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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: 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: 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: [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: 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: 1930 - 1939

From: [School exercise books of octavo size. 1800s-]

By: Veale, Jocelyn Edith, active 1940-1950s

Reference: Eph-A-SCHOOL-EXERCISE-BOOKS-1930s-01

Description: Front cover shows title and space for the pupil to fill in name, standard and subject. At top is the advice: This book is not to be covered or mutilated in any way and is to be used for HOME-WORK subjects only. The covers inside and out, carry advertisements for Otorohanga businesses: Gordon M Fraser (surgeon dentist), Innes' Drinks, Miss G MacEwen (dressmaker and designer), Taylor the plumber (Otorohanga Plumbing Works), McDonal Ice Cream, H Addison & Son (grocer and general provider), Kehely's Sports Dept Otorohanga. The remaining pages, are filled with names and addresses. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Ruled exercise book, 7 leaves remaining, 206 x 167 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms Kay Hawk, Auckland, in 2011.

Date: 1857

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

Reference: A-109-043

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: 1841-ca1930

From: Zoe Martin-Carter: Photographs of Wellington and the Centennial Exhibition

By: Shore Bennett, Beverley Doris, 1928-; Martin-Carter, Zoe, 1870-1947

Reference: PA1-f-171

Description: views of Wellington and many of its principal buildings from settlement in 1840 to about the mid 1940s Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1880

From: Graham, E J :[New Zealand scenes] [188-]

By: Graham, E J, active 1880s-1890s

Reference: A-256-009

Description: Looking down from a hill towards the South East quadrant of the Octagon, with First Church beyond, the harbour, St Clair and the sea in the distance Possibly based on a photograph. The second view in this group is based on a Burton Brothers photograph Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 151 x 188 mm, mounted on board with printed title

Date: 1939

By: Daniell, Frederick Charles, 1879-1953

Reference: Plans-84-0034

Description: Shows longitudinal section; details of service car depot; heavy transport dock; goods platform; general offices and cross section, showing roof lights. Boundaries include Queen Street and Waipoua River Parade. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Fred C Daniell registered architect, State Theatre Buildings, Masterton. 10.10.39. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on greaseproof paper

Date: [ca 1938]-1960

From: Beverley Reid and Josephine Towsey :Photographs relating to Reid NZ Rubber Mills Ltd

Reference: PAColl-9425-2

Description: Included are - Company directors, 1957. George Reid in the USA seated with a group of men. George Reid conducting a factory tour which includes Sir John Allum and Arnold Nordmeyer. George Reid with visitors from Goodrich, Akron, Ohio, USA. Portraits of George Chapman Ward Reid, founder of Reid New Zealand Rubber Mills Ltd. George Reid conducting a factory tour which includes Michael Joseph Savage and Paddy Webb, ca 1938. Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s).