Music stores - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1937

By: Mitchell & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-80-1177

Description: Details of ground, first and second floor plans Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Mitchell & Mitchell; C H Mitchell A R I B A, Allan H Mitchell A R I B A Regd architects Wgton Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream paper

Date: 1998

From: [Ephemera, advertising and sales catalogues of quarto size relating to sound recording and the recording industry, records and gramophone equipment, mainly in New Zealand]

By: Cook, Walter Cameron, 1941-

Reference: Eph-B-PHONO-1998-01

Description: Shows arrangement of lettering in red and black on brown paper bag. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on paper bag.. Physical Description: Offset print, on paper bag 280 x 215 mm.

Date: 1998

By: Cook, Walter Cameron, 1941-

Reference: Eph-B-PACKAGING-1998-01

Description: Shows arrangement of lettering in red and black on brown paper bag. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on paper bag.. Physical Description: Offset print, on paper bag 280 x 215 mm.

Date: 1948

Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-PUBLISHING-1948-01/02

Description: Sales catalogues for brass band sheet music available from "The Golden Horn" at 137 Vivian Street, Wellington. Items included overtures, selections, fantasias, waltzes, national and patriotic airs, solos with band accompaniment, marches, duets, trios, quartets, sacred music; intermezzos, foxtrots, dances, troops, gallops. Quantity: 2 album(s). Physical Description: Stapled mimeographed booklets, 337 x 210 mm. Provenance: Donated by Joe Barnao in 2015.

Date: 1920 - 1930

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-PHONO-Covers-1920s-01

Description: Shows the logo for "His Master's Voice", and three models of gramophones. At lower left is an illustration of a family listening to the gramophone and a couple dancing. The Talkeries was listed in the Wellington telephone book until 1930. In 1926 it was at 24 Willis Street, and thereafter until 1930, at 12 Willis Street. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on album sleeve.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on album sleeve, 280 x 278 mm.

Date: [late 1950s]

From: Burt, Gordon Onslow Hilbury, 1893-1968 :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-037206-F

Description: Shopfront windows of F J W Fear's appliance store and record lounge in Wellington, probably at 31 Willis Street. Photograph taken by Gordon H Burt circa late 1950s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 4 Aug 1917

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: 1/2-025710-G

Description: Retailers barrow parade, Hardy Street, Nelson, 4 August 1917. Shows men, women and children outside Begg's music store. A barrow is decorated with American flags, marking the entry of the USA into World War I. Photograph taken by Frederick Nelson Jones. Source of descriptive information - Photographer's inscription. Also : identification of Hardy Street, and information regarding the American flags, from Arnold Wall, The first ninety years of the Nelson School of Music ([Nelson, N.Z.] : The School, 1984) page 13 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Retailers Barrow Parade Nelson NZ 4.8.17 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [ca 1909]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-043062-F

Description: Interior of `The Talkeries', the phonograph and gramophone record selling business of Thos Dwyer in Masterton, circa 1909. Posters advertising the sound recording label `Pathe' are visible. The sign above the office reads: "Kindly Note: Phonograph records will be rendered on request at a charge of 2d each. Melba, Crossley and Caruso Operatic Records 6d each. In event of a purchase being made there will be no charge." Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1950 - 1959

From: Miller, Adam, 1960-: Collection of New Zealand sound recordings and record sleeves

Reference: Eph-C-PHONO-Miller-R-01

Description: Record bag printed on one side only shows vignettes of figures dancing and singing, conducting, or playing musical instruments, standing on records. in the centre is a microphone, and a piano keyboard. Dated from style of illustration. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Magenta relief print on brown paper record bag, 360 x 276 mm.

Date: 1930 - 1935

From: Miller, Adam, 1960-: Collection of New Zealand sound recordings and record sleeves

By: Hamilton Nimmo & Sons Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-PHONO-Miller-N-01

Description: Brown record bag shows an illustration of the art deco building erected for Hamilton Nimmo in 1930, by Fletcher Construction, after the design of Francis Drummond Stewart. It shows the original tower on the corner of the building (removed in around 1942). The text shows that Nimmo's ere agents for "Gulbransen" registering pianos, "Pianista" expression playing pianos, "Hamilton" pianos, "Brinsmead", "Spencer" and "Challen" pianos and Gors & Kallmann baby grand pianos. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Brown relief print on record bag, 280 x 270 mm.