Bathrooms

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: 1970 - 1971

From: Toomath Wilson Irvine Anderson, architects :[Architectural plans. 1955-1988].

Reference: Plans-2005-057-0203-108/127

Description: Includes revised kitchen plans, main roof modifications and extensions, revised bathroom plans, site work and drainage, floor plans, revised bedroom plans. Quantity: 20 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to 745 x 1000 mm.

Date: 1993 - 1994

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

Reference: Plans-2009-082-2259-001/031

Description: Shows plans for additions to an existing house, including a new bathroom, a gazebo, and plans of planting at the house entry court. Quantity: 31 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on draughting paper, 297 x 420 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.

Date: 1987 - 1988

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

Reference: A-395-188/206

Description: Includes perspective drawings of the exterior of a two-storeyed house with balconies. Also includes perspective drawings of bathroom interior. Original file numbering was part of: 004.01.02.021 (in brown envelope). Electoral rolls for the 1980s list Jonathan Neil Watt and Lindsay Johnstone Watt, public servants, at this address. Quantity: 19 plan(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying around 300 x 450 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: [between 1885-1890]

By: Cossgrove, Andrew Goudie, 1859-1890

Reference: PAColl-D-0818

Description: Source of descriptive information - Photographer name record enhanced by Library client Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) (comprising 31 individual prints). Physical Description: 31 x albumen photoprints (various sizes) on sheet 520 x 835 mm with mount

Date: 1927 - 1989

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

Reference: Plans-2009-082-2253-001/003

Description: Shows plans for a bathroom, including floor plans and elevations. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on draughting paper, 420 x 297 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.

Date: 1987 - 1988

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

Reference: A-395-207/217

Description: Includes revised bedroom layout, study bookshelves, floor plans, north elevation, perspective drawing of bathroom interior. Original file numbering was part of: 004.01.02.021 (in brown envelope). Electoral rolls for the 1980s list Jonathan Neil Watt and Lindsay Johnstone Watt, public servants, at this address. Quantity: 11 plan(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink drawings on tracing paper, and photocopies, 297 x 420 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: 1926

From: [Ephemera relating to plumbers, plumbing supplies, drainage, plumbing companies. 1910-1949]

By: G Methven & Company

Reference: Eph-A-PLUMBING-1926-01

Description: Sales catalogue for a Dunedin manufacturer of plumbing and bathroom accessories. Shows (Page 3c) a photograph of Methven's stand at the NZ & South Seas Exhibition. An illustrated list of merchandise including: taps, stop cocks, sewerage fittings, ball cocks, grease cups, plugs and washers, bunsen burners, gas cookers, gas fires and radiators, califonts, gas water heaters, enamel baths, bathroom and toilet requisites, glass shelves, wash basins, showers, mirrors, towel rails, soap dishes, toilets, toilet rolls, urinals, primus stoves, boilers and coppers, furnaces, copper circulators, electric circulators (circulating hot water from the hot water cistern to towel rails, etc), tools, die stocks, sewerage fittings, rabbit exterminators (which pump bisulphide into rabbit holes) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 100 pages, 225 x 143 mm. Provenance: Donated by C W Martin, 2011. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-1939.

Date: 17 May 2001

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Hart, Renee Sylvia, 1919-

Reference: OHint-0562/06

Description: Renee Hart was born in Worthing, Sussex, England on 20 June 1919. Mentions her passports, her attitude to her nationality and the postings of her father's regiment. Talks of her parents' marriage and children. Describes her father's move to India as a bandsman and how the family travelled there. Describes the band's musical commitments. Talks of her father's change from playing brass to stringed instruments and piano. Mentions the governors of various regions in India. Relates the details of the family's return to England and their subsequent return to India. Talks of her mother's occupation in hairdressing, her sister's role in the business and her own training, the techniques used at the time, their Indian customers with reference to privacy for various races. Mentions social life in the hills and teaching dancing with her sisters. Mentions her family's religion and censoring the forces' mail in wartime. Talks of her husband's family connections with India, their meeting and living in India. Describes sports clubs, social clubs and membership, relationships, modes of transport. Explains what their accommodation was like, mentions bathrooms and toilets at home and at boarding school. Mentions servants. Talks about her children, her parents and siblings settling in New Zealand. Describes her father's work and pension husband's job situation. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral Histroy Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008508, OHC-008509 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 1.50 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2643.

Date: 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/109/14-G

Description: Psychiatric nurse washing her hands in a bathroom at Porirua Mental Hospital, Wellington. Photograph taken in 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1934

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-0181

Description: Shows how the bathroom fits into the ground floor plan, side and end elevations, cross section and detail. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on tracing paper, 370 x 420 mm.

Date: 1952 - 1953

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Kelly & Mair (Firm)

Reference: Plans-93-0347/0349

Description: Shows scale floor plan as existing and as altered; details of shaving cabinet, wall elevation, detail at threshold of shower, grabrail in shower cabinet. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying

Date: 1983 - 1984

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-045-037/048

Description: Includes floor plans, elevations, bathroom details. Quantity: 12 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings, on tracing paper sixes varying up to 420 x 595 mm.

Date: 1936

By: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993

Reference: A-442-039

Description: Shows a small windowless hut with woven grass walls and a thatched roof. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 121 x 124 mm.

Date: 1939

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-0619/0622

Description: Plans, elevations and details for alterations to bathroom / washrooms and toilets Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil, coloured pencil, ink, on tracing paper, sizes varying

Date: 1928 - 1940 - 1945

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-2364/2377

Description: Includes floor plans for third floor and attic floor, part plan of basement floor, and the entrance stair slab details. Also includes a street elevation and transverse section, suggested kitchen amendment details, and an additional bathroom for the matron. Quantity: 14 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, ink drawings on dressed linen, and diazo prints, sizes varying

Date: 1947

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-0776/0778

Description: Includes alterations to existing bathroom, new toilet block, detail of terrazzo shower. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying around 500 x 650 mm.

Date: 1906

From: Various architects :[Architectural plans from the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. 1922-1984]

By: Swan, John Sydney, 1874-1936

Reference: Plans-2009-043-190/193

Description: Includes floor plans for the basement, ground floor, first floor and second (top) floor. The basement contains refectories, parlours, stores, kitchen, sisters' room. The ground floor contains a study room, classrooms, recreation room, temporary chapel and sacristy, five small piano rooms, and mistresses' general room. The first floor has dormitories, infirmaries, individual rooms for eight baths, and linen rooms. The top floor has further space for dormitories, linen room and infirmaries. File number G 3 Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawings, sizes varying Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1215.

Date: 1928 - 1994

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

Reference: Plans-2009-082-2265-001/008

Description: Includes floor plans, site plan and drainage plan. Also includes perspective drawings of bathroom fittings: coathanger, toilet roll holder, water closet and wall basin. Includes photocopies of a plan of the residence at the time it belonged to Mrs L L Richards, showing the position of the proposed bay window, sun room and casement windows, 1928. It is possible that this plan was drawn by Llewellyn L Richards, architect, who lived at that address. Quantity: 8 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on draughting paper, and photocopies, 297 x 420 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.

Date: 2000 - 2001

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

Reference: A-395-218/224

Description: Includes historical time chart showing lmajor civilisations from 4000 BC to 2000 AD. Also includes maps of Europe and Western Asia. Includes a 2001 bathroom floor plan and cross section. Original file numbering was 004.01.02.023 Quantity: 1 plan(s). 4 map(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) chart. 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink drawings on tracing paper, and photocopies, 297 x 420 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.