Braithwaite, Joseph, 1848-1917

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

By: Hunter, Norman Mitchell, 1859-

Reference: E-328-f-008-2

Description: Royal Arcade Dunedin, showing Hotel Bayley and Joseph Braithwaite - Imported books Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Royal Arcade Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 57 x 85 mm

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: [School exercise books of octavo size. 1800s-]

By: Braithwaite, Joseph, 1848-1917; Fredric, A E (Mr), active 1976

Reference: Eph-A-SCHOOL-EXERCISE-BOOKS-1890s-01

Description: Back and front covers show coloured illustrations of children at play. On the front cover they are walking in the fields and picking flowers, and on the back cover they are playing "Oranges and lemons" or Tug of War inside. The pages of the book have been used to stick in clippings about the New Zealand Rifle Association, Major J R Sommerville, Captain Collins (treasurer of the NZ Rifle Association), Private H S Batchelor, Private William Richardson, Mr W G Fletcher (secretary, NZ Rifle Association), "A" Battery champion team 1890-91; Major Sir Arthur Douglas, competition at the military tournament, Dunedin Sea Fencibles, Mounted infantry who left for England in 1894 from Sydney; NZ Rifle Association meeting at Oamaru; Dunedin Navals Camp. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Ruled exercise book, 200 x 160 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr A E Fredric in August 1976.

By: Gibbs, Rowan William, 1947-

Reference: Eph-F-BOOK-LABELS-01

Description: Includes labels for the following: [Mrs?] Basche's Circulating Library Hawera. Subscription five shillings per quarter ... (Label stuck inside front cover of "The works of Flavius Josephus", translated by William Whiston 1873) J H Bigelow Ltd, booksellers and stationers, Auckland NZ (small label stuck inside front cover of "Stories behind the world's great music", NY 1937) Braithwaite's Circulating Library, corner of Fleet & High Streets. Joseph Braithwaite, Dunedin, established 1863 (label stuck to cover of "Antonina; or, the fall of Rome". The terms of subscription for this circulating library are stuck to the back cover, and partly effaced) Chapman's Circulating Library. Five shillings per quarter. Queen Street, Auckland [1897?]. (Stuck on cover of "Phantasmata; or, Illusions and fanaticisms of protean forms productive of great evils" by R R Madden. London, 1857) Charleston Public Library and Institute. Rules. (Stuck inside cover of Thomas de Qunicey's "Style and rhetoric", 1862) Clark's Book Shop, 85a Molesworth Street Wellington (Rubber stamp only, inside cover of "The Thunderer" by E Barrington. With pencil note about Mrs Clark (nee Parsloe) inside front cover) H H Driver's Popular Book Shop and Lending Library, 32 George Street, Dunedin (dust jacket? stuck to cover of "Dean Swift's works, with memoir, 19--) Dunedin Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute. Rules of Library 1881 (Label stuck inside cover of "Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry" by William Carleton. Also has faint rubber stamp on title page, and embossed stamp on cover) Alf Fraser, bookseller, staioner and newsagent, Foxton (Very small blue label inside front cover of "Danesford" by Carter Harrison, 1891] Gower's Book Exchange, 340 Tinakori Rd, Wellington (Label stuck to cover of "The confessions of a twentieth-century hobo" by "Digit" 1924. Also contains rubber stamp for Smith's Bookshop, 34 Mercer Street, Wellington, inside flyleaf) Dave Griffin Bookseller, 53 Willis Street Wellington (Rubber stamp only) (inside "Lord Edward Fitzgerald" by M McD Bodkin, 1921) J Hounsell, Bookseller and Stationer, Nelson, New Zealand (small label stuck inside front cover of M Tullius Cicero's, "Cato major sive De Senectute / Laelius sive De Amicitia, et Epistolae Selectae" 1874) Modern Books, Dunedin (small bookseller's label stuck inside front cover of "Sons and lovers" by D H Lawrence, Heinemann, 1948) Montague's Circulating Library, Princes Street. Subscription 2s6d per quarter (Label stuck inside front cover of "The world and the cloister" by Oswald John Simon, 1890) New Zealand Tract & Book Society, for the diffusion of evangelical literature. Head depot 22 George Street, Dunedin, incorporated 1886 (Tipped inside ""The story of Benvenuto Cellini, the Italian goldsmith" by Mary & Elizabeth Kirby, 1883) Paton & McMaster City Book Exchange and Lending Library, 618 Colombo St (Rubber stamps only) (inside "Pick-me-ups" by Nathaniel Gubbins, 1902) J P Shand Ltd Circulating Library. 23 Manners Street Wellington (Label stuck to cover of "Mates" by Dugald Ferguson 1911. Also rubber stamp for Shand's inside) A Simpson late J Hughes, bookseller Christchurch N.Z. (embossed stamp inside front cover of "Two years before the mast" by Richard Henry Dana, jr. Ward, Lock and Tyler, 19-?) Edward Greaves Smith Music, book and stationery warehouse, Wellington (Small label inside cover of "The poets of Greece by Edwin Arnold") Mrs Old Smith. Molesworth Street. The charge for reading this book is ... This book to be returned in seven days or 1d a day fine will be charged (Stuck inside empty cover of "Christmas books" by W M Thackeray) South's Book Depot Limited (Label inside cover of "The bedside Esquire" edited by Arnold Gingrich, 1949) L M Swan Fountain Pen Depot, Cuba Street Wellington (Small label stuck inside cover of "Self mastery through conscious autosuggestion" by Emile Coue, London 1922) Veitch & Allan, 97, 99, & 101 Cuba Street, Wellington (small bookseller's label stuck inside front cover of "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe, London & Glasgow, ca 1911?) Whitcombe's. Buy a book a week. A Library in a year. On cover of French's Acting Edition of "A seat in the park", by Arthur Pinero. 1920s. Quantity: 24 labels stuck into book covers. Physical Description: Lithographs and photolithographs inside books. Provenance: Donated by Rowan Gibbs in 2001.

Date: 1917, collated 1953

From: Braithwaite, Warwick 1896-1971 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5136-31

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) 1 item. Physical Description: Typescript (copy)

Date: Jan-Apr 1881

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-099

Description: Most correspondents identified and entered under Name below; also includes letter from D [?] Inwood, Addington Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1893

By: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; F W Niven & Company; Moody, John George, active 1893

Reference: Eph-E-BUILDINGS-Dunedin-1893-02

Description: Shows a view of Dunedin from Logan's Point in the centre. Surrounding it from top left (clockwise) are: James Macfie & Co City Coal Depot; James Duthie & Co's Colonial Carrying Company of New Zealand, J & J Arthur (tailors); A & T Burt (engineers); Thomson & Co. Crystal Springs Mineral Water Works; H E Shacklock (ironfounder and engineer); Joseph Mackay City Boot Palace; St Domonic's Convent and High School; W Melville's Cyclists' Exchange and Sewing Machine Depot; Andrew Lees (glass importer); J W Faulkner & Sons (Ornamnetal iron and wire works); John Gillies Wholesale and retail Cabinetmaker and upholsterer, and undertaker; Findlay and Murdoch City Sawmills; Paterson & Barr (hardware importers); Duthie Brothers General Drapers; F A Hooper & Co (Furnishing Warehouse); W D Houston (Gentlemen's mercer); Joseph Braithwaite (Book and Stationery importer); New Zealand Engineering and Electrical Company (Thomas Stevenson, R H Postlethwaite); Edward Iles (Hairdresser, Wigmaker). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Printed for the proprietors of the "Evening Star" Dunedin, by F W Niven & Co., and published by John George Moody, Mornington. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured, 637 x 1010 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1980.

Date: 1906

By: Lyttelton Times Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-EXHIBITION-1906-01

Description: Shows text of proclamation by J Ward, Minister of Industries and Commerce, surrounded by inset photo portraits of: W Lee (Baron Plunket), R J Seddon, J G Ward, the Mayor of Christchurch C M Gray, the Mayor of Dunedin J Braithwaite, the Mayor of Wellington T W Hislop, and the Mayor of Auckland A M Myers. Portraits of the King and Queen are at the top. Also featured are inset scenes of a Maori with spear, harvest and farming scenes, fishing, shipping, industry and arts, and at bottom a picture of the exhibition buildings. Other Titles - Poster Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Lyttelton Times Co. Lith, Christchurch, NZ; Recto - bottom centre - Applications for space...from E J Righton, Secretary New Zealand International Exhibition, Christchurch, N.Z. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour lithograph 917 x 585 mm.