Places

Date: ca 1900s-1920s

By: Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-0598

Description: Postcards of Main Street, Eltham with the Coronation Hotel on the right; the estuary at Invercargill with children in the sea next to some sailing boats, a boy with a bicycle, and women sitting on the sand; the traffic bridge over the Manawatu Gorge; the Pink Terraces with a rowing boat with tourists at the foot (captioned as the lost Pink Terraces therefore postcard produced after 1886); trams on George Street, Dunedin with shops in the background; and a group of children pretending to do a haka. Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [ca 1920-1945]

Reference: PAColl-6962

Description: 15 images including: three of young men practising life saving skills in the sea with a rope on a winch; two of girl guides helping at a kindergarten; two of East Street, Ashburton showing the different businesses parked cars and trees opposite; a car broken down in the middle of a ford; flooding on the road to the Harihari Hotel, with cattle being driven along it; a timber camp of five tents in the bush; a house at Kennedy's Bush on Banks Peninsula ca 1920; decorated boats on the Avon River with crowds on the banks watching and Ward & Co factory in the background; Cashel Street ca 1920 busy with trafic and pedestrians; and the Free Lance offices on The Terrace, Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059480 to 059494 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s) film. 12 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1930 - 1939

By: Johns Ltd; Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014; Atkinson's Books (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-ELECTRIC-Johns

Description: Annual price lists and illustrated catalogues Two copies of 1932-33 Quantity: 4 sales catalogues. Physical Description: Letterpress in volumes each approximately 80 pages, 240 x 180 mm.

Date: 1939

From: [Ephemera and programmes of quarto size concerning cycling, bicycles and cycle racing in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-CYCLE-1939-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue advertising Malvern star cycles, Aberdale cycles, bicycle accessories and parts. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 44 pages, 275 x 222 mm.

Date: 1926 - 1927

By: Farmers' Trading Company; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1926-01

Description: Illustrated mail order sales catalogue for the Farmers' Trading Company store in Auckland gives ordering instructions and rail freight details. Merchandise includes sewing machines, phonographs, radiola, furniture and carpets, motorcycles and bicycles, made to measure clothing, Wolseley cream separator, pedal cars on the roof of the Farmers', aluminiumware, banking, bedding, shoes, phonographs, crockery, cutlery, tableware, lampware, linoleum (2 colour plates on one loose sheet), grocery, haberdashery, horse and cow covers, milking machines, musical instruments, paints, patent medicines, pianos, poultrykeepers' supplies, saddlery, seeds, spray pumps, tools, toys, tents, wallpapers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 580 pages, 267 x 210 mm. Provenance: Purchased from A & S Gallagher, in 2011.

Date: 1928 - 1929

By: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1929-02

Description: Illustrated booklet showing views of the various retail departments and workshops, in the building on the corner of Hobson Street and Wyndham Street, Auckland. Shows the following departments: office, grocery (icluding tea and spices, hardware, cycles, boot factory, drapery, furniture, pianos, farm machinery, seeds, saddlery. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume, 12 pages, 285 x 223 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Les Cleveland in 1998.

Date: [ca 1910-1925]

Reference: PAColl-6963

Description: Assorted views of army life and family photographs many of them taken on a beach. One of a hot air balloon is advertising Hudson's Baking Powder with the slogan "Bound to Rise". Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059554 to 059869 and 106041 to 106083 Quantity: 316 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives

Date: [ca 1870s]

Reference: 1/2-005350-F

Description: A street scene with two shops, one called W H Wilcox and the other a chemist's shop. In the foreground is a man on a penny farthing bicycle. Photographer unidentified. Date estimated by death of shop owner W H Wilcox in 1873. See Timaru Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 885, 30 April 1873, Page 1 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THD18730430.2.2.4 Accessed 28 September 2023. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative Processing information: Description updated 28 September 2023 following information from staff member.

Date: 1929

From: [Ephemera and programmes of quarto size concerning cycling, bicycles and cycle racing in New Zealand]

By: Couchman Cycle Company Ltd; T P R Printing Company

Reference: Eph-B-CYCLE-1929-01

Description: Lists products for sale (mail order service available): the Couchman bicycle, and other models such as "Winner", Cambria, White Star, B.S.A., C.C.M. Massey. Also lists children's scooters, Dunlop tyres, Couchman, and Michelin tyres, bells, brakes, chains, wheels, carriers, saddles and other accessories. The store was at Courtenay Place. Quantity: 1 catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 44 pages, each page 280 x 217 mm.

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Burt, Gordon Onslow Hilbury, 1893-1968 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-015371-G

Description: Courtenay Chambers building and adjacent buildings, Courtenay Place, Wellington. Martins' Ltd, a shoe shop, is located in the ground floor of the Courtenay Chambers. Photograph taken ca 1920s by Gordon Burt. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass Negative

Date: 1939

From: [Ephemera and programmes of quarto size concerning cycling, bicycles and cycle racing in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-CYCLE-1939-01-cover

Description: Shows a cyclist mounted on his bicycle in racing gear. On the cover of an illustrated sales catalogue advertising Malvern star cycles, Aberdale cycles, bicycle accessories and parts. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cover of booklet. Physical Description: Photolithograph on cover 275 x 222 mm.

Date: 1905

By: Keeling & Mundy (Firm)

Reference: Eph-C-CYCLE-1905-01

Description: Advertises with illustrations, several brands of cycle, including Premier Cycles, Centaur Featherweight, and Centaur Motor Cycle; Warren Cycles, Tribune, and Blue Streak Bicycles. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on red paper, 455 x 284 mm. Processing information: Removed from between the pages of the bound "New Zealand mail" for 21 January 1905, in 1984.

Date: ca 1927

From: Tesla Studios :Negatives of Wanganui and district taken by Alfred Martin, Frank Denton and Mark Lampe (Tesla Studios)

Reference: 1/1-021248-F

Description: Group of people standing outside Scott's Economic Store in Wanganui with bicycles and automobiles. Taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1927. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - 18965 Chronicle; Photographer's title on negative - 1927 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1910

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

Reference: 1/1-004253-G

Description: Interior of a bicycle shop in Christchurch, showing bicycles, bicycle equipment, and a man behind the counter. Taken by Steffano Francis Webb in 1910. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).