Places

Date: 1940

From: Abbott, Leonard A, 1923-2007 :Sketches of a voyage to New Zealand, May 1940 [Facsimile of the New Zealand section of a sketchbook]

Reference: E-819-010

Description: Shows a view with two tall pine trees in the foreground, looking out over a harbour to distant landforms. Other Titles - 8. Auckland. View from Ponsonby Park, 17 May 1940 Extended Title - From his 'Sketches of a voyage to New Zealand, May 1940', page [10] Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy 280 x 180 mm.

Date: 1843-1957

From: Church of England in New Zealand Auckland Diocese : Church registers

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-19-01

Description: Contains registers for Ahipara, Mangonui Parish, 1920-1938; All Saints, Ponsonby, 1888-1916; Auckland Islands, Mar 1852; Diocese of Auckland, 1884-1899; Chapel of St Francis, Auckland City Mission, 1928-1950; St Judes, Avondale, 1910-1954; Awanui & Kaitaia (Maori), 1888-1954 (continued on next reel) Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1906-1923, 1958

From: Lander, Roger William, 1903-1980 : Telephone exchange papers

Reference: 80-242-4

Description: Includes list of permanent employees in the Post and Telegraph Department, Apr 1958 Quantity: 1 box(es). Finding Aids: Preliminary list available.

Date: 1981 - 1982

From: Stones, Anthony, 1934-2016 :Sketchbook 1981-1982

Reference: E-180-q-093

Description: View from near the artist's home in Paget Street, showing wooden houses amongst greenery in a hilly terrain, with a Norfolk Pine standing out above the roofs Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, page size 271 x 210 mm

Date: Between 1950-1959

From: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.): Photographs

Reference: PAColl-0811-07-26

Description: Exterior view of a block of flats, Ponsonby, Auckland (architect: Robin Rockel) constructed in the 1950s. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: One silver gelatin prints on black backing card

Date: 1974

From: Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988 :Photographs of New Zealand buildings

Reference: 1/4-074524-F

Description: 11/6 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1950

Reference: Eph-B-FURNITURE-1950-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue showing sepia illustrations of the store frontage, lounge suites, chairs, wall to wall carpets, linos, china cabinets, tea wagons, occasional tables, writing bureaux, bedroon suites, wardrobes and dressing tables, dining furniture and dining suites, mattresses, curtain rails, quilts and sheets. A separate typescript price list, dated March 1950 is enclosed. It lists the same models of furniture and is therefore judged to be contemporaneous with the catalogue. Housed separately, rather than with other 1950s material of the same subject location Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 24 pages, each 215 x 268 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in November 2001.

Date: 1995

From: Ted Gilberd Literary Trust : Essay competitions

Reference: MS-Papers-5757-27

Description: The story of the Wallett family, bedstead makers from Bilston, Staffordshire and Auckland, who established the firm of Wallett & Findlayson's Auckland Bedstead Company Ltd in 1890s. Includes photographs and bibliography. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1957, 1960

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7780

Description: Transparencies of aerial views of suburbs in the Auckland Region, taken 1957 and 1960 by Whites Aviation. Comprises views of Western Springs Stadium, and housing in Tamaki and Ponsonby. Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: 1982

From: Stones, Anthony, 1934-2016 :Sketchbook 1981-1982

Reference: E-181-q-110/111

Description: Page 111 shows Dick Lucas who sold `The People's Voice' in Ponsonby Sketch for a watercolour later owned by Professor Bill Glass, Christchurch. (Information given by artist in the early 2000s during a visit to the library) Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, page size 271 x 210 mm

Date: 1915

From: [Theatre ephemera and programmes for music-hall, comedy and variety productions in New Zealand, in 1915].

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1915-01

Description: Programme booklet shows "Our soldier queen" no. 6, Alice Wallingford, and lists items of the afternoon and evening event. Performers included the Onehunga Brass Band, Boy Scouts under Scoutmaster Pearce, Misses Brown and Spear, Masters Norgrove and Flavell, Miss Elsie Campbell, Master Frank Stewart, Misses McDougall, Miss J Campbell, Mr J H Egan, solo cornet by Musician Cranston, Auckland Male Choir, Mr Wightman McCombe, Miss F McDougall, an aerail glide by Marvou, a Rarotongan Native Contingent. The soldier Queen was to be escorted from the Ferry Buildings in Queen Street to Ponsonby Reservoir and Point Erin Park. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 4 pages, 189 x 124 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 2004.

Date: 1924

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1986-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a lawn in the left foreground to a large two-and-a half storeyed wooden building with dormer windows in the roof. Arched windows upstairs, verandah all along downstairs. Separate chapel on the right. Gazebo on the far right of the image. Herbaceous border on the right of the lawn. Another more modern building partially hidden by trees to the left of the main convent building. Statue of the Blessed Virgin on the lawn, facing the buildings. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - St. Mary's Convent. College Hill, Ponsonby. Auckland. 1924. No. 82; Marginal notes on negative - 82 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 136.1 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1984-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across large playing fields to Sacred Heart College, Ponsonby. Large three-storeyed building with a slate roof centre left middle distance. Windows along a sleeping verandah upstairs, verandah downstairs in the centre with decorative arches along the top. Long two-storeyed wooden classrooms to the right of the boarding house, with other buildings around the edge of the playing fields. Teachers wearing cassocks standing along the fields in front of the buildings. There is a flagpole in the field to the left of the main buildings. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Sacred Heart College" Auckland. N.Z. No. 83 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.4 x 133.8 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1985-F

Description: Group of nine nuns (probably at St Mary's Convent, Ponsonby). Three are seated, all are on a lawn in front of a rock wall. Six are wearing light-coloured habits and others wear dark coloured habits with lighter-coloured headdresses. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Source of descriptive information - Particular convent taken from the next image at Pan-1986 showing the convent buildings Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 12.3 x 29.5 cm

Date: 1997

From: Waerea, James :One original cartoon and 14 cartoon photocopies published in New Truth between 1 December 1997 and 31 January 1998.

Reference: A-317-021

Description: Auckland mayor Les Mills, ordering two gay men with a placard 'Hero' out of Queen Street and back to Ponsonby. Refers to the controversial gay hero parade down Queen Street, a conservative mayor trying to ban the parade and to the perception that the suburb Ponsonby is inhabited by gays Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy

Date: [1930s]-1986

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10010-004

Description: Aerial photographs taken by Whites Aviation between circa 1920-1992, chiefly of the Auckland central areas of Newton, Grafton and Auckland Domain. Also images of Westhaven, Herne Bay and Ponsonby. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in sets according to location. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Finding Aids: Most of the Whites Aviation negatives have been digitised and images are searchable by Record title and by Whites Aviation reference number e.g. WA-12345..

Date: [1940s-1970s]

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10010-005

Description: Aerial and ground photographs taken by Leo White and Whites Aviation between circa 1940s and 1970s, chiefly of the Auckland central areas of Westhaven, Herne Bay and Ponsonby. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in sets according to location. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Finding Aids: Most of the Whites Aviation negatives have been digitised and images are searchable by Record title and by Whites Aviation reference number e.g. WA-12345..

Date: 1960s

From: Quinn, Dennis :35mm colour slides of architecture in the 1960s, mainly Auckland, Wanganui and Wellington

Reference: PA12-0056

Description: Quantity: 24 b&w original transparency/ies (35mm slides).

Date: 1984 - 1985

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1984/1985

Description: Includes: 1984: The all new Black and White Minstrel Show (based on the popular BBC TV arrangements and routines by George Mitchell. Principal singers; Lee Lawrence (tenor), Stan Matthews (baritone), Georgia Brown (leading lady). New Zealand Tour, 1984. Flyer. Company of Musical Players Inc. Music Hall variety 1984. Producer David Walker; musical director Peter Latimer; choreographers Dorothy Browne and Marie Clayton. Wellington 1984. Programme (2 copies) Raphael House Family Cultural Weekend [Rudolph Steiner School, Lower Hutt]. 1984. Programme. 1985: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Director, Warwick Broadhead (and friends). Performed in the Hall and grounds at 24 Vermont St Ponsonby [Auckland]. 23 October-10 November, 1985. Flyer. Olivers fully licensed international showplace, 5 Lloyd St., Wellington N.Z. [Label stuck on verso of brown envelope postmarked 1985] Olivers International Music Hall presents Mr Chris Shaw in Red Hot and Blue, plus For Love of Dick. 1985. Flyer. Victor Borge; an evening of music and mirth. Regent Theatre, Dunedin 10 June; Town Hall Christchurch, 11 June; Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington 13 June; Logan Cambell Centre, Auckland 15 June. 1985. Flyer. Quantity: 1 Programme(s) 4 flyers.. Physical Description: Programme and flyers, sizes varying up to 288 x 157 mm. Provenance: One item donated by Stella Milne, Wellington, in 2014

Date: 1974

From: Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988 :Photographs of New Zealand buildings

Reference: 1/4-074523-F

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