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We can connect 189 things related to 1900, Factories, New Zealand, and Not specified to the places on this map.
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Hosing down a car body at General Motors, Petone - Photograph taken by Merv Griffiths

Date: 29 December 1987

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1987/7098-F

Description: General Motors worker, Papa Koloi, hosing down a car body with white spirit, one of the messiest jobs in the Petone plant. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths 29 December 1987. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacitate film negative, 35mm

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Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt

Date: 1971

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 35mm-66533-F

Description: Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt, taken for Kenyon, Brand and Riggs Ltd in 1971 by K E Niven and Co. commercial photographers of Wellington Other - Envelope contains: 526/71, KBR-Shots at dunlop factory (U.H.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with two images. Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 7 cm

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Folders in L R Wishart's shirt factory, Levin - Photograph taken by Ray Pigney

Date: 9 March 1994

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1994/0681-F

Description: Folders Jenny sargent (left) and Xhou Jie Xia, working at the end of the production line at L R Wishart's shirt factory in Levin. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ray Pigney 9 March 1994. Source of descriptive information - notes on negative envelope Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

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Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :Kaiwarra factories. George Eiby. 23 Dec '67

Date: 1967

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook]. December 1967-May 1968

Reference: E-473-f-006

Description: Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 272 x 360 mm

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Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt

Date: 1971

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 35mm-66518-F

Description: Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt, taken for Kenyon, Brand and Riggs Ltd in 1971 by K E Niven and Co. commercial photographers of Wellington. Shows the Bag-o-matic press with Ron Whewell on the left. Other - Envelope contains: 526/71, KBR-Shots at dunlop factory (U.H.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with two images. Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 7 cm

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People associated with Reid New Zealand Rubber Mills Ltd

Date: [ca 1938]-1960

From: Beverley Reid and Josephine Towsey :Photographs relating to Reid NZ Rubber Mills Ltd

Reference: PAColl-9425-2

Description: Included are - Company directors, 1957. George Reid in the USA seated with a group of men. George Reid conducting a factory tour which includes Sir John Allum and Arnold Nordmeyer. George Reid with visitors from Goodrich, Akron, Ohio, USA. Portraits of George Chapman Ward Reid, founder of Reid New Zealand Rubber Mills Ltd. George Reid conducting a factory tour which includes Michael Joseph Savage and Paddy Webb, ca 1938. Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Record of the Reid New Zealand Rubber Mills factory, Ellerslie, Auckland, New Zealand

Date: 1945-[ca 1955]

From: Beverley Reid and Josephine Towsey :Photographs relating to Reid NZ Rubber Mills Ltd

Reference: PA1-o-1460

Description: Album recording the building of, and growth of, the Reid Rubber Mills Ltd. factory, Great South Road, Ellerslie, Auckland. Also illustrated is the mechanical equipment for the manufacture of rubber products, and the electrical controll systems, installed in the factory. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt

Date: 1970

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 35mm-57714-F

Description: Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt, photographed for Kenyon, Brand and Riggs Ltd in 1970 by K E Niven and Co, commercial photographers of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with three images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative 6 x 6 cm Finding Aids: Photographer's ref no: 167/70 F.

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Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt

Date: 1970

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 35mm-57632-F

Description: Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt, photographed for Kenyon, Brand and Riggs Ltd in 1970 by K E Niven and Co, commercial photographers of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with two images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative 6 x 6 cm Finding Aids: Photographer's ref no: 167/70 F.

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Disabled soldiers' factories - Photographs taken by an unidentified photographer

Date: 1940s-1950s

From: Rehabilitation League New Zealand Inc :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-0236

Description: Five photographs of Disabled Soldiers Basket Factory at Christchurch; Disabled Soldiers Woodwork Factory at Dunedin; Disabled Soldiers Leather Factory at Dunedin; factory staff of `Disabled Soldiers Products', Auckland. Photographs taken by an unidentified photographer, ca 1940s-1950s Inscriptions: Backing board recto - beneath image - Captions Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints, composite, various sizes mounted on card 91.5 x 30.5 cm

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Factory of Reid New Zealand Rubber Mills Ltd

Date: 1934-1958

From: Beverley Reid and Josephine Towsey :Photographs relating to Reid NZ Rubber Mills Ltd

Reference: PAColl-9425-1

Description: Early operation of Reid New Zealand Rubber Mills Ltd, and factory staff from 1934. Included is a photograph of George Reid and a group of men with samples of the first batch of rubber produced by the firm. An exterior view and interiors of Reid's factory at Ellerslie Auckland from about 1950 to 1958. Included are - a view of the the entrance foyer. The electrical control room. Machines for manufacturing tyres and Reidoprene products, particularly sheets of sponge rubber. Many of the photographs show these products being manufactured. An aerial view of the Goodrich tyre factory, Akron, Ohio, USA. Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s).

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[Gifford, Algernon Charles] 1862-1948 :Brick works, Silverstream. [ca 1930]

Date: 1920 - 1930

From: [Gifford, Algernon Charles] 1862-1948 :[Hutt Valley scenes. ca 1930?]

Reference: A-200-002

Description: Shows the brick works Silverstream, with the hills in the background and a tall tree in the foreground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 275 x 396 mm

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Horses, carts, and milk delivery vehicles

Date: [ca 1930]-1968

From: Hunt, John & Jenny :Photographs relating to the Wellington Milk Co. and upper Tory Street

Reference: PAColl-9716-4

Description: Horses, carts, and motorised milk delivery vehicles. These include - Milk trucks and tankers from about the late 1930s to the 1960s. Ford milk tanker, 1960s. Bedford milk tanker, 1960s. Leyland milk tanker, 1960s. Trucks of Cunningham Carrier Co and Macdonald and Hosie, unloading cans of milk at Tory Street. New covered milk delivery van, early 1950s. Electric van for houshold milk deliveries, early 1950s. Large truck loaded with milk cans, late 1930s. Horses at the Milk Department stables and the men who looked after them. Carts for milk delivery 1931-1950s. Returning empty milk bottles and cans at Tory Street. Scalding milk cans at Rahui milk station, Otaki. Cool room at the Levin dairy. Quantity: 79 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Artist unknown :[Harbour scene. 1890s-1910?]

Date: 1895 - 1910

From: Various artists :[Two New Zealand autograph albums including watercolour landscapes of Auckland. ca 1895 - 1896]

Reference: E-894-039

Description: Watercolour shows a view looking across a harbour, with wharves and smoking industrial chimneys on the near right shore. Across the water, are houses on a peninsular, and in the distance is a high hill. The view may be across Auckland Harbour towards the North Head and Rangitoto Island. Extended Title - In Writing album [New Zealand autograph album, ca 1895], page [39] (loose) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on album page, 225 x 180 mm.

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Photographer unknown: Life savers, girl guides, an Ashburton street and other scenes

Date: [ca 1920-1945]

Reference: PAColl-6962

Description: 15 images including: three of young men practising life saving skills in the sea with a rope on a winch; two of girl guides helping at a kindergarten; two of East Street, Ashburton showing the different businesses parked cars and trees opposite; a car broken down in the middle of a ford; flooding on the road to the Harihari Hotel, with cattle being driven along it; a timber camp of five tents in the bush; a house at Kennedy's Bush on Banks Peninsula ca 1920; decorated boats on the Avon River with crowds on the banks watching and Ward & Co factory in the background; Cashel Street ca 1920 busy with trafic and pedestrians; and the Free Lance offices on The Terrace, Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059480 to 059494 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s) film. 12 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

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Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt

Date: 1970

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 35mm-57631-F

Description: High-level walkway at Dunlop tyre factory, Upper Hutt, photographed for Kenyon, Brand and Riggs Ltd in 1970 by K E Niven and Co, commercial photographers of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with two images. Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 6 cm Finding Aids: Photographer's ref no: 167/70 F.

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Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt

Date: 1970

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 35mm-57612-F

Description: Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt, photographed for Kenyon, Brand and Riggs Ltd in 1970 by K E Niven and Co, commercial photographers of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with three images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative 6 x 6 cm Finding Aids: Photographer's ref no: 167/70 F.

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Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt

Date: 1970

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 35mm-57614-F

Description: Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt, photographed for Kenyon, Brand and Riggs Ltd in 1970 by K E Niven and Co, commercial photographers of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with three images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative 6 x 6 cm Finding Aids: Photographer's ref no: 167/70 F.

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Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt

Date: 1971

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 35mm-66529-F

Description: Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt, taken for Kenyon, Brand and Riggs Ltd in 1971 by K E Niven and Co. commercial photographers of Wellington Other - Envelope contains: 526/71, KBR-Shots at dunlop factory (U.H.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with two images. Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 5 x 7 cm

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Ceremony marking eight millionth tyre produced by Dunlop Company, Upper Hutt

Date: 1972

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 35mm-69628-F

Description: Ceremony marking eight millionth tyre produced by Dunlop Company. Photograph taken at Dunlop factory, Upper Hutt, for Kenyon Brand and Riggs in 1972 by K E Niven and Co, commercial photographers of Wellington. Other - Photographer's ref no: 435/72. KBR - Dunlop 8 millionth tyre ceremony.. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with three images. Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 6 cm

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