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Scott, Tom, 1947- :80 cartoon bromides published in the Evening Post between 1 Septembe...

Date: 2000

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-

Reference: H-647-001/080

Description: 80 cartoons on political and social issues. The topics include Laila Harre and views on liberalisation of cannabis laws, Helen Clark asserts authority over Ms Turia, Maori and pakeha racial guilt and shame, Ms Turia reluctantly apologises for 'holocaust' comments, Dr Cullen ponders low business confidence as Grouch Marxist, Timor's Indepencence birthday celebrations destroyed by violence, Fijian-Indian refugees in Fiji following coup, political posturing over Treaty of Waitangi clause in free trade agreement with Singapore, US dollar blasts kiwi dollar, Sydney 2000 Olympics begin, Winston Peters plays the race card in the hopes of raising his popularity, Olympic swimming athletes get the once over by their female onlookers, Australian-New Zealand currency merger proposal, Prebble gets axed by Jenny Shipley, Kiwi dollar low and oil prices high, New Zealand is best at all the wrong things, sports couch potatoes, Milosevic runs for the presidency, US dollars gains steam with President Clinton in charge, women's performance at the Olympics, political awards, NZ toasts the Olympics, army peace keepers get pay review by Clark, 3 Middle East faiths based on love and compassion unable to share sacred site, Don Brash fails the Kiwi dollar, Clark and Milosevic relations, Israeli and Palestinian relations, court call for accountability of parole officers, NZ cricket sports fan still in the dark, NZ dollar down - sharemarket down - petrol prices up, Middle East pro-war protest singer, Clinton attempts to negotiate Middle East and National Party crises, Mr Mudgeway in padded cell waiting for big NZ sports win, rural economy on the up for farmers, Swain and Horomia on ownership of the Taranaki oil and gas fields, Lions rugby team claim the Air New Zealand trophy, Clark seeks an alliance with big business, Clark's alliance with big bisiness consumated, one-tree-hill pine tree felled along with Mike Smith, same-sex marriages, Clark preparing to kneecap Ruth Dyson for Norm Hewitt comments, Property Bill, Dyson resigns over drunk driving incident, purity pledge, cricket match-fixing, support for Paul Holmes' salary, lack of real choice in US presidential elections, NZ Melbourne Cup race winner, US election results on a knife edge, boxing - Lennox vs Tua, All Blacks beat France, Lennox Lewis vs David Tua boxing fight, US presidential election goes to court, English strung up as heretic, Tipene O'Reagan let's nature take its course with stranded whales, Labour Party victory conference, CNN backgrounds the US election count process, petrol prices high, US presidential election fought out on American flag, George Hawkins' suggested cost cutting measures for the Police, National Party leadership based on personality deficit of Bill English, George W. Bush wins Florida, Clarks preparation for Waitangi Day, Tainui iwi's new grievance cycle, Mrs Mudgeway's son hopes to qualify for ACC compensation, Clinton is back as President?, the new and the old All Black diet, signs of recovery in NZ economy being hidden from Don Brash, NZ/Australia defence spending and policies, Hawkins hands out pornography to Police to cut phone-sex costs, being a modern day All Black, Clark and Cullen's popularity increases, Simon Upton departs the National Party, obituary to reporter Mike Robson, America - where every judge counts in becoming President, Clark still unable to apologise to Dover Samuel, cricket at the Basin Reserve for Boxing Day test, petrol war, Anderton and Bunkle over question of where Phillida resides, Paul Holmes CD for Christmas makes Granddad throw-up. Quantity: 80 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: A4 horizontal bromides

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[Collection of British broadsheet ballads printed by P Brereton, 1 Lower Exchange Stree...

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: [Collection of ephemera, handbills, fliers, collected by Kenneth Athol Webster. 1800-1920]

By: Brereton, P, active 1860s

Reference: Eph-B-WEBSTER-Ballads-274/286

Description: Includes: 274. Most tragic lines written on the seduction and lamentable death of Anny Gray 275. A new song called the Young man in search of his sister 276. A new song on Lovely Keaty [sic] of Liskehan 277. A new sing call'd The Hireing [sic] day 278. A new song call'd Grogan's Grove 279. The glorious victory of Morrissey over the Rusian [sic] sailor 280. A new song on the Amesty [sic] meeting in Tipperary, written by a friend to the cause 281. A new song call'd the Pride of Ardagh 282. A new song call'd the Maid of Ballymoat 283. A much admired song call'd Carroline [sic] of Edinborough Town 284. The organ grinder 285. Lines written on the most dreadful fire that broke out in Chicago in America, compos'd by Jeramiah [sic] Cronan 286. A devine [sic] pome [sic] written on Saint Francis founder of the Order of the Cord (2 copies) Quantity: 13 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, sizes varying around 290 x 120 mm. Provenance: From the collection of Kenneth Athol Webster.

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Nicklettes ; a piano suite for children

Date: 1996

From: Davidson, Matthew, 1964- : Collection

By: Davidson, Matthew, 1964-

Reference: MS-Papers-5719-09

Description: Short piano pieces for children of historic places Davidson has visited throughout the USA. 'Nicklettes' were short films one could see for a nickel; these piano pieces are short musical portraits. Enclosures - List of corrections by Davidson for this piece of music Contents: The Pennsylvania monument -- Houses on the Fox River -- Ghosts in the Mont Clare -- Barbed wire from Niwot -- Faulkner Alley -- The Elgin Queen -- LaFayette Square Quantity: 1 folder(s) [2], 16 leaves. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - (A96-334) Donated by Mr M Davidson, Chicago

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[Ephemera relating to tourism in the United States of America. ca 1915-1917, collected ...

Date: 1916 - 1917

By: Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: Eph-B-TOURISM-USA-Zachariah

Description: Not yet listed. Includes hotel promotions, invoices, city and railway maps, brochures on the Grand Canyon, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Atlantic City, Chicago, Washington DC, Detroit Quantity: 12 folder(s) in box. Physical Description: Booklets and brochures, sizes varying to approximately 290 mm. Provenance: Papers of Joseph Zachariah.

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Frieda Lawrence - Inward correspondence from her husband D H Lawrence

Date: 30 Aug-19 Sep 1923

From: Murry family : Literary and personal papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11327-056

Description: Five letters written from D H Lawrence to his wife Frieda from the United States (one from a train between Chicago and Los Angeles, one from Santa Monica, and three from Los Angeles). In addition to discussing personal affairs (Frieda's travels, money, and his own travel ambitions) and literary matters (working on an essay, Melville and 'Moby Dick', and the novel `The boy in the bush', which he co-wrote with Mollie Skinner) he writes about his impressions of America, both the landscape and the people. The animals and performers in Barnum & Bailey circus feature in one letter. Names mentioned include painters Knut Merrild and Kai Gotzsche Samuel, Will Levington Comfort, Solomonovich Koteliansky, and Prince Bibesco. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

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Correspondence sent by Erla Saunders Lambert

Date: 1947-1948, [circa 1995]

From: Willinger, Beth, active 2023: Collection relating to Erla Saunders Lambert

Reference: MS-Papers-12913-02

Description: Comprises letters sent by Erla Saunders Lambert to her family in New Zealand, 12 March 1947 to 20 April 1948. Letters sent by Erla from various locations, including Noumea and Suva in the Pacific; Los Angeles, Seattle, and Chicago in the United States; and Calgary, Banff, Niagara Falls, Ottawa, Montreal, and Arvida in Canada. Also includes transcriptions of the letters made after Erla's death in 1995; a letter from Ella Wilcox to Mrs Saunders, 18 November 1947, and a photocopy of newspaper clipping featured in Alberton which includes a story about Erla and Ella Wilcox, 4 December 1947. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Materials arrived at the Library in a box labelled "Erla Lambert Colln | Box 1 of 3" on the top, "Newcomb College Center for Research on Women | Newcomb Archives" and "Erla Lambert letters and transcriptions Jan 1951 - Dec 1957" on the side. The box had been reused by the donor. Each letter and transcription had been housed together in archive safe folders by the donor. Quantity: 1 box(es) contains 44 letters, corresponding transcriptions, and one photocopy of a newspaper clipping. Processing information: Original letters have been enclosed in archival paper envelopes or wrapped in acid free paper for reasons of storage and preservation.

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Sudyka, Diana, active 2007-2016: House of Blues, 329 North Dearborn in Marina City, Chi...

Date: 2007

By: Sudyka, Diana, active 2007-2017

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-NonNZ-2007-01

Description: Poster shows an illustration of a blue scaled snake weaving amongst and between the tree trunks in a stand of trees against an orange and yellow sky. Some the the text is written as if in twisted tree branches or roots. This is print number 177 of a print run of 200. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 615 x 458 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Bar Bodega, Wellington, in 2017.

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America rec slides

Date: [1968?]

From: Stothart, Robert Athol, 1934-2016: Collection relating to Physical Education in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-11589

Description: Shows views of sporting and leisure activities, sportsfields, scenes at Indiana University, Disneyland, Knotts Berry Farm, and other places in the United States. Some slides are annotated with location and subject. Dates have been taken from the processing dates stamped on some slides. Title transcribed from item. Arrangement: Slides were in a box labelled "America - Rec slides". Some slides are numbered, but slides were not in order in the box and the numeric sequence is not complete. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour and black and white film transparencies in cardboard or plastic slide mounts, some annotated. Processing information: Slides have been inserted into protective holders in the order in which they were horizontally stacked in the original box.

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America rec slides

Date: [1968?]

From: Stothart, Robert Athol, 1934-2016: Collection relating to Physical Education in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-11590

Description: Shows views of sporting and leisure activities, sportsfields, and white rhinoceri at Chicago Zoo. Some slides are annotated with location and subject. Dates have been taken from the processing dates stamped on some slides. Title transcribed from item. Arrangement: Slides were in a box labelled "America - Rec slides" Quantity: 6 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour and black and white film transparencies in cardboard or plastic slide mounts, some annotated. Processing information: Slides have been inserted into protective holders in the order in which they were horizontally stacked in the original box.

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[Programmes, pamphlets and fliers concerning opera and light musicals, performed outsid...

Date: 1940 - 1953 - 1961 - 1975

From: Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976]

Reference: Eph-B-CABOT-Opera-NonNZ

Description: Includes: 1940: J C Williamson's Theatre. "The vagabond king", a romantic musical play. His Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, commencing 1 February 1941. Magazine programme. 1953?: Kungsholm Miniature Grand Opera Theatre, Chicago Presents "I pagliacci", by Ruggiero Leoncavallo. [1953?]. Souvenir program 1961: Garnet H Carroll presents in association with the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust "The sound of music ... directed by Charles Hickman [with June Bronhill as Maria]. Princess Theatre Melbourne, 20 October 1961. Programme 1965: Tivoli Circuit presents Sheila Smith (from New York) in the smash musical hit "Fade in fade out", also starring John Stratton. Tivoli Melbourne, commencing 3 June [1965]. Flier only 1974: J C Williamson Theatres Ltd and Aztec Services Pty Ltd present Johnny Farnham and Colleen Hewett in "Pippin". Directed and choreographed by Sammy Bayes. Australian premiere, Her Majesty's Theatre Melbourne, 23 February 1974. programme 1975: J C Williamson Theatres Ltd presents Gloria Dawn in "Gypsy", a musical fable. Book by Arthur Laurents, music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. (With Graham Rouse, Sue Walker, Pamela Stephenson, Jack Webster). Directed by Barrie Ingham. Grand Australian premiere at Her Majesty's Melbourne, 3 May 1975. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs and offset prints, up to 330 mm.

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Brewer album

Date: [Circa 1927]

By: Brewer, Lottie Maria, -1970; Brown, Joan, 1914-2006

Reference: PA1-o-053

Description: Album of photographs and postcards. Photographs include family groups of the Brewer family in Canada, and views of various cities and landscapes. There are both black and white, and coloured postcards showing scenes, mostly of the United States of America. Inscriptions: Album page - Lottie Brewer. A trip to Canada to visit Brewer relations Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Soft covered brown album "Photographs", 200 x 290 mm

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Papers re urban theology units

Date: [1968-1977]

From: Urban Training Centre for Christian Ministry : Records

Reference: 97-081-02/3

Description: Comprises reports of various urban theology and action groups including Wellington Central Baptist Church, Urban Theology Unit, Sheffield, East End Mission (London), Inner City Ecumenical Mission (Sheffield), Pittsmoor Action Group, Institute on the Church in Urban-Industrial Society (ICUIS) (Chicago), Centre for Urban Studies (Coventry, England), `Urban study in Chicago' by Carl Siegenthaler, `Life together in the city' by John Harmon, notes by John Roberts (1969), a ministry proposal for an urban training centre by Godfrey Wilson (1968) and an urban ministry proposal for Surrey (1975) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Troy Laundry Machinery Co Ltd :Laundry equipment; illustrated catalogue giving specific...

Date: 1908

By: Huck, Enid, active 2000; Rhodes, J (Mr), active 1908

Reference: Eph-B-MACHINERY-1908-01

Description: Includes descriptions and illustrations of laundry machinery including: cylindrical wood washers and metal washers, solid curb extractors, wringers, starch kettles and cookers, dryroom appliances, collar and cuff dampeners, dampening presses, bundling presses, duplex mangles, addition mangles, collar and cuff presses and ironers, shirt ironers, band ironers, eyelet punches, granite and wooden laundry tubs, irons, boilers. Quantity: 1 sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Catalogue of 190 pages, 275 x 203 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms Enid Huck in 2000. Originally owned by the Union Steam Ship Co Laundry in Wellington.

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Programmes relating to Alexander Grant's second year as artistic director of the Nation...

Date: 1977

From: Grant, Alexander Marshall, 1925-2011 : Papers relating to his career as a dancer

Reference: MS-Papers-11225-08

Description: Comprises programmes, journals and newspaper articles of performances with Grant as artistic director in 1977. Includes tour of Los Angeles, Chicago and around Canada, which Grant's parents appear to have accompanied him on. Some programmes are annotated by Grant's parents. Series title for programmes given in brackets where relevant. New Greek Theatre, Los Angeles programme (Performing arts, vol 11, no 9) includes stubs of tickets to performances in theatre envelope, and a newspaper review of Giselle (Los Angeles Times?). Contents: National Ballet of Canada. "Giselle", "Bayaderka", "Offenbach in the underworld", "Four Schumann pieces", "Swan Lake". New Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, 29 August - 10 September 1977. Journal (Performing arts, vol 11, no 9) Contents: National Ballet of Canada. "The sleeping beauty". Arie Crown Theatre, Chicago, 13-15 September 1977. Programme (Stagebill, September 1977) Contents: Ballet National du Canada. "La belle au bois dormant" (Sleeping beauty). Quebec City, Quebec, 27-29 September 1977. Programme Contents: National Ballet of Canada. "Swan Lake", "Bayaderka", "Kettentanz", "Four Schumann pieces". Cleary Auditorium, Windsor, Ontario, 2-5 October 1977. Programme Contents: National Ballet of Canada. "Romeo and Juliet". Winnipeg, Manitoba, 12-14 October 1977. Programme Contents: National Ballet of Canada. "La fille mal gardee". Regina, Saskatchewan, 16-18 October 1977. Programme Contents: National Ballet of Canada. "Romeo and Juliet", "La fille mal gardee". Vancouver, British Columbia, 25-29 October 1977. Programme (Playboard, vol 12, no 5) Contents: National Ballet of Canada. "Coppelia". Edmonton, Alberta, 31 October - 1 November 1977. Programme Contents: National Ballet of Canada. "Coppelia". Calgary, Alberta, 5-6 November 1977. Programme Contents: National Ballet of Canada. "Coppelia", "Bayaderka", "Collective symphony", "Mad shadows", "Afternoon of a faun", " Monotones II", " La sylphide". O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, 17-26 November 1977. Programme (Scene, Nov-Dec 1977) Contents: National Ballet of Canada. "The nutcracker". O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, Ontario, 20-31 December 1977. Programme (Scene, Nov-Dec 1977) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

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[Fox, William] 1812-1893 :Chicago, from the Prairie, Ill[inois] about 8 miles distant. ...

Date: 1852

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-233

Description: Fields with cattle in foreground, the distant spires of Chicago in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 180 x 260 mm

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Pettifer, Walter, fl 1902 : Diary and scrapbook

Date: 1902, 1950?

By: Pettifer, Walter, active 1902

Reference: MS-Group-1135

Description: Diary kept by Pettifer who sailed round the world on the `Ophir' as a servant of its captain, Captain Tryon; and scrapbook compiled by Pettifer of itinerary, postcards, ephemera, clippings, maps, stamps and photographs etc The diary has daily entries, some very brief, describing the voyage, ports, weather etc rather than Pettifer's work on board the vessel Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Judith Grant, London, Sep 2002 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transferred to the Photographic Archive - To Photographic Archive - 32 loose photographs (PAColl-7744).

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Programmes relating to Alexander Grant's career in the Sadler's Wells Ballet and the Ro...

Date: 1949-1967

From: Grant, Alexander Marshall, 1925-2011 : Papers relating to his career as a dancer

Reference: MS-Papers-11225-04

Description: Comprises programmes of some performances Grant appeared in, mostly during the 1950s and 1960s, for the Sadler's Wells Ballet, which became the Royal Ballet in 1956. Also includes programmes for tours to the USA and New Zealand. The gala dinner ball programme includes dinner menu and accompanying letter from Grant to his parents. Programme from Wellington performance (23 March 1959) includes newspaper cutting. Other - For programme of Grant's performance with New Zealand Ballet as guest artist in 1964 see MS-Papers-11225-02 Contents: Sadler's Wells Ballet. "Cinderella". Metropolitan Opera House, New York, 18 October 1949 (Bryan Ashbridge, Alexander Grant, Rowena Jackson) Contents: The Oxford and Cambridge University Ballet Club's gala dinner ball in aid of the Sadler's Wells Ballet Benevolent Fund. Dorchester Hotel, 1 March 1950. Contents: Sadler's Wells Ballet. "Les sylphides", "Ballabile", "Ballet imperial". Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 24 August 1950 (Bryan Ashbridge, Philip Chatfield, Alexander Grant, Rowena Jackson) Contents: Sadler's Wells Ballet. "Le lac des cygnes". Metropolitan Opera House, New York, 10 September 1950 (Bryan Ashbridge, Philip Chatfield, Alexander Grant, Rowena Jackson) Contents: Sadler's Wells Ballet benefit performance for the English Speaking Union, Chicago branch, Civic Opera House, [Chicago], 18 December 1950. Souvenir programme (Bryan Ashbridge, Philip Chatfield, Alexander Grant, Rowena Jackson) Contents: Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet. "Harlequin in April", "Casse Noisette", "The haunted ballroom". Sadler's Wells Theatre, 11 September 1951 (Donald McAlpine, Sara Neil, Walter Trevor) Contents: Sadler's Wells Ballet. "Ballet imperial", "Ballabile", "Daphnis and Chloe". Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 12 September 1951 (Bryan Ashbridge, Philip Chatfield, Alexander Grant, Rowena Jackson) Contents: Sadler's Wells Ballet. "Coppelia". Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 17 September 1951 (Alexander Grant, Rowena Jackson) Contents: Sadler's Wells Ballet. "Les patineurs", "The three cornered hat", "Mam'zelle Angot". Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 28 February 1952 (Bryan Ashbridge, Philip Chatfield, Alexander Grant, Rowena Jackson) Contents: The Covent Garden Opera Company and the Sadler's Wells Ballet coronation season, [May-July] 1953. (Bryan Ashbridge, Warwick Braithwaite, Philip Chatfield, Bryan Drake, Alexander Grant, Joan Hammond, Rowena Jackson, Oscar Natzka, Inia Te Wiata) Contents: Sadler's Wells Ballet. "The shadow", "Le lac des cygnes, act II", "Homage to the Queen: the coronation ballet". Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 9 June 1953 [Coronation season] (Bryan Ashbridge, Philip Chatfield, Alexander Grant, Rowena Jackson) Contents: Royal Ballet. "Le lac des cygnes". Grand Opera House, Wellington, 23 March 1959 (Alexander Grant) (2 copies) Contents: Royal Ballet. "Les patineurs", "The rake's progress", "Les Sylphides". Grand Opera House, Wellington, 24 March 1959 (Philip Chatfield, Alexander Grant, Rowena Jackson) Contents: Royal Ballet. "Coppelia", "Facade". Grand Opera House, Wellington, 4 April 1959 (Alexander Grant) Contents: Royal Ballet. Tour of Australia and New Zealand 1958-59. His Majesty's Theatre, Auckland, 6-18 April 1959. Preferential booking application (Philip Chatfield, Alexander Grant, Rowena Jackson) Contents: The film of the Royal Ballet. "Swan lake, act II", The firebird", "Ondine". [1959]. Accompanying booklet (Bryan Ashbridge, Alexander Grant) Contents: Royal Ballet. "La fille mal gardee". Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 15 June 1964 (Alexander Grant) Contents: Royal Ballet. "Les sylphides", "The rake's progress", "Pineapple poll". Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 28 June 1967. (Garry Grant) Arrangement: Programmes arranged in chronological order. New Zealanders named in each programme listed in brackets. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter

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Galvan Macnamara's travels in the USA

Date: [ca 1969]-[ca 1970]

From: Macnamara, Galvan, 1941-2004 :Family photographs, travels in the USA, friends and collegues, and the work of New Zealand artists

Reference: PAColl-8714-05

Description: The photographs in this collection group are contact sheets and some prints from them. Included are Hawaii, Chicago, Cleveland, the Rocky Mountains, Arizona, Alberquerque New Mexico, Washington State and Seattle, Mesa Verde National Park Colorado, and Boston. Quantity: 32 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Travel diary

Date: 4 Oct-20 Nov 1921

From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers

Reference: MSX-7861

Description: Dairy and commentary on a voyage taken on RMS `Tahiti' to San Francisco, and from there to Chicago, for business reasons, and back through Vancouver on RMS 'Niagara'. Describes and comments on the voyage, passngers, activities and impressions of Chicago, including Jewish life there, and San Francisco. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

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Brown, B M fl 1984 :Photographs of the trans-Atlantic flight of General Italo Balbo, 1933

Date: 1933

By: Brown, B M (Mr), active 1978

Reference: PAColl-0019

Description: Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 34 b&w original photographic print(s).