Places

Date: 1916

By: J & W Faulkner & Sons (Firm); Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-FENCE-1916-01

Description: Illustrated booklet showing different fences and gates available: wrought iron single gates, posts and fencing, wrought iron fencing, double gates and posts, cast iron pillars; photographs of the gates at Auckland Racing Club's racecourse at Ellerslie, Botanical Gardens Dunedin; ornate wrought iron staircases, balustrades, finials and weather-vanes; porch brackers, lamps and street-lamps, wrought iron grilles (including collapsible ones for elevators and the elevator cars themselves); counter grilles (for bank tellers, etc); lockers, screens, tomb railings; garden furniture. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume, 62 pages, 218 x 280 mm.

Date: Oct 1949

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-163

Description: Photographs published in NZ Free Lance, Oct 1949 Includes: Display of aircraft at Society of British Aircraft Constructors' Exhibition held at Farnborough; RNZAF Berlin Airlift crew and shield (a gift from RAF comrades at Lubeck); RMA Ararangi, Solent flying-boat at Mechanics Bay, Auckland (built specially for Tasman Empire Airways); Sir Leonard Isitt with Capt C G Griffiths; members of the Ararangi crew. Also: National Chinese Sports Tournament held in Auckland to celebrate Chinese National Day - Betty & Mona Kwok playing table tennis; teams from Auckland, Hamilton, Otago & Wellington; Lion dance and Charles Wah Lee & Willie Wong playing Chinese drum and cymbals. Also: Timaru Main School 75th anniversary celebrations - Pioneer group; drill display; march past of present-day pupils; John Wilds (first day pupil) laying wreath on the war memorial. Also: Hyrdo-electric works on Molyneaux River, diversion at Roxburgh hydro works (J D S Roberts, photographer); veterans of South African campaign at 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the South African War (includes H R Wright, Surgeon-Captain Eugene J O'Neill, C Quinn, J W Horne, F Lange, C Ashenden and R Rose); floods at Greymouth; `Aiki', the 20 year old magpie and her egg; staircase in the home of Mr & Mrs F W Dunnage of Papanui, Christchurch (bought out from England in 1851). Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1900 - 1905

From: Tait, Robert, 1830-1926 :[17 architectural plans, mostly Wellington region; including 1874 Lower Hutt Anglican Church & plans for house in Harrold Street, Kelburn. 1870-1890s].

By: Tait, Robert, 1830-1926; Linton, Catherine, active 1996; Smith, Ivy Janet, 1889-1984

Reference: Plans-97-001-007

Description: Shows ground and top floor plans, front elevation and cross section of two-storey house with bay window, verandah, stained glass skylight over hall on top floor, four bedrooms, six fireplaces and four chimneys. This plan may have been abandoned in favour of that at Plans-97-001-04. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - R Tait Jnr House one plan. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 390 x 560 mm. Provenance: The donor is a great-great-granddaughter of the architect, after whom the Wellington suburb of Taitville was named.

Date: Circa 1916

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1199-1/2-G

Description: Interior view of the entrance to the Bath House at the Government Sanatorium and Baths, Rotorua, showing tiled floor, wooden staircase and balustrades, and marble sculptures on pedestals. Photographed circa 1916 by A P Godber. Original print at PA1-q-102, page 41. Inscriptions: Album page - Entrance hall. Bath House. Rotorua. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1980

Reference: Eph-D-ARTS-1980-03

Description: Poster shows a photograph of a flight of stairs by John Crawford, and a plan of the extension to the staircase in the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, proposed 7 November 1979. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 595 x 420 mm.