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Donor unknown: Agricultural training
Date: [ca1895-1920]
Reference: PAColl-6759
Description: Scenes of returned soldiers being given instruction in agricultural techniques. They include a photograph of the syllabus offered, men in the field tending crops and cows and views of the men in a group eating from billies. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-028842 to 028851 Quantity: 10 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives
Photographs of a cheese making factory at Kaupokonui
Date: ca 1920
Reference: PAColl-4628
Description: Men operating commercial cheese making machinery in a factory at Kaupokonui. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Prints housed at PAColl-6304-31 and PAColl-6304-32.
Excavating the Mount Victoria tram tunnel
Date: ca 1906
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 16
Reference: PAColl-7344-38
Description: Workmen with picks and shovels and a horse and cart at the excavation site for the Mount Victoria tram tunnel. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Photographic prints relating to the Country Library Service
Date: ca 1938-1967
From: National Library of New Zealand: Photographs
Reference: PAColl-0522-1
Description: Photographs of the inauguration of the Country Library Service in 1938 and the service in operation around the country. Also photographs of the Hamilton Country Library Service in 1956 and 1957 and what is probably Auckland Service staff. Names given are: McArthur, Cook, Hamilton, Middleplaats, Tobin, richards, Dibden, Hall, Powell, Hunt, Flanagan, Patterson, Collins, Leigh, Wright, Bennison, Hynes, Lee, Donor(?), Gadd, Phillips, Follett, Lovell, Twonsend, Hoskin, Woods, Turner, O'Neill, Mercer, Frost, Wilson, Taylor, Andesonm Main, Stevenson, Bracken, Gumbley, Russell, Hanna. Some of the photographs are captioned. Also included are some christmas cards sent by Hamilton Country Library Service, one in the shape of one of the book vans. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s).
People and occupations
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
Creator unknown: Photographic prints, chiefly of staff of the Government Printing Offic...
Date: [ca 1940s-1940s], [ca 1968-ca 1974]
Reference: PAColl-10084
Description: Photographs of the staff of the Government Printing Office in Palmerston North at work, taken between circa 1968 and circa 1974 by an unidentified photographer. The collection includes group portraits of staff individual staff members at work, and scenes of staff socialising. The photographs depict a range of machinery and printing equipment used by the staff in their work. One group photograph identifies the following individuals: E James, R Edmonds, T Lynch, J Patrick, P Edwards, R Hinks, R Bell, D Bell, B Martin, A Johnson, Mr. McMurray, M Myers, D Roberts, G Collis, F Collis, C Williamson, W Hale, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Mamad, and C Priest. Some individuals from the group photograph appear in other images. All other staff photographs are unidentified. The collection also includes one photograph of College Street, Palmerston North, primary school girls and boys on their tricycles, taken circa 1940s-1950s by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Dated circa 1968 to circa 1974 because there are calendars on the walls for those dates. Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Anna Pascoe having her hair cut in Picton
Date: Jan 1945
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-045754-F
Description: Anna Pascoe having her hair cut by a young man in a hairdressing salon in Picton. Photograph taken in January 1945 by John Dobree Pascoe. The Pascoe family were en route to the Bay of Many Coves during their first Sounds holiday. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 5.6 x 5.6 cm
Conversion of an oven to natural gas, Newlands, Wellington
Date: [ca 1 Sep 1969]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1969/3743-F
Description: Mr T Victory drilling out the ports of Mrs P Hoey's oven for the conversion to natural gas. Photographs taken in Newlands, Wellington, circa 1 September 1969 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Road construction, Wellington region
Date: 1930s
From: Wellington City Council :Negatives of Wellington taken for the Wellington City Council, chiefly by Frank Giles Barker
Reference: 1/1-024537-G
Description: Road construction, Wellington region, in the 1930s. Exact location unknown (possibly Wadestown?). Photograph probably taken by F G Barker. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Workers preparing to paint the roof of Todd Motors in Porirua - Photographs taken by Ph...
Date: ca 14 Mar 1983
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1983/0905-F
Description: Workers preparing to paint the corrugated iron roof of Todd Motors in Porirua, photographed circa 14 March 1983 by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid. Original caption reads: "Armed with brooms and hose (from left) Ross Storey, Reid Ratana, Tom Allen, Rangi Teina, Richard June, Mysi Pulotu and Havila Aiona prepare for the next stage of their mammoth task under the direction of foreman Eddie Trinder in the background." (Evening Post, 14 March 1983). Caption on negative sleeve reads: "Roof of Todd Motors, Porirua, painted with 6000 litres of paint." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Rixen Manufacturing Company, Levin, during a staff protest regarding redundancy pay
Date: 16 Sep 1991
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1981/3131-F
Description: Rixen Manufacturing Company, Levin, during a staff protest regarding redundancy pay. Comprises six images: three images of factory exterior with a sign reading: "Blame the system Not the victim", and three images taken inside the factory with women clothing workers, Federation of Labour president Jim Knox, Federation of Labour secretary Ken Douglas, and Clothing Workers' Union secretary Frank Thorn. Photographs taken 16 September 1981 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Evening Post caption from 31 August 1981, attached to back of EP/1981/2965/13a. Historical note from Global Peace And Justice Auckland Newsletter #53 from http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0402/S00092.htm accessed July 2009. Workers occupied Rixen Manufacturing after they were given one weeks notice of closure with no redundancy payment. Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s) strip with 6 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm
[Pamphlets and flyers collected by Ron and Carmen Smith, concerning women's position, w...
Date: 1970 - 1999
From: Smith, Ronald Joseph, 1921-1995 : Papers
Reference: Eph-B-SMITH-Women
Description: Includes a small amount of material issued by the Women's Action Collective of the NZUSA, Alliance Women's Gathering, Wellington Women's Liberation Movement, WONAAC, Woman's Abortion Rights Club, Coalition of Women Working for Peace (re Tangimoana Spy Station), and the Women's Conference Against APEC. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and photocopies, sizes varying up to 297 x 210 mm. Provenance: Donated as part of the estate of Ron and Carmen Smith, Wellington, in 2011. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-2031, Photographic Archive, Oral History Archive..
Photographs of Daniell's Timber yard
Date: [ca 1900-1910]
From: Estate of Mr and Mrs E S Knight :Photographs of Wellington
Reference: PAColl-4448-1
Description: Photograph of men sitting and standing on the roof of a warehouse with Daniell written on the side, one holding a flag and others on the ladder leading up to it; and a view over the yard possibly after the warehouse had been demolished leaving the chimney still standing. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints
Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :Labelling [at a canning factory. 1880-1895].
Date: 1880 - 1895
From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :Sketchbook. ca 1880-1895.
Reference: E-594-033
Description: Shows three women and one man standing at benches where cans are processed. The woman on the right may be pasting labels on, using a large bucket of glue. Extended Title - From his Sketchbook, 1880-1895. Page 33. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil drawing, on page, 182 x 270 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Bill Power, grandson of the artist, via Dunbar Sloane, Auckland, in July 2001.
Right Reverend Manu Bennett, Bishop of Aotearoa, at the Gear Meat Company, Petone, Lowe...
Date: 1 Oct 1970
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1970/4183-F
Description: Right Reverend Manu Bennett, Bishop of Aotearoa, at the Gear Meat Company, Petone, Lower Hutt, Wellington, with Maori butchers. Photographs taken 1 October 1970 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Group of men around a locomotive at Picton Station
Date: ca 1890s
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 15
Reference: PAColl-7081-74
Description: A group of men standing on and next to a locomotive at Picton Station. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Creator unknown :Photographs of work on Massey Agricultural College Farm
Date: [193-?]
Reference: PAColl-7244
Description: Photographs of work on the Massey Agricultural College farm at Palmerston North, showing a man operating a pick-up rake pulled by two horses; a side view of the same process (although it is referred to as a sweep) with a Manitoba stacker in the background; a horse-operated Manitoba stacker in operation building a haystack; and the men having smoko next to a haystack. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-002730 to 002733 Quantity: 4 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives
Supermarket check-out staff at Wardell's, Lower Hutt
Date: [ca 27 Aug 1968]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1968/3606-F
Description: Supermarket check-out staff at Wardell's, Lower Hutt, circa 27 August 1968. Photographs taken by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs of the Anchor Shipping & Foundry Co Ltd
Date: ca 1902-1906
Reference: PAColl-7303
Description: Photographs of the Koi being launched in 1906 in front of a crowd outside the Anchor Foundry; a group of men in the yard outside the old office of Anchor Shipping & Foundry Company Ltd; the Anchor Shipping & Foundry Company Ltd building and adjacent office ca 1920s; and three ships, the Opua, Nikau and Kaitia(?), being loaded with fruit for the export market at Motueka port. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-003241 to 003244 Quantity: 4 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives
Photographs relating to the construction of state houses in Naenae, Lower Hutt
Date: Feb 1947
From: Lewis, Lorrie Lionel, 1917-2001 :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-9980
Description: Album pages of photographic prints relating to the construction of state houses in Naenae, February 1947. Photographs taken and collected by Lorrie Lionel Lewis, a builder who worked for a contractor named Morgan. (Note: Mr Lewis is shown on PAColl-9980-2, wearing a beret) The images shows the houses under construction, the builders at work and the builders at a work picnic/sports event. Quantity: 4 album pages with 62 b/w prints. Physical Description: Four black album pages with silver gelatin prints