Emus

Date: 1883

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-122-1

Description: Shows a bridge on the Blue Mountains and a view of the Emu Plains Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Bridge on the first zigzag of Western Railway on Blue Mountains - Emu Plains. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 135 x 200 mm

Date: 1956 - 1960

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994; Australian National Travel Association; McLaren & Company Pty Ltd

Reference: D-001-036

Description: Poster promoting Australia as a tourist destination, shows an Aborigine with long tapering tasselled headdress, and an emu in Aboriginal art style. A border along the top features emu footprints. Dated from other similar posters by the artist. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 1000 x 630 mm.

Date: 19 January 1995

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

By: Burford, Melanie Jayne, 1970-

Reference: EP/1995/0165-F

Description: Emu breeder Murray Goss with four-month-old emu chicks at his farm at Colyton, Manawatu. Photographs taken 19 January 1995 by Evening Post staff photographer Melanie Burford. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm

Date: 1865

From: Lacy, George, ca 1817-1878 :[Australian drawings] [ca 1865]

Reference: B-067-039

Description: Men on horseback with their dogs and Aboriginal stockmen rounding up kangaroos. Amongst the kangaroos being herded are emus, wild horses and cattle Other Titles - Gippsland Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 378 x 554 mm

Date: [August to October 1947, June 1958 and June 1959

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-199

Description: Album in two sequences. The first 12 pages are contacts from 35mm film relating to a John Tenison Salmon's Carnegie Travelling Fellowship in 1958-1959; the second sequence (pages 13-41) contains prints relating to his trip to Australia to attend the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Congress held in 1947. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cream cover, Cobra ring binder; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1950s-1960s

From: Wassiliewa, Galina (estate) :Photographs relating to life and ballet career of Galina Wassiliewa in Lithuania and Wellington.

By: Wassiliew, Wassili, 1916-1983

Reference: PAColl-6125-27

Description: Photographs of animals in zoos, or a zoo, including a series of a chimpanzees tea party. Plants mainly from Wassiliew's garden. Quantity: 63 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1869 - 1870

By: Baynes, A G, active 1869-1870

Reference: E-343-f

Description: Scenes of kangaroos, riders on horseback hunting emus and kangaroos. Inscriptions: Album page - all signed A. G. B. and dated Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) 1/2 red morocco, red cloth binding. Physical Description: 8 pencil in album, page size 660 mm Provenance: Possibly part of Alexander Turnbull's collection, since it has his bookplate in the front.

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1901]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-296

Description: Photographs, probably taken by G W Barltrop. Scenes in the first part of the album are of the South Island, mostly around the Dunedin area, and further south, in Invercargill and Bluff. There are two panoramas, one of Port Chalmers and one of Lumsden. Most are landscapes, but a few show groups of people, including five young girls in the Dunedin Botanical Gardens, and a man driving a horse and buggy at Manuka Creek, with two young women sitting beside him, and a third woman standing by the horse's head. A graveyard scene is a close-up view of two headstones, one for Catherine Louisa Schaw (widow of John S Schaw), who died in 1874 aged 71. North Island scenes show a church at Levin; and views of the countryside, a bullock pulling a laden cart, and at the Rimutaka Summit all taken on a train journey. Group portraits include one of a large family group, with two young boys in the foreground with a cricket bat and cricket pads; and two large groups of men and women associated with the Missions to Seamen. One image show a plaque erected `In memory of twelve officers and seamen who were drowned or died from exposure, by the wreck of the Barque Lizzie Bell near the Oeo River, July 24 1901, erected by members and friends of the Missions to seamen, Wellington, New Zealand'. There is also a photograph of the wreck of the ship Antiocco Accame, which was stranded at Katiki Beach, Otago, on 31 October 1901. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: 1837

By: Balcombe, Thomas Tyrwhitt, 1810-1861; Webb & Son (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-085-015

Description: Three men leading horses through a bush. A dead emu lies on the heaped up saddle of the right-hand horse Other Titles - Exploring Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 260 x 405 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull?

Date: 1884

From: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926 :New Zealand sketches in black and white. 1884.

Reference: E-310-q-028

Description: Drawings of three emus and four wallabies Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink in bound album, page size 173 x 252 mm

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-7059

Description: Photographs of the Adelaide area taken in the 1960s by John Ingle. Views include a quarry; a valley of vines; wild heath; Adelaide Park and statues; Barossa Reservoir Dam, also showing a footrbridge and the dam wall; an emu, kangaroos; the Old Governor's House and grounds in the Belair National Park; sugarcane in the valley; a lake filling; South Street, and North Street in Adelaide; Adelaide War Memorial. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 1972-1983

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6508

Description: New Zealand birds include: Oystercatchers, Karaka shell bank (1972). Shining Cuckoo, York Bay, Lower Hutt (1977). Mounted speciman of the Piopio or North Island thrush (1977). Trip to the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (now Birds Australia) conference, Rotamah Island, Lakes National Park, Victoria, Australia, November 1983. Includes views of the old homestead used as a bird observatory. People at conference workshop. Views of Rotamah Island and of kangaroos and emus living there. Ninty Mile Beach beyond Rotamah Island which is also part of the National Park. Nankeen night heron at Waiwhetu, Lower Hutt. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: 1814

By: Westall, William, 1781-1850; Woolnoth, William, active 1770

Reference: A-124-003

Description: Shows kangaroos, emus, and seals by a beach with bushy hills to the right Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 6 1/2 x 9 inches

Date: [ca 1930s-1950s]

From: Thorp, Nigel fl 1995 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1541

Description: Photograph album of portraits of unidentified people. Includes photographs of ocean travel on a cruise ship, vacation in Australia other unidentified locations. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 245 x 300 mm

Date: 1930s

By: McKenzie, A E, active 1999

Reference: PAColl-6150

Description: Photographs of scenes in the Wellington Zoo, and of camping trips in Canterbury and Otago with a Model T Ford van. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1788 - 1790

From: Various artists :[Set of 9 cards issued for Treasures in Trust exhibition]. National Library of New Zealand, 1995.

By: National Library of New Zealand; Raper, George, 1769-1797

Reference: E-498-010

Description: Shows long-legged white bird with blue head and longer tail feathers. Position more upright than natural among emus. Blue flower at right foreground. Extended Title - in his "Birds of Australia and the South Seas", 1788-1790. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on card.. Physical Description: Colour photolithograph on card, 140 x 105 mm (folded). Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit, in 1995.

Date: 1995 - 2000

By: New Zealand Emu Farmers' Association

Reference: Eph-A-POULTRY-1990s-01

Description: Shows photographs of various cuts from an emu: flat rump, oyster, flat fillet, rump, round. Gives five recipes for emu meat, and a nutritional analysis. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on pamphlet, 210 x 297 mm, folded to 210 x 100 mm. Provenance: Donated by Michael Pringle, Wellington, in 2005.

Date: [ca 1830s-1860s]

From: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889: Sketches of New Zealand, European, and British landscapes and portraits

Reference: B-178-050

Description: Pencil sketches of birds, and verso, architectural drawing. Other title (file print) - [Studies of birds c. 1850]; [Sketches of Emu & Swan c. 1850] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, watermarked "J Whatman Turkey Mill 1849", 385 x 543 mm.

Date: 1854 - 1859

From: Gill, Samuel Thomas, 1818-1880 :[Australian views] / S T G [del; Campbell & Fergusson litho. - Melbourne ; J J Blundell & Co., [ca. 1859]

Reference: A-085-039

Description: Shows an Australian Aboriginal hunting emu with a spear. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 147 x 225 mm

Date: 1869

From: Baynes, A. G. fl 1869-1870 :Australian sketches. 1869-1870.

Reference: E-343-f-001

Description: Shows a man on horseback hunting emus Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in album (red morocco) 298 x 468 mm on sheet 433 x 655 mm