Doll furniture

Date: ca 1914-1918

By: Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: PAColl-0605

Description: Photographs of: Tui Hunt holding a doll and Huia Hunt at an easel in their back garden; the beach at Broad Bay, Dunedin; the employees outside J Mandl & Co, Westland Brewery in Hokitika with a horse and loaded dray next to it; a display of dolls, dolls furniture and framed pictures with poems attached; a hand touched photograph of an unknown man next to a lake probably in Rotorua; Lorna Moore holding the train of the dress of Miss Mulholland at Twomey's Hotel in Methven (not a wedding dress so possibly for a pageant); a taxi bedecked with union jacks outside a house in Christchurch with six people dressed up as clowns for a post-war celebration - one man is blacked up; and a street sellers cart labelled "Soldiers' Queen Cart No 4" possibly also associated with post-war celebrations. Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1963

From: Farmers' Trading Company: [Sales catalogues of octavo size. 1920-1960s]

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.); Farmers' Trading Company

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-Farmers-1963-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue. The first twelve pages are devoted to outdoor and sporting equipment: tents, camping gear, lanterns, inflatable mattresses, camp stretchers, rucksacks, sleeping bags, camp and deck chairs, outdoor tables, beach umbrellas, life jackets, fishing tackle, lawn bowls sets, cricket gear, underwater swimming gear, tennis raquets. The rest of the catalogue shows women's casual fashion, children's wear, pedal cars, scooters, tricycles and bicycles, toys, dolls, train sets, toy trucks, cash registers, and cowboy dress-ups, paddling pools, swings and see-saws. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet, 140 x 105 mm. Provenance: Donated by Philippa Conway, Wellington, in 2016.

Date: [ca 8 December 1988]

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

Reference: EP/1988/4565

Description: Photographs of Mrs Maureen Barker of Wadestown with a display of miniature doll furniture she made and donated to the National Museum, taken ca 8 December 1988 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. They were part of an exhibition, Down to Size, at the museum. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 21 May 1980

From: Greig Royle Studios :Photographs, negatives and proof sheets

Reference: Royle-09590

Description: Photographs of miniature furniture made by Maureen Barker, taken 21 May 1980 by Greig Royle of Wellington. Quantity: 10 colour original negative(s) strips with 20 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negatives

Date: 1955 - 1959

By: Homecraft Assemblies (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-TOYS-1958-01

Description: Sheet advertising kitsets for wooden toys, including tip truck, fire engine, doll's Plunket cot, dolls' sulky, dolls' drop-side cot, hobby horse, "tu-weel" barrow (child's wheelbarrow), child's lawnmower, child's trolley. Also advertises kitsets for a work box, serving tray, posy bowl, soft ball and novelty door stop in the shape of a cat. Date estimated from 1958 listing of this firm in Wise's directory. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on pink flier, 330 x 217 mm.