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: [ca 1909-1925]

By: Morrison, John M, active 1883-1951

Reference: PAColl-6494

Description: Photographs of Takapuna and Milford. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-016625 to 016630, 1/2- 031823 and 101744 Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: Manuscript material now held at qMS-1398.. Processing information: The majority of the prints do not have negatives.

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-661-001/061

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 61 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size

Date: 1923

By: Turners & Growers Ltd; Dale family

Reference: Eph-A-FRUIT-1923-01

Description: Booklet outlining the staff (group photograph), premises and departments of the company. Departments include: Fruit, Vegetables, Produce, Farm Produce and Poultry, Lemon Department, Fruit cool-stores, as well as pages on offices, loading facilities, luncheon rooms. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 24 pages, each 222 x 93 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1496. - Other material from the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-1496..

Date: 1911 - 1912

By: Smith and Caughey Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1911-01

Description: A sales catalogue listing products for sale, including dress fabrics, clothing, umbrellas and sunshades, underwear, hosiery, art needlework, quilts, lace, handkerchiefs, belts, patent medicines and toilet requisites, men's sports clothing including riding breeches, oilskin coats, and raincoats. The first page shows a group photograph of the 170 male members of Smith & Caughey's staff in the firm's furnishing department on October 9th, 1911. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Coverless booklet of 64 pages, 270 x 212 mm.

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: 1954

By: H H Brandon Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1954-01

Description: Lists goods for sale, some illustrated. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume, 247 mm.

Date: [ca 1920-1943]

By: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962; Deste, Eileen, 1909-1986; Hastings Public Library (N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-0365

Description: A collection of photographs including views of Nelson by F N Jones, buildings and earthquake damage in Wellington in 1943 and others from around the country including three hand-touched photographs of Napier and Hastings. The photographs of Wellington are captioned with the building the weather conditions when the photographs were taken and whether flash was used. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1920 - 1929

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to guns, rifles, shooting and ammunition, 1920-1927

By: Kelly Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-GUN-1920s-01

Description: A section of a larger sales catalogue of sporting goods, this section (B) listing shooting equipment for sale. Illustrates BSA target rifles, MLE government rifles, barrels, sights, refle covers, cleaning rods, .303 implements, Parker-Hale "surespotter", telescopes, Parker's "Dewarifle", .22; cleaning implements and supplies, slings, barrel gauges, sporting rifles, ammunition, shotguns. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 28 pages, 142 x 220 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in September 2002.

Date: [ca 1890-1936]

By: Abernethy, William, 1865-1930?; Allen, (Miss), active 1910s; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945; Carberry, M V, active 1910s; Churton, C E, active 1904; Ellerbeck Studio; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Le Grice, Edward, 1881-1959; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940; Peter Pan Studio; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Raphael Tuck & Sons (Firm); Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers); Taylor, T E, active 1899; Walker, George Allen, -1915; William Beattie & Company; Wilson, William Thompson, 1882-1917

Reference: PAColl-0718

Description: A collection of postcards and printed views (possibly from a magazine) of New Zealand scenes primarily of towns and cities rather than scenic views. They include one of two Maori women washing clothes at Rotorua, another of the Royal visit in 1927 and a family group of seven men and three women possibly taken in Belfast. A number of the postcards have been used. Also included are five original photographs which have been captioned with the family connections: a soldier in uniform, possibly named Ralph Ferguson; Uncle Henry Babe's wedding photograph; cousin Violet Bradford in America; Albert and Elizabeth (Eliza) Babe (brother and sister) and four others; Thomas and Fanny Babe (grandpa and grandma) with Eliza, Harold, Albert, Olivia, Queenie and Gladys. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 55 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

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: Between 1910 and 1913

By: W Mowat & Company

Reference: PA5-0014

Description: Kyber Pass Auckland showing various retail shops and a policeman standing on the corner, published by W Mowat & Co. Auckland. Verso contains message to Dad from affect daughter Nog(?) Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 88 x 135 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: 1885 - 1886

By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)

Reference: D-001-006-b

Description: Birds eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed birds-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 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: [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: [ca 1925-1935]

By: Lovell-Smith, Hubert John, 1881-1948

Reference: PAColl-0451

Description: Photographs of Hastings and the surrounding area taken by H J Lovell-Smith. They include photographs of earthquake damage to shops in Hastings; the flooding of the Ngaruroro River; excavation of the site of the new swimming pool in Havelock North; a man and a boy sheltering from the rain outside a barbers shop; the Soldiers Memorial Hospital; Taradale Post and Telegraph Office with the library across the street; two men working on a steam locomotive; neon sign on Queen's Wharf, Auckland; wedding photograph of a couple named Harper and Ward (the groom was a minister); five men next to a crashed aeroplane on a snowy hillside; a Windsor chair made from New Zealand birch; schoolgirls leaving Hastings High School; a view across Hastings, possibly from the Clock Tower, over Railway Road and towards St Andrew's Church; two of the Cosy Buildings (possibly previously the Douglas Buildings), one when the picture theatre had the electric sign "Cosy" hanging from it and was showing the film Nurse Marjorie and the other without the sign and with the ground floor closed up; and the new Post and Telegraph Office built to replace the old one after the earthquake. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

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.