Places

Date: 1897

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-VICEREGAL-1897-02

Description: A programme of entertainment by a banjo band, with songs by Mrs E T Robinson, Mr J P Newman, the Liedertafel, Miss Alice Gray, Mr A Millar, Mrs B H Burns, Mr P Hockley, Miss Lilian Smith, Mr Russell Halley, Miss Hilda Meadows, Mr W Izard, Miss Davie, Mr Seager, Mr C Morris, Miss Annie Lake, Mr W A Day, Miss Alice Corrick. Accompanists were Miss Jennie West and Miss Constance Lingard. Front cover shows printing block vignettes of the British coat of arms, a lutist, and decorative panels. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, red and gilt, on pink sheet folded to 224 x 142 mm.

Date: 1916 - 1920

By: Vigilant Automatic Fire Alarm Company Ltd; Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-FIRE-1916-01

Description: Booklet advertising the Vigilant fire alarm, whose New Zealand agents were Turnbull & Jones Ltd. Lists buildings in Wellington, Christchurch and Lyttelton which have been fitted out with these alarms, including the new Government Buildings in Christchurch in 1916. There is a photograph of this building, and of Turnbull & Jones Christchurch headquarters; of the indicator board and transmitter at the Christchurch "Press" buildings, the transmitting instrument, the Christchurch premises of Whitcombe & Tombs, the New Zealand Shipping Company's wool store at Lyttelton, Mr H F Stevens' premises in Christchurch, the Post and Telegraph Department's bulk store at Pipitea Point Wellington, Mt Albert Industrial School Auckland; three p[hotographs of the result of a fire at the Children's ward of Christchurch Hospital; the Christchurch "Press" building. front and back covers show illustrations of the useful preventive effect of a fire alarm system. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs in booklet of 16 pages, each 285 x 220 mm. Provenance: Powells were family friends and their materials were given to Mrs Coulter's family. AD Mead lived with Mrs Coulter, his daughter, before his death. Family home being cleared out.

Date: 1950

From: [Ephemera relating to New Zealand persons whose surnames begin with B].

By: Christchurch Classical Association; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-PEOPLE-Butler-1950-01

Description: A programme for the occasion of lectures by Mr A C Brassington and Professor L G Pocock. There is a reproduction affixed, of Samuel Butler's self-portrait in the McDougall Gallery, and a programme for a selection of Butler's own musical compositions, from "Ulysses". The back cover reproduces Arnold Wall's poem "Samuel Butler". Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on folded pamphlet, 220 x 162 mm.

Date: 1862 - 1895

By: Raven, John (Rev), 1821-1886; McIntyre & Lewis (Firm); Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: MapColl-834.4492gbbd/1862-1895/Acc.39355

Description: Cadastral map of numbered sections with acreages and boundary measurements bounded by Gloucester, Worcester and Montreal streets in Christchurch. Includes details of four sections marked as sold. Owners' names are indecipherable on the photocopy. Note at bottom of map states: Measurements are in feet and inches Printed on bottom right of map: Whitcombe and Tombs, Christchurch Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale indeterminable, 44.7 x 47.4 cm. on sheet 46 x 60.9 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Raven family papers 1862-1895 MS Group 27.

Date: 1962 - 1970 - 1991 - 2006 - 1981 - 2009

Reference: Eph-C-BOOKSELLERS-1950/2009

Description: Includes: Arty Bees Books. Two locations: 17 Courtenay Place & The Oaks in Manners Street. www.artybees.co.nz [4 different posters. 2007] Booksellers cleared; extracts from the Decision of Judge Dalglish allowing the Appeal of the Associated Booksellers of New Zealand. [1962]. Dymocks Booksellers. [Plastic bag. 2000]. The Ferret Bookshop. Poke your nose in. Books bought and sold. 72 Dixon Street Wellington. 1981. 3 versions, one on yellow paper, the others on white. Pathfinder Book Shop; books for inner development and wellbeing. Catalogue 1991/92. Resistance Book Shop, 154 Willis St. [Screenprint showing the facade of the two-storeyed building used for the shop. 1970s] (2 copies). Plus photograph and photographic negative of a similar image with text beneath image Resistance Bookshop and Action Centre, 9 Ferry Road, PO Box 2258 Christchurch. Books, Magazines, Meeting facilities, Food Co-op. 1975 (Screenprint, 2 copies) Talking points from Whitcoulls, April 1981. UBS University Bookshop Canterbury Limited. Spring reading guide [2009] Unity Books. John Hegley's books ... can be ordered through Unity Books [1990s?] (2 copies) Whitcombe's New-Book Club. Amazing advance with post-war children's books ... for birthdays, give books! [Book dustjacket ca 1950?] The Whitcouller. Imagination supplies. Issue 1, 2007. Free, Whitcoulls annual sale. Order form 1978. "Talking points" from Whitcoulls, June 1978. Whitcoulls Kids' top 50! Kids' favourite books, chosen by kids! [2006] Whitcoulls top 50 DVD movies. New edition [2009] Quantity: 19 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters.. Physical Description: Photolithograph and screenprints, on posters, sizes varying below 500 mm.

Date: [ca 1905-1987]

By: Penguin Books (Firm : N.Z.)

Reference: 91-254

Description: Records of Penguin Books including correspondence, royalty statements and agreements with authors. Most of this material originates with Whitcoulls Publishing and its predecessor company, Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 22 box(es) (includes 2 Hollinger boxes). 2 volume(s). 7 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available.

Date: 1889

From: [Music programmes and fliers for concerts in 1889].

By: Christchurch Musical Society; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-1889-02

Description: Programme for concert. The performers included: Mrs Garrard (soprano), Mrs Wilson (contralto), Mr A Appleby (tenor), Mr M A Millar (bass), Mr Normington (organ), Mr Skelton (leader). The programme was to be repeated on Christmas night. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 4 pages, each 203 x 133 mm.

Date: 1929

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

By: North Canterbury Timber Merchants' Association (Inc); Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-1929-01

Description: Catalogue containing 108 numbered moulding shapes for timber. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 leaves, 280 x 216 mm.

Date: 1935

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-SPORT-1935-02

Description: Envelope shows a photograph of Mr Lukey standing holding handles of wheelbarrow in which Mr Schofield is sitting. Attached to the wheelbarrow are advertisements for Monarch shoes and Hykide soles (the double soles used on Monarch shoes). The envelope is addressed in handwriting to Mr R Luke, GPO Box 336, Dunedin C1. The identity of the two men is established from other sources. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on envelope, 91 x 153 mm. Provenance: Purchased from the Complete Stamp Company in 2015.

Date: 1889

Reference: Eph-A-PRINTING-1889-02

Description: Toast list in the shape of a bunch of five cigars tied with a yellow ribbon. Inside is the printed toast list, with proposers and respondants: J P Cooper, G Tombs, J C Wilkin, J O'H Anthony, A Andrews, J Costley, E Hicks, T Cooper, Messrs Burgess, Clark, McLeary, Horwood, C H Lascelles, W Jackman, H W Burgess, G R Hart. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on card folded to 105 x 68 mm (irregular) Provenance: Donated by the Ferrymead Printing Society, Christchurch, in 2014

Date: Between 1923 and 1925

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

Reference: Pan-0936-F

Description: Panoramic view of the interior of Whitcombe & Tombs printing factory showing men and women at work. The space is large, with printing machinery and areas of stacked boxes. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - "Whitcombe & Tombs Printing Firm" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 126.2 cm

Date: 1882 - 1889

By: Aulsebrooks & Company; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-FOOD-1880s-01

Description: Biscuit tin label shows the recto and verso of a medal awarded to the Aulsebrook Company for excellence in food manufacture. The medals are surrounded by a wreath of wheat ears. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Colour lithograph, 222 x 232 mm.

Date: 1900 - 1950

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-PACKAGING-1900s-Assorted

Description: Includes labels for the following products: "Orana", the natural flavour of freshly squeezed oranges Hop ale; sparkling, delicious, non alcoholic, manufactured by __ Jefferson's hair restorer ... prepared only by J M Jefferson, chemist, Khyber Pass, Auckland Orana, a beautiful cooling drink, manufactured by H C Buckham, Queenstown The celebrated Gripe Drink for horses; a speedy cure for graipes, inflammation and stoppage of the bowels and urine. Stewart's essence of coffee and chicory. Prepared by C Stewart, Christchurch. Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd, lith, Chch (2 copies) Flavoured preservatised Sarsaparilla, carbonated, artificailly coloured. H C Buckham, cordial manufacturer, Queenstown Superior malt vinegar, London Old Jamaica rum, P Burke. Bottled in New Zealand. Whitcombe & Tombs Ld, ChCh Port wine. P Burke. Bottled in New Zealand. Whitcombe & Tombs Ld, ChCh Sherry, P Burke. Bottled in New Zealand. Whitcombe & Tombs Ld, ChCh (2 copies) Dixon's Crown soda water, sodium carbonate, 5 grains to the pint. Manufactured in accordance with the Sale of Food & Drugs Act, NZ. Palmerston North Woollams' hair restorer. It is not a dye. W H Woollams, chemist, Queen Street, Auckland. Finest Norwegian cod liver oil. J M Jefferson ... dispensing chemist, Kyber [sic] Pass (near Symond's St., Auckland) Quantity: 12 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithographs and offset prints, sizes varying

Date: 1940

From: [Programmes and fliers relating to music concerts and musical performances in New Zealand. 1940].

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-1940-01

Description: Cover shows an arrangement of text in navy and gold, beneath a crest of the centennial, surrounded by a curtain border. Programme includes an introduction by Prime Minister Peter Fraser, foreword by Thomas Andrews, message from Christchurch Mayor R M Macfarlane. There are also portraits of Len Barnes, Harison Cook, Christchurch Centennial Music Festival Executive, Andersen Tyrer, James Shelley, Professor J C Bradshaw, Isobel Baillie, Gladys Ripley, Heddle Nash, Oscar Natzke, Alfred Worsley, Frederick Bullock, Raymond Beatty, Frank Bermingham, Maurice Clare, Frederick Page, Fred C Penfold, Victor S Peters, Professor James Hight, Leonard C travers, Eric Craighead, Mrs N W Robbins. Printed by Whitcombe and Tombs Limited - 84521. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Programme of 20 pages, 282 x 217 mm.

Date: 1935

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-RETAIL-1935-01

Description: One side advertises "His Master's Voice" radios and radiogramophones, and "Kohynor Limbershafts" golf clubs. The other side advertises a range of English crystal, "Judge" brand British enamelware, electric cookers, toasters and heaters, cooking utensils, horse covers, Amner's garden lime, gorse knives. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on red paper.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on two sides of poster, 445 x 565 mm.

By: Gibbs, Rowan William, 1947-

Reference: Eph-F-BOOK-LABELS-01

Description: Includes labels for the following: [Mrs?] Basche's Circulating Library Hawera. Subscription five shillings per quarter ... (Label stuck inside front cover of "The works of Flavius Josephus", translated by William Whiston 1873) J H Bigelow Ltd, booksellers and stationers, Auckland NZ (small label stuck inside front cover of "Stories behind the world's great music", NY 1937) Braithwaite's Circulating Library, corner of Fleet & High Streets. Joseph Braithwaite, Dunedin, established 1863 (label stuck to cover of "Antonina; or, the fall of Rome". The terms of subscription for this circulating library are stuck to the back cover, and partly effaced) Chapman's Circulating Library. Five shillings per quarter. Queen Street, Auckland [1897?]. (Stuck on cover of "Phantasmata; or, Illusions and fanaticisms of protean forms productive of great evils" by R R Madden. London, 1857) Charleston Public Library and Institute. Rules. (Stuck inside cover of Thomas de Qunicey's "Style and rhetoric", 1862) Clark's Book Shop, 85a Molesworth Street Wellington (Rubber stamp only, inside cover of "The Thunderer" by E Barrington. With pencil note about Mrs Clark (nee Parsloe) inside front cover) H H Driver's Popular Book Shop and Lending Library, 32 George Street, Dunedin (dust jacket? stuck to cover of "Dean Swift's works, with memoir, 19--) Dunedin Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute. Rules of Library 1881 (Label stuck inside cover of "Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry" by William Carleton. Also has faint rubber stamp on title page, and embossed stamp on cover) Alf Fraser, bookseller, staioner and newsagent, Foxton (Very small blue label inside front cover of "Danesford" by Carter Harrison, 1891] Gower's Book Exchange, 340 Tinakori Rd, Wellington (Label stuck to cover of "The confessions of a twentieth-century hobo" by "Digit" 1924. Also contains rubber stamp for Smith's Bookshop, 34 Mercer Street, Wellington, inside flyleaf) Dave Griffin Bookseller, 53 Willis Street Wellington (Rubber stamp only) (inside "Lord Edward Fitzgerald" by M McD Bodkin, 1921) J Hounsell, Bookseller and Stationer, Nelson, New Zealand (small label stuck inside front cover of M Tullius Cicero's, "Cato major sive De Senectute / Laelius sive De Amicitia, et Epistolae Selectae" 1874) Modern Books, Dunedin (small bookseller's label stuck inside front cover of "Sons and lovers" by D H Lawrence, Heinemann, 1948) Montague's Circulating Library, Princes Street. Subscription 2s6d per quarter (Label stuck inside front cover of "The world and the cloister" by Oswald John Simon, 1890) New Zealand Tract & Book Society, for the diffusion of evangelical literature. Head depot 22 George Street, Dunedin, incorporated 1886 (Tipped inside ""The story of Benvenuto Cellini, the Italian goldsmith" by Mary & Elizabeth Kirby, 1883) Paton & McMaster City Book Exchange and Lending Library, 618 Colombo St (Rubber stamps only) (inside "Pick-me-ups" by Nathaniel Gubbins, 1902) J P Shand Ltd Circulating Library. 23 Manners Street Wellington (Label stuck to cover of "Mates" by Dugald Ferguson 1911. Also rubber stamp for Shand's inside) A Simpson late J Hughes, bookseller Christchurch N.Z. (embossed stamp inside front cover of "Two years before the mast" by Richard Henry Dana, jr. Ward, Lock and Tyler, 19-?) Edward Greaves Smith Music, book and stationery warehouse, Wellington (Small label inside cover of "The poets of Greece by Edwin Arnold") Mrs Old Smith. Molesworth Street. The charge for reading this book is ... This book to be returned in seven days or 1d a day fine will be charged (Stuck inside empty cover of "Christmas books" by W M Thackeray) South's Book Depot Limited (Label inside cover of "The bedside Esquire" edited by Arnold Gingrich, 1949) L M Swan Fountain Pen Depot, Cuba Street Wellington (Small label stuck inside cover of "Self mastery through conscious autosuggestion" by Emile Coue, London 1922) Veitch & Allan, 97, 99, & 101 Cuba Street, Wellington (small bookseller's label stuck inside front cover of "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe, London & Glasgow, ca 1911?) Whitcombe's. Buy a book a week. A Library in a year. On cover of French's Acting Edition of "A seat in the park", by Arthur Pinero. 1920s. Quantity: 24 labels stuck into book covers. Physical Description: Lithographs and photolithographs inside books. Provenance: Donated by Rowan Gibbs in 2001.

Date: 1911

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-004203-G

Description: The interior of the premises of Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd, Christchurch, showing the staff. Photograph taken in 1911 by Steffano Webb of Christchurch. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1885

By: Canterbury Dog Show; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd; D. M. L. (Artist), active 1885-1886

Reference: Eph-B-DOG-1885-01

Description: A blank certificate, featuring a leafy border, with heads of various breeds of dogs, seven in number. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph on card 243 x 310 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in September 2002.

Date: 1882 - 1889

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd; Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Company

Reference: Eph-B-COSTUME-1886-01

Description: A blank order form with space to fill in one's personal measurements for the making of a suit: coat, vest and trousers. At the left are diagrams showing where on the body to measure. The whole is surrounded by a leafy decorative border. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, brown on cream paper, 281 x 223 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in September 2002.

Date: 1885

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to agriculture, farms and farming]

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd; Wilkin, Robert, 1820-1886

Reference: Eph-B-FARM-1885-01

Description: One panel of this cover proof shows the cover of the 1885 almanac, featuring cattle, sheep, horses, flax and harvested sheafs of grain. The other panel shows an advertisement for the company's wool stores in Hereford Street, Christchurch, with branch at Timaru. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 230 x 293 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in September 2002.