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Date: 1881 - 1889

From: [Theatre ephemera and programmes for music-hall, comedy and variety productions in New Zealand, 1800s].

By: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1880s-03

Description: Arrangement of text with varied lettering and plain border. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, red on cream paper, 190 x 140 mm.

Date: 1895 - 1915

From: [Postcard album of cards collected by Agnes Evers. 1910s?]

By: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-13-17-3

Description: Shows a view of a stream emerging from a gully between two bush-topped hills, with snowy mountains in the background. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 137 x 90 mm.

Date: 1901

From: Various artists :[Box of assorted Christmas cards. 1860s-1919]

By: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm); Chief Post Office (Wellington, N.Z.); White, Benoni William Lytton, 1858-1950

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-Christmas-1901-01

Description: Shows a montage of images, including telegraph wires above Wellington Harbour, a young Maori woman posting a letter in a postbox while she frees a bird on her right hand; two warriors standing within a Maori pa, with flax and cabbage trees, a steamship crossing the sea; a train puffing along the line; and the Chief Post Office building in Wellington. There is the image of a red one penny stamp in the top right corner. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on Christmas greetings card 1901.. Physical Description: Chromolithograph, on folded card, 187 x 244 mm.

Date: 1890 - 1920

From: Gear Meat Company :Scrapbook of labels. 1890s-1920s].

By: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm)

Reference: Eph-F-MEAT-Gear-046

Description: Top two labels show the same scene of Mt Taranaki, framed between a Maori whare and a cabbage tree (probably based on Allom's lithograph of Heaphy's view of Mt Egmont). As well there are decorative panels of an Oriental style. Bottom label shows a view of the central mountain plateau, with a ship coming into harbour in the foreground. This view is flanked by pictures of a cabbage tree and a tree fern. There is a picture of a ship at the mouth of a port (possibly the mouth of the Whanganui River) on the other half of the label. Extended Title - From Gear Meat Company Scrapbook of labels, page [46]. Quantity: 3 colour art print(s) on labels.. Physical Description: Chromolithographs, on labels, 94 x 340 mm; 105 x 325 mm; and, 109 x 344 mm.