Explosions

Date: October 1917 - March 1918

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-q-993

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on voyage from Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England, with 32nd Reinforcements. Left Port Chalmers 15 November 1917, called at Wellington (16-21 November), Balboa and Panama Canal (12 December), Colon (12-13 December), Newport News (19-24 December), Halifax (27-28 December), arrived Liverpool 7 January 1918. Includes views of locks on Panama Canal, damage caused by Halifax Explosion of 6 December 1917, ships Mount Vernon, Imo (damaged in Halifax Explosion) and HMCS Niobe. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown cloth-bound album , 32 x 27 cm

Date: 1915 - 1916

From: Bell, William Frederick, 1896-1920 :[Caricatures and cartoons relating to the First World War. 1914-1916]

By: Bell, William Frederick, 1895-1920

Reference: A-222-008

Description: A German bomb exploding and causing two horses, a cart, its driver and barrels of beer to go in many directions An original drawing for the British publication 'Shell shocks' (London, Jarrold, 1916) Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - Title in pencil; also additional title in pencil below work; and the initials W F B., lower right Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 264 x 361 mm (irregular)

Date: October 1917 - March 1918

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-q-994

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on following voyages: Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England, with 32nd Reinforcements. Left Port Chalmers 15 November 1917, called at Wellington (16-21 November), Balboa and Panama Canal (12 December), Colon (12-13 December), Newport News (19-24 December), Halifax (27-28 December), arrived Liverpool 7 January 1918. Liverpool, England, to Port Chalmers. Left Liverpool 3 February 1918, called at Colon (20-21 February 1918, Panama Canal and Balboa (21 February 1918), Auckland (15-16 March 1918) Wellington (18-28 March 1918), arrived Port Chalmers 29 March 1918. Includes views of Manawatu Gorge, Paekakariki railway line, locks on Panama Canal, Colon, Newport News, damage caused by Halifax Explosion of 6 December 1917, Auckland Harbour, Dunedin, and ships Mount Vernon, Imo (damaged in Halifax Explosion), Leviathan, HMCS Niobe and yacht Viking. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown cloth-bound album , 32 x 27 cm

Date: 1955

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :[Cartoons for the New Zealand Listener, 1946-1945]

Reference: A-261-014

Description: Cartoon shows a man driving nonchalantly along a road, his left elbow resting on the back of the sear, whilst around him on both sides of the road, shells are flying and exploding in clouds of smoke. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on paper, 282 x 256 mm

Date: 1950 - 1969

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-387-131

Description: Shows two men in an orchard in Loburn, North Canterbury. A wooden box labelled 'Anti-hailstorm rockets. Handle with care' has just exploded as the men tried to open it Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and blue coloured pencil on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: 2013

By: Cheapskates (Firm)

Reference: Eph-E-FIRE-2013-01

Description: Poster advertising fireworks for sale, shows a cartoon picture of a grinning boy with his eyes closed and fingers in his ears as explosions go off on both sides of him. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 595 x 840 mm. Provenance: Donated by Phantom Billstickers Ltd in March 2014

Date: 1915 - 1916

From: Bell, William Frederick, 1896-1920 :[Caricatures and cartoons relating to the First World War. 1914-1916]

By: Bell, William Frederick, 1895-1920; Melvill, Charles William, 1878-1925

Reference: A-222-013

Description: A testimonial showing a soccer goal keeper calmly looking at a bomb landing nearby, with a list of suggestions for playing soccer despite German bombardment. To the left are parts of uniforms and a gun with bayonet; above is the Regiment's motto, 'Soyes ferme' placed above a row of sandbags, with barbed wire and no-man's land beyond An original drawing for the British publication 'Shell shocks' (London, Jarrold, 1916) Other Titles - Phosgene Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - W. F. Bell, France, in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour, 288 x 242 mm (glued to card)

Date: 1980

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-135-651

Description: There are four vignettes in this cartoon. In the upper scenes two farmers and a sheep are happily celebrating lamb export contracts with Iran and Iraq which will mean boom times ahead. In the lower left they look startled as an explosion occurs behind them. In the lower right the explosion is revealed as the war between Iran and Iraq. One farmer exclaims to the other that "this could mean bang go our most promising meat markets!". Extended Title - "Looks like there's a boom coming!" Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, white gouache, crayon and letratone, 450 x 320 mm.

Date: 1809 - 1956 - 1958

From: Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].

Reference: B-140-019

Description: Six-panelled account of the capture and blowing up of the Boyd in Whangaroa Harbour in 1809 in retaliation for its captain's whipping of a local chief known as George These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Jenny Gibbs, of Auckland, in 1995.

Date: 1985

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[10 original cartoons. 1982-92].

Reference: C-125-068

Description: David Lange holding a protest placard 'No nukes'. He stands on a ruined jetty, with the damaged Beehive behind him, in conversation with a French soldier, possibly intended to be Francois Mitterand, who is denying any French involvement in the blowing up of the Greenpeace vessel, Rainbow Warrior Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 411 x 458 mm

Date: [ca 1967-1968]

From: Harvey, Michael Alexander, 1940- :Transparencies relating to Harvey's service during the Vietnam War of 1961-1975

Reference: PA12-11096

Description: Transparencies (slides) relating to Michael Alexander Harvey's service during the Vietnam War of 1961-1975 taken between 1967-1968 by unidentified photographers. Slides include images of soldiers, explosions, helicopters, and landscapes which include fields, trees and mountains. They include images of soldiers firing guns, waiting for and entering helicopters, then aerial and POV shots from the helicopter. They include one of a gun pointing out from the helicopter with an aerial view of landscape below. Also includes a makeshift stage (possibly named 'Nui Dat Opera House') which has a man playing a piano accordian and another man possibly singing, with soldiers seated in the audience. The soldiers may be from the Australian Task Force. Arrangement: Slides have been kept in the same order as supplied by Harvey. Dates on the slides appear to be when they were developed. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: [ca 1967-1968]

From: Harvey, Michael Alexander, 1940- :Transparencies relating to Harvey's service during the Vietnam War of 1961-1975

Reference: PA12-11093

Description: Transparencies (slides) relating to Michael Alexander Harvey's service during the Vietnam War of 1961-1975 taken between 1967-1968 by unidentified photographers. Slides were in a box entitled 'FSB Balmoral' and include images of soldiers, explosions, helicopters, soldiers' mess, soldiers' equipment and Harvey bathing. Some have captions which include 'Foo party bunker'; 'OC's tent'; 'Self + wash'; 'Self and Mac on APC'; 'Mysterious C123's (which probably refers to the Fairchild C-123 aircraft)'; 'Horrie in his pit'; 'Maj Hans + AK47'; 'Equipment pack etc'. Arrangement: Slides have been kept in the same order as supplied by Harvey. Slides on this sheet were in a box titled 'FSB Balmoral' some of which are also included in the next sheet in the sequence. Dates on the slides appear to be when they were developed. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: [ca 1967-1968]

From: Harvey, Michael Alexander, 1940- :Transparencies relating to Harvey's service during the Vietnam War of 1961-1975

Reference: PA12-11094

Description: Transparencies (slides) relating to Michael Alexander Harvey's service during the Vietnam War of 1961-1975 taken between 1967-1968 by unidentified photographers. The slides include images of soldiers, explosions, helicopters, APCs [Armoured personnel carriers], tanks and paddy fields. In some images the soldiers are standing outside a tent with sandbags at its base, and groups of soldiers marching, riding on top of a tank and APC, also soliers with guns and with smoke after explosions. Some slides have captions which include: 'cordon'; 'Goldylocks'; 'Mac'; 'Bob Young'; 'Shrapnel on tree'; 'APC pulling tank'; 'US armoured convoy ambush' and 'Martin Steeds'. The 'Goldylocks' image includes a soldier standing next to a sign which says 'Welcome to tombstone territory. Goldylocks and his 34 performing bears'. Arrangement: Slides have been kept in the same order as supplied by Harvey. The first ten slides on this sheet were in a box titled 'FSB Balmoral' and the remainder were in box 2, which was labelled 'Mike Harvey'. Dates on the slides appear to be when they were developed. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: 1960

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-387-090

Description: Shows three frames illustrating unrelated topics. The first frame is titled '250LB obsolete bombs exploded.' Shows two women having a cup of tea while road works involving a jack hammer are going on outside. One of the women says, 'Thunderstorms, hailstorms, earthquakes, bomb explosions... what next??' The second frame is titled 'Mr Nash away off on trip.' Walter Nash is travelling so quickly between countries that he is just a blur. The final frame is titled 'Enrolments rolling in for Percy Cerutty course.' Shows a man who is sweating after mowing the lawn with a push mower. He is holding a piece of paper which reads 'Motor mowers from [GBP]39 to [GBP]65'. The man's wife says, 'You needn't think you are going to that expense, when all you need is a Percy Cerutty course for only [GBP]1-0-0!' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and white corrector on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: 1982

From: Various artists :[Posters advertising sound and phonographic recordings made in 1982].

By: CBS Records (Firm)

Reference: Eph-D-PHONO-1982-03

Description: Poster advertising a newly released sound recording shows an illustration of An explosion in outer space, with bricks being hurtled closer by the explosion. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print, 585 x 420 mm.

Date: 1954-1969

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-9882-042

Description: General photographs of events, mainly in New Zealand but also overseas, circa 1954 to 1969, taken and collected by the Dominion Newspaper. Photographs are in broad subject order arranged alphabetically from C to F. Subjects are Computers 1964-1969; Conferences and congresses, 1965-1969; Conferences - Commonwealth Prime Ministers, London May 1960 [also 1973, 1977, 1979]; Conference - Geneva Conference April 1954; Drama 1965-1969; Drownings 1967; Explosions 1965, 1967; Fires - House 1960-1969; Fires and Brigades - Overseas 1965-1969. Quantity: 184 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Processing information: Subjects used are from original enclosures.

Date: 1980 - 1990

From: Paynter, Bill, 1949-:[Cartoons relating to the Treasury. 1980s?]

Reference: A-405-003

Description: Two scenes. In the upper view, a man asks another if he has seen Nerdley. In the lower view, Nerdley's door explodes open, flattening the enquirer. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on card, 398 x 295 mm

Date: 1994

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison (1932- ) :Cartoon entries for Qantas Media Awards, 1994. Cartoons published throughout 1994.

Reference: A-302-092

Description: Shows a radio studio exploding and the roof flying off. Outside the building a chauffeur and another man are talking next to a stretched limo (Govt.) Refers to John Banks continually making embarrassing remarks about the Government on his talkback show. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1973

From: Tremain, Garrick, fl 1970s-1990s :[Six photocopied cartoons relating to apartheid from 1972 and 1973, and two photocopies of self-caricatures, one with biographical details].

Reference: A-290-053

Description: Cartoon shows Prime Minister Norman Kirk, holding an axe labelled NZRFU; it had proved ineffective in demolishing the bridge for white people to South Africa at the left, finally blown up using an explosive. The "N Kirk, bridge demolition" van is parked at the right. Implies that there was a need for government intervention when the Rugby Union could not or would not call off the rugby tour of its own accord. Other Titles - April Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy, on sheet 210 x 297 mm.

Date: 1969

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-134-040

Description: The Minister of Defence is peering out of a helicopter somewhere over Vietnam. A comment says that he visited a village which was not considered 'secure' from Viet Cong infiltrators. The pilot looks at explosions in the sky at home, including demands for the Minister's resignation, inquiry into Tourist & Publicity Dept., National Development Conference article, etc. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone, crayon and pencil, 288 x 395 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.