Zurich

Date: ca 1960

From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-599

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Between 1868 and 1898]

By: Long, W H (Mrs), active 1970; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Zangaki (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-146

Description: Album of photographs, most taken by the Burton Brothers in New Zealand, including a large number of Maori images, group portraits, identified men and women, pa, and storehouses. Scenes also taken by them in Tonga and Samoa. A number of images show scenes in England, including a group taken near Egremont in Cumbria, of ice on the Mersey River in 1895. There are a large number of copies of paintings of romantic scenes. Several photographs of the Suez Canal, and the Nile River, were taken by Greek photographers `Zangaki' Brothers Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with reddish brown cover, brown corners and spine with single raised cords; fleur de lys pattern stamped between cords; 33.5 x 27.0 cm

Date: 1970-1971

From: Wiley, Wynne, fl 1969-2015: Letters, colour transparencies and ephemera relating to Wiley's OE (overseas experience) in the UK and Europe

Reference: PA12-11523

Description: Images taken by Wynne Wiley in 1970 and 1971 while living in Switzerland include Lorraine and Andrew Thorpe at a Halloween Dance at the British Embassy; Geneva; Grindelwald; and Bern. One image of Wynne Wiley and friend at a St Valentine's dance. Title supplied by donor. Descriptive information taken from inscriptions on slides. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies mounted 35 mm slides. Physical Description: 35mm colour film transparencies in card mounts

Date: 1989

From: Royal New Zealand Ballet :[Programmes for performances. 1984 onwards].

Reference: Eph-A-DANCE-RNZB-1989-4

Description: Includes: Royal New Zealand Ballet. "Knecht van twee Meesters". Tournee Nederland, 10-17 Oktober 1989. programme (2 copies) Club Kiwi; New Zealand Association (Zurich). Newsletter September 89 Club Kiwi; New Zealand Association (Zurich). Newsletter October 89 Stadttheater Lippstadt Theater 1989-90. Kulturring Lippstadt e.V. VKI; Villacher Kulturinformation 11-12 / 89 Wohin in Wolfsburg, November 1989. Das aktuelle Taschen-Magazin Zeitschrift fur Fulda; Domspatz. 15 November - 15 Dezember [19]89 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying below 240 mm.

Date: 1923-1925

From: Gillies, Alexander, 1891-1982: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1973

Description: Photograph album compiled by Alexander Gillies, circa 1923-1925. Material relates to the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium, sightseeing in London, and a “Medical Tour” throughout continental Europe. Most prints include captions that identify locations or individuals. Some prints have been removed from album. Approximately 35 prints relate to the British Empire Exhibition, 1924-1925. Images show the exterior of Wembley Stadium, a man-made canal, brass bands, and views of exhibition pavilions (India, Burma, Palestine, East Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, British Malaya, and the Canadian Pacific). Other images show members of the British and Italian royal families visiting the exhibition, including King George V leaving in a carriage. Other British royalty photographed at the exhibition are Queen Mary, Prince Henry, the Duchess of York (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon), the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire (Victor and Evelyn Cavendish), and Prince Arthur of Connaught. Photographs of Italian royalty show the King and Queen of Italy (Victor Emmanuel III and Elena of Montenegro). Material related to sightseeing in London includes three sets of tourist photographs showing famous sites and buildings around London. Other commercially produced photographs show “The King’s State Coach” and preparations for a court procession in the Royal Mews. Also contains one printed postcard advertising “Ye Olde George Inn, Southwark". Approximately 55 prints relate to a “Medical Tour arranged by Students International Union July - August 1925”. Images show medical equipment, hospitals and infirmaries in Leiden, Vienna, and Paris, as well as patients receiving treatments, including an “appendectomy under local anaesthetic” and “tuberculous children living on roof of hospital”. Other images show well-known buildings, sites, statues, and views of the places Gillies visited. These include: Leiden (Town Hall, geese, river and windmills); Potsdam (Sanssouci Park, the Orangery Palace, the New Palace); Berlin (Charlottenburg Gate, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin Cathedral); Vienna (Rathaus, the Danube, museums and art galleries); Prague (public gardens); Paris (the Louvre, Versailles, Stade Pershing, "Statue to the Triumph of Medicine over Disease", "Grave of the Unknown Warrior"); Brussels (the Danube, Town Hall, Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula); Zurich (the Limmat); and Amsterdam (canals, Basilica of Saint Nicholas). Portraits of identified individuals include “Professor Barge, Leiden” and “Mrs Zoe Ashurst [Cawdry?] Club 20 Cavendish Square”. Other photographs of people show a sleeping toddler “left at the door of a public house while Mother gets a drink”, people queuing to see “Dr Fosdick at the City Temple” in London, and “street singers”. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 118 b&w original photographic prints and one postcard. Physical Description: One photograph album containing 118 black and white photographic prints, and one postcard, 25 x 31.5 cm.

Date: [ca 1960-1990s]

From: Hitchcock family: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10659-005

Description: Collected photographs of family and trips, many with annotations on the reverse, taken by unidentified photographers circa 1960 to 1990s. Some images also have related manuscript or photocopied notes or correspondence giving details about the photographs. Images show family Christmas and birthday celebrations, weddings, baptisms or christenings, holidays, and other family events. Identified people include: Henry Coleridge Hitchcock, Virginia, Ngaire, Nancy, Christine, André, Denise, Joan, Ned, Marilyn, Teresa, Auntie Rose, Barry, Rob, Lisa, and Christopher. Identified locations include: Palmerston North, Ngaio, Eastbourne, Raumatai, Zurich, Bolton Street Cemetery, and Sandspit Motor Camp, Warkworth. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: From box 6 in the donor listing. Many of the prints and some of the negatives arrived at the Library grouped together in commercial photographic print envelopes. Quantity: 124 colour original photographic print(s) Some may be copies. 11 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Colour photographic prints, manuscript, and holograph material. Transfers: 35mm-107838 to 35mm-107839 and 35mm-107880 to 35mm-107899 separated to facilitate appropriate storage.. Processing information: Many of the prints were received by the Library grouped together in commercial photographic print envelopes. This grouping has been retained with prints being rehoused by Library staff into acid-free enclosures that reflect their original order. Annotations from the original commercial print envelopes were transcribed onto the new Library enclosures. The original envelopes were retained when they included a large amount of metadata. Some prints were originally housed with negatives which were separated to facilitate appropriate storage.

Date: [1870s to 1880s?]

From: Creator unknown :Grand tour photograph albums

Reference: PA1-f-130

Description: Travel photographs, prints mostly commercial albumen prints, including black and white copies of paintings. Most views from England (including the fortified manor house Hutton John) and Europe (particularly Switzerland); some images from the Suez Canal in 1870; Akola in India. A number show scenes in New Zealand, at Taumata, and the Whanganui and Mangawhero Rivers. Photographers are not identified. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown leather binding, 42 x 36 cm

Date: 1949, 1957-1968 [2014]

By: Egermayer, Vera, 1940-

Reference: MSDL-2297

Description: Translation of Vaclav Egermayer's account of his emigration to New Zealand from Prague in 1949, with his wife Pavla, and two children, Paul and Vera. The account was written in instalments to his sister Olga living in Czechoslovakia, from 1957 to 1968. The translation was done by his daughter Vera Egermayer in 2014. The document discusses Vaclav Egermayer's journey from Prague via train through Austria, Switzerland, and Italy, eventually leaving Genoa on 3 February 1949 on the 'Toscana' via the Suez Canal, Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Melbourne, Australia. The account discusses conditions on the train through Europe and the ship to New Zealand, and mentions others on the voyage with him. The reminiscences end with his arrival in Wellington, New Zealand on 22 March 1949. Source of title - Supplied by Library Vaclav Egermayer was born in Falknov, Czechoslovakia, in September 1905. He married Pavla Mautnerova, who was Jewish, on 11 March 1939, four days before the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia. A tailor by trade, he and his family left Czechoslovakia in 1949, and settled in Karori, Wellington. He became a New Zealand citizen in 1958, and died in 1983. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s).

Date: 2012

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Fairfax Media Limited (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0020380

Description: Two rich bankers in Zurich laugh at the news that the FBI has got New Zealand to arrest and take legal action against an organisation accused of receiving and distributing stolen assets. Context: Refers to the arrest of Kim Dotcom, a German millionaire and founder of file-sharing site Megaupload, who was arrested on behalf of United States authorities, including the FBI, in a police raid at his $30m Coatesville mansion in Auckland. US authorities are now seeking his extradition. Colour and black and white versions are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).