Places

Date: 1874

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

By: Lister, Samuel, 1832?-1913

Reference: Eph-B-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-1874-01

Description: Includes illustrations of elevations and plans of cottages, sashes and window frames, mantlepieces, mouldings, railings, and fences, counters, turnery. Quantity: 1 sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Letterpress, 25 pages, 277 x 205 mm.

Date: 1874

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-1874-01-05

Description: Shows an elevation of the side of a cottage with three windows along it, finials on top of the two gables, a frieze along the bottom of the roof. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Engraving on page 205 x 277 mm.

Date: 1903 - 1904

From: [Ephemera of octavo size concerning fences and their construction]

By: Anchor Fence Company of New Zealand Ltd; Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-FENCE-1903-01

Description: Illustrated booklet showing different fences and gates available. There are illustrations of the Anchor clamp and ratchet, a method for setting end corner posts, styles of 6-wire fences, wire-bound gates, the Anchor fence hurdle, ornamental fences (six designs shown), and residence gates. Includes photographs of staff at the Anchor Fence company, with buildings of the Massey-Harris Company adjacent. There are also photographs of fences on the properties of S I Ffitch esq Dallington, and H P Slater esq Sandilands, New Brighton Road. Page 30 shows testimonials from S I Ffitch (Dallington, Christchurch), W B Clarkson (Riccarton, Christchurch), Gilbert Jackson (Christchurch), H P Slater (Christchurch). The cover shows an illustration of a farmer surveying an injured horse lying with its legs entangled in a barbed wire fence while another horse and sheep look on. The implication is that the entangling fence is of inferior brand to the adjacent Anchor fence. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume, 32 pages, 103 x 165 mm.

Date: [1903-1920]

By: Grant, F J, active 1980s; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-0362

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of New Zealand made by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Many of the images are of military inspections and displays by school children. There are also displays of Maori dancing and singing, the sailors of the HMS Renown, on which the prince had travelled , prior to their soccer match in Dunedin, the prince addressing the crowds etc. A number of the images are in two-part panoramas. Also included are four scenic photographs by the New Zealand Tourist Department which may have been taken in 1903. The photographer for the tour photographs was Guy. Other - Similar images at 1/2-032642, 045102 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1920 - 1929

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

By: Kauri Timber Company Ltd; Clark & Matheson (Firm); Scott, Richard George, 1923-2020

Reference: Eph-A-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-1920s-01

Description: Sales catalogue for the Kauri Timber Company, with illustrations of doors, door frames, window frames, French casements, casement sashes, verandah sashes, mantelpieces, gates, fences, louvre ventilators, washing tubs. Other Titles - [Cover title] From bush to bungalow; illustrations of high class domestic joinery manufactured by the Kauri Timber Co Ltd, Fanshawe St., Auckland. Manufactured from the primeval forests of Maoriland Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 52 pages each 140 x 225 mm.

Date: 1916

By: J & W Faulkner & Sons (Firm); Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-FENCE-1916-01

Description: Illustrated booklet showing different fences and gates available: wrought iron single gates, posts and fencing, wrought iron fencing, double gates and posts, cast iron pillars; photographs of the gates at Auckland Racing Club's racecourse at Ellerslie, Botanical Gardens Dunedin; ornate wrought iron staircases, balustrades, finials and weather-vanes; porch brackers, lamps and street-lamps, wrought iron grilles (including collapsible ones for elevators and the elevator cars themselves); counter grilles (for bank tellers, etc); lockers, screens, tomb railings; garden furniture. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume, 62 pages, 218 x 280 mm.

Date: 2007

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

By: Hinuera Natural Stone (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-2007-01

Description: Promotional booklet shows photographs of buildings completed using Hinuera Natural Stone products: cladding, sawnstone, splitstone, kiln-fired and mixed cladding, stone paving, fire surrounds, stone fencing. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 27 pages, 212 x 297 mm.

Date: 1979

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

By: Vogue-Kraft Products Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-1979-01

Description: A sales catalogue for custom built gates and balustrades and swimming pool fences, etc. Accompanied by a consumer price list for 1979. Photographs show cast metal panels, wrought metal decorative panels, wrought metal tables, gateways, trellises, verandah pillars, brackets and friezes. Dated from the accompanying consumer price list. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) in booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, each 259 x 190 mm.

Date: 1905 - 1915

By: University of Waikato. Library

Reference: Eph-B-GLASS-1910-01

Description: Includes illustrations of stained glass window designs, numbered 15 to 54. Quantity: 1 sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Chromolithographs and letterpress in catalogue of 12 pages, each 257 x 192 mm.

Date: 2013

Reference: Eph-C-RETAIL-2013-01

Description: One side of sheet shore a layout plan of the Lyall Bay branch of a hardware and building supplies store, with a detailed store directory below. The verso includes advertising for the associated services offered by the business: expert advice, same day delivery, special orders, lowest prices, open 7 days, widest range, etc. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on both sides of sheet 420 x 297 mm.

Date: [ca 21 March 1983]

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

Reference: EP/1983/0976-F

Description: Members of the Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club load up with building materials for the construction of Smith Creek Shelter, Tararua Ranges. In the foreground a man and woman are holding a bag of cement. The woman is carrying a pack with a concrete block at the top. Photographed circa 21 March 1983 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1960 - 1969

By: Royal International Hotel (Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Auckland-1960s-01

Description: Pamphlet describes wood used in the panelling of the counter in the Greenstone Bar (rimu, totara burr, beech, kauri, and hinau, with strips of kahikatea, rewarewa and puriri), and the panelling used in the office counter in the foyer (rimu, kauri, totara burr). The interior and bistro stonework is also described (mica schist), as is the interior stonework (volcanic and other stone from Atiamuri) Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on pamphlet 134 x 352 mm, folded to 134 x 90 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in May 2010.

Date: [ca 1850-1967]

By: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985

Reference: 85-097

Description: Contains collection of NZ Standards Institute specifications relating to Ministry of Works constructions; Otago Province gazette for 1867, and ordinances for 1875; articles on cycling and mountaineering; newspaper cuttings on shipping 1930-1950. Also includes the Samuel H Moreton papers and other material on exploration in the West Otago region of the Southern Alps. Source of title - Supplied title Civil engineer and employee of the Ministry of Works and Development for over 60 years. Quantity: 6 box(es). 2 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transferred to other sections from here - To Photographic Archive - 22 boxes of glass negatives, Nov 1985 - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Oil painting, "Milford Sound" by D A Thomson, 15 Dec 1986 (Rack 241, Acc 86-465); 3 sketchbooks of Samuel H Moreton; various sketches by Samuel H Moreton (A-367-028/029; B-163-014/026; C-081-003/009; E-787 and E-788) - To Serials Collection - Auckland Weekly News, Xmas number 1917 - To Other - To National Archives, Wellington - All MWD items, burnt files, specifications, carbon copies of pre-Hope Gibbons fire (1952) letters, indexes to PWD and Marine files, PWD blueprints/plans/maps, Jan 1987.

Date: 1984

From: New Zealand. Ministry of Education :Photographs from the Ministry of Works Library

Reference: PA1-q-942

Description: Photographs of an air supported PVC fabric dome set over the swimming pool of the Thames Swimming Club. Also photographs and publications by Acrow-Carpenter Ltd promoting a modular steel building system called "Elitunnel." Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1900 - 1910

From: [Ephemera of octavo size concerning fences and their construction]

Reference: Eph-A-FENCE-1900s-01

Description: Illustrated booklet showing different fences and gates available. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume, 36 pages, 245 x 150 mm.

Date: 1907

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

By: Kauri Timber Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-1907-01

Description: A price sheet for ordinary building timber, flooring boards, lining boards, feather-edged weather boards, rusticated and special weather boarding. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on sheet 278 x 218 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2006.

Date: 1874

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-1874-01-08

Description: Shows an elevation of the front of a cottage with a central door and a window on either side of it. There is a chimney at the left side. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Engraving on page 205 x 277 mm.

Date: 1874

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-1874-01-10

Description: Shows an elevation of the front of a cottage with finials on the gable ends, a verandah over the door and window at the right, and an ornamental border along the top of the verandah. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Engraving on page 205 x 277 mm.

Date: 1906 - 1908

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-1907-01-07

Description: Shows a wooden villa on stone foundations seen from the street, with a verandah, and tiled roof with decorated ridgepole. Extended Title - From Briscoe & Co. "Beautiful homes and public buildings in New Zealand" Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of catalogue.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on page 185 x 250 mm.

Date: 1874

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-1874-01-21

Description: Shows designs for mouldings. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Engraving on page 277 x 205 mm.