Radio - Transmitters and transmission

Date: [1939-1945]

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

By: Green & Hahn (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-040

Description: Photographs of coastal batteries at Palmer Head (Wellington), Battery Point, (Lyttelton), Fort Bastion (Auckland) and Fort Dorset (Wellington). Includes gun practise and radio equipment; one photograph of troops on South Island coastal defence at an abandoned farmhouse, displaying their cabbage harvest. Lyttelton photographs taken by Green & Hahn, Christchurch Quantity: 83 b&w original photographic print(s). 39 b&w original photographic print(s) (proof sheets with 169 images).

Date: 1930 - 1939

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

By: Owen, Dylan, 1958-

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-1930s-01

Description: Card from a radio enthusiast to others, with a poem in abbreviated language. There is space to put in the specifications of Amp. snatcher, Mi amp maker, Dx worked. Other Titles - Your card will find me , say you night, through phones Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on card, 95 x 167 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dylan Owen, Wellington, in 2006.

Date: 1964

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R1/16C-Acc.

Description: Identifies Radio communications - transmitters, receiving and WHF Station. Also identifies TV and Radio broadcasting stations. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) + transparency in brown folder. Physical Description: Ink on cream paper. Scale indeterminable. 57 x 34 cm.

Date: 1963

From: Mallitte, Howard Leon, 1910-1979 :[Antarctic material relating to 1963 expedition of HMNZS Endeavour to Scott Base and Hallett Station] 1963

Reference: B-117-073

Description: Shows head and shoulders drawing of Ted Gawn, with radio equipment in the background. Other Titles - 28 November 1963 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and crayon, 395 x 320 mm. Provenance: Donated by NZ Tourist and Publicity Department, 30 March 1976.

Date: 1940 - 1945

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

By: A Gyles & Sons Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-1943-01

Description: Greetings card, probably issued during the Second World War. Shows a radio transmission mast at the left. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on card folded to 90 x 115 mm.

Date: 1945-1946

By: Green, W H, active 1944-1945

Reference: MS-Papers-10440

Description: Correspondence between Green and W Marks of the Radio Corporation of New Zealand regarding the importing of radio, recording and some television equipment during a time of rapid technical development and strict import controls. Includes lists and evaluations of radio equipment, as well as prices, manufacturers and availability. Source of title - Supplied Mr Green was an agent of Mr Marks' company, the Radio Corporation of New Zealand, and visited the United Kingdom in 1946 to invetigate and purchase new radio, recording and television technology. Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, typescripts Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 1 photographic album - PA Coll: 1507.

Date: [1939-1945]

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-4161-01-041

Description: Mainly photographs of coastal defence and operations during World War II in the Pacific Islands and Auckland Islands. Some photographs are identified with captions and information on the back. Some people are identified. Includes coast watching on Auckland Islands - No 1 Camp Port Ross (The Cape Expedition) - wireless operations, surveying and meteorologists; Pacific Island - coast watchers cave on Vella Lavella Island used by signalmen (Signal Corps, US Army); radio and radar operations; women naval personnel; RNZN camp at Banika (Russell Islands); RNZN base camp at Guadalcanal (Camp Adams); group photos including crew of MW3 at Lombari; telegram relating to American soldiers washed ashore, 15-16 June 1942; albatross on Auckland Islands; coast watching quarters under construction at Cape Campbell; etc. Photographs taken at Nukufetau (Tuvalu), Guadalcanal, Bonika, Anchorage Island, Manu Island, Lombari, Bougainville, Banika (Russell islands), Cape Esperance, Vella Lavella Island, Auckland Islands, Cape Campbell, Funafuti, Visu Visu Camp, Savo (Solomon Islands), Suwarrow. Quantity: 74 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1940

From: Abbott, Leonard A, 1923-2007 :Sketches of a voyage to New Zealand, May 1940 [Facsimile of the New Zealand section of a sketchbook]

Reference: E-819-017

Description: Shows a view of Thorndon, with the Railway Station at the far right, a tram on Molesworth Street or Lambton Quay, and Parliament Buildings half obscured. Also shows St Mary's Basilica in Hill Street, and many other buildings. Tinakori Hill is in the background with several wireless masts atop it. Other Titles - 16. A view of Wellington town ... 29 May 1940 Extended Title - From his 'Sketches of a voyage to New Zealand, May 1940', page [17] Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy 180 x 280 mm.

Date: ca 1946-ca 1949

From: Binsted, Una Irene: Photographs of Hataitai and Wellington by Gordon Alfred Binstead

By: Binsted, Gordon Alfred, 1930-1975

Reference: PAColl-6727-4

Description: Views of Wellington City and harbour with an emphasis on Hataitai, and Evans Bay. There are photographs of ships at the wharf and on the patent slip. One is the sailing ship, the "Parmir". Views of Evans Bay bathing sheds and bathers in the water; various cloud formations; locomotives; fireworks at night seen over water; Mt Victoria road tunnel; radio masts and radar antenna; Wellington Public Library and Railway Station. Quantity: 172 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1941 - 1943

Reference: A-442-029

Description: Pencil sketch shows a two-funnelled ship flying a Dutch flag, seen from the right side, with the houses and peak of Mount Victoria in the background. There are two radio masts on Mount Victoria, and a sign "2ZB" between them. The ship in the drawing has two funnels and is flying a Dutch flag; this may identify it as the 'Nieuw Amsterdam', but it could also the 'Johann van Oldenbarnevelt' or the 'Willem Ruys'; all visited Wellington Harbour during the second World War, and have a similar appearance to the ship in this drawing. Date estimated from article in Evening Post, 6 September 1945, Page 8: "In January, 1941, came the beautiful Nieuw Amsterdam, pride of the Netherlands merchant marine. This ship made no fewer than eight visits to Wellington, six of them during 1943, when she carried large quotas of United States troops across the Pacific". Other Titles - Nieuw Amsterdam Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 210 x 257 mm, with two holes punched along upper edge Provenance: Purchased with papers of Sir Terence McLean, from Hard to Find Books, in 2011.

Date: [ca 2001]

From: Tume, Clayton, fl 2000-2015 :Panoramic photographs of Wellington Region

Reference: PA6-700

Description: View of Titahi Bay, Porirua, from the vicinity of Whitireia Park, taken ca 2001 by Clayton Tume. A radio transmission mast can be seen in the centre foreground. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Resin-coated paper print 12.6 x 56.3 cm

Date: 15 Jun 1960

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1960/2182-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 35mm Negative Film Strip

Date: 1946

Reference: PAColl-D-0600

Description: Radio transmission equipment at 3YA (Christchurch station of the Radio Broadcasting Company of New Zealand). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 350 x 480 mm mounted on card

Date: 26 January 1976

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1976/0301-F

Description: A helicopter lifting an aluminium loading device known as a "cartwheel" to be attached to the top of the Radio Windy mast above Horokiwi. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 26th of January 1976. This was part of the technology to change Radio Windy's radio frequency from 1080khz to 890khz, and thus enable the station to broadcast to a wider area. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: [1939-1945]

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-4161-01-042

Description: Photographs of coastal defence and operations during World war II in the Pacific Islands and New Zealand. Some photographs are identified with captions and information on the back. Includes coast watching in unidentified locations in New Zealand, including RNZAF airwomen on coast watching duties (North Auckland?), and postal service by pack horse to outlying coastal defence quarters; Pacific Island - radio and radar operations, including Mokohinau radar crew, 1942; coastwatching operations on Solomon Islands and Tuvalu; `Tagua' at anchor off Raoul Island, 1944. Specific locations include Visale (Solomon Islands); Banika (Russell Islands); Funafuti (Tuvalu); Savo (Solomon Islands); Esperance (Guadalcanal); Visu Visu (N. Georgia) Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Apr 1949

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-181

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, Apr 1949 Scene at the civic reception held in Dixon Park, Greymouth to honour the visit of HMNZS Kaniere, one of the new frigates of the Royal New Zealand Navy; Cromwell racecourse; action photos from Ngaruawahia's annual regatta (includes young Maori boy eating watermelon); Maori deputation visiting Parliament to discuss the question of liquor licence in the King Country (includes portrait of 78 year old Mrs A Huirama); exhibition held in Christchurch of Japanese wood-block colour prints compiled by K R Moshelm, a former director of Army Education and Welfare Service in Japan; Bailey bridge on Lewis Pass Road, near Glen Wye Station; photo of family of Gilbert Edwards, a Dunedin claimant to the fortune of a Welsh stonemason who immigrated to New York and died in 1789 (story in Free Lance, 20 Apr 1949). Makara Radio Station (series of photos including A F Smith, officer in charge of Makara Radio Station); Star Rugby Club, New Plymouth 60th jubilee celebrations and members of the 1919-1939 decades in the grand parade held at Rugby Park; limestone caves recently discovered at Lake Te Anau (Cave of Swirling Waters). Final section of the main highway between Auckland and Te Kuiti under construction (Mayor of Te Kuiti, K W Law watching final load of metal chips being laid); composting of Masterton's refuse; construction of the road at Belmont Gully and Haywards (Hutt Valley); repair of fault in the Auckland-Suva cable by Government steamer Matai; Union Steam Company's vessel Waitemata en route to Vancouver rescuing converted Fairmile launch Mahurangi in Pacific Ocean near Rarotonga. All Black captain Fred Allen, with former All Black Trevor Berghan and Mrs Berghan in fancy dress costume; Chinese crew's arrival in Auckland to take over the Union Steam Ship Company's vessel Kaikorai at Port Chalmers (sold to Hwah Lee Steam Ship Company of Shanghai) Quantity: 58 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1946

Reference: PAColl-D-0599

Description: H B Fletcher checking radio transmission equipment at 3YA (Christchurch station of the Radio Broadcasting Company of New Zealand). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 350 x 480 mm mounted on card

Date: Date unknown

From: Ephemera donated to and collected by the Alexander Turnbull Library from 2020

By: New Zealand Post Office

Reference: EPH-A-DECEMBER-2020/6

Description: Decal has a circular motif surmounted by crown and wings. Design within circular area features envelope with stylised kiwi, ship, steam locomotive, passenger aircraft circa 1940s-1950s and radio mast. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 1 piece of ephemera. Physical Description: Decal on shiny or plasticised paper stock with adhesive backing under brown paper protective sheet, 200 x 205mm

Date: 1930-1939

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-1930s

Description: Includes: 1930/1940s: Radio log chart [1930-1940s] The spirit of service. Card shows female classical figure floating between transmission towers, with electricity bolts emanating from her hands [1930s?] 1930s: "The friendly road" Sunday sessions. Visitors identification form New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters :ZL3BT. At ... on .... Chin wag ... The spider web is ... The "bring 'em in" is ... The "push-em-out" is ... This tamahine wants you to QSL _ _ Pse? 97 Fitzgerald Avenue, Christchurch New Zealand. NZART Esme Herrick YL.OP. [Card. 1930-1936] ZL3CT. Ur crd wl find me at 113 Milton Street, Christchurch, New Zealand ... Sa O.M. u remember our QSO of ... 193.., at ... NZMT. The nite was full of QRM ... Vy etc 73 fr J R Tabley. [Printed by] Turners Ltd [1930s] 1931: A & W McCarthy (Firm): McCarthy's radio catalogue no 85; radio parts and sets, electric novelties, tools, etc. [ca 1931] Bristol Piano Company Ltd: Greatest value in radio history, the "New Fisk Series" Radiola with tone control. Buy yours on terms from The Bristol Piano Co. Ltd, specialists in the world's greatest radio. Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, and branches [1931] Flier (2 copies) Johns Ltd, Auckland's oldest radio firm. Radio, Electrical, Tools, Cycles, Gramophones, etx. May 1931. Sales catalogue. Visit the 1931 Radio Exhibition and hear the Maori Entertainers at the Town Hall Wellington, 10-13 June [1931]. Bookmark 1933: New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters. Marlborough Branch. Invitation to first annual dance. St Patrick's Hall. 9 August 1933. Station 2ZW Broadcasting Choir. Wellington New Zealand, December 3rd 1933. Souvenir programme 1936: Radio (1936) Ltd. Radio log chart [1936?] 1936-1937: [Five DX cards from radio stations 1936-37] - Includes DX cards from: 3ZR Greymouth (1936); 2ZB Wellington (1937); 2YA Wellington (1937); 3YA Christchurch (1937); and Radionations Geneva (1937) 1937: F.J.W. Fear & Co :1937 radio, cycles, sewing machines, electrical appliances. 1937 (2 copies) New Zealand Parliament. Floor of the House. Admission ticket for C Brown esq for Parliamentary Broadcasting purposes, session 1937 1938: ZL2QL Xmitter. Wellington, New Zealand. Lowry Bay. Radio KAIAF WKO. 11th Feb 1938 at 0215 N.Z.S.T. Ur QSL will be appreciated OM. Laurie A Lawson, opr. Norm Hopper, print. 39 Dublin St, Wanganui, NZ [Card. 1938] 1939: The King's message / M L Haskins [1939] Otaki Radio & Electric Co. (John Potts). Mullard, England's premier radio. Sales catalogue [1939] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets and pamphlet, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1902-1923

By: Harris, Alexander Rowan, 1899-1981

Reference: qMS-0917

Description: Scrapbook compiled by the Secretary of the Old Timers' Club of the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters from letters and diaries of L H Steele, T R Clarkson's notes, A R Harris' contributions to `Break In' (periodical). Correspondence, notes, photographs, and clippings Quantity: 1 volume(s) (192 pages). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter and photographs (33 cm; ¼ scarlet cloth, scarlet boards)