Places

Date: 1897

Reference: Eph-A-BALL-1897-01

Description: Ball programme with an ornate cover showing the flags of the Taranaki Volunteers and the Taranaki Militia (both featuring an image of Mt Taranaki). Between them is a portrait of Queen Victoria, and below are two rifles, crossed. The back cover shows an decorative border of poppies. In side is a list of 22 dances with a space beside each for the names of partners. A cord is looped through holes at the bottom but the original pencil was missing on arrival at the Library. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Colour lithograph on folded card (100 x 123 mm, folded to 100 x 61 mm) Provenance: Purchased from New Zealand Books Online auction, 23 May 2006.

Date: 1863 - 1865

From: Speer, William Henry d 1867 :[Speer album] 1860-1867

Reference: E-395-008

Description: An advertisement for a free billiards room in Dunedin, July 12 1863. A poem purporting to come from Darlinghurst Gaol, Sydney, 30 August 1864 about the confort of being a prisoner compared with the lot of the poor on the streets. An invitation to supper and a ball on 17 July 1863 from Mr & Mrs Salek of Tay Street, Invercargill to 'Mr Spier & ladies'. A ticket for a box seat for Sangleekur Bhomasoor Hindu Drama, possibly in Sri Lanka, 1865 Quantity: 2 newsclippings. 2 letterpress. Physical Description: Newsclippings, printed items, sizes vary

Date: 1892 - 1896 - 1903

By: Smith, Lilian M, active 1900

Reference: Eph-A-INVITATIONS-Smith

Description: Includes the following invitations: Arrival at Auckland of "Jane Gifford" and "Duchess of Argyle" October 1842. Jubilee celebration, Monday 10 October 1892 in the Choral Hall. Chair to be taken by J Logan Campbell. Complimentary invitation to Mrs West c/- Mr Mitchelson, Remuera. Silver wedding of Mr and Mrs E Mitchelson, on Saturday 12th September 1896. Waitaramoa, Remuera. The Mayor of Auckland and Mrs Mitchelson request the honour of [Mrs West and the Misses Smith] at a garden party, Saturday 12th December [1903]. Waitaramoana Remuera. Auckland Citizen's Ball to His Excellency the Governor the Right Honorable The Earl of Ranfurly and the Countess of Ranfurly. Tuesday 16th June 1903. Drill Hall, Wellesley Street. Quantity: 4 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress some gilded, on tickets, sizes varying up to 135 x 170 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane auction, April 2005. Transfers: From Photographic Archive - - Material of similar provenance is at PA1-o-1253..

Date: 1876 - 1877

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington family; Alington, Hester Maud, 1895-1983; Alington, Charlotte Mabel, 1877-1975

Reference: A-446-024

Description: A sketch of W H (William Herbert) Alington, dressed as a dragoman for a fancy-dress party. His jacket and Turkish-style pants are dark blue, his shirt white and his stockings, sash belt and turban red. He also wears a long white beard. The verso inscription 'By Aunt Maude' suggetsts that the work might be attributed to Hester Maud Alington; the watercolour is very similar to a sketch made on the verso of a painting of Castle Bellingham (A-446-021). However the initials CMA, bottom right of this watercolour, suggests that the artist might have been Charlotte Mabel Alington. A dragoman was an interpreter or guide in countries where Arabic, Turkish, or Persian is spoken. Other Titles - 1876 1877 Other Titles - Dragoman Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - W M Alington - Drago-man. Fancy-Ball, Christchurch. Janry/77 or Dec/76 [in ink]; Recto - bottom right - CMA; Verso - top centre - By Aunt Maude (sketch); Verso - bottom centre - For Louie Alington (In an old album) Just thought of you [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 182 x 114 mm Provenance: Artworks created by the family of Wellington architect William Alington, donated in 2011 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.

Date: 1897-1904

From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly

By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Pulman (Firm); Shepherd, Cromwell, active 1903-1934

Reference: PA1-f-142

Description: Charles Hill-Trevor's personal album of the time he spent as personal secretary to Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. It records the New Zealand contingents sent to the South African war and public events, personalities and patriotic entertainments associated with that enterprise. Visits to Government houses in Australia record other governors, officials and official residences. On one occasion in Melbourne a New Zealand versus Australia polo match was played. Hill-Trevor shows an interest in Māori, wildlife conservation (including the bird sanctuary on Resolution Island), and the sports of fishing, polo and horsemanship. There are photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their principal servants as well as the Governor engaged in official functions such as opening the Kaiapoi council offices and laying the foundation stone of the Veterans Home, Mt Roskill, Auckland in 1903. Also photographs relating to the play 'The Geisha'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1898

By: J. Wilkie & Company

Reference: Eph-A-BALL-1898-01

Description: Outside shows decorative panel at the top with coats of arms for Otago. The front cover shows a kiwi, and some words of the title are in gold on the back cover. Inside is the list of 18 dances and four extras, and space to write the names of partners. The dances included waltzes, polkas, Lancers, quadrille, Pas de Quatre, Scotch reel, Highland Scottische, Valse de Vienne, Polka Mazurka. The Dunedin Citizens’ Ball of 1898 was held as part of the jubilee festivities. The Mount Ida chronicle published an account of the festivities and included lengthy comments about the ball: “The most conflicting opinions are to be heard about the citizens' ball which was held in the Garrison Hall on the Thursday night of last week. Some will tell you that it was "just lovely" and others will emphatically declare that it was "simply ‘orrid." If you press your inquiries a little further you will ascertain that those who the former answer were in the first relay that went down to supper, and that the others who express the adverse opinion were shut out from the first relay, and thus had the mortification of hearing that many of the dishes enumerated in the menu were '"off," besides which the dozens of little tables, each only laid for six persons, that were arranged in regular fashion in the supper room, were probably not so inviting looking as they were to those who had previously eat round them. In point of attendance the ball was very successful, and the dresses were exceptionally elegant for Dunedin”. Exhibited in ‘Humble: the life of 100 small objects’, exhibition curated by Barbara Lyon, in the Turnbull Gallery, National Library of New Zealand, 27 August - 17 November 2017. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on either side of folded programme.. Physical Description: Colour lithograph, on both sides of folded card, 130 x 63 mm (folded), with white pencil, 80 mm, attached by white cord.

Date: 1949 - 1852

Reference: A-163-021

Description: A ballroom, lit by candles, with festoons of greenery on the walls, above leadlight windows. Several couples on the floor, dancing, others seated and standing to the right, left and rear. Copied, from a sketch by Dr A C Barker, and intended as an illustration for J. C. Andersen's 'Old Christchurch', 1949, but not published Artist's initials illegible, but may be L. E. W. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink sketch, 3 x 7.5 in

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: Ruck, Charlotte Steward, 1840?-1916 :[Scrapbooks, ca 1860 to ca 1899]

Reference: E-309-q-4-031

Description: Engraving shows a crowd of dancers in the Choral Hall in Auckland. Extended Title - From Auckland Graphic [1860s Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of sketchbook. Physical Description: Wood engraving, 158 x 171 mm.