Public toilets

Date: 3 May 1967

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

Reference: EP/1967/2435-F

Description: Victoria University students taking part in a capping stunt, on the roof of the Taj Mahal, Courtenay Place, Wellington, watched by a large crowd. Police are climbing the roof on ladders to arrest the students. Photograph taken 3 May 1967 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1903

By: Swan, John Sydney, 1874-1936

Reference: Plans-80-1260

Description: Shows front, back and end elevations Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - John S Swan, Architect, Wellington, January, 1902; Recto - bottom right - This is the drawing referred to in the agreement dated this 23rd of January 1903 and signed by us. R J Pugh, John S Swan Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on cream paper

Date: 1999

From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-6924-01

Description: Photographic essay on the men's public toilets in Wellington City. Featured are those at the intersection of Taranaki Street and Courtenay Place, those in Ballance Street, and those in Thorndon Quay near the intersection with Tinakori Road. The Taranaki St/Courtenay Place toilets opened for use in 1911 and they were closed 27 January 1999. They have not been demolished as the building is listed in the council's heritage inventory as historically signifigant. They are still (as at 2002) awaiting some sort of reuse. The other two public toilets are still in use. This collection also contains documentation relating to these public toilets in the form of news paper articles, and Ian Kember's own notes Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 36989 to 35mm, 36998 Quantity: 36 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 3 May 1967

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

Reference: EP/1967/2436-F

Description: Victoria University students taking part in a capping stunt, on the roof of the Taj Mahal, Courtenay Place, Wellington, watched by a large crowd. Police are climbing the roof on ladders to arrest the students. Photograph taken 3 May 1967 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 2000 - 2009

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Bay-of-Islands-2000/2009

Description: Includes: Pamphlets promoting Kerikeri, such as "Uniquely Kerikeri" issues for 2004 and 2004/2005; booklets on Waitangi National Reserve, visitor maps, Hundertwasser's toilets at Kawakawa 2002, Rewa's Village Museum, Excitor boat trips, Fuller's Bay of Island tours, "Darry's" dinner cruises, Island Kayaks, Pete's Pioneer & transport Museum Kerikeri. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on pamphlets, fliers, tickets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1970

From: Gabites & Beard, architects :Hannah Playhouse, Cambridge Terrace, Wellington. [Perspective drawings and elevations]. 1970.

Reference: D-021-248

Description: Includes view of theatre from Cambridge Terrace with the Taj Mahal at left, looking across the corner towards Courtenay Place Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, 510 x 725 mm.

Date: 1950-2000

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

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-100

Description: Photographs taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Contains images related to: Otari Native Botanic Garden, Lady McKenzie Garden for the Blind (Thorndon), Percy's Scenic Reserve (Lower Hutt), Rotary Garden Court, Sinclair Park, Staglands, and Western Park (Wilton). Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 1977

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-067A-105

Description: Shows layout of basement with restaurant, kitchen, offices and toilets. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, 595 x 820 mm.

Date: 1970

From: Gabites & Beard, architects :Hannah Playhouse, Cambridge Terrace, Wellington. [Perspective drawings and elevations]. 1970.

Reference: D-021-249

Description: A view of Downstage Theatre from the centre of the Cambridge Terrace-Courtenay Place intersection, including a pedestrian crossing towards Majoribanks Street Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, 510 x 765 mm.

Date: 1987-1999

From: Shephard, Wayne, active 1990-2001: Papers relating to Wellington buildings

Reference: 2007-116-135

Description: File comprises Archive of Wellington Architecture research forms. Some forms include newspaper cuttings. Selected names indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1976-1979

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: 84-223-167/9/PT1

Date: 1970

By: Gabites and Beard (Firm)

Reference: D-021-248/252

Description: Includes view of theatre from Cambridge Terrace with the Taj Mahal at left, view from about the position of the Embassy Theatre over Cambridge Terrace, north and west elevations, view from above, and axonometric sketches of ground floor and first floor. Quantity: 5 plan(s). Physical Description: Dye-line prints, 760 x 510 mm.

Date: 1937 - 1940

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-022-015/018

Description: Includes a site plan, floor plans of the toilet block, and details of the new glazed partitions in the new lounge bar. Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings, on tracing paper, sizes varying up to 560 x 760 mm.

Date: 26 June 1976

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

Reference: EP/1976/2269-F

Description: Photograph of the premises of the women's rest room, Citizen's Advice Bureau and Legal Advice Centre, Newtown, Wellington, taken 26 June 1976 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Original newspaper caption reads: "The unprepossessing setting of the Newtown Legal Advice Centre". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1973

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

Reference: A-297-123

Description: Three frames showing a man walking into a public toilet only to find the toilet padlocked and a notice on the wall saying that it has been closed. May relate to the ARA Mangere Sewage Treatment Plant. Extended Title - TOILET. A.R.A. Mangere closed! Pray for rain. Keep calm! Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on watercolour paper, 245 x 340 mm

Date: 1998

From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-6924-08

Description: Men's public toilets at Hataitai, Island Bay, Brooklyn, Aro Street, and just before the Karori tunnel. All but one of these buildings are varients of a Wellington stripped classical toilet style dating from the 1920s. There are also in unprinted images of the Westminster Apartments at 56 Tanera Cresc, Brooklyn, built by the Fitchet family in the 1940s Photographed by Ian Kember 23 October 1998 Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 37044 to 35mm, 37050 Quantity: 17 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1930 - 1940

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-90-1152

Description: A floor plan, front and side elevations and section of a toilet block attached to St Alban's Parish Hall. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, 335 x 350 mm.

Date: 1903

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton & McKay (Firm)

Reference: Plans-90-1153

Description: Shows a floor plan, elevation and section of an addition to the National Hotel, including urinals, wash-house, coal and wood sheds. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 310 x 337 mm.

Date: 1888

By: Williams, H Morton, active 1888

Reference: Plans-2005-091

Description: Includes ink and watercolour plans showing floor plans, elevations and sections, plans of the unloading skids, and of the privies and urinals. One of the four sheets has a plan on the verso, of elevations of the railway station. Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on sheets, sizes varying up to 600 x 1000 mm.

Date: 7 January 2017

From: Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-: Political cartoons

Reference: A-479-007

Description: A takahe, a weta, and a native snail all recoil in horror as a freedom camper prepares to defecate in the bush. Refers to this issue arising in New Zealand with increasing numbers of freedom campers not being supported by adequate toilet facilities, and how to manage the problem. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - [cartoonist's surname and date] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 210 x 295 mm