Places

Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

Date: [ca 17 Nov 1986]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1986/5797-F

Description: Tent outside Government House, Newtown, Wellington, a temporary dining room pitched by the army, for the many guests staying with the Governor General and his wife, Sir and Lady Reeves, over the weekend. Photographs taken circa 17 November 1986, by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1905-1920

From: In the Light of the Past :Photographs of New Zealand stained glass in houses and public buildings

Reference: PA12-1453

Description: Most of these windows have designs based on conventional floral themes. In many the leading is used to provide the linear dynamic typical of art nouveau. Those that don't fit neatly into the art nouveau category are two windows from the Parliamentary Library and two from Government House which feature the National coat of arms. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1926-1959

From: Hull-Brown, Ian Norman: Collection

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-Hull-Brown

Description: Includes a collection of ball programmes: Undated: Eastbourne Carnival Football Queen No 3 dance programme. Perfumed with Muguet. 1926: Public Trust Office. Annual dance. St Francis Hall Wellington. 11 June 1926. Programme. 1928: Government House Wellington. 25 September 1928. Programme. Government House. 12 October 1928. Programme HMS Dunedin. 27 November 1928. [Programme] Annual Charity Ball. Town Hall. 6th (17 July 1928), 8th (11 June 1930), 9th (17 June 1931), 10th (15 June 1932), 11th (7 June 1933), 12th (20 June 1934), 13th (26 June 1935), 17th (21 June 1939), 18th (5 June 1940) 1929: St Patricks College Old Boys Association. 4th and 6th annual ball programmes. 1929 and 1931. Government House Wellington. 13 August 1929. Programme. 1930: Post & Telegraph Department. Town Hall. 31 July 1930. Programme. [Vivienne Riddiford engagement party - identified in pencil on back, and with the initials "V&M" on front]. 21 October 1930. Programme. [Dr Herbert's 21st party for his daughter - identified in pencil on back]. 12 November 1930. Programme. Featherston Golf Club annual ball. 15 July 1930. Programme; and Menu. Martinborough Lawn Tennis Club. 8 May 1930. [Ball programme] [Palmerston North Golf Club?] Palmerston North. 1 August 1930 (shows humorous illustration of golfers on the front of programme) Masterton Golf Ball (identified in pencil on back). Programme 1930. 1931: B (Dr Herbert's daughter's coming out dance). 27 April 1931. Programme. 1932: Lever Brothers (N.Z.) Limited. Founder's Day celebration. Kirkcaldie & Stains' Ballroom. 16 September 1932. Programme. M.S. [and] J.N. [marriage?] 10 March 1932. Programme. J.P. [and] J.W. [marriage?] Dances. 21 April 1932. Programme Plunket Ball. Town Hall. 15 July 1932. 1933: Programme with red musical stave on the front. [Dr Herbert's daughter's arrival from India. 17/1/33. [Dance card]. 1935: B D G and F N G. 19 September 1935. [Marriage?]. Programme. 1936: Queen Margaret College. 22 August 1935. Programme (front half only) Public Works Department annual staff dance 1936 1937-1938: Marsden School. Debutantes' dance. 21.5.1937 and 6.5.1938. Programmes. George R. J. [and] Elizabeth R. [Ball] programme. 7.5.[19]38. 1939: Mayfair Cabaret. Shell Social Club dance. Thursday 29 June [1939] Post & Telegraph Department annual ball. Dance list and supper ticket. (5 different, including one dated 1939) Queen Margaret College. Debutantes' Ball. 18 April 1939. Programme. 1946: A T Young 22/5/46. Programme. General Motors. "Assembly line" of all those who have served General Motors for ten or more years. Palm Lounge, Hotel St George Wellington. 12 December 1946. Programme. 1948: Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club. 65th presentation of prizes and annuall. 17 July 1948. Wairarapa Hunt Incorporated. Annual ball. 30 July 1948. Programme. 1949: General Motors. 10-year get-together. Palm Lounge, Hotel St George. 15 December 1949. 1950: General Motors. Norm Hull-Brown, guest artist. 10-year get-together. Palm Lounge, Hotel St George. 14 December 1950. 1951: General Motors. Norm Hull-Brown, guest artist. 10-year get-together. Palm Lounge, Hotel St George. 13 Devember 1951. Programme. General Motors. Norm Hull-Brown, guest artist. 10-year get-together. [Three badges worn by Norm Hull-Brown at these events] Includes programmes: Wellington Orphans' Club. Annual ladies' night. Masonic Hall, The Terrace. 7 August 1930. New Zealand Broadcasting Board presents All-Star Vaudeville "Bright and breezy". Majestic Theatre 23 May 1935. Programme. New Zealand Broadcasting Board presents All-Star Vaudeville "Brighter and breezier". 11 July 1935. Programme. New Zealand Broadcasting Board presents All-Star Vaudeville "Brightest and breeziest". St James Theatre Wellington. 17 October 1935. Programme. Disabled Soldiers Civil Re-Establishment League presents its 1941 monster revue, "Britannia". Opera House, 1-10 May 1941. Programme. 2YA Camp Entertainers come to town with a non-stop variety show. Town Hall Wellington. 25 March 1944. Proceeds to Wellington Red Cross. 2YA Camp Entertainers return to town with another Non-Stop Variety Show. Town Hall Wellington. 4 November 1944. Programme. Wellington Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association. Smoke concert. Town Hall, 8 September 1950. Programme (autograph B C Freyberg) New Zealand Broadcasting Service. Non-Stop variety show. Town Hall Wellington. 4 September 1950. For the UN Appeal for Children. One day of your pay will save another child. Compered by Selwyn Toogood. Includes invitations: Nga Tawa Old Girls and Wanganui Old Boys. Ball at Drill Hall, Feilding. 14 June 1937. Invitation. Ohingaiti Citizen's [sic] annual Ball. Friday 12 August 1938. Music by Wellington's foremost dance band, Henry Rudolph's Dance Band. Flier. Wellington College Old Boys' Cricket Club. Annual dance. 9 March 1940. Invitation. Also includes a receipt from the Wellington Performing Musicians Industrial Union of Workers for membership, Mr Hull-Brown, 3 May 1927; and a business card of Jack E Michel, trap-drummer and xylophonist, Fuller's Vaudeville, Ambassador Cabaret. (in "Programmes" folder) Quantity: 30 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) invitations. 20 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (programmes, etc).

Date: ca 1920s

Reference: PAColl-4630

Description: Interior photographs of the dining room and sitting room and two of the exterior of the building. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Prints housed at PAColl-6075-22 to PAColl-6075-25.

Date: Before 1894

By: Leitch, W A, active 1894; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-260

Description: Album of scenic views of Tasmania, Sydney and wider New South Wales, and of New Zealand, both North and South Islands. Views of lighthouses include Derwent Lighthouse (Tasmania), Macquarie Lighthouse (South Head, Sydney), and Farewell Spit Lighthouse (Tasman Region, New Zealand). The New Zealand photographs are nearly all taken by Josiah Martin, and include one that is a collage of scenes he photographed, and one of Maori weapons, with captions to say they were deposited [in Auckland Museum] by Captain Gilbert Mair. A photograph attached to the inside of the back cover is of the Farewell Spit Lighthouse, and was taken by the Tyree Brothers firm Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - W.A. Leitch. 1894 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled `Photographs' in gold lettering, with `Leitch' lettered in gold on spine; 21.5 x 28.5 cm Provenance: Purchase

Date: 1988

From: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000 : Papers

By: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000; Meyer, Frederick Charles, active 1936

Reference: fMS-Papers-6974-19

Description: First performance - For the Aids Society (Wellington Branch) at Government House, 23 Nov 1988 Form and medium - For trumpet, cornet, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, trombone, tuba, B flat clarinet, 2 pianists, narrator Contents: Mount Victoria -- Land of hope and glory -- I vow to thee my country -- Chopin's funeral march -- Grieg piano concerto -- Pokarekare ana -- The Teddybears' picnic -- I do like to be beside the sea -- Fanfare -- Early one morning -- Four seasons -- The Moldau -- Lullaby (God defend New Zealand) -- Fairest Isle -- Skye boat song -- Hymn -- Fanfare -- The Girl I left behind me -- Aloha -- There is a tavern in the town -- Brahms' 2nd Piano concerto Quantity: 1 folder(s) [1], [5], 9 leaves. Physical Description: Holographs (photocopies), typescripts

Date: 1983

Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-1983-1

Description: Includes: Alternative Arrangements Society presents: A programme of diverse musical entertainment for one nite. Thursday, July 21st, 7 o'clock early start at Cosgroves. Flyer Asia in New Zealand: A recital of Asian music and dance. Government House, Wellington, Friday 6th May 1983 at 8.00pm. Programme [Asia in New Zealand: A recital of Asian music and dance. Museum Lecture Theatre, 8 May 1983, 2.30pm] Programme Autumn music 1983 (With Jay Lindsay String Quartet, Eric Copperwheat, Anne Langston & Rae de Lisle). St Barnabas' Church Boxhill Khandallah. 10 April, 17 April, 1 May 1983. Programme /flyer (2 copies) Bernard Bartelink. Organist of St Bavo Basilica, Haarlem, Holland. Recital Tour on N.Z. July/August 1983. Auckland, Hamilton, Rotorua, Christchurch, Dunedin, Napier, Wellington, Lower Hutt, Nelson. [Itinerary only] (2 copies) Organ recitals at St James' Church, Lower Hutt, by Bernard Bartelink, organist of St Bavo Basilica, Haarlem, Holland. Sunday 7 August, 2.30pm, and Betty Stewart, organist of St James, Sunday 21 August, 2.30pm. Including music by: Bach, Beethoven, Buxtehude, Durufle, Handel, Liszt, Vierne, Sweelinck etc. Flyer Brontosaurus: A musical happening...Bach Choir, Garry Brain, Evening Post Onslow Brass Band, Maxwell Fernie, Andrea Garing, James Middleton, Shona Murray, Martin Setchell, Betty Stewart, Roy Tankersley. Tuesday May 17 at 7.30pm at Wellington Town Hall [Programme / flyer] (2 copies) Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Donald Thulean, soloists Carl Pini and Renaud Fontanarosa; leader Paulene Smith. Christchurch Town Hall Auditorium, 15 October 1983. Programme Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.Soloist Carl Pini; leader Paulene Smith. Christchurch Town Hall Auditorium, 26 November 1983. Programme The Wellington Classical Guitar Society presents: Michael Calvert, classical guitarist. Sunday 13th November, 7.30pm, St Andrews Centre, 70 The Terrace. Flyer The Arts Centre of Christchurch proudly presents: 1983 Camerata Series, with guests Carl Pini, Donald Maurice, John Curro. Sunday afternoons, 3pm, September 11, October 2, November 6, Great Hall, Arts Centre of Christchurch. Promotional pamphlet / programme David Childs, organist and choirmaster at Christchurch Cathedral, in a Temple-White memorial recital, St James, Lower Hutt, 11th October. Wellington Organists Association. Bach, Brahms, Bridge, Langlais, Mendelssohn. Flyer The Choir of King's College, Cambridge. Premiere New Zealand tour. [Programme] (2 copies) The Choir of King's College, Cambridge. Premiere New Zealand tour. Wellington Town Hall, Friday 2 September; Christchurch Town Hall, Saturday 3 September. Presented by the Music Federation of New Zealand with the support of the British Council. Flyer only (2 copies) Classical guitar recital by Suzanne Court. Baroque and Spanish music at Old St Pauls Cathedral, Thursday 28 July. Flyer New Zealand's premier renaissance music group The Ensemble Dufay: The Courtier's Courtship. Songs by English composers from the 15th century - Dunstable, Frye, King Henry VIII, Edwards, Ford, Campion and Dowland, together with popular Elizabethan songs by Ravenscroft. The Wellington Musicians Agency [Programme] New Zealand's premier renaissance music group The Ensemble Dufay, in a programme of English song: The Courtier's Courtship. Songs by English composers from the 15th century - Dunstable, Frye, King Henry VIII, Edwards, Ford, Campion and Dowland, together with popular Elizabethan songs by Ravenscroft. Concert Chamber, Saturday 9th July. Flyer only A concert of the music of David Farquhar at Symphony House, Willis St on Sunday, 1 April at 5pm. Composers Association on New Zealand [Programme notes] From Scratch workshop [information sheet] The Symphony Swings, Dunedin Town Hall, Thurs 27th Jan, 7pm. Russ Garcia, famous American conductor / composer / arranger conducts and comperes The Dunedin Civic Orchestra & Calder Prescott's Big Band in a concert of your favourite music! Flyer The Rotary Club of Eastern Hutt proudly presents The Golden Youth Symphony from Colorado, USA. In association with the Choir and Pupils of Naenae College. Lower Hutt Town Hall, Wednesday, 13th July, 1983 at 8pm [Programme] Let Impact Tours and 1162 ZM take you to the Night and Day tour: Joe Jackson in concert. Saturday, April 23. Palmerston North Sports Stadium. Flyer (2 copies) Juju Jive. Atiu Young Ones, Jon McLeary, Unrestful Movements, The DeTease, plus: firedancer & unexpected otherworldly entertainment! Jungle cocktails and top tucker too! The Sheaf, September 4. Flyer only Catriona Laidlay. Organ recital, 9 October 1983. Programme/flyer Marg Layton and the Kevin Clark Trio: The blues in concert. Circa Theatre, Sun 15 May. Flyer A concert for the Marion Rayward Memorial Scholarship in Music. (With Michele Binnie, Louise Baker, Barbara Griffin, Rona Fraser, Cuong Manh Nguyen, Pamela Gray, Bruce Corlett, Alison Wallace, David Daniel, Helen Mountfort, Diane Cooper, Judith Exley, Ann Hunt, Mari[an] Minson, Bronwen Pugh, Jennifer Shennan, Rose Wedde; playing compositions by Michael Smither, Ross Harris, Douglas Lilburn, David Farquhar, Jack Body, Cuong Manh Nguyen, Widiyanto, Pamela Gray). July 4th, 1983 [Programme] John Mills, classical guitar. Saturday 7th January, 8pm, Little Theatre, Lower Hutt. Flyer only A recital of works by Ravel, Brahms, Bartok: Stephanie Mills - piano, on Tuesday, Nov 15, 12.30pm, at the Cultural Centre, Sturdee St. Flyer only Music 83 Education Conference. A first for New Zealand. A time for stock taking. August 26th-29th, 1983, Victoria University, Wellington, NZ. Programme (1 copy, with list of conference participants), flyer / registration form (2 copies) Music 83 Conference newsletter No 1 (2 copies) Music for you and your child. Musical activities for parents and their pre-school children. 4 Wednesday mornings. Begins 23rd March, 11am, at: 335 Willis St. Run by the Wellington Community Music School. Flyer only (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed programmes and flyers up to 330 mm. Provenance: Two programme donated by Rose-Marie Tonk, Wellington, in 2017.

Date: October 1953

Reference: MS-Papers-11736

Description: Itinerary for United States Vice-President Richard Nixon during his visit to New Zealand in October 1953. Includes a list of possible points for Nixon to discuss in public speeches in New Zealand; accommodation details for members of his party, and a complete listing of those traveling in his party, including military personnel, members of the United States press, US State Department representatives, and aircraft personnel. Source of title - Title supplied by Library United States Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, visited New Zealand in October 1953, traveling to Wellington and Auckland. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Hutt City, May 2014

Date: 1921, 1971, 1993, 1995

From: Casey, Mary, fl 2013: Papers relating to baker Joseph Newman and postmaster Joseph Frederick Jobson

Reference: MS-Papers-11719-1

Description: Folder contains two empty envelopes addressed to Mr J F Jobson, one empty envelope addressed to Telegraph Section, as well as papers and newspaper cutting relating to J F Jobson being awarded the British Empire Medal in 1971, including a letter sent from Government House in Wellington. The folder also contains an Officer Promoted certificate for J F Jobson from the Post and Telegraph Department and newspaper clippings regarding the Te Aro Post Office building and the Herd Street Post and Telegraph building on Wellington's waterfront. Relationship complexity - The Photographic Archive holds a copy of the officer promotion notice at PAColl-10021-2 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: From Photographic Archive - PH-2013-016.

Date: ca 1914-ca 1999

From: Starke, June, 1923-2006: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7791

Description: Collection comprises: two photographs of an unidentified man being accepted as Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, taken ca late 1990s at Parliament House by Woolf of Wellington; a photograph of the staff of the Alexander Turnbull Library ca 1970s; a photograph of the wedding of Murray and Jean McGeorg, with June Starke as bridesmaid, taken ca 1940s by The Phillips Candid Camera Service, Dunedin; family photographs of people picnicing, riding horses, and driving cars; photographs taken by Thomas Meek Laing in France durung the First World War; photograph of Kemp's pole beong repainted in 1977; photographs of Lower Hutt taken by S C Smith in the 1920s; photographs of school boys; photographs of the Akatarawa unemployment camp, and Trentham Military Camp; the staff of J J Bourke & Co, Wool Scourers, Lower Hutt; and the interior of St James' Anglican Church, Lower Hutt. Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s). Transfers: Transfer from Manuscripts & Archives - Reference MS-Group-0978 (A2003-282).

Date: From 1911 to 1949

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-007

Description: Black & white photographs of the Wellington area, Vol 1 (images 1-240), taken by G L Adkin between 1911 and 1949. Earlier images include the house Fern Hill (at 324 The Terrace), and views from the house; Kelburn Cable Car tunnel, and view of the cable car from Kelburn Park; Wellington Botanic Garden; inner city views of Willis St., Lambton Quay (1913); Lyall Bay, Kilbirnie isthmus, Wellington Heads, Oriental Bay (1913); Harbour and city; swimming carnival at Island Bay; city from Mt Cook trig station (1918); panorama of Thorndon with Pipitea Point reclamation from the Nth end of Barnard St (1923); interior view of the Wellington City Corporation Trams Shed at Newtown; Kemp Point Powerhouse, Evans Bay; Miramar Gas Works (1923); Wider views of the city with Tinakori Ridge from Roseneath, Oriental Bay, Lyall Bay (1926); loading the Maheno (1926). Laying Foundation Stone of new railway station by the Duke of Gloucester, showing steel frame of the building under construction (17 December 1934). Views around the city in 1936, including Worser Bay, Breaker Bay, Dorset Point, Queens Drive, the city (panorama from Karepa St, Brooklyn); "wilds of Wellington" Mitchelltown, Highbury, Taitville, and Kelburn (from Karepa St); snow on hills and at Mt Kaukau (2 August 1936). Centennial Exhibition (6 March 1940). Views around the bays in 1948, Lyall Bay, Evans Bay, Kilbirnie, Eastbourne, Days Bay, Lowry Bay. Comparative views from Mt Alfred (1 taken in 1948, the other in 1905). Pamir sailing ship at Aotea Quay (December 1948); railway yards; Kaiwharawhara Gorge (1948); and the first visit of the Solent flying boat Ararangi to Evans Bay, October 1949.

Date: [1930-1934]

By: Bledisloe, Charles Bathurst, Viscount, 1867-1958

Reference: PA1-f-015

Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific taken 1930-1934 by Lord Bledisloe, comprising views of Government House (Wellington), Queen Charlotte Sound, Treaty House (Waitangi), Kawau Island, Whanganui River, Pipiriki,Jerusalem, Galatea, Ranana, Ruatahuna, Whakarewarewa, North Cape, Deep Creek (Nelson), Lake Waikaremoana, Mt Ngauruhoe, Lake Rotoroa (Nelson), Franz Joseph Glacier and environs, Rarotonga, Pago Pago, and Tongatapu. Also included are portraits of Mita Taupopoki, Honi Te Heu Heu, Guide Rangi, and Lord & Lady Bledisloe; a Cutty Sark seaplane of the New Zealand Permanent Air Force, the interior of a Ringatu meeting house at Ruatahuna, Maori groups, swordfish and trout fishing, and a scheelite mine at Deep Creek. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: The album was presented by Lord Bledisloe to the Duke of Gloucester in Christmas 1934, during his visit to New Zealand.

Date: [ca 1931-1949]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-204

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1931-1949. Wellington - Bryant & May (employees playing tennis); Cenotaph with Government House and Parliament Building in background; Rangatira at Lyttelton Wharf; aerial view of railway station and wharves; aerial view of Kelburn, 1939; Pigeon Park showing Manners Street & Dixon Street intersection looking towards Courtenay Place; Weir House with Mount Victoria etc in background; elevated views of the city from Tinakori Hills; Sydney Street under construction, 1939; garages in Sydney Street; Herd Street Post Office, 1950; Wellington Zoo showing children having an elephant ride; Worser Bay; sunbathers at Oriental Bay; view of Oriental Bay from grassy area above the bay; inner city tennis club (with Carillon in background); Carlton Gore Road and Oriental Parade looking west; Jervois Quay showing intersection of Cable Street and Wakefield Street; houses above Evans Bay; houses at Days Bay; tree planting in Highbury Street, 1948; cars on Hutt motorway, 1947; traffic signs; pohutukawa tree on The Terrace, 1946; Queens Wharf, 1860; policeboat, 1948; tree planting at Kelburn/Highbury on Arbor Day 1948 (including photo of young Christopher Rollings); Percy Reserve, Lower Hutt. Auckland - Winter Gardens at Auckland Domain; Auckland War Memorial Museum; car boarding the vehicular ferry, 1935; Auckland Harbour Board crane being towed by the launch Te Hauraki at Auckland Western Viaduct, 1949. Quantity: 39 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 6 September 1990

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Pigney, Ray, active 1988

Reference: EP/1990/3144-F

Description: Mike Moore leaving Government house, Wellington, after being sworn in as Prime Minister. Press photographs and a policemabn are in the background. Photographs taken 6 September 1990 by Evening Post staff photographer Ray Pigney. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1993

From: Arts Marketing Board of Aotearoa New Zealand :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-576

Description: Social event at Government House, Wellington, Launching AMBA in 1993 Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1930 - 1959

From: [Ephemera, ball programmes, tickets, and invitations for balls, and social dances in New Zealand]

By: Longwill, Kiwi Flora, 1909-2007; Megget, Ronald Calverley, 1913-1996; Taylor, Jill, active 1984-2002; Harry H Tombs Ltd; Nolan, Iris Evelyn, 1916-2011

Reference: Eph-A-BALL-1930/1959

Description: Includes ball programmes, invitations or tickets for the following events: 1933: Combined Tramping Clubs first ball. St Francis Hall, Hill Street Wellington. 4 July 1933. 1934: Wellington East Girls' College Old Girls' Association. Dance 26 July 1934. Invitation to Miss J Weeber 1936: Masterton A & P Association. 2nd annual ball. 15 July 1936. Programme (with pencil) 1936: Government House Wellington. 23 October 1936. (With pencil) 1936: Royal New Zealand Artillery Annual Ball. Barracks, Fort Dorset, Seatoun, 8 October 1936. Invitation. 1936: Wellington East Girls' College Old Girls' Association. Annual dance 1936. invitation to Miss J Weeber ca 1936: Government House Wellington (With pencil) 1937: Artillery Ball. Royal NZ Artillery. St Francis Hall, Hill Street, 4 June [1937]. Invitation 1937: Nga Tawa Old Girls [and] Wanganui Old Boys annual Ball. Programme [14.6.1937] 1937: Te Rama Municipal Tennis Club Inc. Annual dance 1937. Invitation to Miss J Weeber 1937: Post and Telegraph Department annual ball. List of dances and supper ticket. [18 June 1937] 1937: Royal New Zealand Artillery Fort Dorset. Ball, Barracks Fort Dorset, 19 August 1937. Invitation 1938: Wellington East Girls' College Old Girls' Association annual dance, 15 July 1938. Invitation to Miss J Weeber 1938: Kareti Graduation Ball 1938. Masey Agricultural College Students' Association. Invitation to Mr R Megget to a ball on 17 June 1938 1938: Post and Telegraph Annual Ball. Town Hall, 10 June 1938. Invitation 1938: Toc H Hutt Valley. Plunket Ball, Horticultural Hall, Laing's Road. 26 August 1938. Invitation card. (Donor W Nash) 1940: B.C. - M.W. Programme (Dance programme dated in pencil on verso 26.4.40, perhaps for a wedding between B.C. and M.W.) 1942: First Battalion NZ Scottish Regiment. Complimentary dance. Town Hall Featherston, 11 September 1942. Programme 1946: New Zealand Broadcasting Service. Invitation to the 1946 Radio Ball. Majestic Cabaret. 26 September 1946. 1947: Post and telegraph annual ball. Town Hall Friday 6 June 1947 1948: Massey Agricultural College Graduation Ball 1948. (Invitation donated by Mrs Kiwi Longwill in 1976) 1951: Social Security Social Club Annual Ball. Roseland Cabaret. 28 September 1951. Ticket. 1953: Social Security (Head Office) Social Club Annual Ball. Roseland Cabaret. 28 August 1953. Invitation. 1953: NZ Forest Service. Forestry and Timber Ball. Majestic Cabaret Wellington. 4 August 1953 (printed by H H Tombs Limited) 1953: Combined Council of Scottish Societies. Annual ball. Auckland Town Hall, 22 August 1953. Programme 1953: Coronation Ball, Wellington. Coronation Day 2 June 1953. Programme (With pencil) (Donor Jill Taylor 1995) 1953: Parliamentary ball at the Social Hall, Parliament House. 14 August 1953. Programme 1954: New Zealand Forest Service. Second Forestry and Timber Ball. Majestic Cabaret. 15 July 1954. Invitation printed on wood (2 copies), by H H Tombs Ltd. 1958: Totalisator Agency Board. 6th annual ball. Skyline, 10 July 1958. Programme Quantity: 28 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on programmes and tickets.. Physical Description: Letterpress on programmes, most folded, sizes varying below 200 mm.

Date: 1910 - 1929

By: Cherry, Arthur Leonard, 1884-1947

Reference: A-104-073/081

Description: Contents: Town Hall and Cathedral, Dunedin. St Joseph's Dunedin. Dunedin Cathedal and Burns' Statue. The Town Hall, Auckland. Victoria Bridge, Christchuch. Jacob's Corner. Dunedin. Roman Catholic Cathedral, Timaru. Government House, Wellington. George St., from the Octagon, Dunedin. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Signed: Arthur L Cherry (in pencil) Quantity: 9 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etchings, 170 x 120 mm on sheets 200 x 150 mm

Date: 1912-1976

From: Blight, Davey Roach, 1905-1995 :Photographs of Wellington

Reference: PA1-o-1529

Description: Blight family home 52 Parkvale Road, Karori, ca 1912. Opening day for new Wellington motorway, 1968. Wedding, 1962. Postcards from Wales, Brighton, and Invercargill. The Bullen family, Tokoroa, 1970. Demolition of old Government House, preparation of site for Beehive, and construction of Beehive, 1969-1970. Wellington buildings and places include - Turnbull House, 1970. Upper Willis Street, 1970. Queens Wharf, 1970. Sailing ship `Gloria' at Overseas Terminal, 1970. Pier Hotel, 1970. Post Office Hotel, 1970. In most cases the date of dmolition of buildings is also noted. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1991,1995, 1996, 1998

From: Dell, Miriam Patricia (Dame), 1924-2022: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11638-13

Description: CV of Richard Dell and other papers, includes invitations, newsclippings, material relating to career of Sharon Dell, pamphlet for National Shell Show (1995) Quantity: 1 folder(s).