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Milne & Choyce Store Interiors

documentary heritage
  • Description

    Album containing 20 black and white photographs depicting Milne & Choyce shop floor, displays and showrooms.

  • Other Id

    82528 (Presto content ID)

    PH-ALB-575-1 (Reference Number)

    ACQ-2013-8 (Acquisition number)

  • Department

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Milne & Choyce Store Interiors
  • Primary Maker

     Milne & Choyce Ltd

     Bill Sparrow (Photographer)

     Cecil Bostock (Photographer)

  • Date
    1940
  • Physical Description

    250 mm. x 290 mm. x 30 mm (closed)

  • Level of Current Record
    Child
  • Related Object Notes
    Supplementary material kept with Pictorial Files:
    1 x photocopy of original souvenir print: Milne & Choyce Victory Window 1919.
    2 x photocopies of photograph: Milne & Choyce Building, Queen Street Auckland, 1940
    1 x photocopy of photograph: Regent Theatre, Auckland 1926
    1 x photocopy of photograph: Severn House (Osborne House) Ponsonby Rd, Auckland. Demolished 1973 from early 1900s postcard
    1 x photocopy of photograph: Auckland villa, from early 1900s postcard
    1 x photocopy of photograph: House in Jervois Road, Herne Bay, from early 1900s postcard
  • Subject Category
  • Content
    p1-1. New Showroom March 1940; print
    p3-1. New Showroom March 1940; print
    p5-1. New Showroom March 1940; print
    p7-1. New Showroom March 1940; print
    p9-1. New Showroom March 1940; print
    p11-1. New Showroom March 1940; print
    p13-1. M & C's New Showroom March 1940; print
    p15-1. New Showroom March 1940; print
    p17-1. New Showroom March 1940; print
    p19-1. Millinery & Fur Salon March 1940; print
    p21-1. Underwear Dept. August 1940; print
    p23-1. Beachwear August 1940; print
    p25-1. New Beachwear Pavilion August 1940; print
    p27-1. New Shoe Dept. Sept 1940; print
    p29-1. New Shoe Dept. Sept 1940; print
    p31-1. Infants Shop June 1940; print
    p32-1. New Tween & Infants Shop June 1940; print
    lp1. [Entrance to Elizabeth Arden salon]; print
    lp2. [Croxley stationary counter]; print
    lp3. [Croxley stationary counter]; print
  • Public Access Text

    Three loose prints at rear of album.

  • Copyright
    No known copyright restrictions
  • Credit Line
    Donated by Simon Robinson, 2013
  • Last Update
    11 May 2023
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