Boffa, William: Miscellaneous items mainly of musical and theatrical interest

Includes programmes of Sousa’s Band, 1911, Wellington Professional Orchestra, Bland Holt, Charley’s Aunt etc. with playbills, visiting Italian opera singers, timetables of Huddart Parker and Union Steamship.S.S. Co., and certificate of membership Grand Orient Lodge, 1936 wages book, etc.

1. Business card - A.T.McWilliam Cab, Drag and Gig Proprietor -- 2. Wage book titled 'Shop and Saloon' (1945-1949) -- 3. Certificate from Le Grand Orient de France (a Masonic organisation) issued to Francisco Boffa -- 4. Huddart Parker Line timetables - March 1910 and February 1913 -- 5. Postcards various - The Haka (trifold); Old watermills, Walingford on Thames; Wellesley and Queen Street, Auckland; Waverly Hotel, Auckalnd; RMS Niagara; NZ International Exhibition, Kilmore Street entrance; Boat Harbour, Clyde Quay, Wellington; Reservoir, Dunedin; Clyde Quay schoolboys at Te Aro baths; Nelson from Toi-Toi Valley; folded panorama of Wellington with other images on reverse; folded panorama of Auckland; Maitai River, Nelson -- 6. Photograph - Aitken's Book Arcade -- 7. Wages and overtime book 1936-1940 -- 8. Album of New Zealand Views (name at top 'Mr and Mrs Petherick') -- 9. Union Steamship Company - Timetable May 1913 -- 10. Huddart Parker timetable November 1907 -- 11. Official programme of Shepton Mallet ceebration of the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra -- 12. Programme from London Pavilion showing of 'Moriarty', Monday January 29th, probably 1923 (film was released in 1922) -- 13. Souvenir of 'Charley's Aunt' and character sketches of W.S.Penley (includes photgraphs of Bentley Russell and Phipps Williams laid in) -- 14. Programme of Special Benefit Performance in aid of the Soldiers' Xmas Gift Fund by the Charley's Aunt Club (Wellington, 1917) -- 15. Programme of 'The Cotton King' - performed at the Opera House, Wellington, February 18th, 1898 -- 16. Leaflet re Bland Holt's Wellington performance of 'The Absent-Minded Beggar' (undated, two versions) -- 17. Programme of 'One of the Best' - performed at the Opera House, Wellington, December 10th, 1897 -- 18. Envelope containing 2x4 proof photographs [of Boffa?] -- 19. New Zealand Competitions 2nd grand demonstration night, Wellington Town Hall, 10th November 1911 -- 20. Leafet - wellington Dramatic Society production of 'Christopher's Son', Tuesday and Wednesday July 23 and 24 [1912]

21. Programme - 'The War of wealth' (Bland Holt), undated -- 22. Programme(x3) - Wellington Dramatic Club production of 'The Land of the Living', 1904 -- 23. Programme - 'Straight from the Heart', Wellington Opera House (Bland Holt), February 23rd, 1898 -- 24. leafet - 'Charley's Aunt', His Majesty's Theatre [Dunedin?], Saturday, March 20 [no year] -- 25. Grand Musical and dramatic recital by gold medallists from leading NZ competitions headed by Miss CecilHaines, Wellington Town Hall, 3rd November 1913 -- 26. Grattan Dramatic Co. production of 'La Tosca', Wellington, undated -- 27. Handwritten note 'New for Mr Boffa' - possibly pictures of shipwrecks - Sept.15, 1913 -- 28. Notice of organ recital by Mr J. Maughan Barnett, Wellington Town Hall, 5th September, 1906 -- 29. Programme - 'Greed of Gold', Theatre Royal, Christchurch, Saturday August 9th -- 30. Leaflet - 'The world against her' - Grattan Dramatic Co (undated) -- 31. Ticket to lecture by Hon.T.M.Wilford - 'Italy and the War', in aid of the Italian Red Cross Fund, Wellington Town Hall, Monday Sept. 16th -- 32. Business card - Boffa Bros, Hairdressers and Tobacconists, Courtenay Place -- 33. Duplicate of typescript re Harcus Plimmer's criticism of amateur theatre organisations -- 34. Duplicate of handwritten programme - 'Prince of Wales Minstrel and Concert Party', Kilbirnie, Thursday, October 18, 1894 -- 35. Programme - Song recitals by Antonia Dolores, Opera House, Wellington, May 8,9 and 12, 1902 -- 36. Programme - Wellington Amateur Theatrical Society - 'Tutankhamen', Grand Opera House, Wellington, Saturday, 13th June, 1931 -- 37. Souvenir - Gonsalez Italian Grand Opera, Australia and New Zealand Season 1916, 1917 -- 38. Programme - Sousa and his Band, Tour of New Zealand, 1911 -- 39. Programme - Wellington Professional Orchestra, 23rd April, 1922 -- 40. Programme - Wellington Professional Orchestra, 14th November, 1920 -- 41. Programme - Wellington Professional Orchestra, 26th October, 1919 -- 42. Programme - Wellington Professional Orchestra, 4th July, 1920 -- 43. Programme - Wellington Professional Orchestra, 6th June, 1920 -- 44. Programme - Wellington Professional Orchestra, 6h November, 1921 -- 45. Programme - Wellington Professional Orchestra, 15th April, 1917 -- 46. Programme - Wellington Professional Orchestra, 11th April, 1920 -- 47. 3 handwritten pages of items bought for shop -- 48. Programme - Brough-leming Comedy Co production of 'Beauty and the Barge', Opera House, Wellington, Thursday 19th October, 1905 49. Poster - Wellingtn Dramatic Society performance of 'Dr Bill', Wellington Town Hall, Boxing Night [no year given] -- 50. Leaflet - Adelphi Dramatic Company production 'The Ticket of Leave man', Theatre Royal, Wednesday and Thursday 11th and 12th December [1918?] 51. Poster - Adelphi Dramatic Company production 'The Ticket of Leave man', Theatre Royal, Wednesday and Thursday 11th and 12th December [1918?]