Typewriters

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Photographer unknown: Private houses

Date: [ca 1940s-1950s]

Reference: PAColl-6927

Description: 17 images of private houses possibly in the Wellington area also showing their gardens; three of an unidentified older man sitting at his desk; and one of the politican Ormond Wilson typing at his desk. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-052392 to 052408 and 052424 to 052427 Quantity: 21 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

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Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George :[Budge Hintz typing a book as he fishes on Lake Taupo...

From: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George, 1902-1992 :[Five Christmas cards on the theme of fishing. Undated]

Reference: A-295-003

Description: Budge Hintz standing in Lake Taupo, surrounded by fishermen, as he types out a book on trout on a typewriter slung around his neck. The verse inside refers to his activities. Card is addressed to Frank and signed Budge Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on card

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N.Z. Typewriter & Supplies Company: Price list of shop-soiled and second-hand machines....

Date: 1905

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to office supplies and equipment, office furniture]

Reference: Eph-B-OFFICE-1905-01

Description: Carbon typescript of flier advertising second-hand typewriters for sale through N.Z. Typewriter & Supplies Co. (Searle, Joy & Co.), 31 Victoria Street Wellington. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Typescript on flier, 280 x 215 mm.

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Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :[24 original cartoons, published in the Auckland Star and the S...

Date: 1988 - 1990

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-336-144/167

Description: Cartoons on national and international political and social issues. Quantity: 24 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

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Lonsdale, Neil :[Cockroach on the typewriter] 10th September 1977

Date: 1977

From: Various cartoonists :Cartoons from the New Zealand News, 1970s

Reference: A-297-295

Description: A dismayed man watching a large cockroach cross his typewriter keyboard Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper

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Interview with Phyllis Langton

Date: 1 May 1984 - 01 May 1984

From: NZOHA Customs Department Oral History Project Part II

By: Langton, Phyllis Elizabeth, 1919-1993

Reference: OHInt-0101/10

Description: Phyllis Elizabeth Langton born Auckland 1919. Outlines family background. Recalls joining Customs and attitude towards women. Describes working with Burroughs calculating machines. Notes that women were treated well in Customs but had no chance of promotion. Gives brief impression of effect of WWII on Customs. Recalls Remmington and Imperial manual typewriters. Gives reasons for resignation from Customs and desire not to return. Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000485 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0096. Search dates: 1919 - 1984

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Computer and typewriter file

Date: [1985-1999]

From: Shadbolt, Maurice Francis Richard, 1932-2004 : Papers and recordings

Reference: MS-Papers-8044-311

Description: Handbooks on Casiowriter and Typestar typewriters; Apple Computer accounts; Unity Books discount card Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Lonsdale, Neil :"Who am I?" Career opportunities [1976?]

Date: 1976

From: Various cartoonists :Cartoons from the New Zealand News, 1970s

Reference: A-297-255

Description: A man musing in front of a typewriter, a page of job advertisements at his side Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper

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Photographs

Date: 1927-1960s

From: A H & A W Reed: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10667

Description: Photographs of St Thomas's ruin dated 1937; a stained glass window of St John's College Chapel (taken by unidentified photographers); a kauri tree on Trounson's land in Kaihu Valley (taken by Bartlett of Auckland); and A H Reed with Neale Alexander surveying a display of typewriters taken circa 1966-1968 (taken by an unidentified photographer). Also a photograph of an illuminated address for Mr and Mrs A McKenzie from the people of Hinds, presented when the couple left for Ashburton in 1927. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Unidentified man sitting at a typewriter

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: 1/4-129148-F

Description: No related index card. No related index card. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative

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Winter, Mark 1958- :An angel leaves the table. Janet Frame, 1924-2004

Date: 2004

From: Winter, Mark 1958- :[Cartoons published in the Southland Times between 30 January 2004 and 20 August 2004]

Reference: A-370-050

Description: An empty writing desk with a typewriter and papers both sides. Title refers to writer Janet Frame's autobiography, An angel at my table. Possibly published the day after the death of Frame Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy on A4 size paper.

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :I wouldn't say the flurry of activity in the sale order...

Date: 1979

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-135-511

Description: The cartoon shows a scene in an office with two managers at the door watching enthusiastic workers communicating with one another about gambling rather than their normal work. Other Titles - Resurgence Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 320 x 451 mm.

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989:'They'll be back at work for the running of the Melbour...

Date: 1973

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-134-408

Description: This cartoon relates to the introduction of colour television in New Zealand and features the office of Dibble, Dibble, Dibble and Glibb. The staff are just going out the door. There is a television on one of the desks on which can be seen a racecourse. The boss is looking on crossly and a manager is explaining to him that the staff have gone to watch the New Zealand Trotting Cup in another office which has colour television. Label on verso is dated Tues 6/11 Other Titles - Dibble, Dibble, Dibble and Glibb Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 316 x 398 mm

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Ing. C. Olivetti & C (Firm) :[Typewriter of Douglas Lilburn]. Olivetti lettura 32. Oliv...

Date: 1955 - 1970

By: Lilburn, Douglas Gordon, 1915-2001

Reference: Curios-030-055

Description: Blue-green portable typewriter in carry-case. The label indicates that this typewriter was made at the manufacturer's premises in Ivrea, Italy. Quantity: 1 typewriter. Physical Description: Typewriter with blue-green metal casing, 320 x 300 x 70 mm, encased in vinyl carrying case 347 x 328 x 85 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives -.

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Brockie, Bob, 1932- :Parliament. Press. 16 April 1984.

Date: 1984

From: Various artists :Collection of photocopies, newspaper clippings and bromides of cartoons by Bromhead (A-314-1), Brockie (A-314-2) and J. C. Hill (A-314-3).

Reference: A-314-2-040

Description: Shows Muldoon standing on a doorstep with an open door (Parliament) behind him. He has a parrot on his shoulder and a whip in his hand. He is shouting furiously at a woman (Press) who is running away with a typewriter clutched to her chest. There are two faces looking around the door at the scene. Refers to Muldoon's attitude towards the press. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[The typewriter]. Evening Post. 30 August 1980.

Date: 1980

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-135-673

Description: A man is sitting at a desk typing. The typewriter is jumping off the desk. Untitled cartoon. Signature and date not completed. Not published in Evening Post of 30 August 1980. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon, 460 x 320 mm.

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IBM typewriter

Date: 1978

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 35mm-79865-F

Description: IBM Typewriter, taken in 1978 for IBM by K E Niven and Co, commercial photographers Other - Reference number 1186/78. IBM typewriters Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with one image. Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

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IBM typewriter

Date: 1978

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 35mm-79864-F

Description: IBM Typewriter, taken in 1978 for IBM by K E Niven and Co, commercial photographers Other - Reference number 1186/78. IBM typewriters Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with one image. Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

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Qantas employee Miss Cullen (Publicity Manager's Office) and an unidentified woman at a...

Date: Aug 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-15676-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, ¼ plate

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Dr Doris Clifton Gordon

Date: 1930s-1940s

Reference: 1/2-127025-F

Description: Dr Doris Clifton Gordon seated at a typewriter. Taken by an unidentified photographer between 1930-1949. This photograph was published in "The Book of New Zealand Women = Ko kui ma te kaupapa", edited by Charlotte Macdonald, Merimeri Penfold and Bridget Williams. (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 1991.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).