon jars, Campbell and List's, Briggs's, K&P, Cinese earthernware bottles, stone curacao and stone gins pots, blue poisons, beef and iron wine, malt extracts, Mellin's Food, Humanised Milk, Essences, Round-shouldered limes, Direct Squares, Lane's Emulsion, United Friendly Societies' Dispensary, F Wilkinson, J Waters, R Scofield, J Neill Ltd, U L Gallien, C V Inglis, H Bagley and Son, H W R Outram, N Dodds, A M Hendy, R Conn, J R Hayne, W Elder, W U Donnelly, champagne, stone ginger beer, infant feeding bottles ("Shirkers"), 10-gallon acid glass carboys. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages each 182 x 123 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Otago Heritage Books in 2003.

Date: November 1940

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

Reference: 1/2-066941-F

Description: Seven school boys amongst the bottles they have collected as part of the local war funds effort. Taken in November 1940 outside the Miramar Fire Station. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1916

From: [Ephemera and theatre programmes for performances of opera and light musicals in New Zealand in 1916].

Reference: Eph-A-OPERA-1916-01-cover

Description: Cover shows crest of His Majesty's Theatre, with Royal Standard and Union Jack. Other Titles - For patriotic purposes Other Titles - By special arrangement with Messrs J C Williamson Ltd Other Titles - Tues., Wed., Thurs., and Fri., July 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th, 1916 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cover of programme.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on cover 198 x 132 mm.

Date: 1949 - 1954

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-011

Description: A group of Wanganui schoolgirls surround Ronald Algie Minister of Education, as he walks through the school gates. He carries various suitcases and rolled up documents; 'New school plans - and other jokes', 'Applications for grants - and other laughable matters', 'Various gags for Education Boards, 'Education Finance - and other funny money' and 'The whole bag of tricks'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 330 x 510 mm

Date: [ca 1915]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-017664-G

Description: Groups in Cathedral Square, Christchurch, attending the Patriotic Bazaar and the Red Cross Shop. J Finnerty's horse and cart are in the foreground. Photograph taken by Henry Wright, circa 1915. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: 13 August 1914

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: 1/2-035432-G

Description: Selling tickets by auction for a concert in Nelson, in aid of the War Fund. The auction is being conducted from a motor car, surrounded by cyclists and other onlookers. Photograph taken on 13 August 1914 by Frederick Nelson Jones on Nelson. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Patriotism in Nelson N.Z. Selling tickets by auction for concert in aid - War Fund. Aug 13. 1914. F.N. Jones. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.6 inches

Date: 1900

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to the South African War. 1899-1902]

Reference: Eph-B-WAR-SA-1900-01-cover

Description: Programme shows a head and shoulders portrait of Queen Victoria on the front page, and lists the members of the committee: Dr Campbell, W J Napier, Geo Fowlds, Hon J A Tole, R R Hunt, James Kirker, E W Rathbone, Robert Rose, H C Tewsley, J H Upton.. His Worship the Mayor, David Goldie, Esq., in the chair. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on programme.. Physical Description: Letterpress and photolithograph, on cover of folded programme, 285 x 220 mm.