Places

Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

Date: ca 1870s

Reference: PAColl-4511

Description: Photographs of Queen Street, Auckland; sailing ships moored in Auckland harbour; Government House, Auckland; the Auckland Supreme Court; Lyttelton, with a church in the middle distance and commercial buildings in the foreground; Dunedin Hospital (built in 1864); view looking down Princes Street towards the Exchange Building (built as the Post Office but never used as such) with business premises on either side of the street and a sign for a dentist's on the right; the Exchange Building with a horse and cart to the left; and the town reservoir, Dunedin. Photographer unidentified but they have similar captions below the image. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-002193, 002206, 002207, 002215, 002367, 002368, 002370, 002379, and 002838 Quantity: 9 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1950

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1950-01

Description: Lists goods for sale, from this mail order specialist of 63 years standing. A general grocery and provision store advertising food parcels for Britain, hardware, toiletries, confectionery, boots and slippers, seeds, cow covers, calf meal, spraying materials, medicines, fishing gear, Taubman's Paints, Hume Pipe Company's products, drapery. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: l Booklet of 16 pages, 276 x 212 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in May 2001.

Date: 1932

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1932

Description: Lists goods for sale, some illustrated. Two copies held, one without cover. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume, 30 cm. Provenance: One copy purchased in 2004.

Date: 1950 - 1959

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1950s

Description: Illustrated sales catalogues advertising clothing, household appliances, furniture, etc. Includes illustrated sales catalogues and price lists for the following dates: February 1953 March [1953?] May 1955 June 1955 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints in booklets, sizes vary below 330 mm.

Date: 1932

From: Farmers Trading Co. Ltd :Catalogue 22. [1932].

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1932-200

Description: Shows range of dolls for sale. Extended Title - From Farmers' Trading Co. Catalogue 22. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 300 x 210 mm.

Date: 1938

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1938-02

Description: Lists goods for sale, some illustrated. Colour pages show women's fashion, boots and shoes, jewellery, clocks & watches, linoleums. First pages show photographs of Farmer's "magnificent" tea rooms, and interior photographs of various departments within the store. Front cover (discoloured) shows a colour illustration of the Farmers building in Hobson Street, Auckland, and on the verso, a colour illustration of women modelling swimsuits. The back cover shows coloured illustration of a man riding a "Monarch Special" all-British cycle. The inside back cover shows a colour illustration of women modelling Canadian imported frocks. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume of 204 pages, each 270 x 205 mm.

Date: 1932

From: Farmers Trading Co. Ltd :Catalogue 22. [1932].

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1932-351

Description: Shows the listed items and their prices, which depend on their size. Extended Title - From Farmers' Trading Co. Catalogue 22. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 300 x 210 mm.

Date: 1956

Reference: Eph-C-RETAIL-Farmers-1956-01

Description: Mail order catalogue featuring women's and boys' clothing, camping equipment, sports gear (tennis racquets, cricket bats wickets and balls), snorkeling equipment, outdoor furniture, billiard tables, cameras, projectors, and Viewmaster viewers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, 370 x 243 mm.

Date: 1973

From: Various cartoonists :Cartoons from the New Zealand News, 1970s

Reference: A-297-023

Description: Two boys, one with a bike, stand on a street corner outside a dairy (Fred's Tiny Store) where a long-faced man in a white coat stands looking at them. Albert Gubay was an Auckland supermarket owner who was likely to put the corner dairy out of business with discounted food prices. Extended Title - Dairy. Fred's Tiny Store. The weeks special!! Dolly Mixtures save 2c lb. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on watercolour paper, 248 x 122 mm

Date: 1935

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1935-01

Description: Lists goods for sale, some illustrated. Front cover shows the Farmers' Trading Company building in colour; inside front shows two "Full-o-Rest" chairs; back cover shows a "Monarch special" bicycle in colour; and there are also colour fashion pages. Dated from calendar inside back cover. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 244 pages, each 267 x 210 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2004.

Date: 1928 - 1929

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1929

Description: Lists goods for sale, some illustrated. Two copies held, one with no cover and first few pages missing. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume, 30 cm.

Date: 1905 - 1912

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to interior decoration, room design, household decorative items, tableware, in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-DECOR-1910-01

Description: Includes advertisements for their range of linoleums and oilcloths, carpets and mats, furnishing drapery, furniture including billiard tables, mantelpieces, upholstered suites, bedding, kitchen furniture, ecclesiastical furniture, rattan and basketware furniture, perambulators (prams), go-carts, chairs, ironmongery, and crockery. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and photolithographs, 188 pages, 234 x 317 mm.

Date: 1950

Reference: Eph-B-FURNITURE-1950-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue showing sepia illustrations of the store frontage, lounge suites, chairs, wall to wall carpets, linos, china cabinets, tea wagons, occasional tables, writing bureaux, bedroon suites, wardrobes and dressing tables, dining furniture and dining suites, mattresses, curtain rails, quilts and sheets. A separate typescript price list, dated March 1950 is enclosed. It lists the same models of furniture and is therefore judged to be contemporaneous with the catalogue. Housed separately, rather than with other 1950s material of the same subject location Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 24 pages, each 215 x 268 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in November 2001.

Date: 1925

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1925

Description: Lists goods for sale, some illustrated. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume, 275 x 210 mm.

Date: 1929 - 1930

From: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 :[Original art works for, and print of, advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals, mostly 1920s-1930s. Artwork by Neville L and Trevor Rykers, 1940s and 1950s].

Reference: B-185-007

Description: Design drawing for an advertisement for the Farmers' Trading Company shows an illustration of the Auckland six-storey building on a street corner. At the left a long navy-blue articulated bus with "Farmers Trading Co" along its side twice, is parked beside the building. The background sky is orange-gold with radiating sun rays. There is a blank space at the right where text was to go in the published version. Dated from the time of appearance of a slightly altered version in Brett's Christmas number, 1 December 1930. It is not verified that the Farmers free bus service used an articulated bus at this time. There are no other known instances of an articulated bus in New Zealand at the time. Other Titles - Company Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - L.R Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Gouache on board, 365 x 460 mm.

Date: 1938

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1938-01

Description: Lists goods for sale, some illustrated. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume of 192 pages, each 270 x 205 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 2007.

Date: 1950 - 1955

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1950s-01

Description: Illustrated catalogue of goods for sale, including clothing, silverware, household appliances, furniture, pedal car and scooter, garden machinery, saddles and cow covers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Volume of 50 pages, each 230 x 155 mm.

Date: 1998-1999

From: Holman, Dinah, 1938- :Photographs of New Zealand buildings relating to heritage surveys

Reference: PAColl-9989-05

Description: Photographs of buildings in Rodney District, Auckland Region, New Zealand. Locations include - Mahurangi East and Mahurangi West. Matakana. Leigh. Helensville. Puhoi. Subjects include - Mahurang Regional Park, and Mahurangi Harbour. Houses. Views across pasture farmland with houses and trees. Individual houses, churches, farm sheds, shops and a Library building. Wharves, a dairy factory, a bridge. A museum in an old school building, a cemetery, and a memorial statue. Quantity: 162 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1938

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1938-02a

Description: Lists goods for sale, some illustrated. Colour pages show women's fashion, boots and shoes, jewellery, clocks & watches, linoleums. First pages show photographs of Farmer's "magnificent" tea rooms, and interior photographs of various departments within the store. The same catalogue as that at Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1938, but without the covers, and with 14 extra pages at the back (featuring toiletries, garden products, women's fashion) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume of 218 pages, each 270 x 205 mm. Provenance: Donated by Maree Pavletich, Papakura, in 2017