Beech

Date: 1920 - 1929

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-380-086

Description: Shows a study of a beech tree. Other Titles - Wellington Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 294 x 230 mm.

Date: 1900 - 1930

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, Dorothy Evelyn, 1887-1963

Reference: E-754

Description: Includes pencil and watercolour sketches of Botanical gardens Wellington, manuka in Botanical Gardens Wellington, near Wellington, Point Howard from the road to Lowry Bay Petone, the Heads from York Bay Wellington, native beech York Bay Wellington, Egmont from Mokoia (several sketches), Mokoia homestead (2 sketches - similar to watercolour at B-163-005), stream near Melville Rd Kaponga, tree manuka on the "Round trip" D[awson] Falls, adult totara and weinmannia racemosa at the edge of the paddock at D[awson] Falls, Hastie's Hill, totara at D[awson] Falls - stem is shortened in this drawing, totara at D[awson] Falls. Latest date may be around 1930 - this is the date of the watercolour of Mokoia homstead at B-163-005. Inscription inside front cover indicates that the sketchbook was given to Dorothy E Moore from her mother in 1900 and then to Dorothy's sister John L Moore in 1920, also by the mother. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Hardbound red buckram sketchbook with gold-inscribed title "Sketches" on front cover, with 19 leaves, each 165 x 225 mm.

Date: 1920 - 1939

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-380-100

Description: Shows a view of a beech tree. Other Titles - Queen Charlotte Sound Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 230 x 150 mm.

Date: 1932

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: A-383-030/030-b

Description: Shows a beech tree, with bay and hills in the background. Prints are numbers 2, 17 and 29 of a print run of 31. Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s) (three prints of same image). Physical Description: Dry point etchings, plate 150 x 98 mm, on sheets 230 x 148 mm.

Date: [ca 1880s-1910s]

By: Holmes, Robert West, 1856-1936

Reference: PA1-o-1544

Description: Album compiled by civil engineer Robert West Holmes or a family member, ca 1880s-1910s. Shows North Island Main Trunk Railway works at Poro-o-tarao, Waiteti Viaduct, Huiroa Saddle, camp near Piriaka, Sew Hoy Dredge on Shotover River in 1890. Includes named portraits of railway engineers, family and friends in New Zealand and England. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 205 x 175 mm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009

Date: 1934

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: A-383-029/029-c

Description: Shows a beech tree, with faint indications of other trees in the background. Prints are numbers 3, 7, 22 and 23 of a print run of 40. Quantity: 4 b&w art print(s) (four prints of same image). Physical Description: Dry point etchings, plate 175 x 100 mm, on sheets 232 x 147 mm.

Date: 1960 - 1969

By: Royal International Hotel (Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Auckland-1960s-01

Description: Pamphlet describes wood used in the panelling of the counter in the Greenstone Bar (rimu, totara burr, beech, kauri, and hinau, with strips of kahikatea, rewarewa and puriri), and the panelling used in the office counter in the foyer (rimu, kauri, totara burr). The interior and bistro stonework is also described (mica schist), as is the interior stonework (volcanic and other stone from Atiamuri) Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on pamphlet 134 x 352 mm, folded to 134 x 90 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in May 2010.

Date: 1947

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-378-077

Description: Shows a tree standing alone in a flat area. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Verso - centre - [Fuller title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 367 x 290 mm.

Date: 1950 - 1960

Reference: B-023-055/063

Description: Contents: The Cromwell wellingtonias; The Greytown gum; The Archdeacon's sentinels; Tauranga; The Alexandra beech; The Woodside fir; The Rotorua redwood; New Zealand's oldest oak, Waimate North; The Mission Bay pines; Karewa of Kawhai. Quantity: 9 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 2-colour photolithographs, sizes vary

Date: 1985

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-q-280

Description: Photographs of family and friends, taken by Rhoda McWhannell, and some by Keith Orange (the husband of Rhoda McWhannell's niece Sally Pat (nee McCurdie)). A series of scenes show Mavis Commons in her home and garden at Cambridge. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown vinyl cover, with embossed kowhai flowers, entitled `Photographs'; 30.0 x 35.6 cm

Date: [Circa 1900s-1920s]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

Reference: PAColl-0959-30

Description: Photographs of Lake Manapouri and Doubtful Sound, including many of the Spey Valley and the Doubtful Sound Track between the lake and the sound. Views of Lake Manapouri are taken from the shore, and also from various islands including Pomona Island, Belle Vue Island, Rona Island and Holmwood Island. Photographers not identified, but possibly taken by William Alexander Kennedy. A group of unidentified men and women are seen in a number of photographs, including on the track, camping and travelling in the government owned launch "Manurere". One showing a campsite shows six men and women of whom only one has a bare head. All the others have nets covering them to protect them from the sandflies which are prolific in the area. There is also a lot of smoke from a fire near the tents (photograph no. 35). Image no. 74 shows an unidentified man wearing a suit and hat, walking away from the launch Manurere beside which is a pile of camping equipment. He is carrying a pack and a billy. Identified places are listed above. Quantity: 122 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints.

Date: 1876

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-007-012

Description: Study of a large tree Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Charcoal 310 x 240 mm

Date: 1861

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-022

Description: View from amidst mountain beech trees down into a bay in Pelorus Sound, with two small houses visible close to the water on the opposite bank. Hills on the far side. Other Titles - Mahakipawa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 240 x 345 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1961

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-044616-F

Description: McRae's Hut, Clyde Valley, Canterbury, photographed by John Dobree Pascoe in 1961. Shows a derelit wooden building, with a corrugated iron roof, underneath beech trees. Man to left of hut, unidentified. McRae's Hut was located in Clyde Valley, Canterbury. Abandoned in 1890. Photographed by J D Pascoe in 1930s, and again in 1961. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1890

From: Hill, Mabel 1872-1956 :[Sketchbook]

Reference: E-514-002

Description: Studies of a native beech tree and of a willow and fir tree Other Titles - Christchurch Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Ch.ch.; also bottom right, Fir and 7. 4. 90; and names beneath the relevant trees, all in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on page of sketchbook, 132 x 182 mm.

Date: [194-]

By: Speedy, Tom Brydon, 1925?-2008

Reference: MSX-9236

Description: Volume is a nature study book for the classification of plants. Includes numerous examples of flora in the form of plant leaves with the identification of plant names. Book was compiled while Speedy studied at the Teachers' Training College. Includes some hand-drawn illustrations of tree leaves. Source of title - Transcribed from item Speedy trained as a school teacher in the 1940s at the Teacher's Training College in Wellington. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph