Costume

Date: 1956

By: Boyce, Raymond Stanley (Dr), 1928-2019

Reference: B-150-006/007

Description: Shows one interior scene of a circus tent, and one exterior scene, of the same trapeze support structure but without the tent cover. Includes figures of circus performers. On the designer's own inventory as item number 19/138. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Signed and titled] Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and gouache on sheets, sizes 345 x 500 mm, and 375 x 480 mm.

Date: 9 October 1901

From: Zachariah (Zak), Joseph 1863-1965 :Photographs

Reference: PA4-0466

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a fancy dress parade, showing the best dressed cart (Gear Co), moving through a Wellington Street on 9th October 1901. Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - 8 Hours Day "Wellington 9 Oct 1901. Best dressed cart (Gear Co.) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1958-ca1964

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PAColl-7359-7

Description: Photographs of the Hermitage under construction in 1961, of tour groups, groups learning to ski, of staff parties, and one of the Prime minister of Japan and his wife during a visit to the Hermitage. Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1870 - 1984 - 1880

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988

Reference: C-106-013-a/018-a

Description: Contains 6 images: Wanganui family and possessions, 1870s; Unidentified man, Wanganui, 1870s; Mrs Morgan and child, Wanganui, 1870s; Staff and premises of the Wanganui Evening Herald, 1868; Mr and Mrs Thomas Roots and their twelve children in front of their home at Springvale, 1870s; Mother and child, Wanganui, 1870s. Title from illustrated container, also bearing descriptive notes. Container has not been assigned its own location number and is therefore not recorded separately. However, the individual photolithographs have separate entries. Other Titles - Imagers of a new land. Other Titles - Portraits by W. J. Harding. Inscriptions: (On verso of container/ envelope): Portraits by W.J. Harding,/ chosen by Brian Brake and John Sullivan / and published with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited.; Recto - beneath image - (On each photograph): Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 6 photolithographs, 259 x 213 mm, and 213 x 259 mm, on sheets 415 x 350 mm, in container 510 x 390 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit regulations, 1986.

Date: 1874 - 1900

From: Bradshaw, Muriel Agnes, 1899-1991 :Assorted collection of photographs and carte de visites

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA3-0276

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1914-1918]

From: Warburton, Edward Darien :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-1602

Description: Photographic postcard album compiled by E D Warburton. Includes photographs of family, soldiers, rugby, fencing and prisoners of war during the Great War. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 25.5 x 22 cm

Date: 1931

From: Castle family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1613

Description: Album relating to journey from New Zealand to England via the Suez Canal. Includes photographs of floral tributes to Zillah prior to her departure; embarkation in Wellington July 1931; Voyage to Sydney; Sydney parks, buildings, zoos, beaches; Dixon family in Sydney; Melbourne gardens, buildings; Adelaide buildings, parks, gardens; King's Park, Perth, buildings, opening pearls, Serpentine Falls and Western Australian aboriginals; Colombo, Ceylon, catamarans, coconut palms, native quarters, rickshaws, High cast Indian girl; Aden; Red Sea; Suez Canal; Bedoin Sheik; Ismalia; Port Tewfik; Port Said; Voyage on 'Balranald'; Fancy dress and deck tennis, and lifeboat drills on ship; Australian heavyweight George Cook training on ship; Malta; Gibraltar; Spainish coast; First sight of England, Chalk cliffs of Dover. In 1931 Zillah Castle received a violin scholarship to the Royal College of Music, London, where she went chaperoned by Mavis, her eldest sister. They returned in 1934. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 18 x 30 cm

Date: 1970 - 1984

From: Downstage Theatre Company :[Stage plans and costume designs. 1973-1987]

By: Boyce, Raymond Stanley (Dr), 1928-2019

Reference: D-025-804/810

Description: Consists of: (804) Gertrude court, Gertrude Cloyet [?] Gertrude graveyard; (805) Player Queen [2 sketches]; (806) Gertrude; (807) Horatio; (808) Ghost; (809) Polonius, Claudius, Laertes; (810) [Large stage plan]. Quantity: 7 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, sizes vary

Date: Spring 1946

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-068221-F

Description: Fancy dress party crowd scene, Eastbourne, Spring, 1946. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 5.6 x 5.6 cm

Date: 1970 - 1984

From: Downstage Theatre Company :[Stage plans and costume designs. 1973-1987]

By: Boyce, Raymond Stanley (Dr), 1928-2019

Reference: D-025-844/858

Description: Consists of: (844) [Three women's costumes - sketches - paint] ; (845) [Two costume sketches on card]; (846) Four men's costumes on large sheet] ; (847) The Pearl fishers [?] Prelude slide [Black & White on card]; (848) The Pearl fishers [?] - Entry [?] Leila; (849) Mr Silly Cuckoo, Mrs Silly Cuckoo; (850) [Bus driver, conductor, policeman]; (851, 852, 853) Downstage Theatre Co. Ltd. `Candide', `Voltaire', Maximillian'; (854) [Play-chekov's `Three sisters' - Period Russia 1901 ...Character - Baron Nicholas Tuzenbakh...] (855) [Two painted men's costumes on card]; (856) Zurga [Paint on card] [The Pearl fishers]; (857) Tartuffe or the Imposter - mariane; (858) Tartuffe, Orgon, mariane. Quantity: 15 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, sizes vary

Date: 1816 - 1820

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Richard Taylor, the gift of his Father. 1816-1824, 1832, 1849.

Reference: E-383-057

Description: Shows two women in costume talking to each other Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in hand of artist Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on page 168 x 203 mm

Date: ca 1900 - 1930

By: Gorton, F G, active 1930s

Reference: PAColl-4381

Description: Set of photographs of Tahiti: Motu-uta (Quarantine Island) with a sea reef in the distance and some people in canoes in the foreground; a view over Papeete with a church in the foreground; the steamer Croix du Sud and a schooner at the government wharf; a man in traditional clothing standing in a cave with a life size stone carving in the shape of a man next to him; a yacht in a bay silhouetted against the sunset; a Tahitian couple on a hill overlooking a broad bay; and a group of men with spears standing in a circle round some women crouching next to what may be a dead person - a man is standing behind the group with his arms raised. Also from the same set are four photographs of a group of Europeans on board a ship, three showing them a holding bouquetsll in fancy dress. Also included are photographs of four women in white dresses wearing elaborate hats and holding bouquets, and a group of men and women onl a picnic with a white tablecloth laid with tea cups etc. F G Gorton was the honorary consulate to the British consul in Tahiti in 1936 and may have assembled this collection. Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: October 1995

From: NBR New Zealand Opera :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1504

Description: Costumes for opera, Hansel and Gretel, produced by the Wellington City Opera, July 1993. Prints contained in un-archival plastic housing which is already beginning to get sticky (2009). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1870 - 1929

From: Duncan, Miriam Darwin, 1893-1981 :Photographs relating to life and work of Dr James Malcolm Mason

By: Amey, W V, active 1875-1898; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Kipling, T, active 1900; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: PAColl-0022-1

Description: Includes family occasions (including picnics, outings etc), shipboard scenes, landscapes, and views of Rarotonga and the Marquesas, and Victoria College athletic and sporting occasions Quantity: 114 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [ca 1920-1938]

By: Clark, W R, active 1930s-1981; K H Shea (Firm); Esquilant, William Charles, 1866-1952

Reference: PAColl-0318

Description: Photographs of acrobatics performed by members of Northey's School of Physical Culture, both indoors and outdoors, and interior photographs of the school itself. The interiors include the dressing room, the bathroom and equipment such as dumbells, boxing gloves, fencing foils and masks, indian clubs, vaulting horse, mats etc. Men are shown using fixed medicine balls for boxing practice. On the walls of the school are inspirational slogans and pictures of strong men such as Sandow. The other photographs are: J P Northey holding a rifle on the Otago Peninsula; W R Clark outside Otago University; and a group of people at De Beche Hut in Mount Cook National Park including a man called Smith who later died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. A lot of the photographs are captioned on the reverse. The only identified photographers are K H Shea and Esquilant. Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Loose photographic prints, one mounted.

Date: 1772 - 1785

From: Galimberti, Francesco, 1755-1803 :Natives of America and the Pacific Islands. Original drawings circa 1780.

By: Galimberti, Francesco, 1755-1803

Reference: E-215-f-004

Description: Shows a young Indian man standing Other Galimberti drawings based on illustrations to Cook's voyages. Original for this not traced. Other Titles - Peasant of Labrador [translation] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Graphite and red pencil 243 x 174 mm

Date: [Between 1921 and 1930]

By: Janson, Annie Matilda, 1873-1964

Reference: PA1-o-443

Description: Family snapshots of Percy Rule and his family, and the wedding of Arthur and Katie (nee Sherlock) Wheeler. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mottled green and brown cover, entitled `Snapshot album'; 12.5 x 17.0 cm

Date: October 1996

From: NBR New Zealand Opera :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1032

Description: Wellington City Opera opening night party, and National Bank party, both associated with the production of the Barber of Seville, October 1996. Also photographs of the costumes used in the opera. Prints contained in un-archival plastic housing which is already beginning to get sticky (2009). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1966

Reference: Eph-B-RECREATION-1966-01

Description: An invitiation to a fancy dress party whose theme was based on the television programme "The Avengers", with characters John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and Emma Peal (Diana Rigg). Shows a photograph of Macnee as Steed firing a gun. At the lower edge is a blank order form for tickets which cast 2 pounds 10 shillings for a male and 2 pounds for a female. The individuals involved in the organisation of the party are listed. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on flyer, 290 x 215 mm.

Date: 1970 - 1986

From: Downstage Theatre Company :[Stage plans and costume designs. 1973-1987]

By: Boyce, Raymond Stanley (Dr), 1928-2019

Reference: D-025-986/988

Description: Consists of: (986) Evening Cloak [gold with grey frills; two sketches]; (987, 988) [Study; stage scene on plastic in felt-tip]. Quantity: 3 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, sizes vary