Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind

Date: 1919 - 1949

From: Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976]

Reference: Eph-A-CABOT-Music-1919/1949

Description: Includes programmes featuring: ca 1926?: The renowned musical Carlsons Bellringers. Mavis Carlson, Fred Carlson, Leo Carlson, [with] William Harris, eccentric comedian (late Tivoli Theatres) ... Specialty Press Print, Albury [Australia] The musical Carlsons, Carlson's Musical Follies fourth annual tour of Australasia and return of the favourites 1924-1925 tour featuring the enormous organ chimes and all new English show. New Zealand tour soon [two fliers or cuttings] 1933: Spivakovsky-Kurtz recitals souvenir programme (Jascha Spivakovsky, Tossy Spivakovsky, Edmund Kurtz). Australian and New Zealand tour 1933. 1934: New Zealand Championship band contest. Wellington, 19-24 February 1934. official souvenir programme. Philip Hargrave. Australia's music sensation. Grand Opera House Wellington, 3-10 November [1934]. Promotional pamphlet 1935: Menuhin, the prodigy of yesterday, the genius of today. Three gala concerts, Town Hall Wellington, 10, 13 and 17 July [1935]. Promotional pamphlet with photographs (2 copies) New Zealand Institute for the Blind, Parnell Auckland. Band tour 1935 (with sketch map inside of the activities of the Institute for the Blind in New Zealand). Programme New Zealand Institute for the Blind. Band & concert party tour programme (With bandmaster G W Bowes, performers Julian Lee, Frank Robinson, Archie Beveridge, Tumai Taraewa, Roberto Gherardi) [1935?]. Coming to New Zealand. The historic Vienna Boys' Choir. Promotional pamphlet [1935?] (2 copies) Viennese Boys' Choir. Direction J & N Tait. Australian and New Zealand tour 1935. Souvenir programme Viennese Boys' Choir Farewell in two Christmas programmes. Grand Opera House, Saturday December 14th [1935]. Flier 1936: 3 little piggies went to market but they'd sooner have gone to the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Coming shortly - . [1936?] Small card (2 copies) Ultra Amusements Ltd. New Zealand tour of the world famous Fisk Jubilee Singers & Entertainers (with photographs and repertoire of each performer) [1936] Souvenir programme 1936 Fisk Jubilee Singers. Coming H M Theatre Blenheim, 30 June - 1 July . Postcard (Portrait of Huntley Spencer) (2 copies) 1936 Fisk Jubilee Singers. Commencing Monday July 13th, one week only, Radiant Hall (Portrait of Huntley Spencer) (2 copies) 1940: Natzke-Neate concerts. Town Hall Wellington Saturday March 15th [1940] (With portraits of Oscar Natzke and Australian tenor Kenneth Neate. Solo pianist and accompanist Henri Penn). Flier 1943?: Westport Municipal Boys' Band on tour. [ca 1943]. Programme 1944: D D O'Connor announces the visit of the eminent English soprano Thea Philips, prima donna, Covent Garden Opera Company. Assisted by William Herbert, young Australian tenor. Resumption of celebrity concerts August-September 1944. Fler. 1946: Todd Duncan; outline of a career. Three glorious concerts, Town Hall Wellington, 3,7, 10th August [1946]. Flier (2 copies) Peter Dawson. 1946 dominion tour. With Clarence Black, Sydney pianist. Programmes 1, 2 and 3 in one booklet. Rawdon Blandford' Celebrity World Tours. Special invitation to admit ... to hear Jansen, eminent piano virtuoso ... 194[6]. Ticket 1947: Leo Cherniavsky, the renowned violinist. Town Hall Dannevirke, 3 April [1947]. Flier with portrait. Leo Cherniavsky, the world famous violinist of the celebrated trio. Town Hall, 1st and 5th March [1947??] Postcard Rosina Raisbeck. One memorable recital. Regent Theatre Masterton. Tuesday 20 May (one night only). Flier with portrait (2 copies) Rosina Raisbeck. 1947 - New Zealand concert season. Souvenir programme with photograph and biographical notes for Miss Raisbeck, and for pianist accompanist Arline Lower. (2 copies) John Charles Thomas. New Zealand tour 1947. Direction J & N Tait. Third concert programme. Assisted by Roy Urseth, pianist. John Charles Thomas. New Zealand tour 1947. Direction J & N Tait.Fourth concert programme (Plebiscite programme). Assisted by Roy Urseth, pianist. John Charles Thomas. Town Hall Wellington, 26, 29 and 31 July [1947]. Flier with portrait. John Charles Thomas. Plebiscite form, Town Hall, Saturday night, August 9 - please mark "X" against those numbers desired to be incorporated in the programme and return form no later than 12 noon, Wednesday August 6th (2 copies) Henryk Mierowski, famous Polish pianist. Fits tour of New Zealand. Town Hall Wellington, 25 June 1947. Flier with portrait (2 copies) 1948: Danny Morgan, famous tenor assisted by David Thatcher, pianist. New Zealand tour 1948. Town Hall Dunedin, 14 April 1948. Programme with portrait Danny Morgan, famous tenor assisted by David Thatcher, pianist. New Zealand tour 1948. Opera House Wanganui, 21 April 1948. Programme with portrait Danny Morgan, famous tenor assisted by David Thatcher, pianist. New Zealand tour 1948. Town Hall Wellington, 8 May 1948. Programme with portrait (2 copies) 1949: Jan Rubini, world famous violin virtuoso, composer and conductor. Programme Madame Josephine Ottlee proudly presents the Young Australian and New Zealand Concert Party [with Colin Young and Jean Brunning, both pictured, and Beverley Allen and Clarice Inglis]. Town Hall Wellington, 24 March 1949. programme. Quantity: 34 album(s) Album(s). 2 cards. Physical Description: Printed programmes, up to octavo size, some illustrated.

Date: 29 April 2007

By: Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind; Clark, Helen Elizabeth (Rt Hon), 1950-; Fergusson, George Duncan Raukawa, 1955-; Schnackenberg, Mary, 1950-

Reference: OHColl-1551-01

Description: A recording of the '70 years celebration of talking books in New Zealand' event. Contributing speakers - Mary Schnackenberg, Greg Morgan, Helen Clark, Don McKenzie, Tim Evans, George Fergusson and Paula Daye. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Rehoused from double case into two cases. Quantity: 2 compact disc(s). 1 event(s). Search dates: 2007

Date: 1950-2000

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-035

Description: Photographs relating to clubs and associations, arranged alphabetically from AR to DE, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 24 November 1993

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Burford, Melanie Jayne, 1970-

Reference: EP/1993/4172-F

Description: Kohanga Reo Trust general manager Iri Tawhiwhirangi at the new trust headquarters, formerly Braille House, the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind Wellington centre. Photograph taken 24 November 1993 by Evening Post staff photographer Melanie Burford. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negatives, 35mm

Date: 1979 - 1981

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2011-031-001/093

Description: 1978-1980 plans for Wellington Commercial Travellers' Association include site plans, north and east elevations of existing building, landscaping, floor and roof plans, sections and elevations, fire escape, stairs, billiard room dormers, parking deck details, planters, bar, pool and sauna, bottle store. Later plans, for the Wellington Regional Centre for the Blind, include floor plans and elevations, kitchen, cloak room, toilets, lift, window seat, access ramp and porch. Quantity: 93 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on draughting paper, sizes varying up to 590 x 810 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Rob Mitchell, Wellington, in 2011. Transfers: Collection accessioned into Drawings Paintings & Prints; 3 photographs transferred to PAColl-9914..

Date: [1940s-1950s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Morel, Leo, active 1940s-1950s

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-217

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1940s-1950s; and one dated 1973. Two Maori girls (Robin Kingi and Makuini Warbrick); bird studies; group of mothers and young children at Ashburton Trotting Club winter meeting; T H Small instructing W Boyd in typing at NZ Institute for the Blind in Tinakori Road; Ordinary seaman Gordon Wilson splicing lines on a northern coaster; Dave Gunn & Jim Sinclair setting out with their horses from Lower Pyke Hut, Hollyford Valley; feeding ducks at Victoria Lake, Wanganui; Vestria (ship); 8000 pound award notice for capture of Ned Kelly and associates, 1879; Chief of Air Staff (Air Vice-Marshal L M Isitt) and Mayor of Wellington at exhibition of war photographs, Oct 1944; antropology student Marie McMahon working on excavations near Rotorua, 1973. G J Sullivan (Te Aroha), Hon R Semple, B M Tene (Hastings), Hon E T Tirikatene (Southern Maori) & W T Johansan (Wellington) taken at Labour Party Conference, 1951; NZ Labour Party Conference held in Wellington, taken in session in Assembly Hall when the death of Prime Minister Rt Hon M Savage was announced, Apr 1940 (two photographs of the assembly, both torn in places). Mr & Mrs Jay Wilbur with their first copy of NZ Free Lance, 1946; wedding photo of D L Woon & his bride Amy Wainwright, with bestman R H Glading & bridesmaid Miss Florence Woon, 1951; debutantes at ball organised by Waipukurau branch of Returned Services Association (Cecily Burkin, Peggy Mills, Ngaire Davies, Joan Gannaway, Joan Grant and Mary Williamson with Major-General A S Wilder, 1951. Wedding of Kathleen Tunnel of Trentham to George Lee of Wallaceville (with description on letterhead of `Brown Owl', Upper Hutt, where the reception was held), Jan 1949. Photographer Leo Morel of Upper Hutt. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1949, 1985-1989

From: Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean, 1919-2007:Papers relating to Katherine Mansfield

Reference: MS-Papers-11923-03

Description: Correspondence librarians, archivists and scholars regarding Katherine Mansfield bibliography from the period 1985 to 1989. Features an original signed typescript letter by Guy Norman Morris to Pat Lawlor from 1949. Includes correspondence with the following individuals and institutions: - Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind - Mary A Schnackenberg (Manager Library Services) and Murial Goodare - Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind (Melbourne) - Anita Klaus (Librarian - Talking Book Library) - Royal National Institute for the Blind Talking Book Service (Wembley, Middlesex) - A Kennedy (Distribution Controller) - Radio New Zealand - Sound Archives - Jim Sullivan (Chief Archivist) - The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (London) - P N R Zutshi (Research Assistant) - Royal Economic Society (Cambridge) - Judith Allen (Editorial Assistant) - Queen's College (London) - P J Fleming (Principal) - Northwestern University Library (Illinois) - Ellen V Howe (Manuscript Assistant) - The Newberry Library (Chicago, Illinois) - Diana Haskell (Lloyd Lewis Curator of Midwest Manuscripts) - includes printed programme 'The Newberry Library The New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs Katherine Mansfield Centenary Calendar of Events' (1988[?]) - Niedersaechsische Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Goettingen (Germany) - Barbara Krettek (Bibliotheksdirektorin) - Oroya Day (Wellington) - Cathy Downes (Wellington) - Pat Evison OBE (South Yarra, Melbourne) - Ian A Gordon (Wellington) - Victoria University of Wellington - [note re: Olga Harding (Wellington)] - Typescript signed letter by G N Morris to Pat Lawlor, dated 17 March 1949, making reference to Katherine Mansfield's 'A Fairy Story' and 'The Town Child' - this has a note by Kirkpatrick stating "Pat Lawlor (from R M Rodewald Collection)" - Hugh C Norwood - Department of Geography, Massey University (Palmerston North) Also includes copy of pamphlet on 'The Case of Katherine Mansfield', by Cathy Downes. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, holographs, typescripts, printed matter

Date: [ca 1970-1984]

From: Danilow family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6470-037

Description: Estate and funeral arrangements; draft wills and bequests; letter to Ariadne re specifics of his estate (1974); article, memoirs of N N Danilow (NZ Slavonic journal, 1976, n1); speech by Patrick Waddington at funeral serice; tribute in university circular (1976); `From sickle and swastika to the Union Jack', story of a double refugee by Nicholas (1940); `Words of comfort', Bible Society; declaration re Esper de Conne's residence (1946); financial transactions including donations; copies and drafts of outward letters; notice of meeting of Wellington Tolstoy Society; papers re Nicholas's death, notices, funeral and catering arrangements etc; claim for broken glasses (1988); and telegram from Diana Mason (1958) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1984-1996]

From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11115-198A

Description: Correspondence, contracts, notes and other material relating to the publication, launch of, awards for and reprints of 'Nga Morehu - The survivors' and 'Mihaia, the prophet Rua Kenana and his community at Maungapohatu'. Correspondence is selectively indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1948-1990]

From: Campbell, Alistair Te Ariki, 1925-2009: Collection

Reference: 91-046-1/16

Description: Identified correspondents entered in the Name field. Also includes letters from Paddy, Wakatipu; Shiro and Manorma; [?] Lowry; letter written from Warkworth by an 86-year-old man; Helen, a Christchurch journalist; letter written from Milford, unsigned; from Pat [?] Earle or Carle, Lower Hutt; letter from person writing from London following the birth of a child for Alistair and Fleur; letter from Barbara, Ahipara, possibly Barbara Mitcalfe (1959); Elizabeth [?] Teacher, Otago Girls' High School (1983); [?] Helen Hartman (1972); letter to Alan following a school visit; letter from Murray, c/- Public Hospital, Dunedin (1945); letter from Meg, Buranda, Brisbane; cartoon by unknown person; letter from Leslie K [?] Dalley, Palmerston North; letter from unknown person, Sydney (1957); and notes on `Bill Ross nonsense'. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1997-1998]

From: Ireland, Kevin, 1933- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8198-34

Description: Inward and outward correspondence; correspondents entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1990

From: Edmond, Lauris Dorothy, 1924-2000 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5421-02

Description: Includes publicity material for 'World Book of Edmonds', promoted by William C Forman, Bath, Ohio, USA, in 1990. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1995, 1998

From: Gee, Maurice Gough, 1931- : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-8732-201

Description: Bibliography of works by Maurice Gee recorded by the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind Library Services, 22 Jun 1995 and printout from Amazon.co.uk listing books for sale written by Gee Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1900 - 1999

Reference: Eph-A-BLIND-1900/1999

Description: Includes some pamphlets by the New Zealand Department of Health, a guide dog badge, a pamphlet of the Christian Blind Mission International, Braille Week collection envelopes, and a sales catalogue of items made at the Jubilee Institute for the Blind (1929) See OPTOMETRY location for related material Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Folder, containing pamphlets, fliers and booklets up to octavo size

Date: 1994

From: Edmond, Lauris Dorothy, 1924-2000 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6447-03

Description: Contains inward and outward correspondence to various organisations and individuals. Includes both work-related and personal letters. Includes some undated correspondence Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: 1982-2000

From: Zwartz, David, 1936-: Records related to political activity and charities

Reference: Eph-A-SOCIAL-Appeal-Envelopes-1982/2000

Description: Includes envelopes issued by Braille Week, Neurological Foundation, Paraplegics, Red Cross, Save the Children Fund, SPCA, Multiple Sclerosis, Wgtn Cancer Research (later Malaghan Institute), CORSO, St John Ambulance, Malaghan Institute, Asthma Foundation, Cancer Society, Foundation for the Deaf, CCS, VSA, IHC, Barnardo's, Salvation Army, Schizophrenia Fellowship, Plunket Society, Arhtritis Foundation, World Vision, Wgtn Life Flight Trust, Women's Refuge, National Heart Foundation, Wesley Mission, Presbyterian Support Services, OXFAM, Wgtn free Ambulance, Leprosy Mission, Mary Potter Hospice, Wgtn City Mission, Youthline. Quantity: 119 Other printed ephemera item(s) envelopes. Physical Description: Photolithographs on envelopes, sizes varying. Processing information: Added to ATL-Group-00819 in Feb 2023.

Date: 1995-2005

From: Gee, Maurice Gough, 1931- : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-8732-415

Description: Mainly papers relating to Margareta Gee's guide dog sponsorship Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts and printed matter

Date: [1998-1999]

From: Ireland, Kevin, 1933- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8198-39

Description: Inward and outward correspondence; correspondents entered in the Name field Other Titles - New Zealand's living literature (Vintage imprint, 1999) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1989-1991

From: Wellington Disability Resource Centre : Records

Reference: 99-200-10

Description: Completed questionnaires by various organisations to ascertain interest in setting up a disability resource centre Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1992

From: Edmond, Lauris Dorothy, 1924-2000 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5421-06

Description: Contains correspondence from various people, 1992 Quantity: 1 folder(s).