Speight's Brewery

Date: 1900 - 1930

By: Speight's Brewery; J Speight & Company Ltd; Meyercord Company (Chicago) Inc.

Reference: Eph-C-ALCOHOL-Speights-1900s-01

Description: Shows a chromolithograph from the late 19th or early 20th century, in the shape of a barrel depicting Speight's City Brewery, Dunedin. Three copies held. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on decal, 405 x 297 mm.

Date: 1979

By: Speight's Brewery; J Speight & Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-ALCOHOL-1979-01

Description: Shows a reproduction of a chromolithograph from the late 19th or early 20th century, in the shape of a barrel depicting Speight's City brewery, Dunedin. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster 605 x 430 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1980.

Date: 1980

Reference: Eph-C-PHOTO-EXHIBITION-1980s-1

Description: Includes: Pride of the South; a exhibition of photographs by Billy Lawry. Mt Victoria Cafe, Oct 19 - Nov 23. Supported with pride by Speight's Brewery [1980s?] Tongariro: Photographs by Brian Enting. Exposures Gallery, Wellington, commencing 30 March [1980s] Torsos & Feet; Keith Nicolson: An exhibition of photographic prints. The Photographers Gallery [Christchurch], 14 September - 12 October [ca 1980]. Wellington; look at it now. CBA Bank photographic exhibition. Photo-Forum, Monday to Friday 26th September to 7th October [ca 1980] (2 copies) Richard Wooton: Photographs of architecture. Exposures Gallery, Wellington, 29 July-17 August [1980s?]l. Design Alan Loney Quantity: 5 black and white / coloured prints. Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying up to 500 x 350 mm. Provenance: Donated at various times.

Date: 1999 - 2001

By: Speight's Brewery

Reference: Eph-D-RUGBY-2000-01

Description: Poster celebrating Speght's Brewery's sponsorship of the Otago rugby union team shows three photographs of individual players in action: From left: ___, Tony Brown, Kees Meeuws. Date estimated from the years in which Kees Meeuws and Tony Brown were in the Otago team and in the All Blacks (1999-2001). Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph on light card, 420 x 595 mm.

Date: 1907

From: Booth, Leonard Hampden, 1879-1974 :[Cuttings of cartoons and caricatures from the "Exhibition sketcher" (Christchurch), the "Triad", and the "Sydney bulletin". 1906-1915].

Reference: A-350-010

Description: A full-body standing profile caricature of Capt Alfred William Owles, with white hair and a full moustache, and wearing a hat. The accompanying text mentions his pet hobby as training ponies, and his being a representative for Speight's brewery in Dunedin Other Titles - Captain Owles Other Titles - Capt Owles Extended Title - From: The exhibition sketcher, Jan 12, 1907, p 15 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on page of journal, 117 x 55 mm Provenance: Donated by Ms Honiana Love, in 2000.

Date: 1970-1985

From: Ruffell, Trevor (Collector): [Collection of beer coasters and beer labels. 1970-1980s]

Reference: Eph-A-ALCOHOL-Labels-Ruffell-1

Description: Includes: Brasserie de L’Esperance, Schiltigheim Strasbourg. Ancre Export [Red white and blue oval label] Central Brewery Mangatainoka Strength quality flavour, the ideal beverage, Vita-Stout. A D.B. quality product [Oval label] DB Central Brewery Mangatainoka. B & A Barraud & Abraham Ltd. Centennial beer, 1882-1982 [Oval label] DB Central Brewery Mangatainoka. DB lager premium quality [Oval red and gold label] DB Central Brewery Mangatainoka. DB double brown beer [Oval red, brown and gold label] DB Central Brewery Mangatainoka. DB draught beer. 2.2 litre [Small square label] DB Central Brewery Mangatainoka. DB Patea Borough Centennial beer 1881-1981 DB Central Brewery Mangatainoka. Tennent’s world famous lager beer [Blue and yellow oval label] DB Central Brewery Mangatainoka. Tui export quality East India pale ale [Red and yellow oval label] DB Central Brewery Mangatainoka. Tui extra stout export quality [Yellow and brown oval label] Speight’s gold medal ale [Rectangular red and blue label (2 on one sheet) Waikato Breweries Ltd. Waikato draught bitter [Oval green label] Waikato Breweries Ltd. Waikato XXXX strong ale [Oval label] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Relief prints and photolithographs on labels, sizes varying

Date: 1970-1999

From: Ruffell, Trevor (Collector): [Collection of beer coasters and beer labels. 1970-1980s]

Reference: Eph-F-ALCOHOL-Coasters-Ruffell

Description: Includes coasters advertising: Ballins bringing leisure to life. 100 [years] 1878-1978 Bank of New Zealand Visa [ca 1999] Bay City Radio 1278 (2 different) Welcome to Bill's Bar / Pre '56 MG Rally, Marton 1981 (2 coasters of similar design) Bojangles Hair Design (2 coasters one with abstract twisted hair pattern) John D Bradley; A M Satterthwaite & Co Ltd, Palmerston North Brebner print quality offset printers, Napier & Hastings Brookfield Cellars, Otumoetai Road Tauranga Canterbury Draught Wards Beer Chev Performance Parts Ltd, 136 Jackson Street Petone Daily Telegraph. Tennyson Street Napier (2 different coasters) DB DB; today's great beer, every time DB Draught; official beer, XIVth Commonwealth Games, Auckland, New Zealand 1990 DB draught beer (3 different) DB Draught bitter beer (2 different) DB natural micro filtered unpasteurised beer Duckhams; one oil whatever you drive Export Gold Hawkes Bay Leopard draught beer Innes Tartan; mixers for all adult occasions Leopard Leopard; track down a really great beer Leopard draught beer (2 copies) Leopard premium draught beer on tap Leopard Stokes valley Motor Lodge [Lion]; sign of good beer Lion Beer Lion Beer. ACA [Auckland Cricket Association?] 1883-1983 Lion Brown. Play Black Jack; one scratchcard with every Lion Brown Lion Brown draught beer (2 different including one barrel-shaped) Mackinlay's dry gin Make your round Lion brown on tap Lion Red (oval coaster)(2 different) New Zealand Exporters' Fair. Auckland Racing Club, Ellerslie Race Course, Auckland, 11-14 April 1978 R N Hind Wairoa Furniture Store, 39 Queen Street Schweppes Bitter Lemon The Shipping Corporation of New Zealand; we put New Zealand 1st Shipside Souvenirs Ltd, Lyttelton. Kia ora from New Zealand Speight's Gold Medal Ale; pride of the South. Brewers of fine ale since 1876 (irregular coaster of 3 adjacent ovals) Steinlager (2 different) Taradale Returned Services Association / Bay Communications / Missionview Gardens Television One : "Sport on One" The beer's called Rheineck Traveller Rest Country Inn, Appleby Nelson Tui, the beer round here V.I.C. Cycles, 461-3 High Street Lower Hutt XXXX our beer Quantity: 1 box(es) of 57 coasters. Physical Description: Relief prints and photolithographs on thick card, sizes varying around 100 x 100 mm.

Date: 1938 - 1939

By: Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd; R Powley & Company Ltd; McNeish, James Henry Peter (Sir), 1931-2016

Reference: Eph-E-HOTEL-Dunedin-1938-01

Description: Lists hotels alphabetically, states location and the names of past and present owners. About 250 hotels are listed. Lower corners advertise "Bell's afore ye go". Dated from the latest date of recorded ownership of each hotel. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Letterpress on poster 970 x 665 mm.

Date: 1895 - 1904

From: Strong, Austin, 1881-1952 :[Sketches. ca 1895-1904]

Reference: A-058-030

Description: Shows a sketch, possibly a caricature, of a plump man with his hands in his pockets, standing beside a barrel of Speights ale. Beneath is a verse: "What ho! for a cupboard dark & snug / In a place where the Boss can't peep Oh! / What ho! for a smoke when dodging the Boss / And the time comes round for the Beer Oh!" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 235 x 170 mm.

Date: 1890 - 1910

From: [Collection of playing cards. ca 1900]

Reference: Curios-017-002-005

Description: Playing cards, almost exclusively Jokers, collected for the pictures on their backs. This group features advertisements for alcohol, petrol, dentistry, etc. Brand names include: and sorted into 8 groups of themes: Formal, Birds, Ships, Camels, Houses, Advertisements, Women & pets, Women. Pilsener lager by New Zealand Breweries Ltd, Auckland Branch Mello Stout, by New Zealand Breweries Ltd, Wellington, NZ. Red Band pale ale, by New Zealand Breweries Ltd (Staples Branch) Wellington "The good companions", New Zealand's national beverage; yours always Speight's T A Heath, Hotel Provincial, Clive Square, Napier New Zealand and Federal Steamship Companies (3 different designs) National Electrical & Engineering Company Ltd. NEECO, the mark of quality tested electrical appliances Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: ca 50 playing cards, 90 x 60 mm.

Date: 1917

From: Calman, Gordon Jamieson, b 1893 :Tiki-talk ; epistles of the Corinthians ; souvenir, Left Wing, 23rd Rfmts ; [original drawings] / G J Calman. [1917]

Reference: A-224-023

Description: Shows a man seated on a barrel of Speight's XXX beer, holding a full tankard in one hand and a pole in the other; he is posing as Britannia, and is wearing a war helmet such as Britannia wears. Originals for title-page and illustrations in Tiki-talk (London, 1917), troopship magazine of S. S. Corinthic, transport no. 80 (held at q940.483). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Cal [signature of Calman]; Verso - above image - Print with "What the bo'sun thinks of it" Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 280 x 195 mm.

Date: 1980 - 1995

Reference: Eph-E-ALCOHOL-Beer-1990s-01

Description: Shows a photograph of a sheep musterer in singlet and shorts standing beside his horse and his dogs in a hilly landscape, and looking down on a flock of sheep in the foreground. Another musterer and his dog are in the middle distance just behind the flock of sheep. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 595 x 840 mm.

Date: 1909

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-004355-G

Description: A group milling around outside Geo Vincent's Sumner Hotel in Grafton Road, Sumner. An advertisement for Speight's ale can be seen. Taken by Steffano Webb in 1909. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1928]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-048201-G

Description: Victoria University capping parade, Lambton Quay, circa 1928. On the left is the New Occidental Hotel with Wm Beveridge as the proprietor. A sign on the hotel advertises `Speights prize ales always on tap'. On the right hand side on the street are: Nashs leather depot, The Royal Hotel, Hill Bros grocers, Hood Bros Ltd drapers and outfitters, and Wong She & Son. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1890 - 1920

By: Speight's Brewery; J Speight & Company Ltd; Meyercord Company (Chicago) Inc.

Reference: Eph-C-ALCOHOL-Speights-1900s-02

Description: Chromolithograph from the late 19th or early 20th century, depicting Speight's City Brewery, Dunedin, with brick buildings on both sides of a city street, sloping down to the harbour in the background. There is a tram and several horse drawn carts on the street. Instructions on the verso for the use of this "Permanent opalescent window sign": Dip sign in water 20 seconds Lay sign on glass, window or door pane Lay a piece of hard paper over sign and squeeze out water with side of a pencil Next day dealer's clerk soaks paper with water and lifts paper from sign or paper will come off first time window is washed. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Chromolithograph decal/ transfer, 290 x 365 mm.

Date: 1937-1941

From: McNeish, James : Images of hotels

Reference: 1/2-008596-F

Description: Exterior view of the front of the Arowhenua Hotel, Arowhenua, South Canterbury, photographed between 1937 and 1941. Shows a two storied wooden building with the name of publican W J Quirke above a doorway. A sign on one wall advertises Speight's ales. A brick house and a horse drawn cart are on the right, behind the hotel. William Quirke took over the license for Arowhenua Hotel in June 1937, and transfered it in 1941. See Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20745, 4 June 1937, Page 5, https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THD19370604.2.29 and Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22142, 10 December 1941, Page 8 , https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THD19411210.2.95 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative Processing information: Date information updated following information from researcher, 31 May 2023.

Date: 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-5936-17

Description: Emerson Street, Napier, from Marine Parade, taken by an unidentified photographer in 1950. Cars and pedestrians are visible. The Criterion Hotel is on the right and signs advertising Speights, Hannah's and McGruer's are also visible. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1986

Reference: Eph-D-DEBATE-1986-01

Description: Shows a caricture by Tom Scott of one three-member team in the debate: Tim Shadbolt, Gary McCormick and Tom Scott. The opposing team is listed: Jim Mora, Karyn Hay and Mike Bungay. The chairman was Stan Rodger. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print on sheet 755 x 460 mm.

Date: 2001

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009027

Description: "Just Practising" cartoon strip. Shows Doctor Hal asking Doctor Dolly about Rugby Depression. Dolly informs him that it is a national syndrome that she has identified and that she is working on a treatment with Speights. Hal wishes that he had thought of that. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2004

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0005134

Description: Shows a pair of feet with many cuts and wounds resting on a foot rest beside some empty cans of drinks. There are aslo flies and mosquitoes hovering around the feet. Refers to the Coast to Coast event, which concluding at at Sumner Beach, New Zealand's toughest multisport challenge. Published in The Press, 9 February 2004 Arrangement: This cartoon file was originally delivered to the library within a sub-folder called "QANTAS2004". Quantity: 1 digital image(s). Processing information: This cartoon file was donated to the library with no file extension. On recommendation of the Digital Archivist and with the consent of the donor, a ".jpg" file extension was added to this file in order to ensure it was readable and accessible.