Building materials

Date: 1939

Reference: Eph-B-EXHIBITION-1939-01

Description: Some text and seven photographs of the buildings of the exhibition, featuring the art deco effects used, and the used of Hardie's "Fibrolite" asbestos. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on folded pamphlet, 286 x 225 mm (folded). Physical Description: Photolithographs on folded sheet, 286 x 225 mm.

Date: 1874

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

By: Lister, Samuel, 1832?-1913

Reference: Eph-B-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-1874-01

Description: Includes illustrations of elevations and plans of cottages, sashes and window frames, mantlepieces, mouldings, railings, and fences, counters, turnery. Quantity: 1 sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Letterpress, 25 pages, 277 x 205 mm.

Date: 1874

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-1874-01-05

Description: Shows an elevation of the side of a cottage with three windows along it, finials on top of the two gables, a frieze along the bottom of the roof. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Engraving on page 205 x 277 mm.

Date: 1913

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to agriculture, farms and farming]

By: Dalgety & Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-FARM-1913-01

Description: An advertisement from Dalgetys' Review, 1 October 1913, page 115. Shows a photograph of the house described. Text states that "Ruberoid can also be used for roofing, lining, dampcourse, poultry houses, huts, decks and awnings, floorings (including bathrooms and verandahs), carpet borders, deadening sound and for all purposes requiring perfect insulation and protection against heat, cold and moisture. Beware of imitations". Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on page 247 x 183 mm. Provenance: From the Nash collection, 1980s.

Date: 1903 - 1904

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

By: Anchor Fence Company of New Zealand Ltd; Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-FENCE-1903-01

Description: Illustrated booklet showing different fences and gates available. There are illustrations of the Anchor clamp and ratchet, a method for setting end corner posts, styles of 6-wire fences, wire-bound gates, the Anchor fence hurdle, ornamental fences (six designs shown), and residence gates. Includes photographs of staff at the Anchor Fence company, with buildings of the Massey-Harris Company adjacent. There are also photographs of fences on the properties of S I Ffitch esq Dallington, and H P Slater esq Sandilands, New Brighton Road. Page 30 shows testimonials from S I Ffitch (Dallington, Christchurch), W B Clarkson (Riccarton, Christchurch), Gilbert Jackson (Christchurch), H P Slater (Christchurch). The cover shows an illustration of a farmer surveying an injured horse lying with its legs entangled in a barbed wire fence while another horse and sheep look on. The implication is that the entangling fence is of inferior brand to the adjacent Anchor fence. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume, 32 pages, 103 x 165 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: 1920 - 1929

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

By: Kauri Timber Company Ltd; Clark & Matheson (Firm); Scott, Richard George, 1923-2020

Reference: Eph-A-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-1920s-01

Description: Sales catalogue for the Kauri Timber Company, with illustrations of doors, door frames, window frames, French casements, casement sashes, verandah sashes, mantelpieces, gates, fences, louvre ventilators, washing tubs. Other Titles - [Cover title] From bush to bungalow; illustrations of high class domestic joinery manufactured by the Kauri Timber Co Ltd, Fanshawe St., Auckland. Manufactured from the primeval forests of Maoriland Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 52 pages each 140 x 225 mm.

Date: 1916

By: J & W Faulkner & Sons (Firm); Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-FENCE-1916-01

Description: Illustrated booklet showing different fences and gates available: wrought iron single gates, posts and fencing, wrought iron fencing, double gates and posts, cast iron pillars; photographs of the gates at Auckland Racing Club's racecourse at Ellerslie, Botanical Gardens Dunedin; ornate wrought iron staircases, balustrades, finials and weather-vanes; porch brackers, lamps and street-lamps, wrought iron grilles (including collapsible ones for elevators and the elevator cars themselves); counter grilles (for bank tellers, etc); lockers, screens, tomb railings; garden furniture. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume, 62 pages, 218 x 280 mm.

Date: 1981

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-1981-01

Description: A list of all stock including stell sheets, tubes, clamps, scaffold fittings. Quantity: 1 sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Photocopies, in booklet of 61 pages, 300 x 212 mm.

Date: 2007

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

By: Hinuera Natural Stone (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-2007-01

Description: Promotional booklet shows photographs of buildings completed using Hinuera Natural Stone products: cladding, sawnstone, splitstone, kiln-fired and mixed cladding, stone paving, fire surrounds, stone fencing. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 27 pages, 212 x 297 mm.

Date: 1979

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

By: Vogue-Kraft Products Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-1979-01

Description: A sales catalogue for custom built gates and balustrades and swimming pool fences, etc. Accompanied by a consumer price list for 1979. Photographs show cast metal panels, wrought metal decorative panels, wrought metal tables, gateways, trellises, verandah pillars, brackets and friezes. Dated from the accompanying consumer price list. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) in booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, each 259 x 190 mm.

Date: 1905 - 1915

By: University of Waikato. Library

Reference: Eph-B-GLASS-1910-01

Description: Includes illustrations of stained glass window designs, numbered 15 to 54. Quantity: 1 sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Chromolithographs and letterpress in catalogue of 12 pages, each 257 x 192 mm.

Date: 1961

By: Valintines (NZ) Ltd; Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1961-01

Description: Contains a price list of all goods available : hardware, electrical equipment, war surplus, camping equipment, hydraulic equipment, mechanical equipment, tools, torches, radio equipment, lifejackets, saddlebags, outdoor gear. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 108 pages, 215 x 140 mm.

Date: 2013

Reference: Eph-C-RETAIL-2013-01

Description: One side of sheet shore a layout plan of the Lyall Bay branch of a hardware and building supplies store, with a detailed store directory below. The verso includes advertising for the associated services offered by the business: expert advice, same day delivery, special orders, lowest prices, open 7 days, widest range, etc. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on both sides of sheet 420 x 297 mm.

Date: 1900-1910

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

Reference: Eph-A-FENCE-1900s-02

Description: Illustrated booklet showing different fences and gates available. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 32 pages, 237 x 146 mm.

Date: [ca 1927]-1938

From: Turbott, Harold Bertram, 1899-1988 : Papers

Reference: PAColl-10760

Description: Photographs taken by an unidentified photographer, possibly between 1927 and 1938. Consists of 45 photographic prints containing 51 images, associated with H B Turbott's career as a Medical Officer of Health. These include eight small prints possibly cut from a proof sheet, and 37 quarter plate prints, 10 of which are pasted on paper with typescript captions. The photographs, taken in rural areas, show housing conditions in Māori communities. Many homes are small and in poor condition. PAColl-10760-36 shows images of houses without windows constructed from wood and corrugated iron. Annotations on the reverse of PAColl-10760-34 identify two tuberculosis hut images as taken on the East Coast. Other locations are not known and people are unidentified. Two pieces of photographic ephemera, envelopes, are also included. One envelope is addressed to "Dr. H B Turbott, Health Dept [Department], Hamilton", and originally contained two prints depicting tuberculosis huts. A postmark dates the envelope to 1938. The second envelope is stamped "Department of Health New Zealand". Pencil annotations read "Lambert's photos". This could be a reference to Dr Sylvester Maxwell Lambert who produced a report on Māori health in 1938. Title supplied by Library. The Library holds Dr Sylvester Maxwell Lambert’s 1938 report "A Survey of the Maori situation" at Library reference MS-Papers-9557. Quantity: 45 b&w original photographic print(s) 45 prints containing 51 images. 3 transcript(s). 2 item(s) of photographic ephemera envelopes. Physical Description: Photographic prints and photographic ephemera

Date: [ca 1845-1853]

From: Parr, Christopher, 1931-: Collection of early New Zealand material

Reference: MS-Papers-12432-1-017

Description: From Maika Iwikatea to William Colenso, written on Monday 22nd [?], "No te Mane 22". On the outside of the letter it is addressed "Kia te Koreneho Minita, kei Waitangi i tuhia ki te Aute". The writer identifies himself as Ngāti Marau, based at Te Roto-a-Tara, Te Aute. The letter speaks of progress on the building of a church and requiring more materials such as nails and wood. Also mentions writing a letter to Matiu. For further details on the author of this letter, see EATS (Entity Authority Tool Set) database: http://wtap.vuw.ac.nz/eats/entity/79928/ Title supplied by Library. Physical Description: Manuscript letter, ink on wove paper, 10.1 x 16.2 cm.

Date: 1968 - 1981

Reference: Eph-B-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-Turner

Description: Includes: Covering letter from A R Turner, 20 January 1981 Pryde nail plates, patents pending [ca 1968] Pryde sales catalogue, June 1976 Claw nail; the new claw-nail truss system from Pryda [ca 1980]. Pamphlet Pryda angle brace [1980?]. Flier Pryda fixing devices [ca 1981]. Flier Pryda speedbrace [1981?] Flier Pryda tee brace; the new shape in bracing for buildings [1981?] Flier Pryda truss fabrication equipment; Pryda nailplate presses [ca 1981]. Pamphlet Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizses around 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 1911

By: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-C-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-1911-01

Description: Sales catalogue for products of the company, including designs for wall lining, dado panelling, border finishes, enriched cornices, plain cornices, moulding, freizes, ceiling borders or fillings, diaper sheeting, enriched panelling, sheeting of imitation brick, zinc fish scale sheeting, sheeting of imitation rough cast, zinc capitals, zinc centre-flowers, perforated zinc sheeting, metal name plates, imitation rock-faced stone, ventilators, ornamental ridgings, finials. Other Titles - Catalogue Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and photolithographs, on pages 350 x 252 mm.

Date: [ca 21 March 1983]

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

Reference: EP/1983/0976-F

Description: Members of the Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club load up with building materials for the construction of Smith Creek Shelter, Tararua Ranges. In the foreground a man and woman are holding a bag of cement. The woman is carrying a pack with a concrete block at the top. Photographed circa 21 March 1983 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm