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Date: [Circa 1880s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Lomer, Albert, active 1862-1900; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-262

Description: Album of Australian photographs of Brisbane and Tasmania, and views of a range of sites in New Zealand, taken by various photographers circa 1880s. Names and places identified in the album are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

By: Walker, A (Mr), active 1968; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; C M (Photographer), active 1905; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Pratt, A A, active 1900s

Reference: PAColl-6639

Description: Postcards of ferries at wharves in Auckland, interior and exterior of St John's Cathedral in Napier, Waihi from Martha Hill, bowling green on the Domain at Te Aroha, Lyttelton at regatta time, Lyttelton harbour, Opera House, St Luke's Danish Church and All Saints Church and the Municipal Buildings, Palmerston North; the Triangle, Dunedin; Auckland Hospital, Grafton Road; Palmerston North Post Office; a view over Auckland from Mount Eden; the bridge over to the Cafe Continental; Hastings Street, Napier; Perry Street, Masterton with a hall on the right; tea kiosk in the park, Masterton; two carts on the road to Lansdowne, Masterton; the tramline to Onehunga, Auckland; Queen Street, Auckland; and Auckland harbour and wharves. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negative at 151877 Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 14 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Postcards

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-215

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1939-1940. Karangarua River bridge; Rakaia River bridge; market gardens in Heathcote Valley; Palmerston North library; Old English Fair held in Dunedin in aid of the patriotic funds; new Gisborne Intermediate School; Archbishop Julius Memorial stone; Auckland's Patriotic Queen Carnival; model of HMS Rodney; giant pipe cast by Public Works Department for pipeline at headworks of the mid-Canterbury irrigation scheme; Garden Place Hill earthworks at Hamilton; hop picking, Riwaka Valley; new friary built for the Brothers of St Francis at Hillsborough, Auckland; construction of tunnels and power house for hydro-electric works at Tuai, Waikaremoana; opening of Horowhenua College, Levin; demolition of wing at Nelson College; floating pontoon being lowered into position at Mechanics Bay; tram cars converted into homes. Construction of Centennial Drive, Kapiti Coast; new Hamiltion General Post Office; construction of Wellington Harbour Board cargo shed; opening of Catholic church at Georgetown, Invercargill; shoe-cleaner at Lincoln College; view of Waikanae Beach from Kaiti Hill, Gisborne; road works north of Gisborne; Railway Bus Terminus, Dunedin (opposite Queens Gardens); Dunedin Emergency Transport Organisation practising arm signals. Race-goers at Wellington Racing Club meeting, and at Canterbury Jockey Club & NZ Metropolitan Trotting Club meeting at Christchurch. Landslide at a Brighton farm; construction of the Pokeno-Paeroa line; laying of the foundation stone of building in Stout Street by Minister of Public Worls, Hon R Semple. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-39-23

Description: View of the Cargill monument in The Exchange, Princes Street, Dunedin. The clock tower of the Post Office can be seen left of centre. Several horse-drawn trams are in The Exchange area; one at the bottom of High Street. Groups of men are standing and sitting around the monument which has gas lamps on all sides. Photograph taken by Burton Brothers, ca 1880s. From `New Zealand through the camera' series of photographs Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 7723 - Princes St, Dunedin; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15 x 20 cm on mount 22.6 x 29.2 cm

Date: 1935

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating the the Post Office and postal and telegraph services]

Reference: Eph-A-POST-1935-02

Description: Folded invitation card shows an illustration of the Dunedin Post Office building on the front. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on folded sheet, 215 x 160 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane auction, Wellington, 19 September 2013, part of lot 320, originally collected by Melville E Hankins. Transfers: Collection accessioned in Ephemera; photographic material transferred to Photographic Archive..

Date: [Circa 1880s-1890s]

By: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942; Bayliss, Charles, 1850-1897

Reference: PA1-f-012

Description: Album of fine sepia views taken by various photographers. They show views of Australia, including Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney (panorama taken by Charles Bayliss), Hobart. Views of New Zealand, including Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, Dunedin, Port Chalmers & Lyttelton; Auckland; Ohinemutu, including a Maori meeting house, head and shoulder portraits of Maori, showing moko, and views of Lake Rotomahana with the Pink and White Terraces. Two views of Honolulu life show Princess Ruth and her house. One view of San Francisco, one of the Sandwich Islands. There are several views of a railway line winding through the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas, in the Rocky Mountains, taken by W H Jackson in 1880. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album 470 x 360 mm, lacking covers, in phase box Provenance: Creator and provenance information not known

Date: [1880s-1890s?]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-q-056

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand and Australia photographed by Frank Arnold Coxhead (F.A.C.). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, with spine title "New Zealand and Australia, 3360-3417", 31 x 27 cm

Date: [1865, 1900-1905]

By: Macey, William Henry, -1931; J H Bethune and Company Ltd

Reference: PA1-o-1231

Description: Album of views of Picton (including visit of Governor Ranfurly and New Year celebrations); Waimakariri, Broken River (including a workmens's camp) and Otarama from the Midland Railway; Cable Bay (including telegraph staff); Wakapuaka (including native bush); Nelson; Rai Falls; Wellington (showing decorations for the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York, 1901); Dunedin (including Larnach's Castle); Masterton (showing earthquake damage to Post Office); Manawatu Gorge Bridge; Wanganui; Taihape; Hamurana Springs; Rotorua; and meeting house at Te Ore Ore. One photograph is copy of an 1865 view of Picton, and the other photographs were taken ca 1900-1905. A number of the Picton images were taken by William Henry Macey. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [1870s-1880s]

By: F Bradley & Company; Walton, Grahame M, active 2009

Reference: PA1-o-1605

Description: Photograph album of Views and landscapes of New Zealand, Second Series, published by F Bradley & Company. Includes photographs - No. 1 Meeeting of the waters, Oripi; No. 2 Maori group; No. 3 Lake Hope, White Island; No. 4 Timaru; No. 5 The Bealey, Hokitika Coach Road; No. 6 Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula; No. 7 The River Avon; No. 8 Shag Rock, Sumner Road, looking towards Christchurch; No. 9 Princes Street, Dunedin; No. 10 Christchurch; No. 11 Bullock team and wool waggon, Cheviot; No. 12 Oamaru; No. 13 Cheviot Station, Nelson Province; No. 14 Normal School, Christchurch; No. 15 German Bay, Akaroa; No. 16 Port Lyttelton; No. 17 Kawau, Sir George Grey's residence; No. 18 Pink Terrace, Rotomahana; No. 19 Akaroa; No. 20 Rangatata Traffic Bridge; No. 21 Armagh St bridge & watering place, Christchurch; No. 22 River Bealey Crossing, Hokitika Coach Road; No. 23 Post Office, Christchurch; No. 24 View on the Heathcote; No. 25 Russell's Gold Battery, Tararua Creek, Thames Gold Fields; No. 26 Glacier Hotel & Cobb's Coach, West Coast Road; No. 27 Crossing the Teremakau; No. 28 Greymouth, West Coast; No. 29 Kaiapoi, Canterbury; No. 30 Chalky or Dark Inlet; No. 31 Waimakariri Gorge Bridge; No. 32 Nelson; No. 33 Christchurch; No. 34 Group of Maoris, Lake Taupo; No. 35 Alfred Falls, North Island; No. 36 Christchurch; No. 37 Governor's Bay; No. 38 Oamaru; No. 39 Timaru breakwater; No. 40 Dunedin; No. 41 Christchurch; No. 42 Christchurch hospital; No. 43 House of Representatives, Wellington; No. 44 Arthurs Pass; No. 45 The Cave Rock, Sumner; No. 46 Government buildings, Christchurch; No. 47 Otira Gorge; No. 48 The River Avon; No. 49 Group of Maoris, Bay of Islands; No. 50 Sheep mustering, South Canterbury; No. 51 The Christchurch Cathedral, C.E.; No. 52 Nelson Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints Transfers: Transfers - From Published Collections.

Date: ca 1937-1950

From: Jones, Winifred, fl 1950-2004 :Photographs relating to Frederick Jones

By: Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966

Reference: PA1-o-1230

Description: Album containing photographs relating to the work of Frederick Jones as Postmaster General and Minister of Defence, including photographs of opening ceremonies for post offices around New Zealand, the Jones family, the Achilles arriving at Auckland, and Jones meeting various personalities. Album also contains souvenir items from the opening of the Chief Post Office, Dunedin. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black leather bound album 24.5 x 31.2 cm

Date: 06 Dec 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: McBride, Robert Dryden, 1910-1986

Reference: OHInt-0070/19

Description: Robert McBride recalls family background, childhood, joining Post Office as a cadet, duties, life as a boarder in Wellington, salary, checking telephone accounts, sorting postal notes, discipline, hours of work, sick leave, annual leave, work at the public service garage in ca 1930, duties, staff, Post Office fleet, motor repairs, work as assistant dispatch clerk, impressions of Napier after the earthquake in 1931, mail service contracts, reasons for transferring to Chief Postmaster's Office Dunedin - Clerical Branch, Ted Kerr, work at Post Office Savings Bank Dunedin, telegram dispatch room, work involved, the 1935 greetings telegram deluge. Describes transfer to Invercargill 1936-1958, type of work, missing mail, mail deliveries, salaries during Depression 1930s, inspectors, details of records work, enlisting in 1940 for service in World War II, work in Divisional Signals as radio operator in Italy and Egypt, involved in Battle of Sidi Rezegh, radio reception difficulties at Cassino, return to clerk in mail services in Invercargill in 1946, changes after the war, work as manager at Invercargill Post Office ca 1956, reporting system, work as Manager of Dunedin Post Office 1958, work as manager at Christchurch Post Office in 1959, background to appointment as Chief Postmaster at Timaru in 1960, state of discipline, staff relations, introduction of decimal currency in 1967, major changes in the Post Office, impressions of J B Darnell and Sir Dawson Donaldson (Directors General), retirement. Venue - Timaru Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Venue - Robert McBride's home at 116 Wai-iti Road, Timaru Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001249 - OHC-001251 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.27 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 159. Search dates: 1910 - 1985

Date: 1893

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025835-G

Description: Telegraph Office, Dunedin. Interior view. Shows men at their desks. Photograph taken in 1893 by William Williams. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: [ca 1860, 1870s]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-q-328

Description: Album of original sepia prints photographed by Frank Arnold Coxhead circa 1860s and 1870s. Views include Lake Wakatipu and environs; various buildings and businesses in Invercargill and Southland, including First Presbyterian Church and Second Presbyterian Church (Invercargill), Kew Sawmills (Southland), the Invercargill Gasworks, Invercargill Post Office and the Albion Hotel. Includes a photograph of a drawing of Oamaru in 1860. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - Photographed by Frank A Coxhead, Invercargill, NZ Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cover, 29 x 25.6 cm

By: Allen, Joseph Weaver, 1821-1886

Reference: PA2-0013

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

By: Allen, Joseph Weaver, 1821-1886

Reference: PA2-0014

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 2013

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0025458

Description: Depicts Dunedin mail processing facilities through the years. In the 1930s, the chief post office is a grand building. In the 1990s, there is a smaller New Zealand Post depot office. In 2013, there is a hand holding a smart phone with a new email message. Refers to the closure of the Dunedin mail processing centre, resulting in the loss of 73 jobs as part of a nationwide restructuring. (Otago Daily Times, 26 June 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).