Telecommunication systems

Date: 1948-1978

From: Martin, Robert Thomas, 1921-2006: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1159

Description: Album containing photographs relating to Martin's career as a telegraph worker in Auckland. Taken by unidentified photographers, possibly including Martin, between 1948 and 1978. Contains portraits of identified telegraph workers, colleagues of Mr Martin, at office desks or working telegraph equipment, taken circa 1961. These include Colin Smyth, John Salthouse, Harry Fox, Les Davidson, Maurice Rees, Russell Rockley, Bert Fox, Gilbert Rees, Tom Atkins, Bob Collins, Fred Studman, Ron Carter, Reg Langford, Jack Potter, Gerry Lawson, John Phillips, Clarrie Russel, Len Sedman, Graham Parsons, Paul Hair, Murray Downes, Reg Dempster, Gordon Potter, Norman Jones, Jack Parker, Bob Putt, Keith Faulkner, Colin Cotter, Bert Walls, Neil McNeil, Bob Martin, Colin Neilson, Norman Jones, Jack Parker, Ken Clark, Jeanette Elkington, Ken Rea, Ron Wills, Earle Douglas, Laurie Waite, Sid Hamilton, Mac Wilson, Mac MacNeil, Percy Clayton, Tony Vink, Maurie Challinor, Alan Roberts, Brian Casey, John Condon, Jack Erickson, Jock Campbell, Jim Sleeman, Dan Carew (Warren L Carew), Murray Downes, Des Delaney, Alan Howe, Bill Game, Keith Milne, Neville Roebuck Hori Brown, Kel Somerville, Bert Brunton, Jim Foster, Big John Gower, Allan Pendleton, Eppie O'Loan, Tolu Nogotautama, Terry McGlone, Dave Eaton, Paul Natulovic, Charlie Veo, Pat Julian, Bob Taylor, Bo Parsons, Chris McLean, Frank Blakeley, John Langmead, Barry Hughes, Jack Turner, Doug Wheeler, Allan Roberts, Bill Denton, Keith Faulkner, Ron Willcox, Bob McVickar, Peter Colquhoun, and Frank Alexander. A series of images shows Bob Martin at work. Group portraits show the Auckland Telegraph Office in October 1948, a telegraph office team from the 1950s, Cable Station Veterans Reunion in December 1924 (Queen's Arcade, Auckland), and Ponsonby Post Office staff (1946). The farewells of Superintendent Colin Smyth (1961) and Manager Jock Baird (1952) are also shown. Other events include cable station staff reunions in 1975 and 1978 at KSE clubrooms 228 Ponsonby Road and the annual Cable Station Children's Christmas Party with Martin's young children Janet and Stephen. Also contains images of equipment used for Cable Telegraphy, including a capacity magnifier, for relay, communication cabinet, shipwatch set, synchronome clock, phonic motor, uncontrolled fork, reed relay, dummy synchroniser, bias corrector relay, synterpolator IQ transmitter, cable code transmitter, and other parts. Annotations in gold pen and Post-it notes added by Janet Martin. Many Post-it notes have been removed for conservation purposes (in instances when they were assessed as adding no further information). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Ring bound album with green cardboard cover, gold embossed text and ornamentation, and black card pages

Date: ca 1975

By: New Zealand Post Office; Neill, W, active 1970s

Reference: PAColl-4571

Description: A man operating a repeater testing console at the Palmerston North Coaxial Carrier Terminal. Photographer was W Neill. A repeater is used to boost a signal passing along a wire, in this case the coaxial communications cabling. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: A stamp on the reverse of the photograph reads: With the compliments of the Director General N Z Post Office (Public Relations Division). Details of deposit unknown.

Date: [circa 1980s]

From: Watt, James Norwood, 1928-2018: Collection

Reference: PA1-o-1983

Description: Album containing photographs relating to the erecting of a telephone mast by Bell South at Moana Point subdivision, Whangamata. Taken by James (Jim) Watt in circa 1980s. Photographs show the Central Cranes Ltd (Auckland) crane used for the construction of the mast, local people protesting the erecting of the mast, the mast in question, and nearby cows and foliage. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - Telephone mast/tower.| Subject of court case | - went trhough private property without permission. |Locals tried to stop it 1980s The telephone mast was built on the boundary of Jim and Norm Watt's properties and was the subject of a court case. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 25 colour photographs. Physical Description: Kodak Express cardboard album, 11.4 x 17.7 cm Transfers: Negatives have been separated from this item due to storage requirements. See 35mm-103845 to 35mm-103851..

Date: [circa 1980s]

From: Watt, James Norwood, 1928-2018: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10577-7

Description: Photographic prints relating to a telephone mast that was errected by Bell South at Moana Point subdivision, Whangamata. Taken by James (Jim) Watt circa 1980s. Includes annotations on adhesive labels stuck to prints. Photographs show various views of the mast from a number of Moana Point properties. The names associated with properties are Wilson, Tirohanga, R.O.W Geany, McKenzie, and Denby. Information regarding context and content provided by donor. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - Telephone mast/tower.| Subject of court case | - went trhough private property without permission. |Locals tried to stop it 1980s Telephone mast was built on the boundary of Jim and Norm Watt's properties and was the subject of a court case. Photographs were taken as evidence for court case. Quantity: 13 colour original photographic print(s) with annotated adhesive labels stuck to front of prints. Physical Description: Dye coupler prints Transfers: Negatives have been separated from this item due to storage requirements. See 35mm-103845 to 35mm-103851..

Date: 2010

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014120

Description: The cartoon shows Paul Reynolds, the CEO of Telecom, sweating with anxiety as he holds an 'XT file'. Text reads 'The XT files' and talks of 'technological meltdowns, disappearing texts and rolling heads' and continues with 'The truth is out there... and that's... We CAN'T connect! Or should that be... on XT no-one can hear you SCRREEAAM!!!' Refers to yet another problem for Telecom with the XT mobile phone network. There have been several breakdowns in the past few months. The cartoon makes a play on the science fiction television series 'The X-files'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0014285

Description: The cartoon shows the Telecom logo which is described in text above as the 'hash up key'. Refers to the continuing problems experienced by Telecom; recently there have been reports of scrambled text messages. There is a word play on 'hache' = # and hash as in making a botch-up of things. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017103

Description: A newspaper has a headline that reads 'Air NZ to allow mobile phone calls on some domestic routes'. The cartoon shows a man lying prone on his belly in a operating theatre while a surgeon shines a torch up his rear end; a voice is heard coming from the rear end saying 'Bob? Bob? One minute you were saying the guy on the plane next to you was irritated with you talking on your mobile, then everything became muffled... Bob? Bob?...' Context - Passengers on Air New Zealand's new black A320 will be able to make phone calls, send texts and check emails - if they are Vodafone customers. The plane is one of two A320s which the airline is making "mobile phone capable" in the next month. (NZH 8 February 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0016973

Description: A tourist holding a flaming torch and a guide are inside a darkened Cairo museum looking at hieroglyphics on a wall. The guide reads the hieroglyphics and says 'Roughly translated - "Using this method of communication as Internet services have been blocked by the authorities in Cairo"'. Context - just before the largest planned anti-government (27 January 2011) protest the Internet went down in Cairo and throughout Egypt. Twitter and phone calls were also blocked. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013-2014

By: Penman, Jack, 1973?-

Reference: OHColl-1309

Description: Set of 14 oral history interviews, plus related exhbition materials and radio broadcast programming, to document the stories of the Waikanae telephone exchange operators and others closely associated with it in the 1950s and 60s. The interviews were conducted by Jack Penman, and resulted in the broadcast of five radio programmes on Coast Access Radio, an operators' reunion on 25 March 2014, and an exhibition entitled, 'Party Lines', held at the Mahara Gallery from April - June 2014. The project also focused on photographing and filming the Ericsson Magneto Switchboard manual telephone exchange, located at the Kāpiti Coast museum. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 14 Interview(s). 20 digital sound recording(s). 14 Electronic document(s). 36 digital photograph(s). 2 digital video recording(s). 2 folder(s). Search dates: 2013 - 2014