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Photographer unknown :Photographs of the Royal Tour 1927
Date: 1927
Reference: PA-Group-00431
Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.
[Plastic bags collected from retail outlets by Dr Margaret Bailey. 1990-2000s]
Date: 1990 - 2005
By: Bailey, Margaret Lockhart (Dr), 1945-
Reference: Eph-D-BAGS-Bailey
Description: Includes: Briscoes homeware. Smile; you're at Camera House. Throughout New Zealand (2 different). Civic Video. C it at Civic. www.civicvideo.co.nz Deka. Santa Sack. 10% off everything that fits in this sack. Saturday 11th December or Sunday 12th December [2004?] WOW! Deka, where saving feels good. Foodtown. Quality costs no more Foodtown. Enjoy the difference. Apples for the students Gubb's Shoe Fashions Ltd, 107 Manners Street Wellington; Gubb's Jazz & Ballet Boutique, Opera House Lane, Wellington; Gubb's Jazz & Body Boutique, Shop 5, Harbour City Centre Wellington. Hannah's sport. You'll win every time Hugh Wright's Jackies Fashion Boutique. 131 Randwick Road, Moera. Ph 687-713; The Village Gentry ladieswear, menswear - Ganges Road Khandallah. New World. Season's greetings. (Shows Father Christmas) North City [Plaza]. Sale in a bag. You could win a $2,500 shopping spree! Ocean and Ice; surf, sail, ski. 72 Broadway Ave, Palmerston North New Zealand. Pak 'n Save. Everything we do we do to save you money Postie Plus; where you can afford to look good Pure new wool - the natural choice Smart Bros; leaders in men's & boys' fashion. Cobham Court Porirua Warnocks Whitcoulls. Books, cards, videaos, stationery, magazines Woolworths. Take a fresh look; UNICEF Woolworths. Take a fresh look. Cheq-Mate; Chequer Systems Limited. Quantity: 23 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour print on plastic bags, sizes varying up to 620 x 300 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Margaret Bailey, Wellington, in 2006. Transfers: Scrapbooks from the same donation are housed at: MS-Group-1478.
Harris album 1
Date: [1890s-1900s]
From: Harris, Esme Enid, 1913-1993 :Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-115
Description: Album containing family photographs (mostly unidentified); photographs of life in Wellington and the region nearby, including two group portraits of school children, views of public buildings in the city, the Kelburn Cable Car, shipping in the harbour, and views of fire fighters, the fire brigade building in Newtown, and fire fighting equiment. In the Wellington region are views of the Porirua Hospital, and the Maori meeting house at Otaki. Source of descriptive information - Biographical information for M E Coulter from Library client, 2007 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with ochre coloured buckram cover, entitled `Sunny memories'; 33 x 28 cm
Firth album 2
Date: 1916-1917
From: Firth, Pauline J, fl 1977 :Photograph albums of New Zealand and of World War I
By: Whitaker, Arthur, active 1916-1940?
Reference: PA1-o-174
Description: Snapshots of a group of friends, mostly in the Days Bay area, particularly at a house known as `Angel's Rest'; also a series of holiday photographs taken in Palmerston North at Christmas 1916. Two of these show soldiers marching in the Christmas Day Parade, and there are two views of a man posed beside a large cannon. People are identified only by their Christian names. Collection created by Arthur Whitaker. Inscriptions: Album page - Volume 2. More sunny memories. Arthur Whitaker. 12/12/16 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey cover, with inscription in black ink on front cover; 15.5 x 11.5 cm
Railways album 6
Date: [1930-1931]
By: New Zealand Railways
Reference: PA1-f-055
Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways circa 1930 to 1931 by unidentified photographers. Some subjects have images dotted throughout the album, including the arrival in New Zealand of Lord and Lady Bledisloe in March 1930; the arrival in 1931 of Sir Francis Chichester after his crossing of the Tasman in his bi-plane; various activities at the Hillside Railway Workshops, including a group portrait of staff; and various images relating to Railways ticket offices, advertisements for railway tours and excursions, photographs of tickets, and an advertisement for house removals by train. A series of views show athletic sports including running races, hurdles, cycle racing, and long-jump. There are scenes showing the international sportsman Dr Otto Peltzer winning the 880 yards, handicap race at Wellington, on 8th February 1930. Team sports are shown in two views of a women's hockey team playing on the field below Victoria University College, and a series on rugby football, including views of the 5th test between Britain and New Zealand at Athletic Park in 1930. Railways head office picnic, including races by men, women and children (p 35-36), and a huge crowd at Paekakariki Beach, picnicking and swimming (p 70). Official occasions include scenes of the Empire and Australian Farmers' Tour, a view of the cortege at Sir Joseph Ward's funeral outside Parliament Buildings, the opening of Massey Memorial, and various views of unidentified railway officials in personal and group portraits, including one of the members of the New Zealand Railway Commission. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book. C1'; 36 x 52 cm
Views of Picton and Wairakei and other scenes
Date: [ca 1910s-1950s]
By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-6866
Description: 152 views and portraits. They include: at least 22 of Picton and and the surrounding area showing boating in the harbour, people pic-nicking on the waterfront, people watching a rowing race, a speedboat called Pelorus Jack racing in the Sounds, and ferries coming in to the terminus; 10 images of the geothermal area around Wairakei inlcuding mud pools and geysers; nine images of a Studebaker Commander 6 either parked at scenic views or driving along country roads; eight images of men talking possibly at race meetings; six of the timber industry particularly the building of a timber boom; four aerial views of a liner coming into Auckland harbour; three views of groups of well-dressed men and women wearing what are possibly conference badges in an area decorated with bunting; three similar images of a large group of women photographed at Te Aro School near the Carillon also with conference badges; three general views of Wellington harbour; three images of the Spa Hotel, Taupo; two images of two women in bathing suits; two views of the railway station from The Terrace, Wellington; two views of a girl in Wellington Botanic Gardens; a scene on board the RMS Mononwai with a woman being photographed framed by the life belt; two of Aorangi; one of the ferry Cobar in Wellington Harbour; two of children riding on donkeys; two of the same elderly couple outside their house; two of young men on the boat Starlight; a group of what are probably sheep shearers outside their shed; Aotea Quay, Wellington; the yacht Ilex in Wellington harbour; children playing on swings; a large wooden gothic style house (location unknown); sheep droving; two women on a Bell Bus Company tour; various scenes on board ship including passengers watching an entertainer, a boxing match and a crossing the equator ceremony; a ship's officer climing down a rope ladder on the side of a ship; two of kauri trunks being transported on the Roxen, 1932; and a small child looking at an overturned carved wooden statue. The majority of the remaining images are of unidentified landscapes. Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-030982, 030983, 030985, 030992 to 030996, 030998, 031005, 031007 to 031010, 031012, 031013, 031016 to 031045, 031049, 031051 to 031059, 031154 to 031192, 031198 to 031203, 031205 to 031217, 031227 to 031248, 031737, 031739, 031740, 092294 to 092305 Quantity: 114 b&w original negative(s) film. 38 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives
Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand :Assorted photographs
Date: [ca 1885-1945]
By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951
Reference: PAColl-0422
Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).
New Zealand Department of Labour album 1
Date: 1906-1907
From: New Zealand. Department of Labour :Photograph albums for the International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-1907
By: Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); New Zealand. Department of Labour
Reference: PA1-o-367
Description: Photographs taken for the N Z International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-7, by various photographers Interior and exterior photographs of various factories and businesses, showing employees at different activities. Other Titles - N.Z. Department of Labour Other Titles - Factories and workrooms, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with tan leather cover, entitled `N.Z. Department of Labour. Factories and workrooms, Wellington. N.Z. International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-7'; 25.5 x 31.0 cm
Brockie, Robert Ellison (Dr) 1932- : Eighteen photocopies of cartoons published in the ...
Date: 2000
Reference: H-638-001/018
Description: Topics include developments along the Wellington waterfront, Prime Minster Helen Clark's attack on spend-thrift television managers, controversy over the national museum Te Papa's presentation of artworks, the Constitutional Conference 2000, the rebel coup in Fiji, activist Tame Iti's visit to Fiji during the rebel coup, the character of Jenny Shipley, the Leader of the Opposition, New Zealand's health record compared to that of France, New Zealand doctors and nurses emigrating while immigrant doctors are not employed in New Zealand, Associate Minister of Maori Affairs Tariana Turia's use of the word holocaust in a Maori context, the falling New Zealand dollar, the use of human DNA in pig embryos, American miltary responses to cut-backs in New Zealand defence spending, the non-pacific nature of the Pacific Ocean, the New Zealand-Australian agreement reached over social welfare and immigration policies, logging of native forests on the West Coast, the Treaty of Waitangi Tainui settlement advantaging the Hong KOng and Shanghai Bank. Quantity: 18 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of black ink drawings.
Lake album 2
Date: 1925-1928
From: Lake, Beverley Muriel, fl 1982 :Family photographs, views of Sweden and New Zealand
Reference: PA1-o-255
Description: Album of mostly family and school photographs taken between 1925 and 1928. People in the family scenes are occasionally identified by Christian name; photographs of teachers at Wellington Girls' College are identified. A small group of photographs were taken at the Shalimar Gardens in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1928 One image shows an "electric light bath" used as a therapeutic treatment Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue grey cover, entitled `Photographs'; 19.5 x 23.5 cm
Personal and political photographs
Date: [ca 1930s-1940s]
From: Jeffery, Cecil Albert, 1888-1970 : Collection
By: Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Coster, Howard, active 1930s; Digby, Spencer Harry Gilbee, 1901-1995; Lafayette Ltd; Rawood Ltd; Swaine, F A, active 1919-1938; Topical Press Agency Ltd; W H Grove & Son (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-4431
Description: Personal and political photographs comprising: Michael Savage and Frederick Jones with an unidentified woman in a garden; three of formal dinners held in London attended by George Forbes, one of which was for Dominion Prime Ministers at Claridges Hotel in May 1935; three of Reginald Aitken, one taken on board the Queen Mary; Forbes and a delegation visiting a fruit market with apples on sale; Forbes and senior officers inspecting American troops; Forbes and others photographed in Santa Monica, the photograph insribed on the reverse with "compliments of William H Carter, mayor City of Santa Monica"; studio portrait of Emma Serena Forbes; studio portrait of Mark Fagan taken in August 1939; three of Michael Savage, one a photograph of a painting; studio portrait of Janet Fraser; studio portrait of Peter Fraser; and the shop of F Jeffery in Roxburgh, a booksellers, chemists, stationers and newsagents and an agent for HMV gramophones and records and Kodak supplies, with a car outside it; portrait of Michael Joseph Savage reading a booklet; three images of public works camps at Kopuawhara, Hawke's Bay, taken before and after the February 1938 floods that killed 21 people. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-1014 : Jeffery, Cecil Albert, 1888-1970 : Papers.
Overseas and N.Z. view album
Date: [Circa 1870s]
By: Arnoux, Hippolyte, active 1860s-1880s
Reference: PA1-f-047
Description: Photographs taken in the 1870s, covering a wide range of places, photographers mostly unidentified, and most images with no captions. The first group were taken in an around the Mediterranean, including Gibraltar, but particularly focussing on the Suez Canal. The sequence includes a copy of a montage produced by Hippolyte Arnoux, showing a map of the route of the canal, surrounded by photographs of canal designer Ferdinand de Lesseps and various sites along the route. Other images in this sequence were probably taken by Arnoux who was working in Egypt during this period. The next group of images travel via India (?), to Australia. Views of Melbourne include Government House, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Houses of Parliament, the Scots' Church (in Collins Street), the Post Office, the Town Hall, and the Public Library. Following these is a panorama of Sydney, and views of Tasmania. The New Zealand scenes start with a panorama of Auckland, the Mount Eden residence of G.B. (?, pencilled name undeciphered), and the Auckland Domain). Images further south include Ohinemutu; the Pink and White Terraces; Napier; the Manawatu Gorge; Wellington (with the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel visible in the foreground); Nelson; the wreck of the ship Otago, at Chasland's Mistake; and a number of views in the Dunedin area. The last sequence shows parts of Canada, including the Rockies, Montreal and the Niagara Falls. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark brown leather cover, with decorations stamped in gold; 28 x 40 cm
Scott, Tom, 1947- :Twenty-two cartoons published in the Evening Post between 1 and 31 J...
Date: 1997
By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: H-418-022/043
Description: Political cartoons. John Collinge, former High Commissioner to London and a former National Party President is accused of prodigious sexual activity. British colonial rule ends in Hong Kong, the territory is handed back to China. Illustration of the issue of cross-dressing within the New Zealand Police. Problems with moving the Beehive building. Martian exploration on other planets. Jim Bolger reacts nervously to his coalition government's announcement of a proposed compulsory retirement savings scheme. Paper boys consider compulsory retirement and it's costs. Relations between Bill English and Neil Kirton continue to be filled with animosity. Winston Peters is selective in which inquiry findings he'll accept. Jenny Shipley hedges her bets in backing compulsory superannuation schemes. Roger Douglas is raised from the dead to support national's compulsory superannuation scheme. Alamein Kopu leaves her party to become an independent MP. Alamein Kopu tells Parliament all her contributions to the house will be in Maori. Some MP's aren't worried as she is rarely in the house. Secret Australian briefing papers call Winston Peters a 'loose cannon...' Jenny Shipley uses fear tactics to promote her compulsory superannuation scheme. Alamein Kopu speaks Maori in the House of Representatives. Some MP's are not impressed. Bill English continues to attack Neil Kirton. Tau Henare gives out advice. Obituary for politician Matiu Rata 1934-1997. Winston Peters makes uncharacteristically responsible ethical statements. As Labour leader Helen Clark keeps a low profile her popularity in the preferred Prime Minister polls sours above Jim Bolgers. Jim Bolger feels he may be a target at the National Party Conference. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides. Processing information: Subject headings updated in 2022 as part of inclusive metadata work.
Elston family album - Voyage out from England, and New Zealand
Date: 1927-1929
From: Elston family: Correspondence and photograph album
Reference: PA1-o-947
Description: Album compiled by Elston family (Alf & Dot Elston, and children Joan & Alfie) during voyage from England to New Zealand on the Tainui in 1927, and first two years in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
McIntosh album 10
Date: Between 1898 and 1899
By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946
Reference: PA1-o-294
Description: Photograph album presented to George William Barltrop by Herbert Spackman of Rintoul Street, Wellington. Includes a letter attached inside the front cover which reads in part "Dear Mr Barltrop, Please accept the accompanying photo album as a small acknowledgement of the very valuable help you have so very generously afforded me in my early struggles in amateur photography...". Photographs are all of the Wellington area, and were probably taken by George William Barltrop. The first group of images show the process of inserting a middle section, thus enlarging St Thomas's Anglican Church in Newtown. Several views of Taita are followed by a group portrait of a man and two boys seated in a garden, wearing church vestments; and a woman also seated in a garden reading a book. The following sequence is chiefly related to The Wellington branch of The Missions to Seamen, and include two views of a cemetery in which a close view of a headstone commemorates the loss of Andrew Hughson (drowned aged 27, when lost overboard from the SS Takapuna in May 1899), and Captain Brewer, the officers and crew of the SS Ohau which foundered in the same storm. There is a photographic image of a receipt from the Missions to Seamen, Wellington, for 12 pounds, received from "Members of the City Police"; and a number of group portraits of Missions to Seamen picnics, the group in each case carrying the Missions banner. c Two views show steamships in Wellington harbour, and one is of a group of soldiers on the wharf in Wellington, prearing to embark for the South African War, with members of the public watching the parade. Inscriptions: Album page - Mr G W Barltrop from Herbert Spackman, Christmas 1898. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover, entitled `Photographs'; 18 x 22 cm
Paterson, Alan Stuart, 1902-1968 :[Scrapbook of cartoon clippings. 1930s?]
Date: 1930 - 1940
By: Paterson, Alan Stuart, 1902-1968; Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937
Reference: E-604
Description: Includes whimsical cartoons relating to random subjects such as shapes of ears, goldfish, cats in Wellington Zoo, the centenary of the pen-nib 1830-1930, the visit of publisher Jonathan Cape to New Zealand, Railways signs, men typing, modern dancing, motorists' hand signals, a review of 1934, vegetable gardening, Douglas Social Credit supporters' clothing, Scots College boxing championships, short or long pants, noisy cars and pneumatic drills, design of the new car number plates, abstract paintings, Wellington College caps, egg-eating contest at Ormondville, rugby and cricket matches, , middle-aged men, and many more. Also includes a Trevor Lloyd cartoon relating to the 1932-1933 budget. Also includes a programme flier for Archbishop Redwood's Diamond jubilee, Children's gathering, 28 February 1934. The back of one cutting mentioned the date 1933, but the backs of most are undated. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 72 newsclippings (approx), stuck into lined exercise book, with black cover 250 x 200 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Smith's Bookshop Limited in 2003. (Item 18 on "A short list of books for sale", October 2003)
Dunedin Evening Star: Visit of the Duke and Duchess of York 1927
Date: 1927
By: Evening star (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PAColl-6892
Description: 135 views of the tour of New Zealand made by the Duke and Duchess of York in 1927. The majority are of parades and displays attended by them including performances by Maori. Also included are a number of images of the convoy of cars passing through rural areas and the couple at war memorials such as the cenotaph in Dunedin and the Hall of Memories at Waitaki Boys High School. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-037790 to 037924, 105745, 105749 to 105762, and 105764 to 105767 Quantity: 154 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives
Children in new open plan classrom, Island Bay School, Wellington - Photograph taken by...
Date: 2 March 1976
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016
Reference: EP/1979/0766-F
Description: Children in one of the new open planned classrooms at Island Bay School, Wellington. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley on the 2nd of March 1979. Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 5 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negatives, 35mm
Photographs of Hataitai, Wellington, and teenage groups by Gordon Alfred Binstead
Date: 1946-1971
From: Binsted, Una Irene: Photographs of Hataitai and Wellington by Gordon Alfred Binstead
By: Binsted, Gordon Alfred, 1930-1975
Reference: PAColl-6727-1
Description: All but one of the photographs in this collection date from 1946 to about 1949. There are a number of group photographs of teenagers. These may be Hataitai Methodist Church bible class groups. There are views of Hataitai township, the local dairy, and the school Jubilee held in 1946 and 1971. Wellington City is represented with views of the harbour, the waterfront, Evans Bay, Karaka Bay, and the patent slip Quantity: 32 b&w original photographic print(s).
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989:'You could suggest it to the Council, but I think they'...
Date: 1972
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: B-134-354
Description: This cartoon features a couple in their living room reading the newspaper. The woman is sitting down and reading the Woman's News. The man is standing and smiling at the article he is reading about a 'Bunny Girl' (the name of the hostesses at Playboy Magazine owner Hugh Heffner's clubs) coming to the Porirua Easter Parade. The main article on the page is about a WCC beautification project. The woman is retorting to the man with the comments that form the title of this cartoon. Other Titles - Bunny Girl for Porirua Easter Parade. Extended Title - $10,000 offer for Wellington beautification project. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 310 x 440 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.