Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd
Printing, publishing and bookselling firm. Merged with Coulls, Somerville & Wilkie to form Whitcoulls Ltd. Established by George Hawkes Whitcombe and George Tombs in 1882. In the 1940s, the company had stores in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, London, Sydney and Melbourne.
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Date:
1891 - 1907
From:
[Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By:
Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)
Ref:
Plans-91-2033/2035
Description:
Shows floor plans (ground floor plan only partially there), elevation and section, alternative plan and elevation, alternative elevation of verandah.
Quanti...
Date:
1933
From:
[Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By:
Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)
Ref:
Plans-91-2046/2047
Description:
Shows plan and elevation of south wall, with written specifications about the materials to be used: "1 part Portland cemment to 5 parts approved aggregate wa...
Date:
1940
From:
[Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By:
Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)
Ref:
Plans-91-2058/2059
Description:
Includes electric light plan as existing; floor plan and elevation of show cases.
Quantity: 2 plan(s).
Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing pap...
Date:
1945
From:
[Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By:
Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)
Ref:
Plans-91-2209
Description:
Shows block plan and ground floor, east elevation, section AA of a single-storey building.
Quantity: 1 plan(s).
Physical Description: Pencil drawing on tra...
Date:
1940-1967
From:
Holcroft, Montague Harry, 1902-1993 : Papers
Ref:
MS-Papers-1186-25
Description:
Correspondents entered in name field
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Date:
1946
From:
[Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By:
Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)
Ref:
Plans-91-2203
Description:
Shows second floor plan, elevation of book sorting, magazine sorting and despatch pigeonholes, addressograph wrapping, desk elevation.
Quantity: 1 plan(s). ...
Date:
1902
Ref:
1/2-003833-G
Description:
Photograph of the Bank of New South Wales on Lambton Quay taken in 1902. Signs on the right portion of the building advertise the business of A J McTavish an...
Date:
1902 or 1903
From:
Creator of Collection Unknown : Miscellaneous images of Lambton Quay
Ref:
PAColl-7388-01
Description:
Bank of New South Wales on Lambton Quay. Signs on the right portion of the building advertise the business of A J McTavish and Co, land agent, and the Metrop...
Date:
1939
From:
[Ephemera of octavo size relating to smoking, cigarettes, smokefree campaigns]
By:
Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd
Ref:
Eph-A-SMOKING-1939-01
Description:
Front shows a photograph of a woman in profile holding a cigarette in her hand. The verso advertises Whitcombe's New-Book Club.
Date estimated from the impr...
Date:
1960
From:
New Zealand National Party: [Political pamphlets, fliers and election propaganda. 1960]
By:
Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd
Ref:
Eph-A-NZ-NATIONAL-1960-03
Description:
Pamphlet issued prior to the 1960 general election, states that Keith Holyoake would like more Maori politicians to be voted into office in the National Part...
Date:
1944
From:
[Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By:
Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)
Ref:
Plans-91-2210/2211
Description:
Shows plan of tiling in an entranceway, and a section through the slightly sloping entrance.
Quantity: 2 plan(s).
Physical Description: Diazo print and pen...
Date:
1923
From:
Cowan family: Collection
By:
Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd
Ref:
MS-Papers-11946-109
Description:
Published by Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd, 1923. Includes some annotations by James Cowan.
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Physical Description: One volume in a folder.
Date:
1960 - 1970
By:
Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd
Ref:
Eph-A-TOURISM-Queenstown-1970-01
Description:
Booklet of ten different views (two sizes of each) of Queenstown, including the gondola (built 1967), Skyline Restaurant, Ben Lomond, Frankton & the Remarka...
Date:
1969
From:
Edwards-Sextus, Pat (Mrs) (Collector): [Collection of beer and drink labels. 1940-1969]
By:
Robert Ford and Company Ltd; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd
Ref:
Eph-A-ALCOHOL-Edwards-Westland-1-01
Description:
Oval bottle label shows a glacier, probably the franz Josef Glacier, with flowering pohutukawa trees in the foreground. Some of the title words are writen ar...
Date:
1940
From:
[Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By:
Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)
Ref:
Plans-91-2080
Description:
Shows plan, elevation and sections of bookshelves.
Other Titles - Wellington
Quantity: 1 plan(s).
Physical Description: Ink drawing on oil-impregnated pap...
Date:
1941
From:
[Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By:
Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)
Ref:
Plans-91-2193/2197
Description:
Includes roof plans, sections, and layout of cash tubes.
Quantity: 5 plan(s).
Physical Description: Ink drawings on tracing paper, and blueprints, sizes va...
Date:
1938 - 1943
From:
[Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By:
Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)
Ref:
Plans-91-2198/2199
Description:
Includes site plan, ring bolt detail for retaining wall, section and elevation of fence.
Also includes specification booklet for the retaining wall.
Quanti...
Date:
1901 - 1929
From:
[Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By:
Crichton & McKay (Firm)
Ref:
Plans-91-2036/2040
Description:
Includes plan of foundations, ground floor plan, first, second floor and roof plans, sections, elevations, details of gangway connecting new and existing bui...
Date:
1946
From:
[Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By:
Haughton & McKeon (Firm)
Ref:
Plans-91-2207
Description:
Shows floor plan, electrical plan, interior wall elevations with shelving.
Quantity: 1 plan(s).
Physical Description: Pencil drawing on tracing paper, 450 ...
Date:
[ca 1940-1949]
From:
Megget, Ronald Calverley, 1913-1996 : Papers
Ref:
MS-Papers-9479-5
Description:
Undated.
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