The New Zealand Journal

  National Party Election Campaign Poster 1949   They won the election, thanks perhaps to the friendly shopkeeper vote. The same rhetoric wa...

  Burridge's Grocery Store, Miramar, Wellington 1948 One of the reasons that grocers and greengrocers (see previous posts) were able to...

Main Street, Upper Hutt, 1940s, showing J A Hazelwood's store on left past Provincial Hotel (click image for larger view). Post Office ...

 J A Hazelwood Drapery & Hardware Store, circa 1900s. People identified as, from left to right: L Greenwood, H Hazelwood (brother of J ...

 W Strange & Co's Store on High Street, Christchurch, just short of the High & Lichfield Streets corner circa 1863 (?) looking ...

  Charles Hill & Sons, Catalogue, 1897 Alexander Turnbull Library   Charles Hill & Sons, Catalogue, 1897   Alexander Turnbull ...

  Hill & Sons Catalogue, showing Stetson Co hats.   Alexander Turnbull Library   Hill & Sons Catalogue - showing navalofficer a...

Charles Hill & Sons Catalogue Title Page Alexander Turnbull Library Charles Hill & Sons, Hatters, Hosiers, and Gentlemen's M...

Zealandia Cycle, Hawke's Bay Hearld ad, 2 January 1895. Oates, Lowry and Co's Zealandia Cycle Works, 82 Manchester Street, Chris...

Jack Suckling's Speed Cycle Works located at 114 Manchester Street, Christchurch, circa 1912-14. Jack is the moustached man wearing a c...

Unidentified Cycle Store Interior, Christchurch, 1910, photo Steffano Webb. Alexander Turnbull Library During the cycling craze of the l...

  Nairn & Sons, Plant Catalogue cover, 1901-02. Alexander Turnbull Library The firm of Nairn & Sons, located in Lincoln Road, Ch...

The City Boot Palace, 1910. Photo Steffano Webb. Alexander Turnbull Library You can almost smell the leather in this store interior of th...

The Universal Boot Depot, 221 High Street, Christchurch, circa 1900. (click images for larger view)   D. Smith & Sons' Universa...

Ground floor Retail Showroom of E Reece & Sons, circa 1900. click images for larger image view. Established in 1856 by Edward Reece, who...

Minson's Hardware & China store at 220 Colombo Street, February 1911. Stephano Webb, photo. Alexander Turnbull Library . Interior of...

Train About to Depart Lyttelton Railway Station for Christchurch, circa 1916. Before Annie could do any shopping (see previous post), she ha...

A few years ago I acquired a collection of vintage New Zealand postcards, some 250 in number. While I had bought them for the views shown, s...

Wilkins & Field, Manners Street, Wellington. litho by F W Niven & Co., Ballarat, Victoria, circa 1895 The ironmongers of Wilkins ...