Photography - Processing

Date: 1940

By: Murray-Oliver, Anthony Audrey St. Clair Murray, 1915-1986

Reference: Eph-A-PHOTO-1940-01

Description: Wallet for photographic prints, issued by a photographic developer, shows an advertisement for Kodak Verichrome film, illustrated on the wallet flap in yellow and red. Inside is the suggestion to use a Cine-Kodak to make home movies. The envelope is date-stamped inside for 13 August 1940. The envelope border is composed of red and black checks. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Block print on flapped envelope, 108 x 168 mm. Provenance: From the collection of Tony Murray-Oliver, 1987.

Date: 1970 - 1990

Reference: Eph-F-PHOTO-NFAC-1970s-01

Description: Text on white cardboard sleeve box with slide-out housing. Text is in red ink. There are additional ink annotations on the box lid and base (ie both on the outer sleeve). Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour print on cardboard box, two-piece matchbox style, 57 x 110 x 20 mm. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at Eph-A-PHOTO-NFAC-1970/1980s, MS-Group-2086 and at PA-Group-00824..

Date: 1945 - 1979

Reference: Eph-A-PHOTO-Hallam

Description: Photograph wallets used to house processed photographs: Kodak Prints [1950s?] C F Newham & Co. Ltd, 188 Trinity Bldgs, Avenu Wanganui. Selo roll film & print wallet [1937?] Richards' Studios for all your photographic needs. 41A Victoria Avenue Wanganui; 310 Broadway, Marton [1950s?] Richards Studios Ltd. 59 Victoria Ave Wanganui [1960-1970s] H C Stimpson, chemist, 160 Somme Parade, Aramoho, Wanganui. Jayco wallet [1960s?] Baycolor [1970s?] Date of C F Newham's "Selo" wallet dated around 1937 (See information retrieved 2 April 2015 from http://www.photomemorabilia.co.uk/Ilford/Chronology.html ) Quantity: 5 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on photographic wallets, sizes varying Provenance: Donated by Shirley Cormack in 2015. Transfers: From Photographic Archive - PA-Group-00634 - Collection received in Ephemera. One item transferred on appraisal to Published: "Twelve views of Cambridge the beautiful"; one item to Published to offer to WN: Wanganui Intermediate School jubilee 1983; some material to PA: photo of Tommy Sterling (disposed), Cambridge Real photos (disposed), and loose photos of Hawkes Bay (disposed), Bluff Hall after earthquake, and the ship Hydrabad. Australian items not kept.

Date: 1938

By: Dyes & Chemicals Ltd; L T Watkins Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-PHOTO-1938-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue and price list for box cameras, Speedex cameras, Karat and Isolette models, movie cameras and projectors, roll films, photographic plates, portrait films, photo papers including Borvira, Portriga, developing tanks, developers, fixers, toner. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Offset prints in booklet of 32 pages, 177 x 117 mm.

Date: 1901

By: Turnbull and Palmer (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-PHOTO-EQUIPMENT-1901-01

Description: Flyer advertising a chemical preparation sold in a bottle, suitable for increasing the contrast in photographic negatives. Dated with reference to advertising in Evening Post, 11 October 1901, Page 4. Mr C A Ogilvie was a Wellington photographer at the Airlie Studios in Vivian Street. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 297 x 228 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Les Cleveland, Wellington, in 1994

Date: 1990 - 1999

Reference: Eph-A-PHOTO-1990s-01

Description: Envelope from a photographic processing firm in Porirua, for the supply of processed photographic prints from negatives or prints. Date estimated from accompanying material housed in PA-Group-00869 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour print on envelope, 113 x 190 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Elizabeth French, Porirua, 2012 Transfers: From Photographic Archive - PA-Group-00869.

Date: 1950 - 1969

From: Angus Construction Ltd: Photographic negatives

Reference: Eph-A-PHOTO-1950s-01

Description: Business card, with phone number 8068 Eastbourne. Text on verso reads: "One good photograph is worth a thousand words". Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on card, 60 x 93 mm.

Date: 1960-1989

Reference: Eph-A-PHOTO-Piner-1960/1989

Description: Includes paper wallet / envelopes for the following brands of film and photographic development companies: Baycolor. We use Kodak paper for the good look. (Stamped by Batchelor's Camera House, 231 Heretaunga St., W., Hastings CH; Camera House New Zealand's largest photographic specialists [1970s?] (2 copies) Camera House precision colour. The only photo stores you'll ever need! [1980s?] Camera House precision colour. 1 hour photos. [Issued by Camera House, Manners Mall. 1980s?] Capital Prints Limited (Shows Beehive) [ca 1980?] Extraspool Colorprints; a division of Hanimex Film Processors Ltd, 34 Seaview Rd., Lower Hutt Hanimex Film Processors Ltd. Picture New Zealand (Design incorporates New Zealand flag) Hanimex Filmpro Photofinishing. Hanimex Film Processors Ltd., Seaview Road, Lower Hutt (2 copies) Hanimex Filmpro Photofinishing. The tri-print people. Hanimex Film Processors Ltd., PO Box 30239, Lower Hutt [1970s?] (2 copies) Hanimex Filmpro. We care a little more. Box 30-332, Lower Hutt, N.Z. Shows photograph of a shelter (2 copies) Hanimex Filmpro. Hanimex film processing; living colour. Box 30-332, Lower Hutt, N.Z. Shows butterfly Hanimex Filmpro. Hanimex film processing, Box 30-332, Lower Hutt, N.Z. Shows pink flower Hanimex Filmpro. Hanimex film processing, Box 30-332, Lower Hutt, N.Z. Shows yellow flower Ilford Film. Shoot for sure with Ilford Film [early 1960s? - price in pounds sterling] Kodacolor color prints. Issued by Newlands Pharmacy Ltd, 10 September 1974 (attached docket shows the place and date) Kodak New Zealand Limited. Kodak Kolorcare[1980s] Kodak New Zealand Limited. Kodak Kolorcare [with attached slip from Johnsonville Pharmacy Ltd, dated 8 February 1988] Pan Pacific Cameras; use out free film service. Sparkling Viko colour photos. Blue envelope Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, on envelopes, sizes varying around 130 x 190 mm.

Date: 1950 - 1970

Reference: Eph-A-PHOTO-Stevens-1950/1960s

Description: Includes wallets issued by the following photographic processors: Teed's Chemists Ltd. 56 Devon Street, New Plymouth (2 wallets / envelopes) [1950s?] Richard's Studios, Marton. Ilford Film [1967] Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on photographic wallets, sizes varying about 170 x 110 mm. Provenance: Donated by Lindsay Shelton, Wellington, 2010 Transfers: Transfers - From Manuscripts and Archives : MS-Group-1893. Material of the same provenance also held at PA-Group-00655 - From Manuscripts & Archives - A2010-188.

Date: 1930 - 1959

By: Shemeld's Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-PHOTO-Shemeld

Description: Photograph wallets used for photographs processed or sold by Shemeld's Ltd, photographic specialists, Methven. Includes the "Arcadia" print and film wallet, and "Your snaps" - both of these have "Shemeld's Ltd, photograph specialists, Methven" printed on the cover. The two other envelopes are labelled Agfa and Kodak respectively. Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on photographic wallets, sizes varying Provenance: Anonymous donation, 2002 Transfers: From Photographic Archive - PA-Group-00634 - Collection as a whole was received by Photographic Archive and housed at PA-Group-00634; material transferred from there..

Date: 1970 - 1985

Reference: Eph-A-PHOTO-1970s-02

Description: Pamphlets originally included in developed packets of colour slides or prints, advertising Kodachrome colour services, Kodachrome II miniature film, Kodacolor and Kodachrome prints, and lacquer-protected colour slides. Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying around 100 x 150 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Joy Oborn, wife of Leslie Oborn. Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive and transfers made from there..

Date: 1970 - 1990

Reference: Eph-A-PHOTO-NFAC-1970/1980s

Description: Packaging for photographs processed by: Batchelors Photo & Video Centre, 431 Tutanekai Street, Rotorua, using Fujicolor Express on a Noritsu QSS machine (illustrated). [1983] Kodak New Zealand Limited. Kodacolor prints, Kodacolor transparencies, Kodachrome prints, Kodachrome duplicates, made only by Kodak. Yellow wallet envelope Viko quality colour prints [1976] Viko colour prints (red envelope) Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour prints on envelopes, sizes varying around 110 x 170 mm. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at Eph-F-PHOTO-NFAC-1970s, MS-Group-2086 and at PA-Group-00824.

Date: 16 Oct 2010

From: MOTAT Photography oral history project

By: Gate, Desmond Bruce, 1924-

Reference: OHInt-1003-01

Description: Interview with Des (Desmond) Gate, born in Grey Lynn in 1924. Explains how he became interested in photography at secondary school. Mentions joining the Air Force in World War II, and finding quarter plate cameras that needed glass plates. Comments that both roll film and glass plates were used by the military during the War. Refers to transferring to Ohakea in 1946 and joining the photography hobby section. Talks about buying plates, photographing aircraft, and developing the plates and roll films. Describes setting up a darkroom at home after he left the Air Force and getting supplies from the local chemist. Comments on working for many years at Kempthorne Prosser where he could get chemicals for photographic developing. Describes how photographs were developed and printed at the time. Talks about photographic paper available in the 1950s. Mentions converting his plate camera into a horizontal enlarger and buying a Davis enlarger. Recalls his first colour film and describes developing it. Talks about an electronic flash unit he bought and the problems of using it with cameras that lacked automatic exposure. Discusses specialising in landscape and animal photography. Comments that his range of subjects broadened as faster film became available. Explains entering photographs in the Auckland Show photographic exhibitions and submitting prints to English photography magazines. Mentions joining the Auckland Camera Club in the early 1950s and being a foundation member of the Photographic Society of New Zealand. Reflects on learning from professional photographers at meetings. Mentions family support for his hobby. Interviewer(s) - Megan Wishart Accompanying material - Copy of handwritten memoir (2 p., with printed abstract) Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-023036 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 interview(s). 48 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001725, OHA-7516. Search dates: 1924 - 2010

Date: 1925-1926

From: Janes, Ron, active 2016 : Photographic negatives probably relating to a Hutt Valley (Wellington) family, and a 'Kodak' wallet

Reference: Eph-A-PHOTO-1925-01

Description: Brown stiff paper wallet for holding photographic prints, shows on the front cover an illustration of a fashionably dress young woman holding a parasol and a camera. The back cover shows an advertisement for "the new Ciné-Kodak Model B". The inside spread gives text advice about enlargements, a Kodak portrait attachment, quick service from the developing company, and advertises the Kodak N-C film. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - [Miss?] Coutts Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress in stiff paper wallet, folded to 147 x 89 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ron Janes in 2016.

Date: 1999

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[31 original political and social cartoons published in Metro magazine from February to December 1999]

Reference: B-202-018

Description: Cartoon illustration to a magazine article "Five go mad in Auckland", shows an Auckland street lined with tall buildings, with a caricature of Winston Peters in the left foreground smoking. Behind his head is a sign for a coffee shop, and another for a shop offering 1-hour photographic processing. On a balcony of a highrise building at the right, a policeman restrains a man who has dropped an object down to the street. Further along the street is a yellow bus with destination "K Rd" (Karangahape Road). At centre right is the Auckland Town Hall with its clock tower and columns. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 32 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and gouache, on sheet 420 x 297 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1941

From: Miller, Adam, 1960-: Collection of New Zealand sound recordings and record sleeves

Reference: Eph-C-PHONO-Miller-H-01

Description: Record sleeve shows an illustration in black and yellow, of a woman in a full-skirted Spanish-style yellow dress dancing on a vinyl record. A rubber stamp for the company shows that Hill's was a developing, printing and enlarging specialist in Christchurch. A circular hole has been cut to expose the title of the vinyl record; thus cutting out most of the skirt of the woman's dress. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief prints on record cover, 282 x 280 mm.