Places

Date: 1974 - 1975

From: [Calendars for the year 1975, of approximately A3 size. 1974].

By: Chatham Islands Jockey Club; Carter, Bill, 1932-; Tanner Couch Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1975-01

Description: The front cover shows a map of the Chatham Islands. Each opening (covering two months) displays a photograph, and these include: Waitangi Wharf, Hapupu Airfield, Kaingaroa Beach, Mission House Maunganui, Royal Albatross Forty Fours Is., Race Meeting Chatham Islands. An advertiser is featured on each opening; these include: Chatham Islands Packing Co Ltd, Safe Air Limited, E H Boyce & Co Ltd, Thomas Borthwick & Sons (A'asia) Limited, Union Steamship Company of NZ Ltd, Wrightson N.M.A. Ltd. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 calendar. Physical Description: Photolithographs on calendar of 7 pages, each 447 x 296 mm. Provenance: One copy donated by Mr W E Carter in 2002..

Date: 1888

By: O'Brien, George, 1821?-1888; Otago Early Settlers' Museum

Reference: E-278-q-009

Description: Shows the view looking North-East from the vicinity of Maitland Street across Dunedin and the wharf area, with Signal Hill on the distant right. Princes Street runs diagonally right to left. First Church is in the centre. Reproduction of a watercolour in the Otago Early Settlers' Museum Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 85 x 145 mm

Date: 1878-1981

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: 81-295

Description: Records include ledgers, staff records, cash books, letter books (1900-1910), various documents (letters, insurance policies, reminiscences, deeds, and mortgages), Board of Directors' records (1962-1975), records of subsidiary and related companies, legal correspondence, killing records, newspaper clippings (1907-1969), share registers and share records (including indexes), and records of the Fellmongery Department (including staff, stock and cash) Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - See also 78-047, 87-080, 91-256 Petone meat processing plant Quantity: 7 folder(s). 118 volume(s). 47 box(es). 15 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Plans - To Ephemera Collection - 1 box - To Photographic Archive - 3 boxes - To Serials Collection - MIRINZ bulletin (refrigeration) No 2, 1974; Thomson news No 4 May 1972 - To Book Collections - Associated North Island freezing companies of NZ. General report, 1912; Petone Borough Council dairy regulation by-law, 1911; Petone Borough Council heavy traffic by-law, 1905; Petone Borough Council waterworks by-law, 1904; Petone Borough Council drainage & sanitary by-law, 1911.

Date: 1907

By: A E Eagleton (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-GAME-1907-01

Description: A chess or draughts board, with advertising from local businesses beside it and on front and back covers. Businesses advertised include Grand Hotel Hastings, Daily telegraph Napier, A Simmonds & Co (seeds grains and garden implements, Napier), McGlashan (furniture, Hastings), New Zealand Insurance Company, W Plowman & Son (aerated waters and cordial manufacturers, Napier), E Newbigin (Burton Brewery Hastings), Murray Roberts & Company (farriers and general machinery merchants, Port Ahuriri), R Northe & Sons Ltd (wood, coal and building materials, Napier), A J Williams (chemist and optician, Napier). Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on board game.. Physical Description: Offset lithograph, on both sides of board, 340 x 530 mm (spread) Provenance: Donated by Mrs M A Nolan, in 1963.

Date: [ca 1860s-1930s]

By: Brown, Byron Paul, 1866-1947; Billens Studio; Butterfield, Frederic Augustus, active 1938; Herrmann, Richard, -1892; Kinsey, William Henry Scott, 1860-1931; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918; Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965; Hay, Mary-Annette, 1925-2024

Reference: PAColl-9373

Description: Photographs of Byron Brown and family taken ca 1860s-1930s by a variety of photographers. Includes photographs of; his wife, Susie Brown nee Bright; his daughter Pauline Burgess nee Bright; his parents Arthur and Jane Brown; his wife's parents Mary Ann and Frederic Bright; his daughter Pauline Burgess nee Brown; and Bright and Brown properties and businesses in Otaki. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). 29 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photographic prints and photocopies Provenance: Donor is grand-daughter of Byron Brown. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1739 : Brown, Byron Paul: Papers. See also Oral History Collection..

Date: [ca 1860-1889]

From: Knight, Frederic Hardwicke, 1911-2008 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1713

Description: Album of carte de visite photographs. These include - Landscapes. Views of Dunedin. Business premises. Rothsay on the Island of Bute, Scotland. Portraits taken in Otago and Britain. Taken ca 1860s-1880s by various photographers. Most Otago photographs were taken by James Weaver Allen (b 1822). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 29 December 1987

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

Reference: EP/1987/7098-F

Description: General Motors worker, Papa Koloi, hosing down a car body with white spirit, one of the messiest jobs in the Petone plant. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths 29 December 1987. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacitate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1857

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-109-043-a

Description: View looking down from Mount Pleasant towards the township of Lyttelton, with streets, houses, churches, commercial buildings and wharves visible. Several ships moored in the stream, Quail Island can be seen to the right and the hills opposite (Diamond Harbour, Purau, Teddington). In the foreground are cabbage trees to the left and rocky outcrops to the right After Edmund Norman's lithograph: Lyttelton, Port Victoria, 1855, reference number B-051-006, which in its turn is based on an ink drawing in the Library's collection, Lyttelton Port Victoria, reference number B-009-008. A second very similar drawing with the same title is held at B-009-009 Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia. Opposite p.226 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted, 89 x 153 mm

Date: 1939

Reference: MapColl-832.4794gbbd/1939/Acc.12470

Description: Drawn on a cadastral base map, updated 21 August 1939, of the Lower Hutt industrial area, bounded by the Waiwhetu River and the Hutt River, the annotations show sections sold (in red) and sections open for selection (in green). The sections, numbered with acreages, are bounded by Bell, Gracefield, Park and Seaview Roads, and the railway line runs through the area. Areas sold include the names Wellington Concrete, Schweppes Ltd., ESW Paul, Millans West Australian Hardwoods, W Cable & Co., Winstones Roofing Tile Works, Acetone Illuminating & Welding Coy., Wellington Concrete Pipe Coy., Ford Motor Co., Hume Pipe Coy., Vacuum Oil Coy., Texas Oil Coy., British Australian Lead Manufacturers., Suburban Properties, CH Morley, WA Cairns. Railway workshops, drainage easements, sewers, septic tanks, pumping stations, a quarry and watermains are marked. Areas open for selection include some Crown Land, the remainder are unnamed. The Hutt Park, the Waiwhetu Pa and its cemetery are shown. A pencil annotation states the scale is about 4 chains to an inch. Unpublished base map: Industrial area Hutt Valley settlement, revised May 1939. This annotated revised edition: 21/8/1939. Written on recto: Hutt Valley, Industrial area Lower Hutt, 24. Written on map: 14. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 43.7 x 45.2 cm.

Date: 1918-1933, 1940-1945

By: Tommy Chan & Company

Reference: 2005-123

Description: Correspondence, notes, registers, ledgers, order and docket books relating to Tommy Chan & Company's business in Ohakune and Raetihi. Also includes 13 hand written booklets and notebooks in Chinese. Tommy Chan & Co, greengrocers and storekeepers, was established in 1916 and had stores in Ohakune and Raetihi Quantity: 23 volume(s). 2 folder(s). 1 box(es) (13 pieces). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by C Chan-Hyams, Wellington, 2005

Date: 9 March 1994

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

Reference: EP/1994/0681-F

Description: Folders Jenny sargent (left) and Xhou Jie Xia, working at the end of the production line at L R Wishart's shirt factory in Levin. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ray Pigney 9 March 1994. Source of descriptive information - notes on negative envelope Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1940 - 1943

By: Masterton Chamber of Commerce

Reference: Eph-A-LOCAL-Masterton-1940-01

Description: A pamphlet recommending that manufacturers consider extending their businesses into the Wairarapa. It gives brief statistics of the area: area, population, stock statistics, chief town, the promised tunnel, aerodrome, sunshine; a page listing the schools in the district and their rolls, a list of sporting facilities, industries operating and industries wanted. There were 2,000 pupils in Masterton schools as an oncoming labour force. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset on folded pamphlet, 195 x 152 mm.

Date: 1950 - 1959

By: Wellington (N.Z.). City Engineer's Department. Town Planning Branch

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/1950/Acc.37343-47

Description: Five base maps of the Adelaide Road and King Street industrial area, Newtown, Wellington have been used to show the conversion of residential and multiple small industrial units to two industrial enterprises based there in 1950 approximately. Myrtle Crescent, Drummond and Hansen streets are named. Plan No. T.P. 111 - 4/68 shows the existing conditions of residential and industrial occupancy. A reference key details the number of residential units and persons. The industrial reference key lists street addresses, names of occupiers and volume of floor space. Occupants include slipper factory, plumber, bank agency, grocer, furniture factory, metal spinner, carrier's depot, ladies tailors. Also named is a section of vacant Crown Land and W.C.C. sub-station. Pencilled additions are of a reclamation area, Wellington City Council sections, Tramway Hotel, site of a new building, also the names Spincraft, East, Harte. Plan No. T.P. 112 - 4/69, Stage 1 of Development. Reference keys show numbers of families to be re-housed from residences to be demolished and premises required for industry which includes ownership statistics of Asiatics. Industries to be rehoused are listed as plumber, furniture factory, metal spinner, millinery, grocer, bank agency. Property to be acquired is also highlighted. Plan No. T.P. 113 - 4/70, Stage 2 of Development, shows the Post and Telegraph Department's site, approximate area 5,500 square feet. The building line is marked. The route of King Street has been altered. Plan No. 114 - 4/71, Stage 3 of Development. The Post and Telegraph Department's site, approximate area 55.500 square feet with building line is shown. Also the Incubator Factory site with its building line and site of a new building is prominently marked. Family units to be re-housed from residences to be demolished are referred to in a key. Plan No. 115 - 4/72, Stage 4 of Development. The Post and Telegraph Department's site, approximate area 55,500 square feet, with building line is shown. The Incubator Factory site, approximate area of 41,400 square feet, with building line and site of a new building is marked. Pencilled annotations include the site of a future Incubator Factory building. A proposed road is marked from King Street to Myrtle Crescent. Quantity: 5 map(s). Physical Description: Pencil and colourwash on lithograph, coloured, scale [1:480], sheets 51.2 x 70.9 cm.

Date: [ca 1970-ca 1979]

From: Giles, T Rex, 1929-2006 :Photographs of deer farming and hunting, opossum hunting, taxidermy, and mining.

Reference: PAColl-8752-2

Description: Photographs of deer carcasses being processed for export at Consolidated Traders Ltd's works at Rongatea and Rotorua. Also featured are carcasses of wild pigs awaiting processing and frozen goat carcasses bagged and ready for export. Several photographs show bales of deer pelts packed and covered with hessian. Deer photographed on Rex Giles' farm, Forest Park, at Maroa north of Taupo. Most of these photographs were in albums of plastic sleaves and were probably used as promotional material for the company. The prints were removed from the albums as the type of plastic bonds with the emusion of the print. Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1852

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Ralph, Thomas Shearman (Dr), 1813-1891

Reference: A-215-017

Description: View from Te Aro Flat, probably from the bottom of Mount Victoria, looking towards Wellington. A small hut at the water's edge nearby, swampy ground and the Waitangi Stream in the foreground, fencing marking Te Aro Pa, European houses beyond, cliffs marking the beginning of Lambton Quay with houses running its length at the waterfront, the sloping line of The Terrace, with several houses running up the hill in the left background and ships moored in the harbour. One of two copies at A-215-017 and A-215-018. One copy is an untouched proof, the other has pencil pencil additions of mosque, basilica, buildings on hills and wharf Another copy in Pearse, J Album (ATL) p. 34. This copy is not able to be issued Inscriptions: Signed: E N : T S Ralph Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 194 x 294 mm on sheet 245 x 295 mm

Date: 1941-1956

By: Price, Hugh Charles Llewellyn, 1929-2009

Reference: PAColl-5660

Description: Most of the images relate to the Publishers and booksellers, Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. Two photos show the interior of Mrs B M Stokes depot for Whitcombe and Tombs, Lower Hutt, 1941. Another shows the Whitcombe and Tombs Cricket Club. There are photos of two conferences, that of the Associated Booksellers of New Zealand at Wanganui in 1948, and that organised by the Booksellers Association of Great Britain, "Bookselling in a Changing World" held at St Peter's Hall, Oxford University in 1956. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1935

By: Maidment, J (Mrs), active 2002

Reference: PAColl-4358

Description: Photographs of George Chaffey & Co trucks laden with wool bales, at Huiarua Station, East Coast. Photograph taken ca 1935 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1900-1901

From: North, Allan (Dr), 1908-1982 : Papers

Reference: MSY-4500

Description: Ledger of accounts for Walter Francis North, general store-keeper and draper, of Paeroa; many Maori customers, some with settlements noted. Paper label on front cover "Scrap book" indicates that Hannah MacPherson may have intended to use this one for her film scraps also (see MSY-4505 for one used in this manner). Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1 April 1992

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

By: Pigney, Ray, active 1988

Reference: EP/1992/2065a-F

Description: Chris Lintz of Lintz Estate winery, Martinborough, using a refractometer which measures the sugar content of grapes. Photographed by evening Post staff photographer Ray Pigney on the 1st of April 1992. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler film negative, 35mm

Date: 1980

From: Dickson, Decima, 1906-1995: Papers

Reference: MSI-Papers-5562-1

Description: Comprises edition of `Daily news', 28 Apr 1980 with supplement for centenary of Hughsons business in Taranaki Quantity: 1 folder(s).