Places

Date: 1880 - 1920

By: Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association; F W Niven & Company

Reference: D-009-009

Description: The print shows the View of Masterton (257 x 643 mm irreg.) surrounded by 28 vignettes advertising Wairarapa businesses. These include (from top left) H. Phillips Occidental Hotel, F. Hollway Family Butcher Queen Street, Dixon Bros ... cordial manufacturers, Chapel St, J. L. Murray mercer & outfitter, Isedore Mandel hot baths and showers, H. Pearson taylor, Pinhey Bros livery & stables, William Whitt cabinet maker Queen Street, John Henderson tailor, James Wickens pastrycook, Wairarapa Star offices, Hounslow & Hoar cabinet makers, Chas E. Daniell general contractor, O. Pragnell draper, [two illegible advertisements], A. White tobacconists and hairdressers, Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative, Masterton Coach Factory, J. Graham general merchants, Waipoua Coach Factory Queen street, John Watt bookseller & stationer. Attributed to F. W. Niven from its strong similarity to other large chromolithographs of the same period. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: 1 print on backing board; chromolithograph 668 x 995 mm

Date: 1887 - 1977

By: F W Niven & Company; A H & A W Reed (Firm)

Reference: G-403

Description: Poster advertising an agricultural show in Toko or Tokomairiro, later known as Milton, Otago. Depiction of horses, cattle, poultry, sheep, a pig and farm implements, including a windmill above text listing location, committee, list of prizes and rules. Reproduced from an original poster in the Hocken Library, Dunedin Other Titles - Tokomairiro Milton Farmers' Club Extended Title - From: The New Zealand Poster Book / compiled by Ellen Ellis. Wellington, 1977. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 403 x 256 mm (block mounted)

Date: 1895

By: F W Niven & Company

Reference: D-002-004

Description: 1895 calendar presented with the compliments of W Rout & Sons, Nelson. Shows views of the town and also detailed views of buildings and street scenes Includes a panel advertising I Johns, pastrycook, confectioner and family bread baker, Nelson Steam Biscuit Factory, Trafalgar Street. Also includes panel advertising Brown and Kerr, practical watchmakers and jewellers, Hardy Street, Nelson. Original oil in Dunedin Public Art Gallery, measures 1740 x 1740 mm Same as C-085-098-a Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (col.), 621 x 950 mm

Date: 1893

By: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; F W Niven & Company; Moody, John George, active 1893

Reference: Eph-E-BUILDINGS-Dunedin-1893-01

Description: Shows a view of Dunedin from Waverly Bay in the centre. Surrounding it from top left (clockwise) are: Sargood, Son & Ewen buildings in Invercargill and Dunedin (warehousemen and manufacturers including boot factory); Girton College; J J Arthur (tailors); McGavin and Co Union Brewery and Cellars; John Edmond (iron and hardware merchant); Evening Star Office; P Miller (importer); Grand Hotel (Watson Brothers); Bennett & Son (cordial manufacturers); James J Pryor and son (nurserymen); DIC (Drapery and General Importing Company - B Hallenstein, Cahirman of Directors); Hordern & White Dunedin Carriage Factory; Geo M Marshall (homeopathic chemist); Scoullar & Chisholm (furniture manufacturers and importers); Joseph McKay (boot and shoe manufacturer and importer); Dick & McKechnie Drapery Supply Association; The Phoenix Company (makers of jams, biscuits and confectionery); H S Fish & Son (paperhangings and window glass). Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Printed for the proprietors of the "Evening Star" Dunedin, by F W Niven & Co., and published by John George Moody, Mornington. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured, 637 x 1015 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1980.

Date: 1893

By: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; F W Niven & Company; Moody, John George, active 1893

Reference: Eph-E-BUILDINGS-Dunedin-1893-02

Description: Shows a view of Dunedin from Logan's Point in the centre. Surrounding it from top left (clockwise) are: James Macfie & Co City Coal Depot; James Duthie & Co's Colonial Carrying Company of New Zealand, J & J Arthur (tailors); A & T Burt (engineers); Thomson & Co. Crystal Springs Mineral Water Works; H E Shacklock (ironfounder and engineer); Joseph Mackay City Boot Palace; St Domonic's Convent and High School; W Melville's Cyclists' Exchange and Sewing Machine Depot; Andrew Lees (glass importer); J W Faulkner & Sons (Ornamnetal iron and wire works); John Gillies Wholesale and retail Cabinetmaker and upholsterer, and undertaker; Findlay and Murdoch City Sawmills; Paterson & Barr (hardware importers); Duthie Brothers General Drapers; F A Hooper & Co (Furnishing Warehouse); W D Houston (Gentlemen's mercer); Joseph Braithwaite (Book and Stationery importer); New Zealand Engineering and Electrical Company (Thomas Stevenson, R H Postlethwaite); Edward Iles (Hairdresser, Wigmaker). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Printed for the proprietors of the "Evening Star" Dunedin, by F W Niven & Co., and published by John George Moody, Mornington. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured, 637 x 1010 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1980.

Date: 1893

By: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; F W Niven & Company

Reference: Eph-E-BUILDINGS-Invercargill-1893-01

Description: Advertorial poster showing a lithograph of a view of Invercargill, with a river going through the centre, and horses and carriages in the streets. Around the borders are inset pictures of some of the town's man buildings, including: Fleming & Gilkison (millers & grain merchants), Southland Times, Sloan Brothers City Boot Palace, Vicenzo Almao (hatter), St Paul's Presbyterian Church, D McFarlane (bakery and McFarlane's Coffee Palace), R W Jones Machinery and Cycling Exchange, H Carswell & Co (auctioneers), C H Macalister (chemist), Wesney brothers gift shop, Frank A Steans (importer of fishing tackle), J Manson & Co (importers of furniture and ironmongers), David Strang coffee and spice merchant, John H Kissell (saddler & harness maker), Turner & Colbran (tailors and clothiers), C J Deschler's Hotel, Alex Ferguson (watchmaker and jeweller), the Hospital, St Mary's Roman Catholic Church. There is also an inset view of Bluff harbour and town, about 15 miles from Invercargill. Lower centre has a panel listing the ships in the Union Line, and their tonnage and captains: Ruahine, Kaikoura, Rimutaka, Tongariro, Aorangi and Ruapehu. At top left is an advertisement for the agent, Wellesley A Parker of the Palace Hotel Melbourne. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 640 x 1015 mm.

Date: 1893

By: F W Niven & Company

Reference: D-002-003

Description: Sheet of advertisements. Series of illustrated advertisements depicting commercial, agricultural, and industrial life of Eltham and Stratford, and showing and naming stores, church, hotels, stables etc. Includes illustrations of: saw mills, racecourse and cattle. Firms advertising include: Norman Liardet & Co. auctioneers; W Rapley saddler and harness maker; McKenzie & Emmett livery and bait stables; L Bruns tailor and habit maker; Branch Hotel Eltham (C E Brewer, proprietor); Neil Road Sawmills (John Henry, proprietor); J Shearer boot and shoe manufacturer; H Ramsey plumber & tinsmith; Geo H Buckeridge general storekeepers; Eltham Livery & coaching stables (Harry M Quinn, proprietor); The "Egmont Settler" office; T Mercer hairdresser & tobacconist; Brown & Wilson tailors; Eltham Hotel (Thomas Keane, proprietor); James Gorrie, architect; Stratford Racecourse; Stratford Hotel (Twentyman Wilson, proprietor); George Smart plumber and dairy engineer; E S Cole, Stratford Coach Factory; Commercial Hotel Stratford (W Dingle, proprietor); Eltham House (Mrs Moir, proprietess); C W Hornblow hairdresser & tobacconist; P Shivnan general blacksmith. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 639 x 7012 mm