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Date: ca1987-1991

From: National Library of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5801-3

Description: Launch of publication "Katherine Mansfield Manuscripts in the Alexander Turnbull Library", Alexander Turnbull's birthday celebration and farewell to Jim Traue 1990, Alexander Turnbull Library's Founder's Day celebration 1990, Turnbull Library staff reunion late 1980s, Depositing of the Korean War Veterans Roll of Honour 1991, Alexander Turnbull's 121st birthday celebrations 1989, Reception for the Holmes Miller papers 1990. Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1974

By: McCracken, Joan Mary, 1954-

Reference: 1/4-056718

Description: Photograph of John Atkinson on Ward Island with the family ketch "St Michael" in the background. Photographer was Joan McCracken. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negative

Date: 1984-1995

From: National Library of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5801-4

Description: Quantity: 123 b&w original photographic print(s). 6 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1963 - 1970

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Loose prints, drawings and paintings; and two albums of prints and drawings. 1924-1991]

Reference: A-424-056

Description: One side shows a sketch of a woman reading a piece of paper, possibly one in the library series, showing a librarian. The watercolour shows the back of a single-storey white house with a green roof, and the garden around it. Photographed in E-918-q, 167/246, and 166/284. Listed in Rod Cook's notebook at E-918-q Quantity: 1 drawing(s). 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: One pencil and one watercolour, 270 x 375 mm

Date: ca1984-ca1995

From: National Library of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5801-1

Description: Mainly records of National Library events which include gifts of books from Poland and Yugoslavia, a delegation of Librarians from China, the official opening of the National Library, the New Vacuum Freeze Dryer for Conservation, the powhiri for Dick Grace the first Maori Manager, celebration for Women's Suffrage Day, Princess Anne visiting, the presentation of the Missoula Peace Quilt, National Library Children's Days, 25th anniversary of setting up the library by act of parliament, and the initiation of the talking book service. Most of the rest of the images record the construction of the National Library building, people and occassions connected with this, the building's interiors, and services provided. Quantity: 101 b&w original photographic print(s). 76 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-091

Description: Photographs of people and their occupations, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1939 and 1940. Includes photographs made to accompany stories relating to: Whitebaiting, floods, hedgehogs, movie extras and a Plimmerton fisherman. Also includes photographs of Kauri gum being weighed, lace being made, a cattle auction, handloom weaving, mussel dredging in the Coromandel, installation of the Lowburn Dredge, a homemade diving suit, a power pole in Russell, rural scenes in Hamilton. Includes the oldest blacksmith in New Zealand, a waterwheel in the Carrick Ranges, lapidiaries, a car with a gasometer, Kauri carvings, a farmer repairing a fence, water bicycles, a tower of matches. Also an unusual carrot, pony traction, a travelling repairman, North Auckland Inlet transport, a postman, a whitewashed mining cottage in Arrowtown, a model railway. Women working at the Dominion Museum and the Turnbull Library, packhorses, Tahurangi Hut, Roger Kingsford and a Maori meeting house at Ohinemuri. Quantity: 97 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1903-1980

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: 94-106-15/09

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1954-1989

From: Country Library Service (Hamilton) : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10080

Description: Images relate to the work of the Country Library Service (Hamilton) branch of the National Library of New Zealand between 1954 and 1989. Also includes images of the National Library building in Tremaine Avenue, Palmerston North taken soon after its opening which relate to the work of the Country Library Service and School Library Service units based there. Black and white images taken in 1950s include book vans on coastal road between Coromandel and Colville 30 October 1959, book van ED317 driven by Field Librarian Joe O'Neill (not visible) in Northland, book vans including original van ED103 parked outside old Hamilton Country Library Service building, book van ED103 in a ditch at Ruahine, July 1957, a book van on a gravel road in far North mid 1950s. Undated images show various views of book vans in rural locations, interior views show rural women browsing books and Joe O' Neill writing in book. Photograph taken by Waikato Times shows Librarians Allan Mercer and Margaret Johnston outside book van EDL6 at Hamilton Country Library branch. Three black and white photographs with matching negatives show closer views of the ED317 and ED103 book vans. Probably taken circa 1950s to early 1960s. Black and white images taken in the 1960s show borrowers outside the 'Queen Mary' book van parked next to the Waimamaku hall, Hokianga, with a Humber car parked nearby (licence plate dated 1956-1961), a Colombo Plan student posing beside a book van and eating a sandwich inside, the Hamilton Country Library van dock 1962. Includes a colour photograph taken in December 1965 of a book van crossing a rural bridge. Includes a greeting card with a photograph of a book van on a South Westland road mounted on the card. Black and white images taken 1971 to 1972 show exterior and interior views of book vans (including EDL6) parked outside the Hamilton Country Library building, people inside book van at Kerikeri, and book van EDL1 at Waitakaruru and a person visiting the van on a country lane. Colour photographs taken in the late 1970s to 1980s show rural women looking at books displayed on the outside of a book van in a country town, Librarians David Stephens, Sarah Poulton and John Gully posing with four book vans from different years outside the Hamilton Country Library building taken circa 1978, book vans with 'National Library of New Zealand Extension Service' signs and silver fern logo, National Library book van J1 taken circa 1979. Two photographs taken by Alex Reid show the book van NL19 stuck on the road through Waipoua Forest 1981. Two photographs show the National Library of New Zealand book van outside a 'War Memorial Library' (possibly Warkworth). Includes eleven black and white photographs showing exterior and interior views of the National Library building on Tremaine Avenue, Palmerston North. Shows book van leaving loading bay, courtyard, foyer, adult services and school library services areas, display areas, staff mending books and working in dispatch areas. Ergonomic office design and equipment includes trolley, typewriter and pigeon holes (no computers). Photographs taken by Bruce Watt Photographic Studios Ltd. Accompanying information - Annotated envelope. Quantity: 43 b&w original photographic print(s) including 3 with corresponding original negatives. 10 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler prints, silver gelatin prints

Date: 25 Sep 1981

By: Chapman, Rosetta Sadie, 1911-2007

Reference: MS-Papers-9135

Description: Letter from Elsie Locke to Sadie Chapman, librarian at North Shore Libraries, discussing reminiscences of her days as a librarian and mutual acquaintances. Includes clipping of review from the New Zealand Listener of her autobiography Student at the gates Source of title - Supplied by Library Other Titles - Student at the gates Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, printed matter

Date: 1984-1995

From: National Library of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5801

Description: Views of the National Library of New Zealand Building during construction, its opening ceremony on the 5th of August 1987, its interiors and services. Photographs (single portraits and at events throughout the collection) of Ministers, Trustees, Management and Staff, National Library and Fulbright Scholars, IFLA delegates, Polish and Yugoslav embassy officials, visiting Chinese Librarians, Friends of the Turnbull Library, and members of the public. Events include exhibition openings, formal handings over of archives, Friends of the Turnbull Library events, the powhiri for 1st Maori Manager, Dick Grace, the presentation of the Missoula Peace Quilt, and National Library Children's Days. Though the photographs range in date from 1984 to 1995, most date from 1989 to 1991, and the bulk date from the sesquicentenial year, 1990. Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 23197 - 23265; 1/2-180331-F - 1/2-180358-F; 1/4-83134-F. Negatives at 1/2-180618 and 35mm, 24045 - 24059. Comprise 60 images. Transparencies at PA12-1550 - PA12-1560. Three sets of transparencies are held at PA12-5514 to PA12-5516. Quantity: 299 b&w original photographic print(s) Many of these prints are proof sheets. 99 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s). 93 b&w original negative(s) comprising 316 images. 4 colour original negative(s). 59 colour original transparency/ies comprising 128 images.

Date: April to August 1984

By: Griffith, Penny, 1943-

Reference: PAColl-0592

Description: Two photographs of the Free Lance Building on The Terrace with construction work next to it following the demolition of the Mayfair West building in April 1984. Four photographs of the National Library Strategic Management Planning Exercise held at Porirua Police College 31 July to 4 August 1984. Photographs were taken by Penny Griffith. Quantity: 4 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1932, 1948-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-169

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1932, 1948-1960 Aerial views of Lancaster Park and Christchurch Boys' High school; Centennial fireworks display; Clarendon Hotel (from Oxford Terrace with Captain Scott's memorial in foreground); librarians at Christchurch Library, ca 1940s; Mill house, home of Mr Tracy Gough, 1948; home of Ken Myers, Riccarton (showing garden and swimming pool); Sign of the Takahe, 1949. Also various views of Christchurch Cathedral; street scenes - cyclists in Colombo Street; corner of Armagh Street looking down Colombo Street; Manchester Street looking south; cars parked in Cambridge Terrace; aerial view of Cashmere; Kenns Reach, Avon River (Burwood). Aerial and other views of Sumner, 1948-1959 - includes state houses under construction in Arnold Street; Nayland Street showing house on the hill owned by Mr Piet; house built at 58 Colenso Street for Mr Pascoe; views showing new breakwater, 1959. Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1968-1992

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

By: Sutherland, James Hector, 1925-

Reference: PA1-o-840

Description: Mainly a record of the Mobile Library Meet sponsored by U-Bix (photocopiers) and held at Palmerston North on the 10th and 11th of January, 1992. Images of Book vans from various cities are well represented. There are also a number of images of National Library book vans of the 1960s, and one of a more recent van being custom built at Hawke Coachwork Ltd, Takanini, South Auckland. There is an article on Jim Sutherland from the Manukau Courier, 1989, and a paper by him on the Manukau City Mobile Library Service. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1949 - 1970s

By: Cole, John Reece, 1916-1989

Reference: PAColl-0319

Description: Includes photographs of Anton Vogt, James K Baxter, Frank Sargeson, Louis Johnson, John Reece Cole, Priscilla Taylor, Maurice Duggan, Ian Cross, Noel Hoggard, Marilyn Duckworth, Joy Cowley, and the Grand Hotel Palmerston North. Some images photographed by John Reece Cole. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-019114 to 019119 Copy negatives made - 1/4-15457-F, 1/2-20928-F, 1/2-65721-F to 1/2-65725-F, 1/2-65727-F, 1/2-65728-F, 1/2-65730-F, 1/2-65740-F, 1/2-65743-F Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope. 6 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1959 - 2009

By: New Zealand Micrographic Services Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-LIBRARY-LIANZA-2009-01

Description: Shows a reproduction by New Zealand Micrographic Services, of a poster held by Christchurch City Libraries, dated ca 1959. It is a view along an airport runway with a plane taxiing towards the viewer and the new airport buildings in the right background. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 430 x 308 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms Penny Carnaby, Wellington, in 2009.

Date: 1982

From: National Library of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PA12-1196

Description: School Library Service, Tawa. Quantity: 23 colour copy transparency/ies.

Date: 1968-1975

From: Ronnie, Mary Allan 1926- : Chiefly photographs taken during Ronnie's travels overseas and in New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-10063-1

Description: Photographs taken between 1968-1975 relating to Mary Ronnie when she was Dunedin City Librarian. Views of the city of Stockholm, Sweden, 1971. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s). 12 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 5 May 1955

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Weigel, William George, 1890-1980

Reference: PAColl-6203-03

Description: Country Library Service bus and librarians (from left to right), Miss M Vere-Hunt, O L Simmance, and Miss Jean Wright, in Christchurch, 5 May 1955. Photograph taken by William George Weigel. Note on back of file print reads "Published 15 May 1955, page 30" Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1955

From: Cole, John Reece :Photographs of Rawene and the Far North

Reference: PAColl-4064-01

Description: John Reece Cole outside Judge Frederick Edward Maning's house at Onoke, on the Hokianga Harbour, 1955. Photograph possibly taken by John Reece Cole. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 11.2 x 16 cm

Date: 1968-1992

By: Sutherland, James Hector, 1925-

Reference: PAColl-5553

Description: Photographs of the National Library's Country Library Service covering areas in the North Island from the 1960s to the early 1990s. These photographs are part of a collection held in Manuscripts comprising notes, library lists, and handwritten manual compiled by James Sutherland while working for the mobile library of the New Zealand Country Library Service in the 1970s and 1980s. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-077900 to 078343-F Quantity: 10 album(s). 28 b&w original negative(s). 149 colour original photographic print(s). 442 b&w original negative(s).