Wellington City

Date: 1996

Reference: Eph-D-TAKI-RUA-1996

Description: Comprises posters relating to Taki Rua productions during 1996. Posters for the following events: Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School graduating students production 1996 - David Edgars "Pentecost", director Robin Payne, December 7-14 1996 (2 copies) "Te Tumu; a new contemporary dance" by Teokotai Paitai. November 22-30 1996. "Killing me softly" October 23-November 2. The New Zealand Post Te Reo Maori season: "Hawaikinui" by Esther Tamehana, directed by Wi Kuki Kaa; "Te Ohaki a Nihe" by Selwyn Muru, directed by Nancy Brunning, "Waitapu" by Briar Grace Smith, devised by He Ara Hou Maori Theatre. 30 September - 19 October 1996 (2 copies) "Tusitala; the house of spirits" presented by Pacific Theatre, featuring Martyn Sanderson and Sylvia Rands. 29 August - 21 September 1996 (2 copies) "Flatout brown; you decide your destiny", by Briar Grace-Smith, directed by Nancy Brunning. July 12 - Aug 10, 1996 (2 copies) "Irirangi Bay" Who has the darkest secret?. Play by Riwia Brown, directed by Murray Lynch. 7 June - 6 July 1996. "Laura get your gun" Laugh Festival. Auckland and Wellington April/May 1996. Wellington Fringe Festival 1996. "Short breathe & letterbox lambs", plus DJ Lou Tennant. 19 April 1996. "1981; a nation divided", a play by John Broughton. March 2-30 1996 (2 copies) Mattui Creators "King of the Chief Country" Pacific feel, tribal beats, indigenous funk, ethnic grooves. 23 Feb 1996. "Girls on girls"; a lesbian variety extravaganza. 14-16, 21-23 March 1996. "Girls on girls"; a lesbian variety extravaganza. Taki Rua Theatre 8-10, 16-18 May [1996]. AGOG Productions New Zealand Drama School 1996 graduating acting and technical students. David Edgar's "Pentecost". Director Robin Payne. 7-14 December, 1996. "Eugenia" by Lorae Parry starring Madeline McNamara, directed by Cathy Downes. 19 Jan - 17 Feb 1996. Quantity: 13 posters.. Physical Description: Photolithographs, varying sizes. Provenance: Some posters donated by Taki Rua Theatre in 1997 and 2014.

Date: 1908

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1908

Description: Includes: Edgar Warwick presents The Court Cards and their Joker, from London, on a tour of the world. Business manager J J O'Sullivan. Promotional booklet. ca 1909. Maskelyne and Devant's Mysteries, under the personal direction of Mr Henry Hayward. Opera House Wellington. 1908 (2 programmes one with red cover, one with blue) J & N Tait. The Merry Makers. Opera House Wellington. 14-15 August 1908. Programme. J & N Tait. The Merry Makers. Town Hall Wellington 8-10 August 1908. Programme. Harry Rickards' Specialty and Vaudeville Combination. Opera House Wellington.18 June 1908. Programme. The Scarlet Troubadours, Mr Edward Branscombe's comedy costume concert company (from London) Wellington. October 1908. Programme, promotional flyer, and promotional booklet (2 copies of this last) Wellington Lacrosse Association. Grand concert. Concert Chamber Twon Hall. 9 December 1908. Programme. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Programmes and flyers, various sizes under 250 mm.

Date: [ca 1933-1970] - [1973-1983]

By: Findlay, Hoggard, Richmond & Company

Reference: 76-188

Description: Collection comprising the legal records and deeds of a Wellington firm of barristers and solicitors. Probably includes the records of its predecessor companies. Files contain wills, estate information, land purchases, company records, tenancy agreements, deeds, disputes, and a range of other legal matters. Files predominantly relate to enties based in Wellington City, but where the files relate to a large company such as Woolworths or Caltex, the files relate to their company activities across New Zealand. Includes an inventory probably created circa 1973, 1978 and circa 1983 which lists contents of the files. Source of title - Supplied Arrangement: Records were delivered in boxes numbered 1 to 196. Each box number corresponds to a numbered page in the collection inventory. However files in boxes one and two have been housed in folders which are identified by a number and a letter eg. Box 1 and Box 1a and Box 2 and Box 2a. From Box 3 onwards to Box 196 the inventory and the box number contents match exactly. Findlay, Hoggard, Richmond & Company was a Wellington based legal firm created in 1968 by the merger of Richmond & Richmond with Findlay, Hoggard, Cousins & Armstrong. In 1982 Findlay, Hoggard, Richmond & Company merged with Buddle Anderson Kent & Co to become Buddle Findlay. Quantity: 198 box(es) (phase boxes). 61.33 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: The firm supplied an inventory listing of the records as part of the donation. See library reference MSX-10249.. Processing information: The collection description was updated in April 2023 when the previous access statements "Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission" and "Permission of donor and Chief Librarian required for access" were removed. At this time the donor created inventory to the collection was made available for public access. The quantity of boxes was checked and updated from 185 to 198. Collection not described to item level.

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/ca.1940/Acc.14595

Description: Cadastral map of subdivisions, some numbered, in sections 312, 313 and 314 on the corner of Brougham and Elizabeth streets, intersected by Moncrief Street. Includes acreages and boundary measurements. Sections 313 and 314 include C.T. numbers and are part of D.P. 240. Names include W. Hodson, F. & C.S. Cording, P.Chetwood Watt, E. S. Quinlan, Education Board which is currently the site of Clyde Quay School. The plan for alterations, for Mr. L. Quinlan, (builder) for a residence at 32 Brougham Street includes faint outlines of the original building. Specifications are not included on the plan but a pencilled note gives measurements in square feet. Other Titles - Alterations to residence - 32 Brougham Street - for Mr. L. Quinlan Title supplied by cataloguer for map. Title for plan taken from item Scale of map [1:31 680]. Scale of plan - [1:15] Note on verso states: Brougham Street, Quinlan Quantity: 2 map(s) on one sheet - one an architectural plan of dwelling. Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scales vary, 77.4 x 45.4 cm.

Date: 1970 - 1975

From: [Various artists] :[Postcards depicting works of art]. National Art Gallery. Wellington, N.Z. [1970s]

By: Page, Evelyn Margaret, 1899-1988

Reference: E-278-q-037

Description: Postcard depicting Page's painting of Wellington showing the Government building and Wellington Railway Station and surrounding buildings. In the immediate foreground is a church bell tower. Painted ca 1950. Purchased by National Art Gallery in 1955 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photo-lithograph, 150 x 105 mm

Date: [Between 1938 and 1940]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-061

Description: Album of publicity photographs, and photographs of posters and advertisements taken by unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways. Many of the images in this album were taken for a series of articles written by Oliver Neal Gillespie between January 1939 and June 1940, published in the New Zealand Railways Magazine. The series was entitled "Buy New Zealand goods and build New Zealand. New Zealand Industries Series". These contribute the largest group of images in the album, covering a wide range of industries. They include men's and women's clothing manufacturers; electrical engineering companies such as Pallo Engineering (petrol pumps), National Engineering (Neeco electric ovens), Standard Engineering Company; tobacco factories; potteries; Nugget shoe polish factory; brushware factories; and companies associated with the manufacture of food products (eg Watties canneries, Edmonds Baking Powder, Griffins and Bycrofts biscuit makers, and Whittome & Stevenson sauce and pickle makers. There are other sequences of images, including newly built state housing in Lower Hutt, with some houses still under construction beside the Hutt River, a streetscape, and a children's playground (p 7-8); a large crowd joining in a send-off of R.S.A. men to Australia in April 1938; a train laden with boxes of oranges from Rarotonga, the "Special orange train from Auckland"; and photographs of charts showing the progress of the New Zealand Government Railways, with railways workshops staff organisation charts (for Otahuhu, Addington, Hutt & Hillside Workshops (p 28-29). On p 35 there are views of a new hangar at Rongotai Aerodrome, under construction, then views of the completed exterior and the interior with a row of Blackburn B-5 Baffin bi-planes. Several images show collection of Railway sports trophies (including cups for their cricket teams), and two views of New Zealand Railways staff member Neil Edwards, a tennis champion who represented New Zealand in Britain in 1939. Pages 39-41 show the construction of a large dredge on the West Coast; p 57 show a burst watermain on Waterloo Quary, wellington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous 7'; 41 x 61 cm

Date: 1989

From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]

By: Aberhart, Laurence, 1949-; Bailey, Margaret Lockhart (Dr), 1945-; Hedgehog House (Firm); Maruia Society; New Zealand Meteorological Service; New Zealand Playcentre Federation; Potton, Craig, 1952-

Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-1989

Description: Includes calendars: Antarctica 1989. [Calendar] Photography: Colin Monteath. Baird, Annie. Paintings of Wellington. Calendar 1989. Barry Crump. Humble abodes calendar 1989. Brooker & Friend Ltd. "A portrait of law", photographs by Laurence Aberhart. 1989 calendar (2 copies). Fibre news 1989 calendar. (Pictures of goats bred for their hair) God defend New Zealand calendar 1989 / John Petchell. Gully, John. New Zealand landscape paintings. Calendar 1989. Peter Hall. A shepherd's year 1989 calendar. 1989 Historic Nelson Published by the Nelson Evening Mail. (2 copies) Alison Holst. New Zealand 1989 food calendar. 1989 New Zealand alpine calendar. New Zealand Meteorological Service [calendar] 1989. 1989 New Zealand native forests calendar / Maruia Society. 1989 New Zealand Playcentre Federation [calendar]. Potton, Craig. New Zealand's wild places calendar 1989. Nancy Tichborne. Garden cats. 1989. Quantity: 10 colour photo-mechanical print(s) sets on calendars. Physical Description: Offset lithographs, varying sizes. Provenance: One calendar donated by Dr Margaret Bailey, Wellington, in 2006.

Date: 1999

By: Liang, Edward Yin, 1926-

Reference: MS-Papers-6635

Description: Family papers relating to Hwang Yung-liang, collected and collated by his grandson Edward Yin Liang. The papers include a Hwang family tree (the chief informant was Gertrude Hwang Liang), ca 1977-1980; `Who's Who in China' entry for Hwang Yung-liang, 1925; extract from `Baldwin Republican', 1902 re birth of first Chinese baby born in Kansas (Gertrude); letter from Baker University, Baldwin City to Gertrude Hwang Liang, 1973; colour laser copies of photographs of family members and places of residence, 1095-1986; obituary and order of service for Madame Hwang Yung-liang, 1933; death notice (in Chinese) for Hwang Yung-liang, 1944; biographical notes written by Gertrude Hwang Liang for her grandchildren, with accompanying notes by Edward Yin Liang; correspondence between Edward Yin Liang (donor) and Nigel Murphy of the Alexander Turnbull Library, 1999 Chinese diplomat and first Chinese Consul to New Zealand, 1909-1911 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs (photocopies)

Date: 1900-1912

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-CINEMA-1900/1912

Description: Includes pamphlets for the following shows: 1906: The world's pictures. Theatre Royal Christchurch, commencing 28 June 1906. Programme Stonham-Morrison Comapny. Gaumont Chronophone, electrically produced articulating pictures, direct from London and Paris [ca 1906] 1907: West's Pictures and De Groen's Band. NZ tour 1907-8. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, [25 November 1907]. Programme MacMahon's Pictures. "Robbery under arms". Opera House Wellington. 2 November 1907. Programme 1908: "Shackleton's dash for the Pole"; and "Mount Kosciusko!", an Australian landscape under snow. Direction C Spencer; manager J T McIntyre. Town Hall [Wellington] 1910: The New Theatre Manners Street Wellington. Sole direction Macmahon & Donnelly. A great continous show at the new theatre [1910]. Programme MacMahon's Pictures. The living picture of the great fight - Johnson v Ketchell. Opera House Wellington, 24 September 1910 and following evenings. Programme (2 copies, one with red cover, one with blue cover) MacMahons' Pictures (including "The Kelly Gang"). His Majesty's Theatre Auckland. 1910. Programme National Pictures. Harry Lauder per Chronomegaphone. Opera House Wellington, 1910. Programme (2 copies) Macmahon & Carroll's "For the term of his natural life". His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 1910. Programme Macmahon & Carroll's "For the term of his natural life". Opera House Wellington, 1910. Programme Macmahon & Carroll's "The life of Ned Kelly". Opera House Wellington, 25 July 1910. Programme The Gisborne Amusement Co presents West's Pictures. Gisborne, [December?] 1910. Programme Macmahon Bros. "Johnson-Jeffries famous battle". His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 1910. Programme. Macmahon Bros. "Johnson-Jeffries famous battle". Opera House Wellington, 1910. Programme (2 copies) Macmahon Bros. "Johnson-Jeffries famous battle". Theatre Royal Christchurch, 1910. Programme (on blue paper) Macmahon Bros. "Johnson-Jeffries battle", the fight of modern times. His Majesty's Theatre Dunedin, 26 December 1910. Programme Hayward's Pictures. Theatre Royal Christchurch. Programme for week ending 10 August [1910] Hayward's Picture Enterprises Ltd. Theatre Royal Christchurch. Programme for week ending 19 October 1910. Hayward's Picture Enterprises Ltd. Theatre Royal Christchurch. Programme for week ending 17 December 1910 (2 copies) 1911: Macmahon Bros. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Opera House Wellington, 1911. Programme Macmahon and Donnelly's new series of pictures. "A ticket in Tatt's". Opera House Wellington, 1911. Programme The Grand Operatic Photo-Play Co. Opera House Wellington, 1911. Programmes (2 different) Hayward's Enterprises Ltd. Photo plays. West's Pictures, including "King Henry VIII". His Majesty's Theatre, 12-15 July [1911?] American Biograph Company. The latest moving pictures. His Majesty's Theatre Aucland, 7 October [1911]. Programme Royal & Biograph Pictures. Town Hall Stratford, 29 August 1911. Programme no. 1 (Flier / programme) 1912: "Kinemacolor", (Urban-Smith patents), the greatest invention of the century. Theatre Royal Wellington. Promotional pamphlet, ca 1912 Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 32 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on pamphlets, up to octavo size.

Date: 1973

By: Wai-te-ata Press

Reference: E-278-q-126-C

Description: Cartouche showing men working at a printing press and two others in the background setting up a press. At the top is the Latin motto - Vitam mortius reddo (translated as `I restore life to the dead'). Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 86 x 114 mm on folded card

Date: 1927-1934

From: Pedersen, Doris Taur, 1907-2001 :Photographs relating to Doris Pedersen's career in nursing

Reference: PA1-o-1005

Description: Album begins with Wellington Hospital in about 1927/28 and shows the new buildings which opened in 1928, the nurses home and Toxwood's hospital buildings of 1880. There are many photographs of nurses, some staged in operating theatres with doctors and nurses arround the patient, one administering chloroform onto a fabric pad over the patients face. The rest of the photographs in the album relate to Doris Pedersen's work in maternity hospitals and hospitals specialising in the care of very young children. These include Alexandra Children's Hospital, Karitane Hospital, a hospital in a large late victorian house with a big garden, and Dr Doris and William Gordon's Marire Private Hospital in Stratford.. Associated with these hospitals are many images of nurses and the children in their care. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1920

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1920

Description: Includes: J C Williamson Ltd present "Bing Boys on Broadway" (with Charles Howard, Betrice Wenban, Gus Bluett, Meta Breakwell, Polly Power, Reginald Roberts, Herbert C Walton, William Lockhart, Harry Paulton, Gwen Ives, J Roberts, William Bevan, Phyllis Amery). Grand Opera House Wellington, 18 November 1920. Programme J C Williamson Ltd present the eminent prestidigitateur Carter the Great (with Miss Evelyn Maxwell). Grand Opera House Wellington [1920]. Programme Farewell complimentary concert tendered to Mr W W Crawford. Town Hall Wellington, 23 March 1920 under the auspices of the Orphans' Club and other clubs of Wellington (With Caledonian Society Pipe Band, Misses Campbell, Barnes, Adair, Verdi Mackenzie, Culford Bell, Martin Duff, Albert Russell, Miss Cleon Fernandos, Rupert Meates, Norman Aitken, Hamilton Hodges, S Laslett Exton, Miss Helen Gard'ner, W W Crawford, Stan Lawson, Oliver Perkins, G P Hanna, Tano Fama, The Diggers). Programme The famous Diggers, N.Z. Divisional Pierrots. Theatre Royal Christchurch, 3 February 1920. Programme The Follies, a clever troupe of returned soldiers (with Percy Stringer, Texas Gray, Jack Meek, Rolly Watson, Harry Stringer, Mr McLaughlan, Frank Betchley, J Lee, T S Philpott, Len Ryan, Mr Gillmore). Town Hall Khandallah, 11 August 1920. Programme Fuller's Vaudeville (With Little Mona (trapeze), Pagden & Stanley (comedy), the Kodamas (Japanese Risley artists), the Mantanas (vocalists), Jennings & Gerald (comedy), the Marvellous Fentons (aerialists), Walter George and his Sunshine Players). Princess Theatre Dunedin, 10 May [1920]. Programme Fuller's Vaudeville (with Mop and Prince, dare-devil Balto, Ray & Olga, Lloyd Knight & betty Bunting, Guest & Newlyn, and the Harry Burgess Revue Company in "The flirting widow"). Princess Theatre Dunedin [1920?]. Programme Mrs Maud Bletsoe-Buckeridge presents The Gay Gambols. Grand Opera House Wellington, 10 July 1920. Programme J C Williamson Ltd present The Passing Show 1920 (with Charles Howard, Beatrice Wenban, Harry Paulton, William Lockhart, Oswald Wenban, Gus Bluett, Little Willie, Reginald Roberts, Herbert G Walton, Gwen Ives, William Bevan, Peggy Sabine, Phil Smith). Grand Opera House, 26 November 1920. Programme (2 copies) Quantity: 9 theatre programmes. Physical Description: Programmes and flyers, various sizes under 250 mm.

Date: 1999

From: Park, Geoffrey Nicholls, 1946-2009 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-9392-097

Description: Inventory prepared by Geoff Park for Wellington City Council Quantity: 1 folder(s).

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Works and Development

Reference: PAColl-0934

Description: Quantity: 164 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: 1920 - 1930

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Th/[ca.1925]/Acc.14623

Description: Cadastral, surveyed map of sections bounded by Hawkestone, Molesworth and Hill streets, including Golders Hill and Collina Terrace, Thorndon, Wellington. Includes section numbers, certificate of title numbers and some deposited plan numbers. Names of owners include: K L Smith & V M S Earp Thomas, Burns, Phillip & Co Ltd, D E A Bottomley, R J Collins Estate, J F Ginn, L J Seddon, E M Sutherland & W Thawley, J Twiss, Estate of E J Riddiford, W Freeman, G A A Anderson, R H Hankins, M K Litchfield, Crown, F M Chapman, S Riske, W P Sommerville, A Whittaker, H & R Hall, J R Foster, L & E Cohen. Written on reverse: Thorndon - Hill St, Molesworth St, Hawkestone St, Golder's Hill Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Blueprint on paper, scale indeterminable, 40.8 x 79.2 cm

Date: 1944

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-204

Description: Photographs taken of the `New Zealand Artists in Uniform' exhibition held in Wellington, Mar 1944 Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1917

From: [Programmes for ballet and dance performances in New Zealand. 1910-1919]

Reference: Eph-A-DANCE-1917-01

Description: Programme for a dance recital featuring pupils of Estelle Beere and others: Zelda Bailey, Agnes Elliott, Olga de Chateau, Betty Carr, Muriel Mountier, Mavis King, Iris Inglesby, Kathleen O'Brian, Thelme Aitken, Eileen Lambert, Joan Beere, Florence Heyworthe, Thurza Rogers, Pte Thomas O'Carroll, Gynetth Kirk, Ronald Crichton, Rene Taylor, Beryl Ossipoff, Eileene Myers, Edna Wakelin, Millicent Winstone, Daisy Donnelly, Eugene Ossipoff, Margaret Turnbull, Betty Menard, Olga Lockward, Yvonne Mountier, etc. Harlequin and gnome costumes were designed by Mrs James Hannah. The programme contains advertisements for many Wellington businesses including Chas Begg & Company, John Broadwood & Sons, Victoria Laundry, Radford & Company, Columbia Grapho-phones at Bannatyne & Hunter Ltd, Usher's Extra Green Stripe Whisky, W N Tucker (jeweller), Red Band Ale, Magnus Sanderson & Company (motor vehicles), Desert Gold tea, National Mutual Life, "Talkeries", J E Fitzgerald (motor vehicles), Black & White Whisky. Quantity: 1 Programme(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 10 pages, 247 x 92 mm.

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-082

Description: Title continues:`...pioneers of Port Nicholson and Port Cooper'. The essay covers verified facts about Clarkson's great-great-grandparents, their emigration to NZ, and the seafaring career of their son, Thomas. Some of the family arrived on the `Bolton' at Port Nicholson in 1840 and another group on the `Sir Edward Paget' at Port Cooper in 1856. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Includes photographs of Capt Thomas Nicolson Clarkson, 1890; Caroline Clarkson, 1898 Processing information: Name heading for Clarkson family removed following information from staff member, August 2023.

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-054

Description: Title continues:`...the Wiltons of Wellington'. Story of the Wilton family who emigrated to Wellington from Somerset on the `Oriental' in 1841. They were at the forefront of the development of early Wellington. From here some of the family moved to Masterton at its formation. A suburb in Wellington is named after the family Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: 1950 - 1959

From: [Programmes and ephemera relating to boxing, boxers].

Reference: Eph-A-BOXING-1950s

Description: Includes: 1950s?: Wellington Boxing Association. Pass out 1951: New Zealand Amateur Boxing Championships 1951. Opera House Palmerston North, 24-26 September 1951. Programme 1952: Wellington Boxing Association. George Burke (Wellington) v Alfie Emerson (Australia); and, "Chub" Keith (Wellington) vs Don Mullett (Wellington). 18 February 1952. Programme 1953: Waimate Boxing Association. 25th jubilee 1928-1953. Anniversary programme 19853. 1954: New Zealand Amateur Boxing Championships. Town Hall Wellington. 13-15 September 1954. Souvenir programme. 1954: Gerald Dreyer v Barry Brown. Basin Reserve, 15 January 1954. programme. 1957: Barry Brown (Wellington) v Ulf Christensen (Wellington). Wellington Town Hall, 24 June 1957. Programme. 1959: New Zealand Amateur Boxing Championships. Theatre Royal Timaru, 5-7 October 1959. Souvenir programme Quantity: 1 folder(s) 7 programmes; 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying around 297 x 210 mm. Provenance: Some programmes donated; some purchased. Transfers: Material from the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-1563..