S and W Mackay (Firm)

Wellington printers and booksellers in the 1900s and 1910s. Also stationers with a business on Lambton Quay (Information from image 1/4-049364).

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Christchurch Press Company Ltd: New Zealand illustrated; to be published shortly, the C...

Date: 1905

By: Christchurch Press Company Ltd; Squires, Harry (Rev), 1907?-1954

Reference: Eph-C-SERIAL-1905-01

Description: An arrangement of text, listing on the left side the colour picture supplements: "Mana" (Te Heuheu V) and "The Manawatu Gorge", and the stories included in the 1905 Christmas number of the 'Weekly Press'. Down the right side is a list of all the illustrations in the Christmas number, covering topics of landscape, tourism, and personal interest. The Library holds copies of the colour supplement illustrations: "Mana" by Wilhelm Dittmer, at C-067-001, and "Manawatu Gorge" at C-065-017. This broadsheet came into the Library with "The Holy Bible ..." Oxford, Printed at the Bible Press, 1829. Reference number BS 185 1829 O94. (qREng BIBLE 1829) Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 510 x 317 mm. Provenance: From the papers of the Reverend Harry Squires, in 1963.

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Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912 :New Zealand scenery from water colour drawings by ...

Date: 1910 - 1920

By: Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912; S and W Mackay (Firm)

Reference: A-192-018/022

Description: Contents: Otira Gorge, West Coast Road. Nihotupu Falls, Auckland. Hinemoa's bath, Rotorua. Wanganui River. Manawatu Gorge. Quantity: 5 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Col. reproductions from original water colours 150 x 230 mm Provenance: Donation: Mr Townsend, Wellington, 1974.

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Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912: Photolithographs of watercolour drawings of New Ze...

Date: [ca 1900

From: Various artists :1. Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912. Photolithographs of watercolour drawings of New Zealand. [1910?] 2. Department of Maori Affairs. Maori housing. Departmental Standard plans. [1953-1954] 3. Walter Armiger Bowring, 1874-1931. [Cartoons of important New Zealanders]. 1902-1903

By: New Zealand. Parliamentary Library; S and W Mackay (Firm); Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912

Reference: E-962-q-1

Description: Image titles include: 'A Maori maiden'; 'Manawatu Gorge'; 'Hinemoa's Bath, Rotorua'; 'Wanganui River'; 'Otira Gorge, West Coast Road'; 'Mount Cook, Canterbury'; 'Mitre Peak, Milford Sound'; 'Nihotupu Falls, Auckland'; 'Lake Manapouri'; and 'River Avon, Christchurch' Total of ten pages out of 44 used. Bound by Parliamentary Library, using blank pages to bulk out the contents. Red buckram, half red morocco Catalogued by Parliamentary Library as the work of I W Wilson and ca 1910. The signature and style is that of L W Wilson, although the signature appears to read I W Wilson. The Alexander Turnbull Library holds the original watercolour for one reproduction, the view of Lake Manapouri (reference number A-123-002). It also holds second copies of several other reproductions, 5 with a separate printed portfolio cover titled 'New Zealand scenery. From water colour drawings by L W Wilson Esq. S and W Mackay, booksellers, Wellington'(reference number A-192-018/022). The portfolio-style cover with the latter group includes cotton ties opposite a spine binding, suggesting that the reproductions were unbound. Dating: Wilson left New Zealand in 1904. He probably had these copies made before leaving. The view of Manawatu Gorge was also published as a postcard. The Library holds a copy at E-279-160 sent in 1906. Title supplied by Library. Other Titles - [New Zealand scenery. From water colour drawings by L W Wilson Esq. S and W Mackay, Booksellers, Wellington] Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithographs on paper, 200 x265 mm, in binding 1/2 red calf and red buckram, 205 x 290 mm

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Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912 :Mt Cook, Canterbury, New Zealand. [ca 1900?]

Date: 1885 - 1915

By: Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912; S and W Mackay (Firm)

Reference: A-242-001

Description: A view of Aoraki from the east One of a group of reproductions of watercolours by L W Wilson, originally published in a portfolio with printed title New Zealand scenery. Other Titles - [New Zealand scenery. From water colour drawings by L W Wilson Esq. S and W Mackay, Booksellers, Wellington] An intact copy is held at E-962-q-1, bound into a volume with nine other works by L W Wilson Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 152 x 228 mm

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Muir and Moodie: Lambton Quay, Wellington

Date: 1905

From: Photographs by Muir & Moodie

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-003839

Description: View looking north down Lambton Quay to the Government Printing Offices. The Magistrates court is on the right. Photographer was Muir and Moodie. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

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Procession on Lambton Quay, Wellington

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 1

Reference: PAColl-5471-023

Description: A procession on Lambton Quay, Wellington, showing the Hotel Cecil building in the background and Brandon's Corner where the Cenotaph now stands. In the foreground, from left to right are the businessses of S & W Mackay, Hood Bros, the Lambton Tea Rooms and Boucher's. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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