Mair, John Thomas, 1876-1959

Date: February-March 1939

By: James, H P, active 1988; Deste, Eileen, 1909-1986

Reference: PA1-q-331

Description: Contains photographs of the construction of the Social Security Health Department building which took place from 7 February to 23 March 1939. Includes photographs of the completed building and its interiors. Builders were Fletcher and Love in conjunction with the Public Works Department. Building was officially opened on 27 March 1939. Album also contains portraits of Michael Joseph Savage, Walter Nash, Peter Fraser, Robert Semple, John J Mair, James Fletcher and J J Craig. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Donated by Mr H P James, Wellington, 1988

Date: [Between 1903 and 1906]

By: Mair, John Thomas, 1876-1959; New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts

Reference: PA1-o-321

Description: Album of scenic photographs, chiefly taken by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department, with views of the North Island and South Island. North Island scenes include a number of tourist views of Maori, showing carved meeting houses; a group performing a haka; two women demonstrating the hongi; a young woman wearing a feather cloak, hei tiki and huia feathers, and holding a mere; a group of young boys in a haka pose; a woman smoking a pipe; a group of children bathing in a hot pool at Ohinemutu; and Mr. Nelson's carved house at Whakarewarewa. Other North Island scenes show Mount Taranaki, the Auckland wharves, Lake Waikaremoana, and a man fishing at the Ohau Channel, Rotorua. South Island views cover Lakes Wakatipu, Manapouri and Te Anau; the Tasman Glacier; peaks in the Southern Alps; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; a team of four horses with a laden Cobb & Co coach on a ferry, crossing the Mangahua [i.e. Inangahua] River, the Lyell River Bridge and Hawks Crag, all in the Buller Gorge. The last few images are exterior and interior views of the Dunedin Railway Station soon after it was finished in 1906. Inscriptions: Album page - John T. Mair, Wellington, New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured black cover, entitled `Photographs' lettered in gold; 26.0 x 31.5 cm

Date: 1935

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

By: Mair, John Thomas, 1876-1959

Reference: Plans-93-0566/0567

Description: Shows a plan of the buildings on the school grounds, bounded by Hampden Street East, Waimea Road, and Franklyn Street. The workshops are all in one block. Also includes half inch details of fittings for the agriculture laboratory. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on dressed linen, sizes varying around 625 x 730 mm.

Date: 1934 - 1949 - 1965 - 1971

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

By: Mair, John Thomas, 1876-1959

Reference: Plans-2007-030-0122/0130

Description: Includes: Plans by John T Mair of the Public Works Branch in 1934 (plans, elevations, sections and fireplace and window details) Plans drawn by T.M. of the Property Division, Architectural Section of the Post Office, 1949, of additions and alterations. Detailed plans by the Property Division, Architectural Section of the Post office, for the provision of private boxes.for the provision of private boxes 1971 plan of electrical services. Quantity: 9 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints and blueprints, sizes varying up to 540 x 740 mm.

Date: [ca 1913]

By: Mair, John Thomas, 1876-1959

Reference: MS-Papers-10302

Description: Contract and specifications for a house designed by the architect J T Mair to be built at 3 Wilkinson Street, Oriental Bay for William H Hales Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by NZ Institute of Architects, 1988

Date: [ca 1953]

From: A H & A W Reed :Various photographs including 5 of the Tangiwai disaster

By: Mair, John Thomas, 1876-1959

Reference: PAColl-2388-03

Description: Exterior view, taken circa 1953, of the Government Departmental building on Stout Street, Wellington, designed by government architect John Thomas Mair in 1938 and built 1938-1941. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 210 x 155 mm

Date: 1954

From: Burt, Gordon Onslow Hilbury, 1893-1968 :Negatives

By: Mair, John Thomas, 1876-1959

Reference: 1/2-037230-F

Description: Government Life Insurance building on Customhouse Quay, Wellington, 1954. Panama Street is on the left. The building is decorated for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II. Photograph taken by Gordon Burt. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1943]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-047536-G

Description: Lower Hutt Post Office, designed by John Mair, on the corner of Andrews Avenue (left) and High Street, photographed circa 1943, by S C Smith. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date estimated by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1924

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/2-C-004095-F

Description: First Church (Presbyterian), Invercargill, taken in 1924 by an unidentified photographer. The building was designed by architect John Mair and was completed in 1915. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative