Tea making paraphernalia
Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :Marty boiling the billy. Kettle Creek, upper end o...
Date: 1907
From: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :Sketches & diary, 1893-1904-1907-1919.
Reference: E-789-019
Description: A scene at the foot of a mountain, with somebody boiling a billy in the left foreground Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 111 x 182 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A85-097.
Maker unknown :[Chinese tea caddy. ca 1830]
Date: 1835 - 1838
By: Johnson family
Reference: Curios-028-008
Description: A square-based embossed pewter tea caddy, with curved shoulders, a hinged lid surmounted by a seated figure. Designs on the four sides a pagoda, a seated man playing a percussion instrument, another seated man and two figures playing percussion instruments. All four sides show figures in Chinese landscapes. Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Pewter, 140 x 112 x 112 mm Provenance: A note inside the caddy reads 'Given to my Grandfather, John Johnson, in 1844, by the captain of a ship trading from the East. He obtained it in China about 8 years before that'
Lonsdale, Neil :[Making a pot of tea] 18th June 1977
Date: 1977
From: Various cartoonists :Cartoons from the New Zealand News, 1970s
Reference: A-297-309
Description: A man ladelling tea into the teapot. The teapot is warming on top of the boiling kettle Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper
Lonsdale, Neil :[Getting boiling water from the cylinder] 9/7/[19]77
Date: 1977
From: Various cartoonists :Cartoons from the New Zealand News, 1970s
Reference: A-297-299
Description: A man looking pleased with himself as he pours water into his electric kettle directly from the hot water cylinder into his electric kettle, before making a cup of tea. The cylinder is in an airing cupboard Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper
Lonsdale, Neil :Homespun [Making tea with a kettle on the fire] 15 March 1975
Date: 1975
From: Various cartoonists :Cartoons from the New Zealand News, 1970s
Reference: A-297-247
Description: A man about to take a whistling kettle off the fire. He has tea ready to make on a nearby table. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper
Photographer unknown : King Taufa'ahau Tupou of Tonga, Princess Te Kirihaehae Te Puea H...
Date: [ca 1940s]
Reference: PAColl-6664
Description: 36 images: 9 of King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga having afternoon tea outside a house with some friends; 8 of a boy in a military style uniform, one of them with his mother; two of Princess Te Kirihaehae Te Puea Herangi and others sitting on the front steps of a house; and one of a waka under construction. The other images are of unidentified people. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-027259 to 027294 Quantity: 36 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives
[Gunner M A T Traue of Gisborne boiling water on a Benghazi stove, Korea]
Date: 20 August 1951
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: PA1-q-311-0384
Description: Gunner M A T Traue of Gisborne boiling water for a pot of tea on a Benghazi stove, Korea. Photograph taken 20 August 1951 by an army photographer. Original negative at K-0384 Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Boiling up some water for a brew of tea in the familiar "Benghazi" stove is Gnr. M.A.T. Traue of Gisbourne [sic]. The "Benghazi" stove was originated by the Kiwis during the Desert Campaign.; Album page - right of image - K383, 20/8/51 Korea Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 77 x 101 mm mounted on album page
A silver-plated tea service, which is valued at £40
Date: 22 Sep 1959
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP/1959/3221-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: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm
Valmai Moffett pouring a cup of tea
Date: [ca 1960s]
From: Lilburn, Douglas Gordon, 1915-2001: Photographs
Reference: PAColl-6884-2-61-2
Description: Valmai Moffett pouring a cup of tea from a tea urn. Photograph taken ca 1960s by an unknown photographer. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - RIII/G4; Verso - centre - Valmai Moffett, 'cellist in Ch.ch. in the forties, later in the S.O. - a natural Russophile Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 7.6 x 10.1 cm
Maori family group cooking outdoors
Date: [ca 1910]
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-001934-G
Description: A family group seated outdoors by a metal stand on which a kettle and a teapot are resting. The group consists of three boys, a young girl, an older woman and an elderly man (wrapped in a woollen blanket and holding a stick). They appear to be seated near to the covered entrance way to a house (on the far right). Other buildings are in the background. Photograph taken by William A Price ca 1910. The group and locality are unidentified. William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches
Dame Elizabeth Knox Gilmer making tea beside the fireplace in her Upper Hutt home Te Marua
Date: [ca 1940]
From: S P Andrew Ltd :Portrait negatives
Reference: 1/1-018455-F
Description: Dame Elizabeth Gilmer photographed making tea beside the fireplace of her Upper Hutt home Te Marua. Photographed by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew, circa 1940. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
YWCA members serving tea to travellers to Chatham Islands
Date: [ca December 1956]
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP/1956/2957-F
Description: YWCA members with teapots. They are serving tea to early morning travellers to the Chatham Islands. Photograph taken ca December 1956 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - above image - 1956 2957 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 6 cm
Gunner M A Traue of Gisborne boiling water on a Benghazi stove, Korea
Date: 20 August 1951
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: K-0384-F
Description: Gunner M A T Traue of Gisborne boiling water for a pot of tea on a Benghazi stove, Korea. Photograph taken 20 August 1951 by an army photographer. Identified from original print from this negative at PA1-q-311-0384 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Portrait of Mrs Cameron
Date: [ca 1890s]
From: Cameron, J G :Negatives of the Cameron and Haggitt families
Reference: 1/2-024921-G
Description: Portrait of Mrs Cameron, taken by her son, James R Cameron, circa 1890s. A large, elborately decorated drape forms a background for the subject, who is seated with a tea cup in her lap and a tea service on the table beside her. Note on bakc of file print reads: Mother of J R Cameron Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative
Christensen family breakfasting, Lower Hutt - Photograph taken by Edward Percival Chris...
Date: [ca 1940]
From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection
By: Christensen, Edward Percival, 1907-1982
Reference: PAColl-3060-018
Description: Christensen family breakfasting in their house in Collingwood Street, Waterloo, Lower Hutt. Shows a group around a kitchen table set with crockery. The boy, Eric Leonard, is using a toaster. His mother Violet pours water from an electric jug into a tea pot and his father Edward Percival (the photographer) is seated on left. Photograph taken circa 1940. Caption in Making New Zealand reads: "The toaster and water-jug show the everyday use of electricity in the home." Published in Making New Zealand, Vol 1, No 13, page 20 Source of descriptive information - Location and persons identified by family member. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print (retouched) 20.4 x 15.3 cm