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[Ephemera relating to Anzac and First and Second World War, and later war events in New...

Date: 1960 - 1979

Reference: Eph-A-ANZAC-1960/1979

Description: Includes: 1961: Symbol of Anzac. Anzac Day service Petone Railway Station, 25 April 1961. Order of service with a page of historical notes about the flagpole erected in 1916 to signify the comradeship of Australian and New Zealand railway men at Gallipoli. The Anzac Dawn Ceremony of Remembrance. The Dawn Service, Anzac Day 1961. Cenotaph, Auckland Domain. Conducted by the Australian Imperial Force Ex-Servicemen's Association with the co-operation of the Auckland Returned Services' Association. [Order of service]. His Worship the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Wellington in conjunction with the Wellington Returned Services' Association. Commemoration Service, Anzac Day 25th April 1961. [Order of service] 1964: Anzac Day; a statement by the Public and Social Afairs Committee of the Anglican Church of New Zealand. October 1964. 1965: NZ Returned Services' Association. Wellington District Anzac service and parade, 25th April 1965. 50th anniversary of the landing on Gallipoli. service of commemoration conducted by His Grace the Most Rev. P T B McKeefry, Major A Sampson, the Rev A W Sutton. [Order of service] 1966: NZ Returned Services' Association. Citizens Anzac Day service ... held under the auspices of the Christchurch Returned Services' Association. King Edward Barracks, 25 April 1966. Order of service. Anzac Day 25th April 1966. Deep Cove RSA Group. Dawn Parade timetable 1967: Anzac Day 25th April 1967. Deep Cove RSA Group - Dawn parade timetable 1968: Westminster Abbey. Anzac Day Commemorative service. Thursday 25 April 1968 at 12 noon [attended by Sir Alexander Downer and Mr R H Wade]. 1971: Anzac Day parade at the NLF Cenotaph, Pigeon Park. Sunday 25th April, 10.00 am. Self determination for the Vietnamese people. Withdraw all NZ-US troops now. Trash Willis St on the 30th. Progressive Youth Movement. [Typescript flier] 1972: His Worship the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Wellington in conjunction with the Wellington Returned Services Association. Commemoration service, Anzac Day 25th April 1972. [Order of service] 1975: Lest we forget. Dawn ceremony of remembrance. Wairarapa Returned Services Association (Inc). 59th Anzac Day Dawn Parade, Friday 25th April 1975 at 0555 hours, Queen Elizabeth Park Masterton. Order of service Citizens' Anzac Day service, Christchurch Town Hall, Anzac day, Friday 25th April 1975 at 10 am. held under the auspices of the Christchurch City Council in conjunction with the Christchurch Returned Services Association. Chairman the Mayor of Christchurch H G Hay, esq. Order of service 1976: Lest we forget. Dawn ceremony of remembrance. Wairarapa Returned Services Association (Inc). 59th Anzac Day Dawn Parade, Sunday 25th April 1976 at 0555 hours, Queen Elizabeth Park Masterton. Order of service 1979: New Zealand Returned Services' Association. [Type of poppy sold on Anzac Day up to 1979] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Engravings and offset prints sizes varying up to 240 mm.

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Sinclair, Leslie Herbert : Reminiscences of a retired public servant

Date: 195?

By: Sinclair, Leslie Herbert, 1894-1974

Reference: Micro-MS-0496

Description: Cover period 1910-1950, boyhood in Central Otago, worked in the Public Service in Christchurch before World War I, action in France, return to the Public Service in Wellington, Hamilton, Dunedin Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 80 pages). Physical Description: Negative microfilm

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Young, James Rarity, 1891-1972 : Rememberings

Date: 1891-1968 (1969)

By: Young, James Rarity (Archdeacon), 1891-1972

Reference: MS-Papers-1032

Description: Young writes of his childhood and of life in Palmerston North, student days at Canterbury University College, and of being an Anglican Priest at various parishes in Christchurch, Ross and South Westland (based at Harihari), and at Hawera, Wanganui and Pahiatua Also notes by Jim Henderson extracted from the `Open country' series of scripts (1974) Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (18 leaves & photograph). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (copy) Photograph of Archdeacon James Young and Claire Young, taken at Riwaka, Nelson, May 1968

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Juriss, Maximilian, 1878-1960 : Papers

Date: 1883-1960

By: Juriss, Maximilian, 1878-1960

Reference: MS-Papers-1483

Description: Primarily records of World War One service, comprising scrapbooks of correspondence, reports, documents, etc. Served as Captain with British army in France until captured at Vimy Ridge, May 1916; later served with Inter-allied Commission and British Red Cross Society, dealing with Russian prisoners in Germany. Unpublished autobiography, business correspondence, photographs, clippings, Juriss family records. There are many souvenirs of his war service - a collection of medal ribbons, German and Russian prisoner of war currency, tickets, flashes, armbands, labels, a homemade compass and handmade programmes for entertainment etc Other - Remininscenes and annotated scrapbook of letters etc (Folders 1 & 2) were filmed and returned to Mr Juriss in Sep 1988 Quantity: 11 folder(s). 0.13 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 20 November 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Orders and decorations. Collection of medal riboons and World War One relics.

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O'Connor, A O (Mrs) : Photograph of the First Expeditionary Force

Date: 1914

Reference: PAColl-4584

Description: Photograph of the SC Expeditionary Force (main body) (Egypt and Dardanelles) taken at the Trotting Club Paviliion Christchurch 1914. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Mackie album 4: From the war in France and leave in Paris to New Zealand via Panama

Date: 1916-1918

From: Martin, W W :World War One albums of Mr Laurie C Mackie

Reference: PA1-o-311

Description: Views of Paris and some of its notable buildings; places on the battlefields of France; soldiers; the return trip to New Zealand via Panama and the Panama Canal; Views of places, friends and family in New Zealand 1/2-090821 to 090900 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured red cloth cover, edged with impressed line. Entitled `From my camera', impressed in cursive style, printed in white, on top left hand corner of front cover; 25 x 30 cm

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Kingsford, Frederic, 1890-1965 :Photograph album of views of England, Ireland, voyage t...

Date: 1919-1920

By: Kingsford, Frederic, 1890-1965; Cameron, Kate, active 1999

Reference: PA1-o-934

Description: Album compiled by Frederic Kingsford of 23rd Reinforcements Auckland Infantry Regiment, A Company, ca 1919. It is a pictorial record of his tours around Britain and Ireland before embarking on the 'Tainui' for his return journey to New Zealand. The return journey by way of Panama, included a stop over at Norfolk, Virginia, USA, and another at Colon, Panama, before passing through the canal. The British section of the album includes shots of a regatta held on the river at Walton on Thames where the New Zealand Hospital and depot was located. There are photographs of the clergy and the Royal family leaving Westminster Abbey after the Memorial service for overseas fallen, 14 May 1919. Others show the Australian and New Zealand stands at the Henley Regatta where the Australians won the Kings Cup from Oxford. Finally about four days before leaving for New Zealand he attended the Peace Procession at Glasgow (4 August 1919) in which colonial troops took part. The Tainui cleared Plymouth Sound bound for North America on the 8 August 1919. Source of title - Title supplied by Library The album was compiled by Frederic Kingsford, A Company, 23 Reinforcements, NZEF. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948 : Gifford-Bickerton papers

Date: 1877-1946

By: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948

Reference: MS-Group-1566

Description: Papers of A C Gifford and A W Bickerton whose common interest was astronomy. Gifford's other interests included Shakespeare authorship, social credit, tramping in the Te Anau-Milford area. He taught at Christ's College and Wellington College, 1895-1927. Bickerton's papers, which were sent to Gifford after Bickerton's death include 29 volumes of journals, 1911-1928, and are concerned largely with astronomy, his advancing old age and daily activities. A large mass of articles and notes refer mainly to astronomy but also to his dismissal from the academic staff of Canterbury University College by the College board of governors in 1895. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 144 folder(s). 3 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available. Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Transfer made from here. - To Photographic Archive - Two photographs.

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Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :"Quick, Eric! Here she comes! Straighten your tie... ...

Date: 1953

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-386-004

Description: Shows a family looking out over Christchurch's Cathedral Square during the Queen's visit in 1953. The family are all dressed in their best clothes. The Cathedral, the war memorial and Chief Post Office are all visible. The Queen's car is seen disappearing behind the Cathedral, and crowds of people are gathered in the Square Below image in pencil is written '1953? Queen's visit?' suggesting someone other than the cartoonist wrote it Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Tom Mayne [in ink] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 200 x 260 mm (image)

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New Zealand Red Cross :Copy negatives from historical photographs of Red Cross activities

Date: 1915-1980

By: New Zealand Red Cross Society

Reference: PAColl-0168

Description: Copying done by M de Raadt in 1779 and 1980 The 11 photographs are all postcards Arrangement: Negatives in 35mm registers at 16051 - 16082. Quantity: 154 b&w copy negative(s). 11 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: Previously NEGColl-69/1

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Creator unknown :Sixteen mounted photographs showing various places events and groups

Date: 1890-1918

By: Mitchel Photo; Oakley, William Stanley, -1942; Sherlock, William Alfred, -1922; Sherlock, William, 1846-1910; Varley Brothers (Firm); Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3380

Description: Photographs of Golden Downs; group at Dawson's Hotel,Reefton; decorated horse and cart; group portraits of army units, WWI; tree lined sreet scene; Christchurch gardens and band rotunda; Inangahua Brass Band, 1910; other brass bands; lodge members, Reefton; Reefton rugby club members Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s) in one box.

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[Ephemera and theatre programmes for performances of opera and light musicals in New Ze...

Date: 1917

Reference: Eph-A-OPERA-1917

Description: Includes programmes for the following performances: Gonsalez Italian Grand Opera. Country tour. "Cavalleria rusticana", "I pagliacci", "Il trovatore", "Faust", "Carmen". [1917]. Brief programme pamphlet Gonsalez Italian Grand Opera. "La boheme" (1 January 1917), "Un ballo in maschera" (2 January), "Lucia de [di] Lammermoor" (3 January), "Faust" (4 & 6 January), "Rigoletto" (5 January), "Il trovatore" (6 January). His Majesty's Theatre Auckland 1917. Programme Gonsalez Italian Grand Opera. "Lucia de [di] Lammermoor" (5 February), "Faust" (6 February), "Carmen" (7 & 10 February), "Mignon" (8 February), "Rigoletto" (9 February), "Madam Butterfly" (10 February). Theatre Royal Christchurch, 1917. Programme J & N Tait's New Musical Comedy Company presents "Very good Eddie". Grand Opera House, 8 August 1917. Programme J & N Tait's New Musical Comedy Company presents "The white chrysanthemum"; a musical extravaganza in three acts. Grand Opera House Wellington, commencing 15 August 1917. Programme J C Williamson's New Musical Comedy Company in "So long Letty", "Tonight's the night", "The girl in the train", [and] "High jinks". Grand Opera House Wellington, commencing 4 January 1917. Programme (2 copies) J C Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company. "The cinema star", [and] "The pink lady". Theatre Royal Christchurch, 5 November 1917. Programme J C Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company. "The pink lady" [and] "The cinema star". Theatre Royal Christchurch, 5 November 1917. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Programmes and flyers, sizes ranging under 250 mm.

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[Ephemera relating to peace celebrations after World War I. 1919. Folder 1]

Date: 1919

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-Peace-1919-1

Description: Includes: 01. Petone Citizens' Peace celebrations, 19th, 20th and 21st July 1919. Order of services, &c., to celebrate the signing of Peace between the Allies and the Central Powers. Fleet Printing Co., Ltd [1919] 02. Pukekohe Times. Souvenir of Declaration of peace, 1919. Programme of celebrations, Pukekohe, July, 19th, 20th and 21st, 1919. [Printed by] Times, Pukekohe. 03. Port Chalmers Borough Council. Borough of Port Chalmers peace celebrations, July 1919. Official programme. [Printed by J Wilkie & Co. Ltd [1919] 04. Te Awamutu Peace Celebration Committee. Peace celebration Te Awamutu (Waikato, New Zealand), July 1919. Official programme. Published by authority of the Te Awamutu Peace Celebration Committee, L G Armstrong, mayor. Waipa Post Print [1919] 05. Waimarino County. Peace souvenir celebrations held at Raetihi and Ohakune, in conjunction with Horopito and Rangataua townships. Official programme of three days' events, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday 1919. Waimarino County Call, printers and publishers. Designed by F & O Ltd. 06. Souvenir programme of peace celebrations, Invercargill New Zealand. 1919. Printed at the Southland Times Office, Esk Street, Invercargill [1919] 07. Wellington Peace Thanksgiving Festival. Town Hall, 20-21 July. Grand Peace Choir of 300 voices, Wellington Professional Orchestra. Conductors Mr Robert Parker, Mr H Temple White, Mr H Moschini. Programme 08. Citizen's Peace Thanksgiving Service. Town Hall Wellington, 6 July 1919. Programme 09. City of Christchurch NZ. Peace celebrations, [19-21 July 1919]. Programme (2 copies) 10. Peace celebrations, Dunedin, July 19th - 24th, 1919. Official souvenir programme (2 copies) 11. Peace on Earth. "He maketh wars to cease". Thanksgiving service 1919. Issued by A H Reed, Express Co.'s Building, Dunedin. 12. United public service of praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for the blessings of Peace by the signing of the Peace Treaty with Germany 29 June 1919. Town Hall Tauranga, Sunday 6th July 1919. Order of service Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and relief prints, sizes varying up to 230 mm. Provenance: Purchased and donated from various sources.

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Merchant navy convoy 5

Date: February - June 1919

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-o-1395

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on following voyages: Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England. Left Port Chalmers 5 February 1919, called at Colombo (24 February 1919), Bombay (27 February - 9 March 1919), Karachi (11 March 1919), Suez and Suez Canal (20 March 1919), Port Said (21 March - 10 April 1919), Alexandria (11-15 April 1919), Gibraltar (21 April919), Southampton (25-26 April 1919), arrived Liverpool 28 April 1919. She carried 98 passengers from Bombay to Port Said; 1800 officers and men from Karachi to Port Said; 750 British soldiers and 60 passengers from Alexandria to Southampton; and 11 passengers and 7 ambulance cases from Gibraltar to Southampton. Liverpool, England, to Port Chalmers, with 1124 New Zealand soldiers. Left Liverpool 17 May 1919, called at Colon (31 May - 1 June 1919), Panama Canal and Balboa (1 June 1919), arrived Port Chalmers 23 June 1919. Includes views of Suez Canal, wharves at Colombo. Bombay, Karachi, Port Said and Alexandria, Panama Canal locks and gates, French and British warships, soldiers embarking to return home, and Peace Day celebrations in Port Chalmers and Christchurch. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown cloth-bound album with brown morrocco spine and corners, 21 x 19 cm

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New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. Canterbury Centre :Belgian Fund Athletic Carn...

Date: 1915

From: [Programmes and other ephemera for athletics meetings and sports clubs. 1900-1969]

By: New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. Canterbury Centre; Christchurch Press Company Ltd; Henderson, Andrew Kennaway, 1879-1960; Booth, Leonard Hampden, 1879-1974; Cumberworth, Frederick Herbert, 1881-

Reference: Eph-B-ATHLETICS-1915-01

Description: Programme for an athletics meeting held to raise funds for Belgian civilans suffering during the first World War. As well as the programme, there are cartoons and caricatures by Kennaway, F H Cumberworth, Booth and Baverstock. There are satirical pieces and verse by Cyrano, A.E.M., and anonymous contributors. The programme contains advertisements for W Strange & Company (furnishers) and the Evening News. Other Titles - We ask your help Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) and offset text in booklet.. Physical Description: Booklet of 39 pages, each 278 x 217 mm.

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Growing up (a)

Date: [1970-1978]

From: Condliffe, John Bell, 1891-1981 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7641-4

Description: The first part of Condliffe's autobiographical account of his life in which he describes his origins and family background in Australia, arrival in New Zealand, school, church associations, beginning his working life in Customs, marriage and university career, his army service in World War One, his time at Cambridge University and return to New Zealand to teach economics at Canterbury University. He describes the beginning of his writing life, return to Cambridge, his association with the League of Nations and the economics of the time, the events contributing to World War Two, moving to the United States and his time there until the war ended. Condliffe also describes his family life in some detail. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Thompson, Barry :Photographs

Date: ca 1914-1918

By: Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: PAColl-0605

Description: Photographs of: Tui Hunt holding a doll and Huia Hunt at an easel in their back garden; the beach at Broad Bay, Dunedin; the employees outside J Mandl & Co, Westland Brewery in Hokitika with a horse and loaded dray next to it; a display of dolls, dolls furniture and framed pictures with poems attached; a hand touched photograph of an unknown man next to a lake probably in Rotorua; Lorna Moore holding the train of the dress of Miss Mulholland at Twomey's Hotel in Methven (not a wedding dress so possibly for a pageant); a taxi bedecked with union jacks outside a house in Christchurch with six people dressed up as clowns for a post-war celebration - one man is blacked up; and a street sellers cart labelled "Soldiers' Queen Cart No 4" possibly also associated with post-war celebrations. Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Rose Atkinson - Notebook

Date: 1914-1915

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: 82-213-06

Description: Note and cuttings made by Rose Atkinson, who attended the trials of anti-conscriptionists in Christchurch Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Parts 3 (Continued) to 9

Date: 1871-1930

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2009

Description: Letters of Eunice, Tichborne and Robert Upton, together with other papers concerning the family, and a diary of Arthur Begbie. Includes letter by WWC Karslake to Rev Upton, 14 Jan 1870, in which he gives a brief description of the voyage to Lyttelton on the `Zealandia' in Aug-Nov 1869. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

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Brockie's chronicles

Date: 1943-1958, 1999

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- : Brockie's chronicles

Reference: MS-Papers-6565-1

Description: Printout of Brockie's edited diaries, letters and notes, 1930s to 1952 with background family biography, extracts from his father's reminiscences and account by Brockie of his early years. The first part, `Boa', tells of his father's experiences and includes extracts from reminiscences during World War One and family history from the 14th century. Brockie writes of his various experiences during the 1940s to 1952, growing up in Christchurch and moving to Wellington, at school, university, tramping and social life, some as reminiscences, the rest extracts from his diaries with linking information. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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