Places

Date: [Circa 1880s to 1912]

By: Divis, Joseph, 1885-1967

Reference: PA1-o-531

Description: Very clear views of West Coast gold and coal mines (mainly in the Reefton subdivision), and mining towns, taken by unidentified photographers, except for one of "Wondrous Waiuta New Zealand" Jos. Divis Photo (p 27). Views on various roads include the Reefton to Blackspoint Road, Reefton to Westport Road, the Buller Gorge, the Maruia Road alongside the Inangahua River, Progress Road, and fording a river near Progress Mill. Images relating to mines include a winter picture of the old Wealth (of Nations) waterwheel covered in icicles; and gold batteries at various stages of development. Gold mines include the Progress Mine, Wealth of Nations Mine, Welcome Mine, the Mountain Battery at Boatman's Creek, the Blackwater Mine and the Globe Mine. Coal mines include views of Lanky's Creek Coal Mine, and the Lanky's Creek to Energetic coal tramway showing new bridges and coal miners. One photograph (p 9) shows several men "beach combing" for gold on the West Coast. There are a number of articles in The West Coast Times, Otago Witness and Otago Daily Times talking about the success or otherwise of seeking gold by this method in the 1860s to 1880s (see Papers Past paperspast.natlib.govt.nz, search under "beach combing" "west coast") Inscriptions: Album page - "To Messrs E & A Spencer with best wishes from D Turnbull, Reefton, N.Z., 13/10/1911, 2/6/1912" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark grey cover, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 19.0 x 27.5 cm

Date: 1910

By: Swan, John Sydney, 1874-1936

Reference: Plans-85-1070/1074

Description: Floor plans, foundation plans and details of columns. All badly damaged and with large sections missing Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, sizes vary Processing information: In five parts on acquisition and numbered as five separate plans. However there are only four separate plans, now joined up through encapsulation in mylar. Large sections missing from all plans

Date: 1945 - 1946

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-053-090/100

Description: Includes a perspective drawing of a building on an acute corner site, and floor plans and elevations of this building. Quantity: 11 plan(s) (2 at number Plans-2002-058-053-079). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to 480 x 730 mm.

Date: 1953

By: Kelly & Mair (Firm); Bulleyment Fortune Architects (Firm)

Reference: Plans-97-011-222

Description: Shows floor plans, elevations and details. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo, 545 x 710 mm.

Date: 1924 - 1925

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Atkins & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-048-066/072

Description: Includes floor plans, elevations, and sections, as well as part front elevation and sections. Quantity: 7 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on waxed linen paper, 545 x 715 mm.

Date: [ca 1860s-1870s]

By: Lennie, Thomas Daniel, 1871-1967

Reference: PAColl-4459

Description: Photographs of shops, hotels and business in Invercargill including the old immigration barracks on Tay Street and the Howard house. Photographers are not all identified, but include Donald William Ross. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1937

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-053-020/026

Description: Includes floor plans, elevations and sections, detail of elevation of art deco front facade, details of kitchen. Quantity: 7 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to around 565 x 750 mm.

Date: 1942 - 1944

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-068-016/019

Description: Includes floor plans, and sections for the conversion of the basement of the building for use as an air raid shelter. The total capacity was around 140 persons. Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to around 560 x 735 mm.

Date: 1928 - 1929

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Atkins & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-053-027/057

Description: Includes floor plans, elevations and sections, details of rear entrance, banking chamber, part of facade elevations to Victoria Avenue and Maria Place, windows and beams schedules. The building is still standing and is a registered building (2004) Quantity: 31 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on waxed linen paper, sizes varying up to 580 x 765 mm.

Date: 1944-1983

From: Marshall, John Ross (Sir), 1912-1988 : Political papers

Reference: 84-206

Description: Papers relating to Marshall's business interests, his membership and directorship of company boards and charitable trusts, papers re private travel and personal correspondence. Also includes some correspondence re various bills before Parliament 1978-1979. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 6 box(es). 2 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Partial listing available. Processing information: Requires processing to item level.

Date: [ca 1925-1935]

By: Lovell-Smith, Hubert John, 1881-1948

Reference: PAColl-0451

Description: Photographs of Hastings and the surrounding area taken by H J Lovell-Smith. They include photographs of earthquake damage to shops in Hastings; the flooding of the Ngaruroro River; excavation of the site of the new swimming pool in Havelock North; a man and a boy sheltering from the rain outside a barbers shop; the Soldiers Memorial Hospital; Taradale Post and Telegraph Office with the library across the street; two men working on a steam locomotive; neon sign on Queen's Wharf, Auckland; wedding photograph of a couple named Harper and Ward (the groom was a minister); five men next to a crashed aeroplane on a snowy hillside; a Windsor chair made from New Zealand birch; schoolgirls leaving Hastings High School; a view across Hastings, possibly from the Clock Tower, over Railway Road and towards St Andrew's Church; two of the Cosy Buildings (possibly previously the Douglas Buildings), one when the picture theatre had the electric sign "Cosy" hanging from it and was showing the film Nurse Marjorie and the other without the sign and with the ground floor closed up; and the new Post and Telegraph Office built to replace the old one after the earthquake. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1947

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-048-034

Description: A floor plan showing areas for the tellers, the strongroom, manager and accountant, as well as sitting and dining rooms, kitchen and breakfast room. Bedrooms are not shown but may have been on an upper level, as stairs are shown. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 365 x 503 mm.

Date: Circa 1920s

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-2073-1/2-G

Description: View of the main street, Broadway, in Stratford, with the National Bank and the Stratford Hotel (Fred John Whittle, proprietor) on the left. A sign pointing left, to King Edward Park, is on the corner of the street between the bank and the hotel. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 18613 For another image taken about the same time, see APG-2075-1/2. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1964

By: Haughton, Son & Mair (Firm); Bulleyment Fortune Architects (Firm)

Reference: Plans-97-011-122/124

Description: Shows floor plans and office for Mr G. H. Lloyd Davies.. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, sizes vary.

Date: 1930 - 1955

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

Reference: Plans-2002-058-053-127

Description: Shows the existing floor plan of a private two-bedroom house that was to be turned into bank premises; three different suggested schemes are shown. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, 490 x 700 mm.

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Bailey, Conrad, fl 1980 : Photograph albums of New Zealand scenes, one including pressed ferns

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-030

Description: Album of photographs mostly of towns and buildings in Canterbury and Otago, chiefly taken by the Burton Brothers, circa 1880s. They all show city scenes including street views, and images of important buildings. The buildings include church buildings, bank buildings, insurance company office buildings, and hotels (both exterior and interior views of the Grand Hotel, Dunedin). In the North Island, there is a view of the Auckland Synagogue, and a view of Taratahi Homestead, the home of Lady Tancred and Sir Thomas Tancred, in the Carterton District. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cloth-bound album with leather spine and corners, lettered in gold "Views of New Zealand"

Date: Jul-Dec 1885

From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers

Reference: 77-248-07/2

Description: Names of identifiable correspondents entered in name field Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Ephemera Collection - New Zealand Implement Company catalogue for agricultural implements.

Date: 1924 - 1934

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Atkins & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-048-039/044

Description: Includes floor plans for subdivision of first floor, and plans of public space and ledger area, elevations of the teller counters, sections of facade, and exterior elevations. Quantity: 6 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on waxed linen paper and tracing paper, sizes varying up to 475 x 700 mm.

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-655-001/037

Description: 37 cartoons on political and social subjects published in the Otago Daily Times. A panda bear sits and swings the five Olympic rings in its paws with Olympic officials commenting on China's successful bid for the Olympic games. Comment on ASH's view of underage smoking - two children walk past a cinema and a man in an alleyway furtively offers to show them pictures of people smoking. Comment on Jim Anderton's aim for a 'Peoples Bank' - Jenny Shipley is portrayed as a bank teller sitting under a signd your breath'. Public cynicism of Michael Cullen's proposed Superannuation scheme. Farmers discussing their lack of confidence in ENZA. Cartoonist's reaction to the disparity between the financial levels of sports peoples and other people when being assessed to be published on the 'rich list'. Comment on the publication that 'kiwi kids' are overweight. A male ironing clothing offers comment on Helen Clark Jenny Shipley Silvia Cartwright Sian Elias and Michelle Boag being in positions of power. Comment by a male sitting down to breakfast that deer velvet being a sex aid is 'bunkum'. Michael Cullen is shown standing next to a poker machine called 'Future Super' indication it is the helath and education monines that the poker machine needs to work on. Comment on the outcome of Max Bradford's electricity reforms. Max Bradford is in an electricial repair shop being told that if the article he brought for repair was not broken before Bradford tried to fix it it is broken now. Helen Clark Parekura Horomia and Michael Cullen presenting their individual position on the issue of Maori TV A schoolteacher chastises Max Bradford for blaming others. Michael Cullen and Helen Clark watch two overweight dogs named Super and Maori TV eating while two thin dogs named Education and Health are straining at their leads for food. A nurse opens the expectant fathers waiting room door to tell Mr Anderton to go home and he will be notified if there is any sign of labour getting serious. Early visitors arrive on the shores of New Zealand with the comment that the natives may regret not having an immigration policy. Christine Rankin wears two very large earings one labled 'winzum' the other 'lose some'. Comment on the news that the right-of-way road rule is to be revised. Jim Anderton Helen Clark and Michael Cullen cling to a life raft identified as Beneficiary Voting Block with two boaties in the background commenting that even the knowledge wave did not loosen their grip. Comment on Helen Clark's support for funding going to the arts. Comment on Laila Harre and holiday shopping Finger pointing from Pete Hodgson and Max Bradford as to who is to blame for the electricity reforms not working/ Rugby fans pay their first visit to Dunedin and pass comment on the wearing of tartan trousers. Shows a bloody battle of Gengis Khan's army. Word is being passed around to forget about the plundering and go for the 'bonus point'. Refers to the NZ cricket teams decision to stop their point scoring run glut against Australia and take the bonus point offered by a technicality. Shows two young school boys discussing public educations failure to teach reading, writing and numeracy. Shows Jim Anderton on the steps of Treasury with water flooding under the front doors and down the steps. Comment on Anderton's attempts to stop the 'leaks' coming from Treasury. Comment on the public boredom over multi-millionaire Steve Fossett's attempts to fly around the world non-stop in a hot-air balloon. Shows Marian Hobbs with a large wind instrument wrapped around her playing 'NZ Music' to a man who represents the NZ public. He has a large flat neck collar on representing the new NZ music quota. The collar prevents him from putting his fingers in his ears should not wish to listen to the music. Shows mother explaining to her crying children that their father is now going to play golf rather than take them sailing. The change is due to their father being agitated by NZ Professional Golfer Grant Waite's performance. Comment on prison staff's industrial 'go-slow' and the opportunities it creates for prisoners to escape. Shows a large area of forestry being felled for the sake of sending 'positive signals' to overseas companies. Shows an elderly couple, justifying to a squad of police officers at their front door, that they are doing all they can in the nationwide drive to save electricity. Shows Marian Hobbs introducing a rock band called 'Marian and the quotas'. Shows Sam Neill at the Jurassic Park 3 movie premiere with an old pre-historic friend. Shows a woman in an art gallery asking if a framed display is a piece of art. The gallery worker assures her it is and explains that it is Creative New Zealand's justification for their travel expenditure. Quantity: 37 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies on sheets 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 1995 - 2009

From: [Ephemera relating to telephones, telephone exchanges and subscribers. 1900- ]

By: Telecom Corporation of New Zealand; Robertson, Brett, active 1990-2000s; Squares, Tony, active 2000s

Reference: Eph-A-TELEPHONE-Cards-2000/2009

Description: Includes: $5 cards: Lake Pukaki South Canterbury New Zealand. Expiry date September 2008; National Bank Talk Away Tertiary Plus $10 cards: World Wide Fund for Nature New Zealand - Tuatara, New Zealand's living fossil going back 225 million years. Photo Brett Robertson; New Zealand holiday - Strawberry sunscreem choc dipped ice-cream, home-made mayonnaise, lunchtime, lazy days; Future champions [child cyclist] $20 cards: Sports series - swimming in New Zealand, photography by Tony Squares; Star Trek, the cold enemy - expiry date 13/06/2007; World Wildlife Fund for Nature New Zealand - Hooker's sea lion; Games for your mobile - "Italian Job" 2006 Quantity: 7 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on plastic cards. Physical Description: Photolithographs on plastic cards, 55 x 85 mm.