Grocery trade - New Zealand - Auckland Region

Date: 1917

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1911-1919]

By: R W Gallaugher Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1917-01

Description: Sales catalogues for the general merchant R W Gallaugher of Victoria Street West, Auckland. Lists goods in the following categories: Groceries and provisions; patent medicines, pills, ointments, toilet requisites; ironmongery (including garden tools), cutlery, lamps (illustrated); electroplated ware; aluminium ware and tinware (illustrated); enamelled ware; crockery and glassware; woodware; bedding; tents; churns and separators. Quantity: 1 catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 80 pages (first 8 pages missing), each 243 x 155 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Maison Jolie in 2004.

Date: 1916

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1911-1919]

By: Smeetons Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1916-01

Description: Sales catalogues for Smeetons in Auckland, with a timetable of the trains running from Auckland and what stations they stop at on various days of the week. Lists goods available, arranged in the following sections: Grocery; Biscuits and confectionery; Provisions; Patent medicines, toilet brushware & requisites; Ironmongery. Colour plate shows hams & bacon. Quantity: 1 catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 128 pages, each 245 x 152 mm.

Date: 1909

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1900-1910]

By: R W Gallaugher Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1909-01

Description: Sales catalogues for the general merchant R W Gallaugher of Victoria Street West, Auckland. Lists goods in the following categories: Groceries and provisions; patent medicines, toilet requisites; crockery and glassware; electroplated ware; aluminium ware, tinware; enamelled ware, fencing ware, tents and flys. Quantity: 1 volume(s) catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 48 pages, each 240 x 155 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Maison Jolie in 2004.

Date: 1925

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1920-1929]

By: R W Gallaugher Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1925-01

Description: Sales catalogues for the general merchant R W Gallaugher of Victoria Street West, Auckland. Lists goods in the following categories: Groceries and provisions; patent medicines, household requisites; kapok and flock bedding, woven wire mattresses and wire stretchers, horse covers and cow covers, oily canvas coats and rubber boots. Quantity: 1 volume(s) catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 20 pages, each 216 x 141 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Maison Jolie in 2004.

Date: 1908 - 1912

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1900-1910]

By: Robert Rew (Firm); Abel, Dykes Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1910-03

Description: Mail order catalogue for the Country Order department of a retail store in Auckland. Merchandise is listed in the following categories: grocery, provisions, patent medicines, toilet requisites, stationery, ironmongery, rattan bamboo & rush furniture, china glassware and crockery, Japanese (mainly tableware), boots and shoes, woven wire mattresses, flax and kapok mattresses, manures, agricultural seeds, garden and vegetable seeds, separators, children's page (with confectionery and Christmas stockings) Other Titles - Three Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 56 pages, 248 x 155 mm.

Date: 1926

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1920-1929]

By: R W Gallaugher Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1926-01

Description: Sales catalogues for the general merchant R W Gallaugher of Victoria Street West, Auckland. Lists goods in the following categories: Groceries and provisions; patent medicines, household requisites; kapok and flock bedding, woven wire mattresses and wire stretchers; baths, boilers, churns, clockskitcxhen utensils, cutlery, hot water bags, kettles, lamps, mirrors, paints, suacepans; aluminium ware, tinware, enamelled ware, crockery and glassware, rubber, boots, tents, "Orb" cooking ranges. Quantity: 1 volume(s) catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 48 pages, each 216 x 141 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Maison Jolie in 2004.

Date: 1913

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1911-1919]

By: A W Page (Firm); Wilson & Horton (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1913-01

Description: Mail order catalogue for A W Page at Kingsland, Auckland. Items for sale were grocery items, food, oils, patent medicines, kitchen equipment, gardening tools, enamel paints, household ironmongery and brushware, stoves, heaters, firewood, seeds. Advertisements for: Tucker's family baking powder, Acorn brand coffee, Brown's Cornflour, "Champion" roller flour, Oak brand tinned peaches, Lymm pure salt, Amberine soap, Page's teas, Nicholls' Bros patent "Orb" ranges, "Perfection" blue flame oil stoves, Sharland's Port Quinine wine, Oak Leaf butter, "Nazol" ointment. Other Titles - A W Page's popular price list Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 152 pages, each 238 x 160 mm.

Date: 1907

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1900-1910]

By: R W Gallaugher Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1907-01

Description: Sales catalogues for the general merchant R W Gallaugher of Victoria Street West, Auckland. Lists goods in the following categories: Groceries and provisions; patent medicines, toilet requisites; household requisities; fencing wire, tents, basketware; crockery and glassware; enamelled ware. Quantity: 1 volume(s) catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 34 pages, each 240 x 155 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Maison Jolie in 2004.

Date: 1923

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1920-1929]

By: R W Gallaugher Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1923-01

Description: Sales catalogues for the general merchant R W Gallaugher of Victoria Street West, Auckland. Lists goods in the following categories: Groceries and provisions; patent medicines, household requisites; dinner ware; "Orb" cooking range, Methven boilers, "Red Ball" brand rubber boots, riding coats. Quantity: 1 volume(s) catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 26 pages, each 228 x 143 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Maison Jolie in 2004.

Date: 1910

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1900-1910]

By: R W Gallaugher Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1910-01

Description: Sales catalogues for the general merchant R W Gallaugher of Victoria Street West, Auckland. Lists goods in the following categories: Groceries and provisions; patent medicines, pills, ointments, toilet requisites; crockery and glassware (illustrations); ironmongery cutlery, lamps (illustrated); electroplated ware; aluminium ware and tinware (illustrated); woodware; basketware; fencing wires; tents; manures, horse covers. Quantity: 1 catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 64 pages, each 242 x 152 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Maison Jolie in 2004.

Date: 1915

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1911-1919]

By: R W Gallaugher Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1915-01

Description: Sales catalogues for the general merchant R W Gallaugher of Victoria Street West, Auckland. Lists goods in the following categories: Groceries and provisions; patent medicines, pills, ointments, toilet requisites; crockery and glassware (illustrations); toilet ware; dinner ware; ironmongery (including garden tools), cutlery, lamps (illustrated); electroplated ware; aluminium ware and tinware (illustrated); enamelled ware; woodware; basketware; fencing wires; tents; churns and separators, cow covers; post-hole borers; manures, horse covers. Quantity: 1 catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 80 pages, each 235 x 152 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Maison Jolie in 2004.

Date: 1929

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

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-FTC-1929-01

Description: Sales catalogues for the Farmers" Union Trading Company in Auckland. Lists merchandise of the following types: housewares, tableware, armchairs, settees, carpets, men's suits and coats, menswear and boys' wear, women's clothing, fabrics, radios, pianos, phonographs, records, fertilisers, roofing iron, rabbit traps, produce (groceries and grains), shoes and boots, bushmen's outer wear, plough collars, cow covers, incubators, "Jumbo" engines, cream separators, circular saws, harrows and seed distributors. Front cover shows a coloured photograph of a china parrot on a table with a fruit bowl and a moulded jelly, both in plates on doilies. The back cover advertises the Alfa-Laval cream separator. Quantity: 1 volume(s) catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 48 pages, 237 x 185 mm.

Date: 1900 - 1910

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1900/1910

Description: Includes: 1900: New Zealand HB Clothing Factory, established 1873. 1902: Town & Country Co-Operative Supply Federation Limited. Notice of opening and advice of membership number [186]. 19 December 1902. 1905: Crystal Palace, 100 Lambton Quay Wellington. Notice of opening of glass and chinaware department [ca 1905] R Y Shearer. Dunstable House, The Avenue, Lower Hutt. General drapery, clothing and outfitting. 20 December 1905. [Advertising flier] 1907: R W Gallaugher general merchant, wholesale & retail, Victoria St West, Auckland. Price list, August 1, 1907. 1909: R W Gallaugher, general merchant, wholesale & retail, Victoria St West, Auckland. New price list. April 1909. 1910: Gallaugher general merchant. Gallaugher's latest catalogue. April 1910. J P Egan. Egan's Tea Rooms, Egmont St, Patea. [Postcard. ca 1910?] W Strange & Company (Christchurch). Special display of early summer novelties in millinery, costumes, blouses, wash fabrics, robe lengths, neckwear, &c. Commencing Tuesday Sept[ember] 27th [1910?. Postcard] C A C Hardy & G S Hardy, trading as C Hardy & Co., general merchants, Rakaia. A book of proverbs. (2 copies) George & George. Discount ticket book & illustrated catalogue; a complete shopping guide. [ca 1910] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm.

Date: 1971

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-0554

Description: Two negative frames are of waterside workers at Kings Wharf, central Auckland, in 1971. Ten negative frames show children outside a grocery store, 'Howe St. IGA Foodcentre', on Howe Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, in 1971. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: [ca 1914]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001664-G

Description: View taken looking down Manukau Road (now known as Parnell Road) from Parnell Rise towards the Waitemata Harbour (visible in the distance). On the lefthand side are retail premises including Marriott & Co. On the righthand side of the road is a bell tower. Electric power poles line the righthand side of the road. A horse and cart can be seen heading down Manukau Road in the middle of the image. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, 1914 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Manukau Rd. Parnell. Auckland. No 3098. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1852 - 1860 - 1855

By: Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878

Reference: A-438-012

Description: View from the end of the wharf at the foot of Queen Street, looking towards the waterfront buildings and up Queen Street, with Partington's windmill on the skyline. A line of barrels along the wharf and two containers of goods, a man wheeling a wheelbarrow, another wheeling a barrow, two soldiers, other groups of citizens, Maori canoes and a rowboat drawn up at the water's edge on the left and groups of Maori sitting. The Wesleyan (Methodist) Chapel is on the left, above the first row of buildings. Some of the buildings have signs: Russell Wine Vaults, Victoria House, Rolous [?] tailor, Somerville grocer, Stationer. Derived from a lithograph by Patrick Hogan, first published 1852. A copy of the lithograph is held by the Turnbull Library at C-010-005. A version in oils of this view is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. Other Titles - Auckland New Zealand. View from the new wharf Extended Title - From L'Univers illustre, no. 107, 31 Mai [May] 1860, p. 210 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Black and white engraving on cropped page, 150 x 280 mm.