Upholstered furniture

Date: 2003

By: Davis, Vickie, 1970-

Reference: Eph-A-FURNITURE-2003-01

Description: An illustrated photographic catalogue published by a Nelson furniture refurbisher, Vickie Davis of Nelson. Shows a photograph of Vickie Davis and of examples of colourful vinyl and leather sofas, chairs, some with Maori motifs. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, each 148 x 210 mm.

Date: [ca 1944-1949]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-037

Description: Photographs mainly relate to Disabled Servicemen's Centres in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Napier. Shows men (including ex-Maori Battalion) in the various workshops and therapy rooms undertaking cane-work, bootmaking and repair, basketry, embossed leather work, weaving, rug making, toy making, upholstery, cabinetry, carpentry, clock making and mop making. Photographs of men making artificial limbs and an amputee being fitted with a new limb; blind returned servicemen in the Occupational Therapy Room learning to read in braille. Photograph of Mr Tom W Cameron, who trained at Disabled Servicemen's Centre at Wellington, outside his jewellery shop with watchmaker R T Dixon; returned serviceman buying new clothes in a department store (Wellington); cafeteria at Christchurch Disabled Servicemen's Training Centre building, and Hawke's Bay Training Centre, Napier; frontage to a boot repair shop in [Wellington?]; NZ Rehabilitation Camp at the Old Park Camp, Dover showing Private Sheeran playing table tennis with M Rosenfeld; Hon C F Skinner, MP (Minister of Rehabilitation) laying foundation stone for Christchurch Branch of Disabled Servicemen's League, 30 Oct 1944 (Lt Colonel J Murphy, Chairman of the League). Photograph of an [opening?] ceremony held in front of a large concrete building with a bowling green in front. Backdrop looks like Wellington but locality and building unable to be identified. Photograph of Disabled Servicemen's Vocational Training Centre in Anzac Street A G W Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd took a number of the Auckland photographs. View of artificial limb workshop; men recuperating on the verandah of the military hospital across the road from Lake Rotorua. Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Marks, J M fl 1905 :Photographs of Christchurch and environs, 1890s-1910s

Reference: 1/1-000443-G

Description: Leather upholstered chaise longue and chairs, photographed by J M Marks between 1890 and 1915. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1975

From: [Ephemera of quarto size, relating to manufacturing in New Zealand]

By: Feltex New Zealand Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-MANUFACTURING-1975-01

Description: Booklet describing Reidoprene, a polyurethane foam, and showing with photographs how it was made, meticulously quality-tested, and its uses as foam padding in upholstery, sponges, footwear, mattresses. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 20 pages, each 208 x 299 mm.

Date: ca 1905

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: MNZ-0843-1/4-F

Description: Upholstered chairs in the showroom of A J White Ltd, possibly in Christchurch. Photograph taken circa 1900. Photographer unidentified. Making New Zealand caption reads: "Tapestry and plush chairs and a sofa in a New Zealand furniture-maker's room, arranged for the inspection of customers." Published in 'Making New Zealand' Vol 2, No 22, page 19 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Provenance: Lent by General Assembly Library to the Department of Internal Affairs for publication in 'Making New Zealand' in 1939.