Places

Reference: PAColl-6338

Description: Postcards of King Street, Temuka; Invercargill Railway Station; the water tower and pumping station in Invercargill; Dee Street, Invercargill; Invercargill Hospital; the botanical gardens in Invercargill; Dunedin from Bell Hill, passengers on the Waikare just before the shipwreck; an elevated view of Clyde; the shelter on Stop Island built by the passengers of the Waikare after the shipwreck; Waratah and Mt Bischoff, Tasmania; Magnet Mine ore shed, Tasmania; fountain in Princes Square, Launceston, Tasmania; and a river near Latrobe, Tasmania. Photographer for some of the images was Muir & Moodie. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 1 b&w copy negative(s) of Dunedin from Bell Hill. 1 b&w original photographic print(s) postcard.

Date: 1928-1934

From: New Zealand Association of Bakers : Records

Reference: MSY-3170

Description: Contains newspaper advertisements re bread taken from the Alexandra Herald, 1934; Southland Times, 1932; poster advertising `free bread' at Blue & White Co-op Stores, Newmarket (Auckland), nd; newspaper advertisements from the Taranaki Daily News for CRP stores (The Cut Rate Providers Ltd), and Kash Karry Ko-op, grocers, Linwood, Christchurch, 1934; Self Help Invercargill and Gore. Photographs of the shop front and window display for the following grocery stores: Self Help, Lower High Street, Dunedin, 1934; Jimsie C Fraser's store, Stuart Street, Dunedin, 1934; R F Duckworth, Cargill Street, Dunedin; Four Square Store, Karangahape Road, Auckland, 1934; DOT Stores, Auckland, 1934; Self Help Store, Tay Street, Invercargill, 1930s; Dawson's Store, Esk Street, Invercargill, 1930s; unidentified Dawson's store, ca 1930s; Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [ca 1860s-1870s]

By: Lennie, Thomas Daniel, 1871-1967

Reference: PAColl-4459

Description: Photographs of shops, hotels and business in Invercargill including the old immigration barracks on Tay Street and the Howard house. Photographers are not all identified, but include Donald William Ross. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: [ca 1920s-1940s]

Reference: PAColl-6881

Description: A large collection of negatives concentrating on the Otago area. They include images of: Byrd's and Ellsworth's expeditions; Sir Joseph Ward's funeral procession along Dee Street, Invercargill; snow scenes in Dunedin; the 1926, 1928, 1938 and 1939 Saunders Cup; the 1928 Annette Kellerman cup; ploughing match in Taieri and Outram; the 1936 and 1938 Dunedin show; league test 1928; cup winners of the Cornwell Cup (possibly for yachting?); HMS Australia; yachting in Broad Bay 1927 and 1928; 1936 New Zealand surfing championships; a Karitane home in 1938; Waikouaiti races; Otago athletic championships 1937; the launch Annabella in Dunedin harbour; an athletics event including girls' hurdling; pipers round the Robert Burns statue in the Octagon; an amateur dramatics production of a play set in the 19th century; steam ships; the opening of the railway at Roxburgh; a children's party on HMS Dunedin; storm damage in 1937; celebrations in Kaikoura 1940; skating at Alexandra 1938; fire at Seacliff Hospital; Waitaki Dam; air raid precautions in 1939; trotting races; Portobello regatta 1909; Ellison's funeral; a series of 22 negatives of stuffed birds at the Otago University Museum; the opening of a Maori church at Otakou; an Auckland vs Otago rugby match; the opening of the Clydevale bridge; and Otago golf championship 1937. The photographer was Field. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-034982 to 035760, 035779 to 035871, 035916 to 036295, 036699 to 036914, 038264 to 038353, 038364 to 038476 and 052188 to 052355 Quantity: 1839 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: ca 1900s-1920s

By: Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-0598

Description: Postcards of Main Street, Eltham with the Coronation Hotel on the right; the estuary at Invercargill with children in the sea next to some sailing boats, a boy with a bicycle, and women sitting on the sand; the traffic bridge over the Manawatu Gorge; the Pink Terraces with a rowing boat with tourists at the foot (captioned as the lost Pink Terraces therefore postcard produced after 1886); trams on George Street, Dunedin with shops in the background; and a group of children pretending to do a haka. Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1937

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

By: Mitchell & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-065-001/003

Description: Includes a locality plan, floor plans, a front elevation and cross section. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to 590 x 720 mm.

Date: [ca 1940]

By: Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers)

Reference: PAColl-0888

Description: Small captioned photographs, commercially produced by Tanner Bros: of Invercargill - basilica from the Gardens; Queen's Park Gardens; water tower; Boys' High School; Esk Street; Kew Hospital; two of Dee Street; First Presbyterian Church; and the new Post Office. Of Gisborne - two of Gladstone Road; panorama of Kaiti; general view; river bank gardens; looking across the river; nurses' home, Cook Hospital; Poho-o-Rawiri Maori house; Intermediate School; and Cook Hospital. Also included are the original envelopes the snapshots came in. Produced by Blennerhassetts of New Plymouth of Taranaki - six of Mount Taranaki; two of a mountain hut in the snow; Mount Taranaki with a shelter in the foreground; the old house in the snow; and the hotel with the mountain behind it. Quantity: 31 b&w original photographic print(s).

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: 1859-1889

From: Dyson, Mrs, fl 1958 :Photographs, chiefly of scenic views in the South Island in New Zealand, and Victoria in Australia

By: Dougall, William, 1845-1924

Reference: PAColl-4346

Description: Loose pages from the Dyson Album PA1-q-069. Views of: the water tower in Invercargill, designed by William Sharp and photographed by W Dougall; Arrowtown; the waterfront of Queenstown showing the Victoria, McBeath's and Bracken's Queen's Arms Hotels and the Boatman's Home; view of public building possibly in Oamaru; the main street in Westport with Whyte & Pirie on the corner; a log cabin in the bush with two men standing outside it and a separate kennel for the dog; the general store in Waimate; a bridge in Canterbury; the Main North Road in Timaru showing a drapers, a jewellers, a medical dispensary and a photographer's studio; the government landing service in Timaru; and the construction of the Timaru breakwater. Taken between 1859 and 1889. Quantity: 4 album leaves with 11 b&w original prints.

Date: 5 Oct 1998 - 05 Oct 1998

From: Southland oral history project

By: Tuckey, James William Luke, 1925-; Ward, Kay, active 1998

Reference: OHInt-0464/17

Description: Bill Tuckey was born in Invercargill in 1925. Gives details of his family's background and his education. Describes working for McKerras and Hazlett, grocery and liquor merchants, and H and J Smith's department store. Discusses competition with Thomson and Beattie and Herbert Haynes. Describes the Lamson system of cylinders with cash and charge slips sucked through overhead pipes to the office to be actioned. Mentions his wife Nancy worked in the shop office. Gives details of his residential addresses, moving house, incidents at school, his mother and her cows. Talks about his interest in gardening, reading, rugby, softball, golf and family. Recalls businesses in the central business district during the early years of his working life. Interviewer(s) - Kay Ward Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008620 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other brief abstract OHA-2694. Bill Tuckey as a young man and in a contemporary photo

Date: ca 1900-1925

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm); Strong, R, active 1905

Reference: PAColl-7261

Description: Invercargill Post Office and Athenaeum; Bluff east from the wharf; the view down Princes Street with shops on either side such as a chemists and an oyster bar, and trams, horses and carts and pedestrians in the street; Victoria Square, Christchurch with a tram and bicycles; looking south down Queen Street, Waimate; St Augustine's Church, Waimate; two young women next to a statue of Margaret Cruickshank, Waimate; the Alexandra bridge; tourists arriving in the spa grounds, Hanmer; an elevated view of Clyde; and tourists on the wharf at Queenstown waiting to get on the steamship. Quantity: 9 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1858

From: Douglas, Charles Edward 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast Sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. identified]

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895; Forrest, Isabel K, active 1969; Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916

Reference: E-059-q-065

Description: View along Invercargill's main street showing a number of houses and businesses. The earliest known view of Invercargill Between 1969, the time of acquisition by the Library, and 2010, attributed to W B D Mantell, based on handwriting, style of drawing and the fact that Mantell worked with Douglas, and was involved in the early settlement of Invercargill. However Mantell was in England in 1858, the date of this drawing. The drawing was earlier owned by Gerhard Mueller, who arrived in New Zealand in 1859, the year after this drawing was made. The `Pearson' whose house is drawn is W H Pearson, Commissioner of Lands, 1857-1884. `Grief' the butcher was J M Grieve. The Albion Hotel was also known as Linds Accommodation House. Other Titles - Douglas, Charles Edward Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - title in pen and ink. Along top, identifications of buildings include Whites store, Collins store, Collins Goods, Grief Butcher, Pearsons House, Butchershop, Royal Hotel. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) loose in group of works by Charles Edward Douglas. Physical Description: Ink on brown paper, 150 x 210 mm.

Date: 1893

By: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; F W Niven & Company

Reference: Eph-E-BUILDINGS-Invercargill-1893-01

Description: Advertorial poster showing a lithograph of a view of Invercargill, with a river going through the centre, and horses and carriages in the streets. Around the borders are inset pictures of some of the town's man buildings, including: Fleming & Gilkison (millers & grain merchants), Southland Times, Sloan Brothers City Boot Palace, Vicenzo Almao (hatter), St Paul's Presbyterian Church, D McFarlane (bakery and McFarlane's Coffee Palace), R W Jones Machinery and Cycling Exchange, H Carswell & Co (auctioneers), C H Macalister (chemist), Wesney brothers gift shop, Frank A Steans (importer of fishing tackle), J Manson & Co (importers of furniture and ironmongers), David Strang coffee and spice merchant, John H Kissell (saddler & harness maker), Turner & Colbran (tailors and clothiers), C J Deschler's Hotel, Alex Ferguson (watchmaker and jeweller), the Hospital, St Mary's Roman Catholic Church. There is also an inset view of Bluff harbour and town, about 15 miles from Invercargill. Lower centre has a panel listing the ships in the Union Line, and their tonnage and captains: Ruahine, Kaikoura, Rimutaka, Tongariro, Aorangi and Ruapehu. At top left is an advertisement for the agent, Wellesley A Parker of the Palace Hotel Melbourne. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 640 x 1015 mm.

Date: 1905 - 1915

By: Thomson & Beattie Ltd; Muir (Firm); Robertson, Elayne Gladys, 1935-

Reference: Eph-POSTCARDS-Robertson-03

Description: Advertising postcard showing a photograph of a salesman driving an open-topped car with a sign for Thomson & Beattie Ltd along its side. The verso has an arrangement of text announcing the agent Alfred Smyth. It is possibly Mr Smyth driving the car. Thomson & Beattie were a drapers shop in Tay Street, Invercargill. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 88 x 139 mm.

Date: [186-?]

From: Mueller family :Photographs

By: Brown, James, 1839-1918

Reference: PAColl-4363-1-10

Description: Men and boys standing in front of W Geisow's general store, Invercargill, taken ca 1865 by James Brown. Inscriptions: Mount verso - centre - J. Brown, Photographer. Tay Street Invercargill. Duplicates may be had Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 5.8 x 9.6 cm, on mount 6.3 x 10.1 cm