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Date: [ca 31 Aug 1981]

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

By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016

Reference: EP/1981/2965-F

Description: Women clothing workers from Rixen Manufacturing Company, Levin, being read messages of support for their sit-in protest regarding redundancy pay. All images include Clothing Workers' Federation secretary Mr Frank Thorn. Three images also include mechanic, Norman MacFarlane, and Clothing Workers' Federation president, Mrs Joyce Hawe. Photographs taken circa 31 August 1981 by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley. Source of descriptive information - Evening Post caption from 31 August 1981, attached to back of EP/1981/2965/13a. Historical note from Global Peace And Justice Auckland Newsletter #53 from http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0402/S00092.htm accessed July 2009. Workers occupied Rixen Manufacturing after they were given one weeks notice of closure with no redundancy payment. Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s) strip with 6 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

Date: 1890 - 1901

By: Shaw, Allen Desmond, 1944-; Child, Edward George, 1860-1949

Reference: PAColl-2171

Description: Photographs of: seven men leaning on shovels outside a hut and two men with shovels holding the reins of drays at the harbour side (both taken by Anglo New Zealand photo); the railway line and water tank at Rata with men, women and children in an open railway carriage on the right; D class locomotive with four men standing next to it; men cutting flax on a wooden jetty next to a river; men outside a hut with piles of flax bundles; the Delphic captioned as "the largest boat that trades to New Zealand" moored in Wellington (taken by E G Child); a large crowd outside the Parliament Buildings for the memorial service on the death of Queen Victoria; and a group of men and one woman outside a corrugated iron hut. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.

Date: 1884-1889

By: Francois, Bridget Madge Isabel, 1902-1992

Reference: MS-Papers-10490

Description: Includes index to names and places mentioned provided by Marsha Donaldson. Original has been attributed to Hannah Seymour; diary transcribed and edited by B Ristori describes voyage on Zealandia, 1884, and life in Wanganui to 1889. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: [ca 1940s-1940s], [ca 1968-ca 1974]

Reference: PAColl-10084

Description: Photographs of the staff of the Government Printing Office in Palmerston North at work, taken between circa 1968 and circa 1974 by an unidentified photographer. The collection includes group portraits of staff individual staff members at work, and scenes of staff socialising. The photographs depict a range of machinery and printing equipment used by the staff in their work. One group photograph identifies the following individuals: E James, R Edmonds, T Lynch, J Patrick, P Edwards, R Hinks, R Bell, D Bell, B Martin, A Johnson, Mr. McMurray, M Myers, D Roberts, G Collis, F Collis, C Williamson, W Hale, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Mamad, and C Priest. Some individuals from the group photograph appear in other images. All other staff photographs are unidentified. The collection also includes one photograph of College Street, Palmerston North, primary school girls and boys on their tricycles, taken circa 1940s-1950s by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Dated circa 1968 to circa 1974 because there are calendars on the walls for those dates. Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 12 Nov 1983]

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

By: Ramson, Stuart, active 1985

Reference: EP/1983/4523-F

Description: Frank Williamson, manager of the Regent Theatre, Levin. Shows him seated inside the cinema. Photographs taken circa 12 November 1983 by Evening Post staff photographer Stuart Ramson. The cinema was to be pulled down in 1984 to make way for a shopping plaza. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 16 Sep 1991

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

Reference: EP/1981/3131-F

Description: Rixen Manufacturing Company, Levin, during a staff protest regarding redundancy pay. Comprises six images: three images of factory exterior with a sign reading: "Blame the system Not the victim", and three images taken inside the factory with women clothing workers, Federation of Labour president Jim Knox, Federation of Labour secretary Ken Douglas, and Clothing Workers' Union secretary Frank Thorn. Photographs taken 16 September 1981 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Evening Post caption from 31 August 1981, attached to back of EP/1981/2965/13a. Historical note from Global Peace And Justice Auckland Newsletter #53 from http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0402/S00092.htm accessed July 2009. Workers occupied Rixen Manufacturing after they were given one weeks notice of closure with no redundancy payment. Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s) strip with 6 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

By: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Denton, Frank James, 1869-1963

Reference: G-071

Description: Extended Title - A woman's work ; New Zealand women at work 1890s to 1918. Photographic Print series 5. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of photograph

Date: [193-?]

Reference: PAColl-7244

Description: Photographs of work on the Massey Agricultural College farm at Palmerston North, showing a man operating a pick-up rake pulled by two horses; a side view of the same process (although it is referred to as a sweep) with a Manitoba stacker in the background; a horse-operated Manitoba stacker in operation building a haystack; and the men having smoko next to a haystack. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-002730 to 002733 Quantity: 4 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1878-1880

By: Taylor, Charles Henry, 1858-1928

Reference: MS-Group-1671

Description: Comprise two diaries, covering Taylor's voyage to New Zealand and his life in Wellington, the Manawatu region, and finally Auckland. The diaries are detailed and provide a lively account of life on an immigrant ship and in the North Island while looking for work. Interspersed with reflections on life and quotations from poems, as well as some sketches of people, ships, housing and scenery. Source of title - Supplied by Library Other - The donor is happy for researchers to contact him, for possible further information. His address is 16/166 Mill Point Road, South Perth, WA 6151, Australia. Charles Henry Taylor, lived on the Isle of Man as a child, was a joiner by trade. In 1878 he took advantage of the Vogel government's immigration scheme to emigrate to New Zealand on the `Hudson'. Travelled through Wellington, the Manawatu, where he was an eyewitness to the great bush fires of the period, and to Auckland, looking, often unsuccessfully, for work. Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Professor John A Howard, grandson of C H Taylor

Date: [between 1898-1902]

From: Cameron, R A :Photographs of Ohingaiti

Reference: 1/2-094227-F

Description: Group portrait of 39 men and boys who worked on the Makohine Viaduct. Photograph taken between 1898-1902 by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1920s]

Reference: 1/2-105450-F

Description: Grocery and general store of G Worth, in the Majestic Theatre Building at Taihape, circa 1920s. The men in aprons in the foreground (grocers from Worth's ?) are unidentified. The photographer is also unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1438-1/4-G

Description: View of bales of flax fibre (often known as New Zealand hemp, or New Zealand flax, but more correctly known as phormium tenax). The negative is a copy of an image in an unidentified publication, photographed by an unidentified photographer. Copy photographed by Albert Percy Godber circa 1910. Inscription from the publication is visible on the negative, but is not shown on the File Print. Information about place taken from Godber File at TL6/1/15 (1/4 plate. Flax industry. Makerua. Box 13. Copy). Possibly from the Weekly Graphic. Inscriptions: Recto - Plate No. 13. Hemp baled ready for market. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [ca Aug 1909]

From: McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district

Reference: 1/1-007929-G

Description: J Hannan, proprietor of the Beaconsfield Hotel, Makotuku, near Dannevirke. Shows him behind the bar, glass in hand. Photograph taken in 1909 by James McAllister. Other - See also an article on John Hannan (1876-1957) in Alexander Turnbull Library f993.1 Newspaper articles v 1 p 212 which is possibly about the same J Hannan pictured here. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print which refer to 1/1-008044. This image shows the same man standing outside the building, with a sign behind him reading J Hannan. J Hannan is also listed in the Wises PO Directory of 1908 as: Hannan, J. Beaconsfield Hotel and Sawmill, Makotuku. Calendar on the wall of 1/1-007929 reads August 1909. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 10 Mar 1960]

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

Reference: EP/1960/0854-F

Description: Miss Louie Kuiti at Lane's Hosiery, Levin, operating a 'looper' machine for children's stretch-nylon socks. Photograph taken circa 10 March 1960 for the Evening Post by an unidentified staff photographer. Other - Published in the Evening Post newspaper, 10 March 1960. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 5.6 x 5.6 cm

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1439-1/4-G

Description: View of a flax worker feeding a flax leaf into the stripper. The negative is a copy of an image in an unidentified publication, photographed by an unidentified photographer. Copy photographed by Albert Percy Godber circa 1910. Inscription from the publication is visible on the negative, but is not shown on the File Print. Information about place taken from Godber File at TL6/1/15 (1/4 plate. Flax industry. Makerua. Box 13. Copy). Possibly from the Weekly Graphic. This image also reproduced in "Phormium tenax : the New Zealand fibre industry" by Esmond H Atkinson" Inscriptions: Recto - Plate No. 8. Feeding the leaf into the stripper Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: ca 1910

From: Child, Edward George, 1860-1949 :Photographs of the Ohingaiti district

Reference: 1/2-035463-G

Description: Unidentified shed gang (viaduct construction workers), with their horse drawn rail cart, alongside the Makohine viaduct tunnel. Also shows George William Sherson, carrier, sitting on railway sleepers. Photograph taken by Edward Child, circa 1900. Inscription reads: "(N & T ?) Cement Shed Gang" See 1/2-094252 (Identifical image) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: between 1898-1902

From: Child, Edward George, 1860-1949 :Photographs of the Ohingaiti district

Reference: 1/2-057719-F

Description: Portrait showing a group of 34 mainly unidentified Makohine viaduct construction workers (men and boys) photographed by taken by Edward Child, between 1898-1902. Many wear suits. All wear hats. A dog stands on the left. The man with the long white beard on the far right of the photo is James MacKenzie. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1895]

From: Child, Edward George, 1860-1949 :Photographs of the Ohingaiti district

Reference: 1/2-032317-G

Description: Workers at Carter & Wright's sawmill in Mangaweka, circa 1895. Photograph taken by Edward George Child. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Carter & Wright's saw mill Mangaweka NZ Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1437-1/4-G

Description: View of a man harvesting green flax leaves using a sickle. The negative is a copy of an image in an unidentified publication, photographed by an unidentified photographer. Copy photographed by Albert Percy Godber circa 1910. Inscription from the publication is visible on the negative, but is not shown on the File Print. Also visible is the number 7013 on the original image. Information about place taken from Godber File at TL6/1/15 (1/4 plate. Flax industry. Makerua. Box 13. Copy). Possibly from the Weekly Graphic. Inscriptions: Recto - Plate No. 2. Harvesting the green leaf. The "cutter" uses a sickle.; Marginal notes on negative - bottom right - 7013 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1435-1/4-G

Description: View of a man with a bundle of flax leaves after harvesting from a single bush or clump. Negative is a copy of an image in an unidentified publication, photographed by an unidentified photographer. Copy photographed by Albert Percy Godber circa 1910. Inscription from the publication is visible on the negative, but is not shown on the File Print. Also visible is the number 7017 on the original image. Information about place taken from Godber File at TL6/1/15 (1/4 plate. Flax industry. Makerua. Box 13. Copy). Possibly from the Weekly Graphic. Inscriptions: Recto - Plate No. 3. The harvested leaf from a single clump or bush.; Marginal notes on negative - bottom right - 7017 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches