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Date: [circa 1905 to 1912]

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: PA1-o-498

Description: Photographs of a range of industries in New Zealand, possibly related to the Christchurch International Exhibition in 1906-1907. Industries include animal related products including wool, from fellmongery to transportation and finally weaving; meat works, including the slaughter house, the mutton cooling room, shipping fozen mutton, the beef cooling room; butter, at the Hautapu Butter Factory, showing butter in the factory, and delivering butter at Ngaruawahia Railway Station; the Waikato Bacon Factory, and pig carcases. Other industries include flax, with scenes showing a flax mill, carting flax to the mill, stripping, washing and drying flax, and also grading hemp and loading bales of it at Auckland wharves; kauri timber industry, from felling the trees, hauling logs by bullock, floating logs over the Wairoa Falls, sorting timber at the mill booms, timber mill on the Wairoa River, and a million feet of sawn timber at the mill. The latter part of the album shows scenes of gold dredging on the Buller Gorge, hydraulic gold-mining at Ross, Westland; coal mining at Brunner; kauri gum diggers and a warehouse storing kauri gum; and finally views of the Sugar Refinery in Auckland, and a warehouse filled with sacks of sugar. Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, leather corners and spine, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm

Date: 1984

By: New Zealand Meat Producers' Board

Reference: Eph-D-MEAT-1984-02

Description: Shows sheep grazing on a hillside with snowcapped mountains in the background. A rosette at top right contains the title. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 610 x 430 mm.

Date: 1890 - 1940

By: Mills, Dick & Company

Reference: Eph-C-MEAT-1900s-08

Description: A label for a four-sided tin of meat. Shows the two larger panels (for the larger sides of the tin) incorporating insets of a circular motif showing St George on horseback fighting a dragon. One panel shows a background of a lake surrounded by hills, with cabbage tree and ferns. One panel shows native clematis. The style is late Victorian. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 117 x 355 mm (slightly curved).

Date: 1914

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to meat, the meat industry, cookery. 1900-1919]

By: Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-MEAT-1914-01

Description: Cover shows coloured illustrations of the company's works at Oamaru, Islington, Burnside, Smithfield and Picton. Inside lists beef and mutton products, galantines, meat extracts, and other products such as sausages and pork brawn. A monochrome photograph of stacked tin goods appears inside. Exhibited in ‘Humble: the life of 100 small objects’, exhibition curated by Barbara Lyon, in the Turnbull Gallery, National Library of New Zealand, 27 August - 17 November 2017. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on sales brochure.. Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 145 x 263 mm, folded to 145 x 102 mm

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

From: Whitehead, Henry Norford, 1870-1965 :Negatives of Napier, Hastings and district

Reference: 1/1-019278-G

Description: Freezing workers by sheep carcasses at the freezing works at Whakatu, Hastings district. Photograph taken between 1920s-1930s by Henry Norford Whitehead. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1890 - 1940

By: Mills, Dick & Company

Reference: Eph-C-MEAT-1900s-09

Description: A label for a four-sided tin of meat. Shows the two larger panels (for the larger sides of the tin) incorporating insets of a circular motif showing St George on horseback fighting a dragon. One panel shows a background of a lake surrounded by hills, with cabbage tree and ferns. One panel shows native clematis. The style is late Victorian. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 117 x 350 mm (slightly curved).

Date: [1919-circa 1921]

From: Whitehead, Henry Norford, 1870-1965 :Negatives of Napier, Hastings and district

Reference: 1/1-019279-G

Description: Freezing workers with sheep carcasses at the freezing works at Whakatu, Hastings district. Tom Cunningham is the Maori man sixth from right (in striped singlet). Behind him is John (Jack) Palmer (the shorter man, fourth in line from the right of frame). Photograph taken between 1919 and circa 1921 by Henry Norford Whitehead. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Tom Cunningham and John Palmer identified by Library clients. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1890 - 1920

From: Gear Meat Company :Scrapbook of labels. 1890s-1920s].

Reference: Eph-F-MEAT-Gear-058

Description: The top three labels carry the Peach brand logo. All labels show an arrangement of text and lettering. No lithographer's name is recorded on the labels. Extended Title - From Gear Meat Company Scrapbook of labels, page [58]. Quantity: 5 colour art print(s) on labels.. Physical Description: Chromolithographs on labels, 105 x 330 mm; 53 x 330 mm; and, 50 x 330 mm.

Date: 1887

By: Maclean, E W (Mr), active 1937

Reference: Eph-E-MEAT-1887-01

Description: Illustrations (some by Hare and some by S.B.) and text about the export meat trade. The illustrations show: A New Zealand sheep station / Hare sc. Breeds of sheep Preparing for shipment Saloon of NZSCo's RMS 'Rimutaka' / S.B. New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S. 'Rimutaka', with passengers and frozen mutton, leaving Port Lyttelton, New Zealand, for London [Two] views of freezing works, Tomoana, Hawkes Bay, NZ Discharging freezing chamber / SB; S Hare sc Haslam's freezing machines, as used by Nelson Brothers for the refrogerating chambers Messers [sic] Black & Stimpson's Central Meat Market, London / Hare sc. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 750 x 612 mm.

Date: 1906 - 1920

By: Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-MEAT-1900s-05

Description: Shows bull and sheep in a field in one inset panel on the right, and a circular picture of a group of sheep at the left. Decorative lettering is used. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, on label, 143 x 500 mm. Provenance: Donated loose in the back of the Gear Meat Company scrapbook.

Date: 1890 - 1920

From: Gear Meat Company :Scrapbook of labels. 1890s-1920s].

Reference: Eph-F-MEAT-Gear-056

Description: Includes labels for: Canterbury Frozen Meat and Dairy Produce Export Company Limited. Sheep tongues. Manufactured at Belfast, North Canterbury N.Z. Peach brand Compressed corned mutton. Wellington Meat Export Co Ltd. Boiled mutton. Christchurch Meat Company Ltd. Sheep tongues.[post-1906 - mentions Christchurch Exhibition] Lithographers' names are not printed on these labels. Extended Title - From Gear Meat Company Scrapbook of labels, page [56]. Quantity: 4 colour art print(s) on labels.. Physical Description: Chromolithographs on labels, 57 x 340 mm; 190 x 122 mm (2 of this size); and, 58 x 330 mm.