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Date: 1900

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to the South African War. 1899-1902]

By: Hawcridge, Robert, 1866-1920

Reference: Eph-B-WAR-SA-1900-03

Description: Programme cover shows an illustration by R Hawcridge of a mounted soldier blowing a bugle, in front of a New Zealand flag. The verso of the front cover shows "Sketches in camp", also by Hawcridge, a series of illustrations of army camp life: Watering the horses, Jumping test, Bringing his dinner, Morning toilet, Shooting test, The farrier, A question of method. The facing illustration, titled "Where will Kruger be when his light 'Bobs' out?" shows a caricature of Kruger as a candle being snuffed out by "The bell of New York" held by a military man (possibly Field Marshal Lord Roberts). portrait photographs of Tom Pollard and Mr W O'Sullivan, details of the New Zealand and British flags, with ferns, roses, shamrocks and thistles representing Britain and New Zealand. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on programme cover, in two pieces, each 260 x 125 mm.

Date: 1913

By: Navy League of New Zealand. Otago Branch

Reference: Eph-A-NAVY-LEAGUE-1913-01

Description: The front cover shows a portrait of the battleship HMS "New Zealand" in an oval inset, flanked by the New Zealand and British flags, English oak sprigs and New Zealand native berries and leaves. The back cover shows a Union Jack, with inspirational text. Inside are facts about the ship, figures to remember, and an invitation to join the Navy League in order to preserve the British Empire which stands for freedom, justice and righteousness. The battleship "New Zealand" was given to Britain by the New Zealand Government. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph printed on folded card, 160 x 103 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Plumbly's auction, 1 December 2005, part of lot 244.

Date: 1915

By: North-East Valley School (Dunedin, N.Z.); J. Wilkie & Company

Reference: Eph-B-SCHOOLS-NEV-1915-01

Description: Certificate of attendance, sighned by the headmaster O D Flamank, and the chairman of committee D J Calder. At top left is an inset oval head and shoulders portrait of King V flanked by the draped British and New Zealand flags. Below are two scenes, one of the warship "Queen Elizabeth", and the other showing a battle scene on the beach at Gallipoli. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on card, 230 x 304 mm.

Date: 1872-1971

By: Brittenden family

Reference: MS-Papers-2055

Description: Letters and transcripts, press cuttings and other papers of three brothers who emigrated to New Zealand and Australia, 1877-1889, with their families, from Deal, Kent, England. They were members of a large party of watermen brought out to New Zealand as a group, generally referred to as the Deal Boatmen. Letters from Edward, who arrived on the "Star of India", 1874, comment on social conditions, and life on South Island railways, 1877-1912 (with diary of voyage from Lyttelton to UK on the SS `Turakina', Jul-Aug 1906); also his wife's and family's letters 1914-1958. Letters from James, comment on Dunedin, 1889-1892, giving first impressions, prices, trade union matters and working conditions. Letters from Frederick describing voyage to Lyttelton on the `Olive' in 1878, first impressions of Canterbury (later of Melbourne). Also letters of family members in South African War, World Wars I and II, and later papers; with notes, photographs and genealogical information. Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - Canterbury Museum, Archives Department, holds the original shipboard diary kept by Fred Brittenden and transcript of letter written by Fred, September 1878 Quantity: 2 folder(s) (50 pieces). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs (photocopies) Provenance: See collection file

Date: 1925 - 1926

Reference: Eph-C-EXHIBITION-1925-03

Description: Souvenir pale blue cotton handkerchief commemorating the Dunedin exhibition of 1925-1926, shows an illustration of the central fountain and garden court with the exhibition buildings around it. A central domed building flies the Union Jack. The name Murray is embroidered in blue at the top left. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print and embroidery on cotton handkerchief, 280 x 278 mm. Provenance: From the collection of Tony Murray-Oliver, 1987.

Date: 1937

By: Tuapeka times (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-ROYAL-1937-1

Description: Includes: Coronation album, published by the manufacturers of De Reszke Cigarettes [album with text, and 48 of a possible 50 stickers in place]. Formerly owned by J Cory-Wright Coronation calendar 1937. [Small gilt calendar booklet marking the coronation of Edward VIII in 1936] Coronation souvenir presented to Kelvin Ching in commemoration of the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, 12th May 1937. [Card] British-Israel World Federation. Coronation souvenir 1937. Order form (on folded pamphlet) A form of divine service commended by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York for general use on Sunday May 9th 1937, being the Sunday preceding the Coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Printed by Whitcombe and Tombs Limited. Lawrence Coronation celebrations. Wednesday 12th May 1937. Souvenir programme. Tuapeka Times Print "Long may they reign!" A souvenir of the coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. May 12th 1937. Official programme of the Marlborough celebrations issued by the "Come to Blenheim" Association Napier Coronation souvenir and order of celebrations, May 12th 1937. God save the King! Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Order of divine service on the occasion of the coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, May 1937. United Citizens' Service held in the Town Hall Dunedin NZ, under the auspices of the Dunedin Council of Christian Congregations, on 12th May 1937, on the occasion of the Coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, 12th May 1937. Order of service Wellington Navy League. [Portrait photograph of King George VI, presented by the Wellington Navy League in honour of the Coronation ..... in brown folded pamphlet] To celebrate the Coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Aide-de-Camp in Waiting is desired by His Excellency The Governor-General to invite [Mr and Mrs R W McVilly] to a garden party at Government House, Wellington on Friday the 14th May 1937 [Invitation card]. The Keeper of the Privy Purse is commanded by Their Majesties to invite the [Right Honourable M J Savage] to take part in the ceremony of planting a grove of oak trees in Windsor Great Park ... 19 June 1937. [Invitation card, and response card annotated with instruction that Savage declined, and nominated Walter Nash to take his place] The Keeper of the Privy Purse is commanded by Their Majesties to invite the [Hon Walter Nash and Mrs Nash] to take part in the ceremony of planting a grove of oak trees in Windsor Great Park ... 19 June 1937. [Invitation card]. Also includes an instruction sheet which originally accompanied a plan of the Grove and a windscreen label Two-sided plastic "coin" showing a profile head of King Edward VIII coronation 1937, with a red, white and blue riboon between each side Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Engravings, offset prints, etc, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1902

By: Willis & Aiken Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-ROYAL-1902-1

Description: Includes: Coronation luncheon to veterans and returned troopers, Dunedin, 26 June 1902. J A Park, mayor, chairman Executive Committee. Menu / toast list The form and order of the Service that is to be performed, and of the ceremonies that are to be observed, in the Coronation of Their Majesties King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in the Abbey Church of S Peter, Westminster, 26 June 1902. [Book hardbound in purple velvet, inscribed to Louie, 9 August 1902] Canterbury's official souvenir of the Coronation of King Edward VII, June 25 and 26, 1902. Willis & Aiken, Printers, Christchurch. 32 pages Order of service to be held in the Synagogue Wellington on the day of the Coronation of our Sovereign Lord King Edward VII. June 26th 1902. Post Print. Service by the Rev H Van Staveren assisted by a full choir under Herr Max Hoppe; accompanist Mr P Levi. St Paul's Pro-Cathedral. Coronation Day, June 26th 1902. Service at 10.30 am. Admission ticket [authorised by] T H Sprott, vicar Coronation Day, June 26 1902. NZ souvenir [silk ribbon showing a full length portrait of Edward VII] Coronation Celebration Committee, Wellington, NZ. June 26th 1902 [red silk ribbon] Quantity: 8 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engravings, offset prints, etc, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: [1870s-1880s]

By: Norris, Joseph Foxley, active 1880s; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Wilson, George Washington, 1823-1893

Reference: PA1-q-094

Description: Photographic album created by Joseph Foxley Norris, with many images of places visited in Great Britain, including castles, cathedrals, stately homes, ports, landscapes, and bridges. Joseph Foxley Norris was a founding member of the Cyclists' Touring Club in England, and was a member of the Pickwick Bicycle Club in England with one image being a group portrait of members of the club. A number of the English scenes were photographed by G.W.W. (George Washington Wilson). Other regions visited include Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro. Views of New Zealand are mostly in the South Island, with a few of Wellington (including Government Buildings, Parliament Buildings and Government House). One photograph taken by James Bragge shows a group of unidentified Maori standing outside a meeting house in Masterton. South Island views include a bicycle "meet" in Christchurch, with a large crowd gathered, and a number of penny-farthing bicycles visible. A number of images show men riding penny-farthing bicycles and the dangers of so doing, with posed views of two men underneath their bicycles and one clutching a fence, taken in and around Christchurch. On page 108 is hand-printed award `Anniversary Sports, Christchurch,N.Z. 16th December 1880. The following ten views taken from the Cathedral Tower, Christchurch, are the 3rd prize in the One Mile Champion Bicycle Race won by J. Foxley Norris, Pioneer Bicycle Club'. Other views include a group of about four men touring along the West Coast Road, and notable buildings in Christchurch and Dunedin. One image shows the "cage" crossing the Teremakau River. A group portrait in Christchurch shows members of Harper & Co. (Solicitors) Inscriptions: Album page - J. Foxley Norris. 1880 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with a black cover, spine title `Photo's'; 29.0 x 24.5 cm

Date: 1860s, 1934

From: Photographs of the Richmond family, their relatives and friends

Reference: PAColl-7075-08

Description: All but one of the photographs depict towns and other locations in the Otago and the West Coast regions of the South Island. These include the towns of Cromwell, Dunedin, and Charlston. There is a view of the Matukituki River and Gorge as well as the Clutha River below Cromwell. Apart from these prints there is a mounted image of HMS Cairo passing through the Keil Canal in July 1934 photographed by Arthur Renard Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1882-1883

By: Hunter, Norman Mitchell, 1859-

Reference: MS-1052-1055A

Description: Log books and letters describe the voyage of the `Lyttelton' from Glasgow to Dunedin as a saloon passenger, May-Aug 1882, and the `Nelson' back to London, Feb-May 1883, and include details of his extensive journeying throughout New Zealand especially period spent in Dunedin There is also a small notebook containing six sea shanties Hunter came to New Zealand to look into investments Quantity: 5 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs (3 vols, ¼ maroon roan, purple linen; 1 vol of letters plus notebook, blue calf box)

Date: 1953

Reference: Eph-A-ROYAL-1953-01

Description: Menu, with inserted swatch of ribbon in red white and blue at top left of the front cover.The menu is printed inside, and features oysters, fish and chicken. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Gilt letterpress on folded card, 152 x 102 mm, with ribbon insert. Transfers: Donated with the Dorothy Neal White papers, in 2004..

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

Date: 1875

By: Lower Hutt City Libraries; Shaw, Joseph L, active 1875

Reference: PA1-o-850

Description: Photographs of churches, public buildings, and houses in England, New Zealand, Australia, and Italy. In New Zealand, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin feature with photographs of the cities, and some of their principle buildings. Central Otago, Southland, and the Queenstown area are represented by landscape views. The same is true for the Australian cities of Melbourne and Geelong. In particular there are two good views of the interior of St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne and of the recently built town hall and post office. There are several photographs of a large viaduct being built. Pisa is represented by the leaning tower and the west end of the cathedral. There are also several views taken in Guatemala. Grouped throughout the album are photographs of popular art works. Album inscribed J L Shaw, Geelong, 1875. High proportion of Melbourne & Geelong photographs signed by Thomas J Washbourne, who had a studio at 89 Swanston Street, Melbourne, in the late 1860s (see "The Mechanical Eye in Australia, by Davies & Stanbury, p 250). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1949?

By: Macandrew, Jennie, 1866-1949

Reference: MS-1158

Description: Reminiscences, mainly musical, of Dunedin, Christchurch, Auckland and England. Description of voyage to England in 1881 on the Waitangi In the front is a hand-copy of a document the original of which was in the hand of Sir Arthur Sullivan. It includes a few bars of music on what was a Royal College of Music letterhead; it is dated July 24, 1884, and where Sullivan's signature wouldl have been is typed "Arthur Sullivan (signed)". This was possibly copied by Jennie Macandrew and is not a facsimile as described on the old catalogue card. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (33 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue linen)

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

Date: 1897

From: [Ephemera and horticulture sales catalogues issued by New Zealand plant nurseries, 1870-1899].

By: James J Pryor & Son (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-1897-01

Description: Includes lists of flower seeds, bulbs, vegetable seeds, and fruit trees, and instructions for work in the orchard, and the flower and vegetable garden, month by month. The cover celebrates the "record reign" of Queen Victoria, with a head and shoulders portrait of the queen. Cover loose; some black tape used on spine. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 24 pages, each 210 x 168 mm. (back cover missing) Provenance: Purchased from Arnold Books (Christchurch) in 2003.

Date: 13-17 May 1920

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of visit of Prince of Wales to New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-9163-15

Description: Edward Prince of Wales talking to a group of men in Christchurch. Photographed by an unknown photographer between 13 and 17 May 1920. Inscriptions: Verso - Christchurch Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20 x 15.2 cm

Date: 1925 - 1926

Reference: Eph-C-EXHIBITION-1925-01

Description: Souvenir handkerchief commemorating the Dunedin exhibition of 1925-1926, shows an illustration of the central fountain and garden court with the exhibition buildings around it. A central domed building flies the Union Jack. The name Kathleen is embroidered in blue at the top left. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print and embroidery on cotton handkerchief, 290 x 275 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2009.

Date: 18 May 1920

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of visit of Prince of Wales to New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-9163-16

Description: Public reception for Edward Prince of Wales, Dunedin, New Zealand. The motorcade is proceeding along Anzac avenue which is lined with crowds. In the background can be seen the Law Courts and the Police Station. Extreme left foreground is a corner of the Railway Station. Photographed by an unknown photographer 18 May 1920. Inscriptions: Verso - Public reception at Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20 x 15.2 cm

Date: 1950

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch; Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-FRUIT-1950-01

Description: Poster shows at top left a train and at top right a steamship, both ways of sending produce to Reilly's. The central circular title panel is flanked by the Union Jack at left and a New Zealand flag at the right. The lower half shows many different fruit and vegetables. Dated with reference to a photograph showing the poster on the Rakaia Railway Station on 29 March 1950. (Archives New Zealand files Neg. no B-57, photographer Le Cren) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 1015 x 755 mm.