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Van Staveren Bros. Ltd., Shaving gear display

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  • Description

    Window display showing products and advertisements of products stocked : Gillette blades; Valet auto strop safety razor; Minora blades; shaving brushes; leather strops. A big sign states "You can't buy blades in your bathroom". Van Staveren Bros. Ltd. General Merchants, Nathan's Building – display

  • Other Id

    59826 (Presto content ID)

    PH-NEG-B9908 (Reference Number)

    DU436.1215 C98e (Library of Congress Call Number)

    32951 (DBTextworks system ID)

  • Department

    Photography

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Images

    Catalogue

    • Object Type

      photograph

    • Name/Title
      Van Staveren Bros. Ltd., Shaving gear display
    • Primary Maker

       Reginald Lediard (Photographer)

    • Date
      Circa 1930s
    • Physical Description

      13x17.5cm. Half plate

    • Level of Current Record
      Child
    • Related Object Notes
      9 albums; 7x16mm movie films; loose photos; 2 Boley 16mm movie cameras and 1 Devry 16mm Projector; 1/1 plate camera front with lens (latter 3 items in History Dept. -Rose Young
    • Is Part Of

      Lediard photographs

    • Media/Materials

      glass/inorganic material

    • Technique

      Gelatin dry plate negative

      Glass plate negative

      Negative

      Photographic techniques

    • Subject Category

      Show windows

      Shaving--Equipment and supplies

    • Classification
      negatives/photographs/AAT Visual Works
    • Public Access Text

      R. S. Lediard, born 20 November 1898, died 19 February 1973, lived at 2 Tuperiri Road, Epsom. He was a commercial photographer at 39 Victoria Street West in the 1920s and early 1930s, working from home late 1930s. Commissioned to work for Auckland City Council with the Parks Department, Art Gallery and Zoo; commissioned to photograph Hall of Memories etc., Auckland Museum. Friend of Drs Falla & Powell, Gilbert Archey and G. T. Turbott, accompanying them on expeditions.

      Member of Museum Institute, President of Auckland Botanical Society, doing botanical photography for them (35mm negs and prints bequeathed to Botany Dept, University of Auckland).

    • Copyright
      No known copyright restrictions
    • Last Update
      11 May 2023

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