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Marching team of women staff employed by James Smith Ltd, Wellington

Date: 1935

From: James Smith Ltd :Photographs of personnel, activities and shops

By: James Smith's (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3332-1-2

Description: Portrait of a marching team made up of women staff members, James Smith Ltd, Wellington Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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James Smith Ltd Social Cricket Club, Wellington, 1952-1953

Date: 1952-1953

From: James Smith Ltd :Photographs of personnel, activities and shops

By: James Smith's (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3332-17-3

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James Smith and Sons shop, The New House, Cuba Street Wellington

Date: ca1900

From: James Smith Ltd :Photographs of personnel, activities and shops

By: James Smith's (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3332-17-1

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Fashion Boutique, James Smith Ltd, Wellington, early 1960s

Date: ca1963

From: James Smith Ltd :Photographs of personnel, activities and shops

By: James Smith's (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3332-15-2

Description: View of women's evening dresses on display in James Smith Ltd's fashion Boutique Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Early women's bikini swimming costume on display in James Smith Ltd

Date: 1940s

From: James Smith Ltd :Photographs of personnel, activities and shops

By: James Smith's (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3332-03-32

Description: Mannequin dummy dressed in an early version of a women's bikini bathing costume on display in the window of James Smith Ltd Wellington. It's novelty is suggested by the reactions and number of people viewing it from the street which the photographer has caught through the window glass. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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JASCO "A" basketball team, James Smith Ltd, Wellington, 1930

Date: 1930

From: James Smith Ltd :Photographs of personnel, activities and shops

By: James Smith's (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3332-15-4

Description: JASCO "A" Acronym from James Smith Compny. Name used for the staff basketball team in the 1920s/1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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James Smith Ltd delivery horse and cart branded with the firm's premises, "The New House"

Date: ca1902

From: James Smith Ltd :Photographs of personnel, activities and shops

By: James Smith's (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3332-11-1

Description: The New House on the delivery cart refers to the name used by the firm after the finacial collapse of Te Aro House in 1898. The new premises was on the corner of Dixon and Cuba Streets opposite the Te Aro House building Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Group photo of male staff, James Smith Ltd, early 1930s

Date: ca1933

From: James Smith Ltd :Photographs of personnel, activities and shops

By: James Smith's (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3332-15-3

Description: Male staff members and one woman assembled along tables in an office interior, James Smith Limited. James Smith Ltd moved into an Edwardian building on the corner of Manners and Cuba Streets in 1921. This was remodled in a fashionable "art deco" style in 1932. In 1934 this building was substantially added to along Manners Street in a matching style. This interior, if it is in James Smith Ltd premises, belongs to one or other of the remodlings. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Comic drag at James Smith Ltd staff Christmas party

Date: ca 1953

From: James Smith Ltd :Photographs of personnel, activities and shops

By: James Smith's (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3332-3-1

Description: Line up of comic women's fashion show put on by male staff of James Smith Ltd as entertainment at a staff Christmas party, circa 1953. From left to right: Jimmy Hunter, unknown, unknown, William McIvor, Phin Stone. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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James Smith Ltd : Records

Date: 1867-1985

By: James Smith's (Firm)

Reference: 93-215

Description: The records include minutes, annual reports, share registers, financial records, staff registers, pay books, scrapbooks and records relating to the affairs of members of the Smith family. Quantity: 7.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by James Smith Ltd, Wellington 1993 Transfers: Collection taken as a whole into Manuscripts. Transfers made from here - To Other - Curios; one cup, one statuette of jockey - To Photographic Archive - Display photographs of sinking of 'Wahine' ferry (PAColl-3332-18, part of PA-Group-00039).

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