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Date: 1987

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-362-160/191

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 31 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary.

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

By: Walker, A (Mr), active 1968; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; C M (Photographer), active 1905; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Pratt, A A, active 1900s

Reference: PAColl-6639

Description: Postcards of ferries at wharves in Auckland, interior and exterior of St John's Cathedral in Napier, Waihi from Martha Hill, bowling green on the Domain at Te Aroha, Lyttelton at regatta time, Lyttelton harbour, Opera House, St Luke's Danish Church and All Saints Church and the Municipal Buildings, Palmerston North; the Triangle, Dunedin; Auckland Hospital, Grafton Road; Palmerston North Post Office; a view over Auckland from Mount Eden; the bridge over to the Cafe Continental; Hastings Street, Napier; Perry Street, Masterton with a hall on the right; tea kiosk in the park, Masterton; two carts on the road to Lansdowne, Masterton; the tramline to Onehunga, Auckland; Queen Street, Auckland; and Auckland harbour and wharves. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negative at 151877 Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 14 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Postcards

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-215

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1939-1940. Karangarua River bridge; Rakaia River bridge; market gardens in Heathcote Valley; Palmerston North library; Old English Fair held in Dunedin in aid of the patriotic funds; new Gisborne Intermediate School; Archbishop Julius Memorial stone; Auckland's Patriotic Queen Carnival; model of HMS Rodney; giant pipe cast by Public Works Department for pipeline at headworks of the mid-Canterbury irrigation scheme; Garden Place Hill earthworks at Hamilton; hop picking, Riwaka Valley; new friary built for the Brothers of St Francis at Hillsborough, Auckland; construction of tunnels and power house for hydro-electric works at Tuai, Waikaremoana; opening of Horowhenua College, Levin; demolition of wing at Nelson College; floating pontoon being lowered into position at Mechanics Bay; tram cars converted into homes. Construction of Centennial Drive, Kapiti Coast; new Hamiltion General Post Office; construction of Wellington Harbour Board cargo shed; opening of Catholic church at Georgetown, Invercargill; shoe-cleaner at Lincoln College; view of Waikanae Beach from Kaiti Hill, Gisborne; road works north of Gisborne; Railway Bus Terminus, Dunedin (opposite Queens Gardens); Dunedin Emergency Transport Organisation practising arm signals. Race-goers at Wellington Racing Club meeting, and at Canterbury Jockey Club & NZ Metropolitan Trotting Club meeting at Christchurch. Landslide at a Brighton farm; construction of the Pokeno-Paeroa line; laying of the foundation stone of building in Stout Street by Minister of Public Worls, Hon R Semple. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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: 1986 - 1989

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Christchurch star (Newspaper : 1958- )

Reference: A-316-060/084

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. New Zealand switches from milk in bottles to milk in cartons. Hayley's Comet turns out to be disappointing for most star gazers. High number of requests for aid from sports and charity groups. Children deny tobacco advertising influences their smoking habits. Core samples are taken from the hull of the New Zealand entrant to the America's Cup. 1986 - the International Year of Peace - $1,746,000,000,000 spent on weapons. Mother's Day again. Burglar makes himself at home. General election candidates begin their hand-shaking tour of the rural areas. There's a big turnout for the rugby on election day. People are getting overloaded with the morning radio bad 'news'. Christmas shopping bedlum is upon us. ANZAC Day shows the difference between the self-sacrificing of the returned service men and women and the selfishness of youth. The French do another nuclear bomb test. Cups are shown off at the yacht club, some for winning races but mostly for winning court battles over yacht race rules. Parents supporting their children from the rugby sidelines are becoming increasingly violent. Over-crowding of New Zealand prisons. New Zealand's economic slump sees long ques of people waiting to get Government assistance through the Dept. of Social Welfare. Rogernomics puts the whole country into crisis. Post Offices are closed around the country. Children embrace cigarette smoking. Hospital emergency outpatients restrict their services in an effort to cut costs. Pakeha consider how they can benefit from the Maori land claim process. The law struggles to deal with complications of using force in your own self defence. Ozone layer threatened by fumes, smoke and smog. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). 24 photocopies. Physical Description: A4 size original and photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: [Circa 1880s-1890s]

By: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942; Bayliss, Charles, 1850-1897

Reference: PA1-f-012

Description: Album of fine sepia views taken by various photographers. They show views of Australia, including Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney (panorama taken by Charles Bayliss), Hobart. Views of New Zealand, including Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, Dunedin, Port Chalmers & Lyttelton; Auckland; Ohinemutu, including a Maori meeting house, head and shoulder portraits of Maori, showing moko, and views of Lake Rotomahana with the Pink and White Terraces. Two views of Honolulu life show Princess Ruth and her house. One view of San Francisco, one of the Sandwich Islands. There are several views of a railway line winding through the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas, in the Rocky Mountains, taken by W H Jackson in 1880. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album 470 x 360 mm, lacking covers, in phase box Provenance: Creator and provenance information not known

Date: [1900s]

Reference: PAColl-D-0690

Description: View of the General Post Office, Lower Queen Street. Large number of pedestrians, cars and a single horse and cart. The entrance to the Railway Station is on the left. Taken by an unidentified photographer, in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Backing board verso - centre - B Reilly. Stamp: Overseer. Bulk Store, Seaview Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 435 x 565 mm on card

Date: 10 Dec 1910

From: Atkinson, J :Photographs taken in the Middle East during World War I, and postcards of New Zealand

By: De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912

Reference: PA5-0011

Description: The New General Post Office Auckland taken 10.12.1910 by De Tourret, Protected series. Verso contains message from Harrie and addressed to Wm Ormiston SS Maunganui, Wellington Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph 85 x 139 mm

Date: [1880s-1890s?]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-q-056

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand and Australia photographed by Frank Arnold Coxhead (F.A.C.). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, with spine title "New Zealand and Australia, 3360-3417", 31 x 27 cm

Date: 30 Nov, 7 & 8 Dec 1984; 24 Jan, 1 Feb 1985 - 30 Nov 1984 - 01 Feb 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Mather, Samuel, 1903-1986

Reference: OHInt-0070/10

Description: Sam Mather recalls family background and religion in family. Discusses female employees in the Post Office, Maori employees, post-retirement work at Education Board, playing the cornet in the Waihi Federal Band, major illness in 1958 and earlier illnesses. Describes work as message boy at Otane Post Office in 1916, duties, hours, postmaster and other staff. Briefly discusses later involvement in Labour party in Onslow Electorate and mentions union newspaper Katipo. Talks about childhood, education, arrival in New Zealand in 1913, salary in first job (as message boy) in the Post Office, interest in photography, work as exchange clerk at Waipawa Post Office in 1918, shift work, effect of World War I on staffing, toll board, subscriber board, rotation and duty hours, pay rates, pressure, interest in morse, gifts from subscribers, effect of influenza epidemic in 1918, going to Telegraph School at Ponsonby, Auckland in 1920, life and expenses, Auckland picture theatres, speed of sending, quality of hand writing, working hours, personalities. Describes transfer to Engineers' Clerical Branch in 1924, procedure for obtaining a radio licence, murder of Ponsonby Postmaster - Brathwaite (?) in early 1920s, the 1920 railway strike, being a cadet at Opotiki Post Office in 1920, the postmaster - George Stephenson, playing in brass bands, an orchestra and a dance band, transfer to relief staff in Waihi in 1922, the postmaster - Hugh Dawson, Waihi as a place, the Waihi Brass Band, prohibition of alcohol in Waihi, anecdotes about gold. Talks about his transfer to Kaikohe in 1923, the Ngapuhi people, postmaster P J Eccleton, mail days, mail sorting, volume of mail, telegraph work, banking work. Discusses promotion, salaries and examinations while at the Engineers' Office, the usefulness of the experience for clerical work, radio inspection work. Talks about Post and Telegraph Association and election as chairman of the Auckland Section in 1930, salary cuts. Recalls and gives details of the Queen Street riot (Auckland) of 1932. Details the Post and Telegraph Association procession and public meeting, the role of John A Lee, J H McKenzie, Jim Edwards, unemployed group, atmosphere, looting, comparison with Auckland riot on December 1984. Discusses the de-recognition of the Post and Telegraph Association following the riot. Mentions the formation of the Post and Telegraph Officers Guild in the 1930s. Outlines the main issues fought for by the association. Describes attitudes of directors-general to the association, absence of strikes, the death benefit, leaving Post Office to become a full time secretary of the association in 1939, service in Wellington during World War II. Discusses influence of the association on senior appointments. Mentions Charles McFarlane, Dawson Donaldson, Walter Nash, Gabriel Wilkes, Outlines work as General Secretary from 1946-1958, wage reviews and superannuation fund in 1946, the Public Service Investment Society, contact with members of the association. Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - At Sam Mather's home at Ngaio, Wellington and Ward 25, Wellington Hospital Accompanying material - Copies of newspaper articles: 'Lifetime service to Post Office and its staff: fine record of Mr Mather' from The Standard, 16 April 1958; 'Past General Secretary honoured' from The Katipo, February 1976, p. 19; 'P S Employees farewell two', from unknown source. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000743-OHC-000745; OHC-000758; OHC-000760; OHC-000768-OHC-000769 Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 6.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 120. Search dates: 1903 - 1984

Date: 10 Aug 1914

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000183-G

Description: View of soldiers of the 2nd Contingent, Auckland Territorials marching down Queen Street toward the Queen Street Railway Station entrance on their departure for the Front. Crowds of people have gathered outside the General Post Office to watch. Two tram cars can be seen amongst the crowd. Taken by William A Price on 10 August 1914. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 2nd. Contingent of Auckland Territorials leaving for the Front. 10th Aug. 1914. Protd. P.P.Co. 11.8.14. No 1252A Relationship complexity - An almost identical view is available at 1/2-000182 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 10 Aug 1914

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000182-G

Description: View of soldiers of the 2nd Contingent, Auckland Territorials marching down Queen Street toward the Queen Street Railway Station on their departure for the Front. Crowds of people have gathered outside the General Post Office to watch. A J J Craig Ltd cart and two tram cars can be seen amongst the crowd. Taken by William A Price on 10 August 1914. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 2nd. Contingent of Auckland Territorials leaving for the Front. 10th Aug. 1914. Protd. P.P.Co. 11.8.14. No 1253A Relationship complexity - An almost identical view is available at 1/2-000183 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 2009

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000519

Description: Photographs of Auckland buildings taken in 2009 Quantity: 33 digital photograph(s).

Date: 1 Aug 1910

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001655-G

Description: Construction site of the the new General Post Office, Queen Street, Auckland, photographed by William Archer Price during the laying of the foundation stone, 1 August, 1910. Buildings in Customs Street can be seen behind the mobile crane on the right. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Laying foundation stone. New G.P.O. Auckland. 1.8.10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: ca 1910

By: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948

Reference: 1/2-011071-F

Description: Capital (head) of a column at the construction site of the new General Post Office, circa 1910. Photograph taken by the Price Photo Company. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: January - June 2010

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000535

Description: Photographs of Auckland buildings, taken January to May 2010 by Dylan Owen Quantity: 27 digital photograph(s).

Date: Apr 1942

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

By: Auckland weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: PAColl-0783-2-0044

Description: Post and Telegraph staff issuing ration books to consumers in Auckland during World War 2. Shows staff behind one side of a long desk, filling out forms, while queues of men and women wait. Photograph taken for the Weekly News, April 1942. Photographer unidentified. Note on back of print reads: "Neg filed: Weekly News." Note on back of file print reads: "Probably published Herald 14 Apr 1942" Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.6 x 21.7 cm