Places

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-1910-01-005

Description: Shows a general view of the department in the retail store, with rolls of linoleum standing up flanking a walkway between them. Extended Title - From Tonson Garlick Co. "Complete modern home furnishers" [Catalogue ca 1910]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (on page of sales catalogue). Physical Description: Photolithograph on page 234 x 317 mm.

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-1910-01-086

Description: Shows two of the models available, with shelves, mirrors, Art nouveau inlays, and an Art nouveau floral design in the centre of the page. Extended Title - From Tonson Garlick Co. "Complete modern home furnishers" [Catalogue ca 1910]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (om page of sales catalogue). Physical Description: Offset on page 234 x 317 mm.

Date: 1900 - 1910

From: [Ephemera of octavo size concerning fences and their construction]

Reference: Eph-A-FENCE-1900s-01-30

Description: Shows eight different examples of wrought iron gates, four single and four double openings. Extended Title - From the company's catalogue no 13. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Engraving, 245 x 150 mm.

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-1910-01-186

Description: Shows some of the tent models available from E LeRoy, tent and cover maker, 48 Queen Street, Auckland. Also shows a hammock and window awning. Extended Title - From Tonson Garlick Co. "Complete modern home furnishers" [Catalogue ca 1910]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (om page of sales catalogue). Physical Description: Offset on page 234 x 317 mm.

Date: 1894 - 1896

By: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-C-PHARMACY-1895-01

Description: Arrangement of text. Mentions corn cures, rose tooth powder, and other medicines, and states that horse, cattle, dog and poultry medicines are a specialty. Shows snail logo, with the motto "Always at home" near top of poster. Exhibited in 'To market, to market' Exhibition of advertising and commercial ephemera from the Printed Ephemera Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library. First Floor foyer, National Library of New Zealand, 5 August - 16 September 1997. Dated from dates of testimonials quoted. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Caxton Printing Company, Manse Street ... Dunedin. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress 510 x 258 mm.

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-1910-01-011

Description: Shows a general view of the furnishing drapery department in the retail store, with cushions, sofas, haberdashery, lace curtains. Extended Title - From Tonson Garlick Co. "Complete modern home furnishers" [Catalogue ca 1910]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (om page of sales catalogue). Physical Description: Photolithograph on page 234 x 317 mm.

Date: 1889

Reference: Eph-D-RETAIL-1889-01

Description: Arrangement of text. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - (In pencil): [28 June, 1889] Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on poster 545 x 358 mm.

Date: 1900 - 1910

From: [Ephemera of octavo size concerning fences and their construction]

Reference: Eph-A-FENCE-1900s-01-18

Description: Shows four different examples of wrought iron gates and railings, set inside brick walls. Extended Title - From the company's catalogue no 13. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Engraving, 245 x 150 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: 1905 - 1912

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

Reference: Eph-B-DECOR-1910-01-178

Description: Lists the furnishings provided for an eight-roomed house, including items for drawing room, dining room, breakfast room, two bedrooms, servant's bedroom, hall, kitchen. Other Titles - Eight-roomed Extended Title - From Tonson Garlick Co. "Complete modern home furnishers" [Catalogue ca 1910]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (om page of sales catalogue). Physical Description: Letterpress on page 234 x 317 mm.

Date: 1893

By: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; F W Niven & Company; Moody, John George, active 1893

Reference: Eph-E-BUILDINGS-Dunedin-1893-02

Description: Shows a view of Dunedin from Logan's Point in the centre. Surrounding it from top left (clockwise) are: James Macfie & Co City Coal Depot; James Duthie & Co's Colonial Carrying Company of New Zealand, J & J Arthur (tailors); A & T Burt (engineers); Thomson & Co. Crystal Springs Mineral Water Works; H E Shacklock (ironfounder and engineer); Joseph Mackay City Boot Palace; St Domonic's Convent and High School; W Melville's Cyclists' Exchange and Sewing Machine Depot; Andrew Lees (glass importer); J W Faulkner & Sons (Ornamnetal iron and wire works); John Gillies Wholesale and retail Cabinetmaker and upholsterer, and undertaker; Findlay and Murdoch City Sawmills; Paterson & Barr (hardware importers); Duthie Brothers General Drapers; F A Hooper & Co (Furnishing Warehouse); W D Houston (Gentlemen's mercer); Joseph Braithwaite (Book and Stationery importer); New Zealand Engineering and Electrical Company (Thomas Stevenson, R H Postlethwaite); Edward Iles (Hairdresser, Wigmaker). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Printed for the proprietors of the "Evening Star" Dunedin, by F W Niven & Co., and published by John George Moody, Mornington. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured, 637 x 1010 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1980.

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

By: Keeling & Mundy (Firm)

Reference: Eph-C-CYCLE-1905-01

Description: Advertises with illustrations, several brands of cycle, including Premier Cycles, Centaur Featherweight, and Centaur Motor Cycle; Warren Cycles, Tribune, and Blue Streak Bicycles. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on red paper, 455 x 284 mm. Processing information: Removed from between the pages of the bound "New Zealand mail" for 21 January 1905, in 1984.

Date: 1910

By: Olsson, Arthur Leslie, 1923-2019

Reference: Eph-C-FIRE-1910

Description: Lists in three columns the kinds of fireworks available. Verso has more listing. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterprint, red on white, 382 x 255 mm. Provenance: Donated by Arthur Olsson of Wellington, in 1995.

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-1910-01-163

Description: Shows some of the models available, all of ornate wicker body and leather canopy. The wheels nearest the handle are all larger than the further wheels. Extended Title - From Tonson Garlick Co. "Complete modern home furnishers" [Catalogue ca 1910]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (om page of sales catalogue). Physical Description: Offset on page 234 x 317 mm.

Date: 1893

By: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; F W Niven & Company; Moody, John George, active 1893

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

Description: Shows a view of Dunedin from Waverly Bay in the centre. Surrounding it from top left (clockwise) are: Sargood, Son & Ewen buildings in Invercargill and Dunedin (warehousemen and manufacturers including boot factory); Girton College; J J Arthur (tailors); McGavin and Co Union Brewery and Cellars; John Edmond (iron and hardware merchant); Evening Star Office; P Miller (importer); Grand Hotel (Watson Brothers); Bennett & Son (cordial manufacturers); James J Pryor and son (nurserymen); DIC (Drapery and General Importing Company - B Hallenstein, Cahirman of Directors); Hordern & White Dunedin Carriage Factory; Geo M Marshall (homeopathic chemist); Scoullar & Chisholm (furniture manufacturers and importers); Joseph McKay (boot and shoe manufacturer and importer); Dick & McKechnie Drapery Supply Association; The Phoenix Company (makers of jams, biscuits and confectionery); H S Fish & Son (paperhangings and window glass). Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Printed for the proprietors of the "Evening Star" Dunedin, by F W Niven & Co., and published by John George Moody, Mornington. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured, 637 x 1015 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1980.

Date: 1910

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1900-1910]

By: W Strange & Company

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1910-02

Description: The front of the card shows the title text beneath a reproduction portrait of a woman in a wide hat trimmed with roses. The picture is entitled "Roses" and is copyright 1909 by the Gerlach-Barklow Company, Joliet, Illinois, USA. The verso bears a message to "The Householder, Christchurch" - "Madam, we cordially invite you to our early Summer Show, Tuesday Sept 27th, and following days. W Strange & Co., Ltd. It is postmarked in Christchurch, 22 September. Date 1910 likely because of perpetual calendar, style, and corroborative advertising in Christchurch Press 26 September 1910, page 5. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard 140 x 90 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2006.

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-1910-01-027

Description: Shows some of the models available, from the simple to the more ornate with mirrors and umbrella compartments, carving and tiles. Shows influence of Art Nouveau. Extended Title - From Tonson Garlick Co. "Complete modern home furnishers" [Catalogue ca 1910]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (om page of sales catalogue). Physical Description: Offset on page 234 x 317 mm.

Date: 1909 - 1915

By: Olsson, Arthur Leslie, 1923-2019

Reference: Eph-C-FIRE-1909

Description: Lists in three columns the kinds of fireworks available. Verso has more listing. Exhibited in 'To market, to market' Exhibition of advertising and commercial ephemera from the Printed Ephemera Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library. First Floor foyer, National Library of New Zealand, 5 August - 16 September 1997. Perpetual calendar indicates that poster could date from 1909 or 1915. The reference to Kaiser Day (pro or anti the Kaiser?) could influence the decision about which of these two dates is correct. 1909 was chosen simply because a similar poster is dated 1910, but if the reference is anti-Kaiser, 1915 is the correct date. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterprint, red on white, 382 x 255 mm.