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Dining room of the Satterthwaite's house in Tawa

Date: [ca 9 Jun 1984]

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

Reference: EP/1984/2681-F

Description: Dining room of the Satterthwaite's house in Tawa. Photographs taken circa 9 June 1984 by an unidentified staff photographer for the Evening Post. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

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New Zealand. State houses

Date: 1940-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-207

Description: Photographs of state houses, mostly in the Wellington region, taken in the 1940s, mostly by National Publicity Studios photographers. No captions supplied. Arrangement: Prints from box labelled `Plates of NZ Industry State Houses, Factories, etc'. Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[21 cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times between 1 and ...

Date: 2002

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-678-001/021

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Shows two women having a cup of tea. One says to the other, 'Eric's always said that looking forward to the "beautiful game" is the thing that gets him through the day... but these nights it's the soccer. Refers to men staying up to watch the World Cup Soccer games. Comment on the premium increases announced by Southern Cross Healthcare. Shows priests looking for their sports programme on the computer. A consumer is confronted with fruit labeled with GE activists names. Finance Minister, Michael Cullen, sees mirages of cash surplus's on the super(annuation) highway. Shows Laila Harre reassuring a baby (Ewen Mee) that she knows exactly what's best for it. In his eagerness to get a shot away on the election trail, Bill English shoots himself in the foot. A family sit down to eat a meal. The man spits his out saying 'Sweetcorn??? GEZUS!!' Refers to the corngate affair. Comment on the health crisis in Northland. A pregnant woman prepares to travel out of the area to deliver her baby. Rod Donald and Jeanette Fitzsimons from the Green Party expect to do well in the (G)eneral (E)lection. Refers to their focus on genetic engineering. Shows Marian Hobbs as a stuffed scarecrow overseeing the GE corn crops. Helen Clark is indignant that interviewer John Campbell should expect an apology from her. She says that he doesn't fall into any of the groups that she's currently apologizing to. A teacher fills out a childs report card saying he has had an on-again, off-again approach to his work. There is a roster of teacher strikes on the wall behind the teacher. Shows some discontentment among the public for Helen Clarks leadership. Government released figures show crime is on the decrease but the public perception is the opposite. Winston Peters prepares to be Queen-maker following the general elections. A patient complains to his psychiatrist about chronic insomnia that even the Leaders' Debate won't fix. Shows Helen Clark and Bill English dressed as clowns at the circus (elections). Two children discuss the new Maori Television channel. They talk about it being on UHF and in Maori. They realise that not many people will be able to understand or receive the channel. A child asks his Mother to see Dr Cullen to fix his spots. Quantity: 21 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

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Atkins & Mitchell, architects :House Greymouth for Mrs M McGlashan. January 1933.

Date: 1933

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Atkins & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-066-027/028

Description: Includes floor plans, elevations and sections for a weatherboard house, with details of the elevation of the bay window, fireplace and bookshelf fittings, toy cupboard and pantry. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on tracing paper, 540 x 740 mm.

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Nees Furniture (Dunedin) :Selections from the showrooms of Nees the furniture people. B...

Date: 1925 - 1927

By: Nash, Walter (Sir), 1882-1968

Reference: Eph-A-FURNITURE-1926-01

Description: Includes illustrations and prices of dining suites, lounge suites, bedroom suites, bedding, seagrass furniture, kitchen safes, hatstands, writing desks, carpets, kitchen hardware, blinds and curtaining. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - (Back page): Printed by The Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers Co., Ltd, Dunedin, NZ Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of [120] pages, 135 x 220 mm. Provenance: Formerly part of the Walter Nash papers, acquired in the late 1980s.

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Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918 :My visit to Whareama. My cousin James Yorke, Mr An...

Date: 1867

From: Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918 :Illustrations of New Zealand 1865?-1867

Reference: E-370-007-1

Description: The artist (on the right, seated on the bed) and two other men, his cousin James Yorke (centre) and "Parson" Rev. John C. Andrew (left, with a beard) seated around a firebox, warming their hands, and smoking pipes. Smoke is coming out of the top of the firebox. A candle on top of a table lights the scene. The location is likely to be Ica Station, Castlepoint. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 100 x 205 mm

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Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877 :[Domestic scene with harbour in background. ca 1...

Date: 1860 - 1862

From: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877 :Sketchbook. [1860-1864]

Reference: E-569-016/017

Description: Shows a view of Waitemata harbour, framed by a scene in the sitting room. A man at the extreme left sits beside a cello, possibly playing a mouth organ. A woman sits at the extreme right. There is a planter hanging from the ceiling at the right. The man at the left is possibly the artist's husband, Bishop Charles Abraham. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on pages of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil sketch, on double page spread 126 x 346 mm.

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :"You're just in time - the Lance Cairns of 24 Butterfi...

Date: 1982

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-136-056

Description: Shows a man in a living room demonstrating cricket moves to a young boy, while a woman tells another man that he is demonstrating Lance Cairns play in the test match. Refers to the Second Test between Australia and New Zealand played at Eden Park. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon, and letratone, 450 x 320 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

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Darroch, Bob, 1940- :[Ten cartoons published in the Whangarei Report and the Dunedin St...

Date: 2002

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Star (Dunedin, N.Z.); Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: H-688-001/010

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. Fathers taken to task over violent behaviour at children's sports, results of new alcohol study, mothers dealing with families with colds during winter, consequences of genetic engineering in dairy herds, schools try to deal with chronic absenteism, US President threatens Saddam Hussein, government loses $315 million dollars in investments, leaky homes, USA and Iraq face off, New Zealand planes have peices fall off them while they're in the air. Quantity: 10 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A5 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

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Darroch, Bob, 1940- :[Twenty-five cartoons published in the Whangarei Report and the Ch...

Date: 1986 - 1989

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Christchurch star (Newspaper : 1958- )

Reference: A-316-060/084

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. New Zealand switches from milk in bottles to milk in cartons. Hayley's Comet turns out to be disappointing for most star gazers. High number of requests for aid from sports and charity groups. Children deny tobacco advertising influences their smoking habits. Core samples are taken from the hull of the New Zealand entrant to the America's Cup. 1986 - the International Year of Peace - $1,746,000,000,000 spent on weapons. Mother's Day again. Burglar makes himself at home. General election candidates begin their hand-shaking tour of the rural areas. There's a big turnout for the rugby on election day. People are getting overloaded with the morning radio bad 'news'. Christmas shopping bedlum is upon us. ANZAC Day shows the difference between the self-sacrificing of the returned service men and women and the selfishness of youth. The French do another nuclear bomb test. Cups are shown off at the yacht club, some for winning races but mostly for winning court battles over yacht race rules. Parents supporting their children from the rugby sidelines are becoming increasingly violent. Over-crowding of New Zealand prisons. New Zealand's economic slump sees long ques of people waiting to get Government assistance through the Dept. of Social Welfare. Rogernomics puts the whole country into crisis. Post Offices are closed around the country. Children embrace cigarette smoking. Hospital emergency outpatients restrict their services in an effort to cut costs. Pakeha consider how they can benefit from the Maori land claim process. The law struggles to deal with complications of using force in your own self defence. Ozone layer threatened by fumes, smoke and smog. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). 24 photocopies. Physical Description: A4 size original and photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

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Crimp, Daryl :'Leading tonight's news... there were no murders anywhere in New Zealand ...

Date: 2001 - 2002

From: Crimp, Daryl 1958-: 5 cartoons published in Otago Daily Times, between late December 2001 and 16 January 2002.

Reference: H-663-003

Description: Shows a man watching the television news. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopy

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :"You've always moaned about the bosses getting longer ...

Date: 1982

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-050

Description: Shows a living room with 'a grandma' sitting in an armchair knitting. A man is sitting at the table reading in the paper about workers receiving a reduction in pay in return for an extended work closure over the Christmas period. Refers to Philips Electrical Industries in Lower Hutt where an extra seven day shutdown over Christmas was proposed due to an oversupply in the television market. Extended Title - Workers agree to extended Christmas shutdown on reduced pay Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone, 450 x 315 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

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Kelly and Mair :J Hugh James Esq. Additions to residence, 165 Wadestown Road, Wadestown...

Date: 1951

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Kelly & Mair (Firm)

Reference: Plans-93-0341

Description: Shows floor plan of the living room and sun alcove, and interior perspective drawings of north corner and western corner. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on tracing paper, 360 x 560 mm.

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Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Artful doge of young military who places a chair un...

Date: 1863 - 1865

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-008

Description: A party in the 1860s in a large living room or ballroom. Mistletoe is attached to a chandelier, beneath which is a chair draped with bonnets. Behind the chair is a young soldier in hiding. Four rather plain-looking women are heading towards the lures on the chair, while two prettier women in the foreground have their backs to their would-be swain and any potential kissing under the mistletoe. The soldier may be intended to be a self-portrait and the ballroom may be in Auckland. There are large pictures on the walls, chairs and couches against the far wall, a grand piano and the chair in the centre along with a chaise-longue. The artist was a surgeon with the British forces during the Waikato-Tauranga war of the mid 1860s Other Titles - Artful dodge Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 214 x 276 mm

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Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners, architects :Proposed alterations and additions at No ...

Date: 1971 - 1977

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

Reference: Plans-2002-058-001-020/028

Description: Includes site plan, floor plans and elevations. Alterations were mainly in the area of exterior stairs, a family room, dining room and kitchen. Quantity: 9 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings and diazo prints on tracing paper, sizes varying around 450 x 600 mm.

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William Nees & Sons Ltd :Nees furnishing review; free catalogue [ca 1967]

Date: 1966 - 1967

By: William Nees & Sons Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-FURNITURE-1967-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue with coloured photgraphic cover and central pages. The booklet includes illustrations of bedroom suites, lounge suites, dining room suites, bedding, floor coverings, Riccarton and Knightsbridge carpets, Vono foamspring mattresses, Mexicana bedspread by Erincraft, home appliances (including heaters, televisions, lawnmowers, fridges, washing machines), manchester and soft furnishings, bedroom furniture, wardrobes, chairs and divans, bookcases ansd china cabinets, nursery furniture, outdoor furniture. Other Titles - Furniture review vol. 66 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 88 pages, 135 x 217 mm.

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Stones, Anthony, 1934-2016 :[Maori woman in her living room, Northland. 1981 or 1982]

Date: 1981 - 1982

From: Stones, Anthony, 1934-2016 :Sketchbook 1981-1982

Reference: E-180-q-030

Description: Premilinary sketch with a study of the woman's head top left, and colour notes Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, page size 271 x 210 mm

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View of interior of house by Chapman-Taylor - Photograph taken by Sarony Studios, Welli...

Date: 1909

From: McNamara, G :Portraits of Sir Harold and Lady Beauchamp and James and Vera Bell's house

By: Sarony Studio (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-0674-4

Description: View of the living room of house designed and built in 1909 by arts and crafts architect, Walter Chapman-Taylor for James and Vera Bell. The wooden floor is covered with large eastern rugs, on one of which stands a chair and gate-legged table. The internal walls are lined with bookshelves near which stand armchairs. The lower walls are covered with hessian, and the upper walls and ceiling with rough-cast plaster. Many-paned casement windows light the room, and a part of the dining room can be seen through the far door. There is no electric lighting. Photographed by Sarony Studios, Wellington, in 1909. The interior doors of this house are braced by planks which have adzed-shaped sections cut into them. This was a trade mark of Walter Chapmen-Taylor. This photograph originally belonged to Andrew Bell, the son of Katherine Mansfield's sister Vera Bell (nee Beauchamp). This house burnt down in 1911 (info - Judy Siers). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.5 x 15.4 cm, on cardboard mount

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Darroch, Bob, 1940- :[Eighteen cartoons published in the Whangarei Report and the Chris...

Date: 1990 - 1992

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Christchurch star (Newspaper : 1958- )

Reference: A-316-085/105

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. Spree of national and international reforms Abortion, tobacco sponsorship, defending your property laws, horse-jumping medals, electioneering, morality of thieves, sports coverage causes domestic disharmony, headlines nothing but bad news, upside of unemployment, smoking cessation programme, disillusionment over government consultants, the violence of the civilised world, violence seen as natural response to threats, referendum '92 on the voting system, sporting injuries. Original drawings, numbers A-316-091, A-316-095 and A-316-105 in a separate folder, individually catalogued Quantity: 18 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

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Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :Candy house, Khandallah Wgtn. WHA. [Job. no. 843. ...

Date: 1981 - 1984

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

By: Candy family

Reference: Plans-2006-058-190

Description: Shows a perspective drawing of the interior of a sitting room, with armchairs, rugs, bookcases, woodburner and standard lamp. Original file numbering was: 004.06.02.008 Other Titles - Wellington Quantity: 1 plan(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink drawing on draughting film, 590 x 420 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

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