Collins & Sons



Collins & Sons

above - a house at an unknown location photographed by Collins & Sons.


above - a house at an unknown location photographed by Collins & Sons.


above - a house at an unknown location photographed by Collins & Sons.


 

above and below - the house of William George Bolitho, Momona, Otago about 1913


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Polyfoto




Polyfoto


The Christchurch Star-Sun, Monday May 22, 1950, page 5


The Christchurch Star-Sun, Wednesday May 31, 1950, page 8





Alastair John McKinlay aged 3 years. 1961
photographer's number
D77948/31/1
[purchased February 2023]






 reverse number 22361/T72259/16/1


 reverse number T72259 - T
dated 18 March 1960

 

 
 reverse number T72585 - T



 reverse number 21750/T71388/17/2

reverse number T71399-T




 reverse number M38332 24-48
 
reverse no. 21749/T71209/17/2

 reverse number T71209
dated 6 December 1958


below - a duplicate copy of the above sheet
 reverse number 21519 T71209 - T

 
 reverse number T5485 - T













PATERSON



William Archibald Paterson
Hamilton

succeeded Percy Edmund Thackrah - Waitako Studio 4 May 1914

born 4 September 1881 Glasgow, Scotland
died 5 July 1919 Auckland Mental Hospital

 Waikato Times, Issue 12860, 6 May 1914








STEVENS, Percy



Percy Stevens
Art Photographer
Paparoa



Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 11 May 1921, Page 5








New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19108, 28 August 1925, Page 18




 New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19279, 18 March 1926, Page 4



"THE MILLARD STUDIOS."
For Modern Portraiture
The "Millard Studios," which are situated in the H. B. Building, Karangahape Road, next George Courts, Ltd., have to be well-known lately for beautiful and natural child studies. From the many examples displayed at the studio, it is clear that the present owner, Mr. Percy Stevens, is a past-master in winning the confidence of children. The studio is one of the most spacious in the city, and is fitted with the fastest means known to modern photography for taking these studies, enabling family, wedding or club groups to be taken to the best advantage.

Enlargements.— This studio has always been noted for enlargements, and its reputation for this class of work is increasing. These are supplied in all styles, including black-and-white, sepia and permanent natural colours (which are really natural) in either oil or water-colour, at very moderate prices. When no original photograph is available a picture will be taken free of charge for enlargement purposes.

Mr. Stevens invites town residents to call and inspect and country dwellers to write for quotations. The "Millard Studios" are also well equipped for commercial photography. Examples of the work produced by the studio may be seen at the entrance of the Prince Edward Theatre, at the Blue Pavilion Tea-rooms, and at the premises of Griffiths and Co., Karangahape Road, and France Street entrance to studio.—Advt.
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19950, 19 May 1928, Page 14



SMITH, Sydney Charles



Sydney Charles Smith
1915 - Melba Photographic Studio

born 14 November 1888 
reg. 1888/8640, son of Mary and William Smith
died 27 April 1972 aged 83 years, buried Taita Lawn Cemetery, Wellington

married
21 July 1914, reg. 1914/3050 (registered as Sidney)
Mabel Francis Smith
died 
7 September 1967
aged 73 years, buried Taita Lawn Cemetery


Article image

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 19, 19 July 1934, Page 1


SMITH.— At Wellington Hospital, on June 18, 1941, Stephen Jeffery Smith, aged 12 years, dearly beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Smith (photographer), of 4 Hungerford Road, Lyall Bay.
Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 142, 18 June 1941, Page 1



Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 824, 24 May 1910, Page 2




 Politicians and a crowd, outside Parliament Buildings, upon the declaration of war with Germany. Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972 :Photographs of New Zealand. Ref: 1/2-045239-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22472392

Sydney Charles Smith's photograph taken outside Parliament in 1914 was used in New Zealand Post’s 2014 WW1 stamp issue – 1914 For King and Empire.

 Courtesy New Zealand Post.


"In Wellington in  the early 1900s, Joseph Zacharia (1867-1965) established himself as a catch-as-catch-can photojournalist on the social circuit. He reproduced his images - and sometimes those of other Wellington photographers under contract to him, notably Sydney Charles Smith (1888-1972), who later set up his own photography studio in Newtown - in the form of hand-tinted postcards ..." 
Into the Light : A History of New Zealand Photography, David Eggleton, Craig Potton Publishing (2006), pages 37 - 39.



Blaze in Willis St.
A Live Wire
 Fireman gets Slight Shock
At half-past two on Sunday morning, Constable Parkinson, of Manners Street Police Station, discovered that No. 209 Willis Street, a two-story wooden building, was on fire. The constable gave an alarm, and the Central Fire Brigade reached the scene very soon afterwards. The blaze was quickly subdued, but in the meantime house No. 207 had caught fire. This further trouble, however, was got in hand without difficulty, and before much damage was done to the premises.

The lower floor of No. 209 was occupied by Mr. John Hopwell, engineer, and the top floor by Mr. S. C. Smith, of the Melba Photographic Studio [1]. The outbreak is reported to have occurred on the upper floor, and there the damage by fire was considerable to the building and its contents. Water damaged the contents of the ground floor rooms.

Mr. Hopwell had no insurance on his belongings, and Mr. Smith had a policy for £190 in the Phoenix Office. Mr. E. W. Petherick, Lower Hutt, owns the building.

While the brigade was engaged in suppressing the outbreak, Fireman James Garwood came in contact with a live wire. Fortunately it was only a lighting wire of 100 volts, and the shock, though unpleasant, was not severe. Fireman Garwood was able to return to the station on the brigade's motor wagon, and was quite recovered later in the day. Rumours were current in the city during the day that the accident was very serious, but such is not the case.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2361, 18 January 1915, Page 6


Formerly employed by the photographer Arthur Waldemar Schaef.

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 149, 26 June 1935, Page 10


Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 106, 6 May 1940, Page 1


 
Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 1, 1 July 1941, Page 1


Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 133, 2 December 1943, Page 1




Boating on the Avon, Christchurch, N.Z.
Photo by S. C. Smith, 127 - Published by Tanner Bros.


Entrance to Botanical Gardens, Christchurch, N.Z.
Photo by S. C. Smith, 115 - Published by Tanner Bros.

 
[1] No other reference to the Melba Photographic Studio or Melba Studio could be found in Papers Past.