Athletic fields

Date: 1894

By: New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works; Hawcridge, Robert, 1866-1920; New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal; Fagan, J A, active 1970s

Reference: D-001-029

Description: View from the Town Belt in the Mornington area looking down over the city, with South Dunedin to the right. Otago Boys' High is the large Victorian Gothic building to the left in the foreground and Queens Drive curves around the bush-clad hill to its left. In the distance on the left is Logan Lake, now reclaimed as Logan Park. The dominant church spire in the centre belongs to First Church. Houses, stores and industrial buildings are shown, along with shipping activity in the port. In the centre and right foreground are a park and a road, along which a couple is walking. Extended Title - Supplement to: New Zealand Graphic, Christmas Number, 1894. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 310 x 865 mm

Date: 2001-2002 - 01 Apr 2001 - 04 Jun 2002

By: Neely, Donald Owen, 1935-2022; Romanos, Joseph, active 1988-2002

Reference: OHColl-0787

Description: The project contains short interviews with men whose involvement with sport has included playing, commentating and administration, and who have also had an association over time with the Basin Reserve in Wellington. Interviewees are Sir Ron Brierley, Paul Cameron, Peter Heidenstrom, Sir Robert Jones, Don Neely, Trevor Rigby, Richie Romanos, Peter Sellers, Bryan Waddle, Garry Ward, Bernie Wood, Spiros Zavos, Frank Cameron and Walter Hadlee. Publication - The Basin: an illustrated history of the Basin Reserve, Don Neely & Joseph Romanos. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2003 Awards/funding - Project received an Oral History Award Interviewer(s) - Don Neely Interviewer(s) - Joseph Romanos Arrangement: Digital files arranged as OHDL-001354 to OHDL-001365 Tape numbers - OHC-014551 - OHC-014562 Tape numbers - OHC-014568 - OHC-014569 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 7 C90 cassette(s). 12 printed abstract(s). 2 C60 cassette(s) microcassettes - MC-60. 14 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Don Neely and Joseph Romanos

Date: 1976

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-135-075

Description: This cartoon features a nighttime soccer match at the Basin Reserve between the local rep team and British team Tottenham Hotspurs. It is very dark and the players can't tell which team is which. A stall is selling flashlights Sporting Lodge Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 245 x 390 mm

Date: 1980s

From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection

By: McNeish, Helen (Lady), active 1940-1999

Reference: PA12-2149

Description: Photographs taken by James and Helen McNeish, comprising views of: Exeter College, Oxford. Lovelock's house and street in Brooklyn, New York. Princeton, including a portrait of Jane Bonthron. Berlin, 1983-1984, including views of the stadium. Arrangement: Transparencies at PA12-2149 Quantity: 16 colour original transparency/ies 35mm slides. Physical Description: 35mm dye coupler transparencies Transfers: Separated from ATL-Group-00738 (MS-Group-0749).. Processing information: Combined in to ATL-Group-00738 July 2022. Previous title: McNeish, James : Photographs relating to Jack Lovelock

Date: 2001

From: Harbour, Kyle, 1968- :Photographs of the New Zealand Army in East Timor

Reference: 35mm-43552-11-F

Description: View of a rugby field named "Carrotsbrook", Timor-Leste (East Timor). Finding Aids: Photocopy of this image is on the shelf at PAColl-7641, album 1, image 32.

Date: 1946

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-154-054

Description: Shows a draughthorse drawing a two-wheeled cart beside a sports ground (Basin Reserve?) The cart driver is a bearded man smoking a pipe, and his passenger is a cricket player in a striped blazer and cap. A farm dog bounds along in the right foreground. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on sheet 444 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Margaret Colvin in 2000.

Date: 1888

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-212-015

Description: View from a stand looking into the grounds with a large stand to the left and crowds at ground level. The players are moving into a scrum in front of a small covered pergola, presumably the Press Box. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - title in pen and ink. Lower left, W M H in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink sketch 220 x 284 mm

Date: 1952 - 1970 - 1971

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-029-010/017

Description: Includes a diazo print of a 1952 plan by Structon Group Architects. Includes location plan, floor plan, elevations and sections, and a detailed plan of the layout of the social room, and smaller 1971 plans of part of the changing rooms. Quantity: 8 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on wax paper, sizes varying up to 580 x 760 mm.

Date: 20.6.23

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Manawatu and West Coast Agricultural and Pastoral Association

Reference: Pan-1136-F

Description: Panoramic view of the Palmerston North Showgrounds with rugby teams in the middle of the field. Two grandstands are filled with spectators, and there are crowds on the sidelines. Tents behind the crowds centre left. Ford cars for sale are on display far left. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1142 (Palmerston North Showgrounds) Inscriptions: No marginal notes - Manawatu & West Coast A&P Assotn. Show Grounds. Palmerston Nth. 20.6.23; Photographer's title on negative - R P Moore's circular business stamp Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 115.4 cm

Date: 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Manawatu and West Coast Agricultural and Pastoral Association

Reference: Pan-1142-F

Description: Panoramic view of a rugby match at the Palmerston North Showgrounds. Two grandstands are filled with spectators, and there are crowds on the sidelines. Tents behind the crowds on the left. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1136 (Manawatu and West Coast A&P Association) 20.6.23 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Palmerston N. Show Grounds; Marginal notes on negative - 3 3 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 118.3 cm

Date: ca 1890s

Reference: 1/2-002365-F

Description: View of Dunedin showing houses around a large playing field with a church next to it. Possibly a Burton Brothers photograph. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1977

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-135-130

Description: This cartoon features shot putters and discus throwers being told off by a groundsman for denting his turf. The lower scene shows him cowering behind his roller as they throw their shot puts and discus at him Extended Title - It shouldn't be difficult for field athletes to discourage caretakers from discouraging Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone, 250 x 390 mm

Date: 1955

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

Reference: B-137-186

Description: The scene is a sports ground with crowds around the perimeter and the city in the background. An athlete has just finished a race and as he gasps with exhaustion, a doctor takes a swab from his tongue. Several officials stand around staring with astonishment at their stop watches but one official comments to the athlete's trainer that he has trained quite a record-breaker but that it is a pity he (the trainer) will be suspended for 12 months. Appears to be about the use of performance enhancing drugs. At top right is a label with the text, 'Sports post, Wellington, Threepence' on it. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on card, 560 x 380 mm

Date: 30 July 1981

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

Reference: EP/1981/2842-F

Description: Barbed wire barrier protecting a rugby ground from anti Springbok tour protestors. Photographed on the 19th of August 1981 by an Evening Post staff photographer Protests were against the 1981 Springbok rugby tour. In Hamilton protestors occupied the ground and the game was concelled. This resulted in the Muldoon Government using riot police, and for the rest of the tour games were played behind barbed wire barriers. On the streets protestors and police clashed in increasingly violent battles Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1968

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

Reference: B-137-336

Description: Shows three vignettes: rugby players cry with agony at the housemaid's knees they suffer as a result of tackles on hard ground; they revel in the soft and gentle surface [after rain]. But in the third picture, golfers lament the soft ground and pine for "the glorious 200 yard duffs of the long hot summer months". Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 410 x 268 mm, on sheet 510 x 320 mm.

Date: 1955

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :200 original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1955 to 1962.

Reference: A-309-015

Description: Shows two men (`Rate payers' and `Sports bodies') crossing the finish line of a running race at the same time. Two men watch nearby as the runners break through the tape (Increased sports ground fees). Refers to tax payers and sports bodies sharing the cost of maintaining sports grounds. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service..

Date: 2011

Reference: Eph-E-RUGBY-2011-03

Description: Art poster shows a photo-realistic picture of a bowl of orange quarters, placed on grassy turf. The title refers to the fact that rugby games are divided into two halves, with a half-time break during which orange quarters are often served to the players. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - 264/300 Two Halves + Four Quarters Frizzell / 10 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, image 575 x 452 mm on sheet 765 x 555 mm.

Date: 2006

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0002544

Description: A woman sits on the bed watching her husband get ready to go to the rugby final at the Waikato Stadium. She wonders why he needs to keep his ticket in a money belt. Refers to the fact that tickets had sold out for the final of the inaugural Air New Zealand Cup rugby series between Waikato and Wellington. Waikato won. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1980

From: [New Zealand cricket programmes and ephemera of octavo size]

By: Rothmans Industries Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-CRICKET-1980-01-back

Description: Advertisement for Rothmans cigarettes shows a packet of cigarettes placed on top of a pair of wicket-keeper's gloves with a cricket ball and scorecard on a cricket pitch. Extended Title - From Canterbury Cricket Association, West Indies v New Zealand second test programme, February 1980, programme back cover Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on back cover of programme, 259 x 211 mm.

Date: 2005

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0005951

Description: Shows two men discussing how New Zealand won the rights to host the Rugby World Cup in 2011 and debating the quality of the venues in which games could be played. Published in The Press Quantity: 1 digital image(s). Processing information: This cartoon file was donated to the library with no file extension. On recommendation of the Digital Archivist and with the consent of the donor, a ".jpg" file extension was added to this file in order to ensure it was readable and accessible.