Armistice Day

Date: 1918

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-Peace-1918-01

Description: Shows an arrangement of text of varying sizes. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on sheet 220 x 140 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in April 2002.

Date: 1919

From: [Ephemera relating to peace celebrations after World War I. 1919. Folder 1]

By: Fleet Printing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-Peace-1919-01

Description: A programme containing the order and hymns of a children's service, an evening service, a Saturday morning, Saturday night, Monday and Monday night services. The cover, printed on blocks provided by Messrs Vickery & Inkersell, process engravers of Wellington, show a female classical figure (perhaps Victory or Peace), holding the British and New Zealand flags beneath her outspread arms. At the lower corners at kiwis, and at the top left and right corners are portraits of King George and Queen Mary. The back cover shows photographic portraits of Marshal Foch, Admiral Sir David Beatty, Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, General John Pershing and General Sir E H H Allenby. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Relief prints in booklet of 8 pages, in cover 235 x 150 mm. Provenance: Purchased from New Zealand Book Auctions Ltd in 2005.

Date: 1906-1983

From: Bibby, Edward Stuart, 1896-1991: Collection

By: Whites Aviation Ltd

Reference: PAColl-5636-2

Description: Collection comprising photographs relating to Waipawa from circa 1906 to 1983, taken by various photographers. Includes photographs of the following: Ruataniwha Street and the Bibby store, taken by an unidetified photographer circa 1880s; St Peter's Anglican Church, taken 1906; Waipawa rail bridge, taken 1908 and 1910; Waipawa School and students dressed for a pageant, 1913; Formal portrait of the Waipawa Scouts, some of whom are named verso, taken circa 1915; Waipawa Junior Football Club, taken 1917; Waipawa peace celebrations, taken 1919; Opening of the Waipawa War Memorial, and Governor General Lord Jellicoe's visit, taken July 1922; Aerial view of Waipawa, taken 1948 by Whites Aviation; Waipawa School reunion portraits for years 1902-1912 and 1909-1919, taken circa 1950s; Waipawa District High School reunion for classes from 1910-1942, taken 1983. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 9 November 1917-19 January 1919

From: Tompkins Family: Collection relating to Arthur Lance Tompkins' service during World War One and World War Two

Reference: MS-Papers-12335-02

Description: Letters from Arthur Lance Tompkins mainly to family members. Tompkins wrote these letters from various European locations in Belgium, France, and Germany. The letters are dated between 9 November 2017 and 19 January 1919, and includes a letter to his mother on Armistice Day, 11 November 1918. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph manuscript letters. Processing information: Arranged in date order at time of processing.

Date: 1918

By: Wright & Carman Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-Peace-1918-02

Description: Order of services with words of prayers and hymns. Hymns include "The Old Hundredth", "Jesus lover of my soul", and "Lord of all being". Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on sheet folded to 190 x 127 mm.

Date: 2015-2019

From: WW100 Programme: [Ephemera and posters produced 2015-2019]

Reference: Eph-B-WAR-WW100

Description: Includes: Order of Service for Marking the Centenary of the First World War in France (September 2016) - verso: Map showing successive attack objectives of the New Zealand Division and neighbouring divisions, 15 September 1916 (2 copies) Order of Service for Marking the Centenary of the First World War in France (September 2016) - verso: Capture of the walls of Le Quesnoy, by George Edmund Butler, 1920. (2 copies) Order of Service for Marking the Centenary of the First World War in France (September 2016) - verso: The night shift of the N.Z. Tunnelling Company in their bunks below the ground. (2 copies) Order of Service for Marking the Centenary of the First World War in France (September 2016) - verso: New Zealand soldiers in Switch Trench on 15 September 1916 shortly after its capture in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the Somme offensive (2 copies) Order of Service for Marking the Centenary of the First World War in France (September 2016) - verso: Soldiers of Pioneer Battalion helping French farmers with a harvest. (2 copies) Brown wallet / folder featuring design of soldiers and their shadows forming a fern leaf (2 copies) Poppy chain featuring Harry Lamb Poppy chain featuring Edith McLeod Poppy chain featuring Repatriation WW100 bookstand sent out with Finding Our Way Back campaign as a koha to libraries and museums, featuring words ‘We Will Remember Them / Ka Maumahara Tonu Tātou ki a Rātou’ (With covering letter and diagram of how to construct stand; April 2019) (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1870-1974

From: Bibby, Edward Stuart, 1896-1991: Collection

Reference: PAColl-9161

Description: Comprises photographs relating to Waipawa, Ongaonga, and Lunesdale farm, and portraits of members of the Bibby family. Portraits include one of James Woodhouse Bibby, and two of Edward Stuart Bibby in military uniform, taken between 1914 and 1918. Other photographs include: Scene at Waipawa, taken 1870; Several photographs of Waipawa Primary School Ball in the Memorial Hall, taken 1908, 1913, 1922; Lunesdale Homestead and Church, taken 1911; Peace celebrations and parades on Waipawa main street, taken 1919; Edward VIII, Prince of Wales' visit to Waipawa, 1919; Napier waterfront, taken 1960, and Colenso memorial tablet in Napier Cathedral, prior to 1931 earthquake; Glen Appin Homestead, taken 1970s; Ongaonga School Museum centennial and Slab Whare, 1974. Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1863-1921

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-1138

Description: News and personal photographs, taken and collected by J L Wilson, featuring North Canterbury 1863-1921, with the majority dated 1908-1919. Also includes coverage of South Africa's Eastern Cape and England. Series include: Wilson family portraits, with Joseph Lowthian, his wife, son Leonard, daughter Estelle, mother-in-law Emma Matthews, and brother Thomas. Estelle's children also feature, with some images taken in their adopted home in South Africa. Also Wilson family dogs Bruce and Nigger appear in a number of images. Street scenes and buildings in Kaiapoi are emphasised, with many taken following the July 1918 and 2 September snow storms. A number also depict World War One peace celebrations (including Kaiapoi 'tank' and parade). Interior and exterior images of Kaiapoi Woollen Mills and buildings in Hamner Springs (including Jollie's Hotel, Hamner Hall, Post Office, churches, and Public School) also feature. Events include funeral procession of trooper Nicholson (Kaiapoi) who was killed in the South African War, parade with decorated traction engine (Rangiora), celebration of coronation of Edward VII (Oxford), an unidentified shipwreck, street scene of 1908 Christchurch fire, the relocation of St Paul's Presbyterian Church (Kaiapoi), crowd at collie dog trials (Waikari), delivery of Anderson's boiler to Woollen Mills factory, railway accident at Chaimey's corner and funeral of R J Alexander, Armistice Day celebrations (Rangiora), Lord Ranfurly's visit to Kaiapoi Woollen Mills, Ashley water supply project luncheon, and the relocation of assembly rooms building. Named figures include J Lang, J Perrin, and J M McGarvy; Mrs W A Parham with her flock of turkeys; J R Leithead; Chief Dinizulu (postcard from Estelle Wilson, annotated); portraits of soldiers Ralph and Leslie Feldwick (both killed in action in Dardanelles) and soldier C J Brighing; Reverend Wynter Blathwayt, Maaka Hape, and T Hape of St Stephen's Maori Church, J Murray and his three boys in Highland dress; cyanotype of Edward Devine, Miss Alice Bennett and her nieces; Mr Jeffrey; and S Johnston (Kaiapoi Postmaster). Group photographs depict [1st Wellington Battalion?] in France, the officers of the 1st Battalion of the Canterbury Rifles on Queen Victoria's 1887 jubilee, group (mainly Maori) at the Kaiapoi Bridge (1869 visit of the Duke of Edinburgh), Woodend Volunteer Rifles, unidentified Maori group outside Runanga Hall (Tuahiwi), and territorial soldiers in 1913 (Rangiora). Premiere Richard Seddon [last photograph before death?] with group at Newport Railway Workshops (Melbourne), soldiers at Trentham Military Camp (1918), Sir Apirana Ngata and the Mahaanui Maori Council, wedding party photographs from the Leech and Parsons wedding, old scholars of Kaiapoi Church School, North Canterbury Ploughing Match organisers (figures named), Kaiapoi Woollen Mills directors (1879), Captain Chaffey and Lieutenants Douglas and Grey of the Amuri Mounted Rifles, Parham family, and the Matthews family outside school house at Kaiapoi Church Day School. Buildings include Bruce Hotel (Akaroa), Hydro Grand Hotel (Timaru), Kaiapoi Parish Church, Wellington Post Office, Bank of New Zealand (Kaiapoi), Beauthorne, W J Robinson's stables and manager's house (Cheviot), Christ's College (Christchurch), South British Insurance (also Press Office, Kaiapoi), S Baldwin's home (Canada), Buckeye Hotel (with Cob and Co coach outside), Marston (Kaiapoi), J Sim's sawmill and store, Kaiapoi Parish Church, Glenmark Station homestead, Church of the Holy Innocents (Amberley), Woollen Mills Cashel Street, Maori pa formerly at site of Woollen Mills (painting), Malcolm Ross Cottage, and Glen Hoon (Hamner). Miscellaneous images include a volunteer camp in Oamaru (Easter, 1886), Akaroa monument to Captain Stanley, Dunedin (from Roslyn Hill), the construction of the Kaiapoi dredge, Rangiora War Memorial, Tikitere (Rotorua), Ashburton Domain, Wellington (from Te Aro Hill), Challenge Shield trophy (of the 1st Battalion, Canterbury Rifle Volunteers), Volunteer Rifle target practice on Kaiapoi beach, Cam bridge (with unidentified family group), the ferry 'Windermere' with Coniston Lake coach on board, Gore Bay and other images from Cheviot area, Reece Valley, Shetland pony Wee Davie, Kingston-Invercargill coach (cyanotype of photo taken by American Astronomical Mission), Purau farm panorama (site for 1893 volunteer military camp), fancy dress, the ketch 'Jannet', Lyttelton Harbour, the steamer 'Kairaki', farmland at Highfield (Waiau), Amuri, Dogs Creek intake, Otira Gorge, various Blue Mountain scenes (New South Wales), Conical Hill (Hamner), Rogerson Valley, D Rutherford Bridge and upper bridge cutting (Waiau River), an original pen drawn caricature, a copy of a painting of a coach by E M Lovell-Smith, and a number of river, garden, and street scenes. Various images (some postcards) from South Africa include three men in front of a cave, St Andrew's College and St Aiden's College (Grahamstown), Prince Alfred's Guards Memorial and Port Elizabeth, Hellgate, and the road to Walmer. Also images (many postcards) of England, including Penrith, Keswick, Braithwaite, Torquay, Boscobel House and Royal Oak (Shropshire), Cumberland Church, and Christchurch Gate (Canterbury). Collected photographs include many Burton Brothers' images of various New Zealand scenes (mainly scenic, including Wanganui River, Waitakere area, Manawatu Gorge, and Lake Manapouri) and work by other unidentified photographers. Album includes cyanotypes, copies of daguerreotypes, postcards, hand coloured images as well as original and reproduced artworks. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album Provenance: Purchase, 2011. The album was purchased from Mr Robin Rapley of Christchurch.

Date: ca 1914-1918

By: Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: PAColl-0605

Description: Photographs of: Tui Hunt holding a doll and Huia Hunt at an easel in their back garden; the beach at Broad Bay, Dunedin; the employees outside J Mandl & Co, Westland Brewery in Hokitika with a horse and loaded dray next to it; a display of dolls, dolls furniture and framed pictures with poems attached; a hand touched photograph of an unknown man next to a lake probably in Rotorua; Lorna Moore holding the train of the dress of Miss Mulholland at Twomey's Hotel in Methven (not a wedding dress so possibly for a pageant); a taxi bedecked with union jacks outside a house in Christchurch with six people dressed up as clowns for a post-war celebration - one man is blacked up; and a street sellers cart labelled "Soldiers' Queen Cart No 4" possibly also associated with post-war celebrations. Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1931-May 1932

From: Castle family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1614

Description: Includes photographs of views around London, and various parts of England; Zillah with violin case outside Royal College; first snow in London; visiting family friends; children receiving oranges and lemons at St Clement Danes Church. In 1931 Zillah Castle received a violin scholarship to the Royal College of Music, London, where she went chaperoned by Mavis, her eldest sister. They returned in 1934. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 19.5 x 28 cm

Date: [ca 1860s]-1968

From: Bibby, Edward Stuart, 1896-1991: Collection

Reference: PAColl-5636-1

Description: Collection comprises several photographs relating to the Bibby family, taken circa 1860s to 1968 by various photographers. Includes photographs of the following: Members of the Bibby and Tod families, including some formal and studio portraits, taken circa 1860s to 1920s; Scenes at Waipawa, between 1865 and 1968, including images of the Bibby Store, Rose Street, Armistice celebrations and parades, and the Waipawa war memorial; Lunesdale Farm, taken between 1906 and 1920, including views of the farm and staff, children playing on Buchanans Lake, hay-making and timber-hauling; Ongaonga, taken between 1919 and 1932, including views of Ongaonga and the Presbyterian Church; Ruahine Ranges, taken 1920, including Shuteye Shack and Armstrong Saddle; Bibby family holiday at Kairakau Beach circa 1920s, including views of the beach and cliffs, images of the Bibby family baches, and members of the Bibby family; The wedding of Edward Stuart Bibby and Mabel Katherine Bibby (née Hutchinson) in 1926, and their subsequent honeymoon, and images relating to the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition of 1925-1926. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 86 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1918

From: Cochran, Hector Roy, fl 1900-1970s :Nomad; a New Zealand footslogger's Grand tour, 1916-1919.

Reference: E-317-q-013-2

Description: Front view of a church in Solesmes on the day Armistice was signed (11/11/1918) Artist's note reads: In early morning received news that Armistice was to be signed at 11 am. At 9 we left to march back to Beauvois. Not a drink in sight! O London!. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy of drawing, 156 x 149 mm

Date: 1919, 1936, May 1940-February 1943

From: Varnham, Frederick Stuart, 1889-1963 : War diaries, correspondence, and publications

Reference: MS-Papers-12811

Description: Comprises material relating to Brigadier (Frederick) Stuart Varnham's service in World War One and World War Two. Includes: - Eight letters dated 1 May 1940 to 13 February 1943 written by Stuart Varnham to a family friend, Margot Fenn (née Barker), while on service in Egypt and New Zealand. One letter dated 6 October 1941 includes a black and white photograph of Varnham. - Journal of the Taranaki Regiment "Primus in Armis" volume one, July 1936. - Official Programme of the National Peace Celebrations, 19 July 1919, London. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) comprising correspondence, black and white original photograph, booklet, journal.

Date: 1918

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Over 4 years episodes of the war (and during armistice) by Major General H G Robley. [ca 1920]

Reference: E-024-f-1-044

Description: A head and shoulders frontal portrait of Marechal Foch Other versions of this drawing, with variant title and surrounding annotations are held at E-024-q-044 and E-024-q-2-041 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

Date: 1918

From: [Ephemera up to quarto size relating to peace announcements and celebrations after World War I. 1918-1919]

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper); Wilson & Horton (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-WAR-WI-Peace-1918-02

Description: Single flier produced to announce the Armistice in November 1918. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on sheet 250 x 314 mm.

Date: 2015-2018

From: WW100 Programme: [Ephemera and posters produced 2015-2019]

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WW100-Programmes

Description: Includes: 2015: Pukeahu National War Memorial Park Official Opening 18 April 2015. Programme Battle for Chunuk Bair. Centenary service. Pukeahu National War Memorial Park Wellington 8 August 2015. History booklet / order of service Ceremony of beating retreat & the first daily Last Post ceremony. Pukeahu National War Memorial Park, Anzac Day 2015. Order of ceremony (2 copies) 2016: National Commemoration War in France Sunday 18 September 2016 at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park. Speaker’s Programme (2 copies) 2017: National Commemoration for the Centenary of the Battle of Beersheba at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park 31 October 2017 including the Order of Service. Programme / order of service (2 copies) 2018: Armistice Centenary National Ceremony.Pukeahu National War Memorial Park 11 November 2018 including the Order of Service (2 copies) Sunset ceremony marking the end of the the First World War. Pukeahu National War Memorial Park, 11 November 2018. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes up to 240 mm.

Date: 1928-1929

From: Society of Friends. Wellington Monthly Meeting : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-6000-33

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1981-1999

From: Macky, Willow, 1921-2006 : Music scores, papers and sound recordings

Reference: MS-Papers-8762-74

Description: Consists of correspondence relating to various carillon projects organised by Willow Macky. Includes Wedding Bells for the Royal Wedding, 1981 -- Peace to the world, played on Remembrance Day, 1986 to celebrate the United Nations International Year of Peace with Bells around the world -- Bells for peace and justice celebrations, 70th anniversary of Armistice Day and the 40th anniversary United Nations Human Rights Day, 1988 -- Carillon 1990, the first New Zealand International Carillon Festival, Wellington which Willow helped with publicity. Many of the carilloneurs were people she had personally written to for her 1986 and 1988 Bells Across the World campaigns. Other Titles - Wedding bells -- Peace to the world Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1981-1999

From: Macky, Willow, 1921-2006 : Music scores, papers and sound recordings

Reference: MS-Papers-8762-75

Description: Consists of newspaper clippings, programmes, postcards relating to various carillon projects organised by Willow Macky. Includes Wedding Bells for the Royal Wedding, 1981 -- Peace to the world, played on Remembrance Day, 1986 to celebrate the United Nations International Year of Peace with Bells around the world -- Bells for peace and justice celebrations, 70th anniversary of Armistice Day and the 40th anniversary United Nations Human Rights Day, 1988 -- Carillon 1990, the first New Zealand International Carillon Festival, Wellington which Willow helped with publicity. Many of the carilloneurs were people she had personally written to for her 1986 and 1988 Bells Across the World campaigns. Other Titles - Wedding bells -- Peace to the world Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1914-1918

By: Tuckey, Jean A, active 2005

Reference: PA11-231

Description: Collection comprises: Scenes in Africa, England and the Western Front during World War I, probably compiled by Henry Phelps Tuckey Scenes in Wellington on Armistice Day, 1918, probably taken by Robert G Chatfield Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 126 b&w original transparency/ies (lantern slides). Provenance: Slides were owned by Don Chatfield, the grandson of Mary Hobhouse Chatfield; he in turn gave them to Mr and Mrs Tuckey Transfers: Other - Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive; material transferred to other sections from here - Transfers - To Manuscripts & Archives : MS-Papers-8436 : Tuckey, Jean, fl 2005 : Papers relating to Henry Phelps Tuckey.