Places

Date: 1987 - 1989

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

Reference: Plans-2009-082-4189-001/054

Description: Includes plans, sections, elevations and perspective drawings of a new craft centre building adjacent to the existing old Post Office building to be used as a museum. Includes plans for renovations to the Post Office building, and plans with annotations showing a viewing route inside the new building. Quantity: 54 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on draughting paper, and diazo prints, sizes varying up to 430 x 590 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.

Date: 2000

Reference: H-638-001/018

Description: Topics include developments along the Wellington waterfront, Prime Minster Helen Clark's attack on spend-thrift television managers, controversy over the national museum Te Papa's presentation of artworks, the Constitutional Conference 2000, the rebel coup in Fiji, activist Tame Iti's visit to Fiji during the rebel coup, the character of Jenny Shipley, the Leader of the Opposition, New Zealand's health record compared to that of France, New Zealand doctors and nurses emigrating while immigrant doctors are not employed in New Zealand, Associate Minister of Maori Affairs Tariana Turia's use of the word holocaust in a Maori context, the falling New Zealand dollar, the use of human DNA in pig embryos, American miltary responses to cut-backs in New Zealand defence spending, the non-pacific nature of the Pacific Ocean, the New Zealand-Australian agreement reached over social welfare and immigration policies, logging of native forests on the West Coast, the Treaty of Waitangi Tainui settlement advantaging the Hong KOng and Shanghai Bank. Quantity: 18 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of black ink drawings.

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-655-001/037

Description: 37 cartoons on political and social subjects published in the Otago Daily Times. A panda bear sits and swings the five Olympic rings in its paws with Olympic officials commenting on China's successful bid for the Olympic games. Comment on ASH's view of underage smoking - two children walk past a cinema and a man in an alleyway furtively offers to show them pictures of people smoking. Comment on Jim Anderton's aim for a 'Peoples Bank' - Jenny Shipley is portrayed as a bank teller sitting under a signd your breath'. Public cynicism of Michael Cullen's proposed Superannuation scheme. Farmers discussing their lack of confidence in ENZA. Cartoonist's reaction to the disparity between the financial levels of sports peoples and other people when being assessed to be published on the 'rich list'. Comment on the publication that 'kiwi kids' are overweight. A male ironing clothing offers comment on Helen Clark Jenny Shipley Silvia Cartwright Sian Elias and Michelle Boag being in positions of power. Comment by a male sitting down to breakfast that deer velvet being a sex aid is 'bunkum'. Michael Cullen is shown standing next to a poker machine called 'Future Super' indication it is the helath and education monines that the poker machine needs to work on. Comment on the outcome of Max Bradford's electricity reforms. Max Bradford is in an electricial repair shop being told that if the article he brought for repair was not broken before Bradford tried to fix it it is broken now. Helen Clark Parekura Horomia and Michael Cullen presenting their individual position on the issue of Maori TV A schoolteacher chastises Max Bradford for blaming others. Michael Cullen and Helen Clark watch two overweight dogs named Super and Maori TV eating while two thin dogs named Education and Health are straining at their leads for food. A nurse opens the expectant fathers waiting room door to tell Mr Anderton to go home and he will be notified if there is any sign of labour getting serious. Early visitors arrive on the shores of New Zealand with the comment that the natives may regret not having an immigration policy. Christine Rankin wears two very large earings one labled 'winzum' the other 'lose some'. Comment on the news that the right-of-way road rule is to be revised. Jim Anderton Helen Clark and Michael Cullen cling to a life raft identified as Beneficiary Voting Block with two boaties in the background commenting that even the knowledge wave did not loosen their grip. Comment on Helen Clark's support for funding going to the arts. Comment on Laila Harre and holiday shopping Finger pointing from Pete Hodgson and Max Bradford as to who is to blame for the electricity reforms not working/ Rugby fans pay their first visit to Dunedin and pass comment on the wearing of tartan trousers. Shows a bloody battle of Gengis Khan's army. Word is being passed around to forget about the plundering and go for the 'bonus point'. Refers to the NZ cricket teams decision to stop their point scoring run glut against Australia and take the bonus point offered by a technicality. Shows two young school boys discussing public educations failure to teach reading, writing and numeracy. Shows Jim Anderton on the steps of Treasury with water flooding under the front doors and down the steps. Comment on Anderton's attempts to stop the 'leaks' coming from Treasury. Comment on the public boredom over multi-millionaire Steve Fossett's attempts to fly around the world non-stop in a hot-air balloon. Shows Marian Hobbs with a large wind instrument wrapped around her playing 'NZ Music' to a man who represents the NZ public. He has a large flat neck collar on representing the new NZ music quota. The collar prevents him from putting his fingers in his ears should not wish to listen to the music. Shows mother explaining to her crying children that their father is now going to play golf rather than take them sailing. The change is due to their father being agitated by NZ Professional Golfer Grant Waite's performance. Comment on prison staff's industrial 'go-slow' and the opportunities it creates for prisoners to escape. Shows a large area of forestry being felled for the sake of sending 'positive signals' to overseas companies. Shows an elderly couple, justifying to a squad of police officers at their front door, that they are doing all they can in the nationwide drive to save electricity. Shows Marian Hobbs introducing a rock band called 'Marian and the quotas'. Shows Sam Neill at the Jurassic Park 3 movie premiere with an old pre-historic friend. Shows a woman in an art gallery asking if a framed display is a piece of art. The gallery worker assures her it is and explains that it is Creative New Zealand's justification for their travel expenditure. Quantity: 37 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies on sheets 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 12 Jul 2001

By: Dalzell, D'Arcy, active 2001; Shaw, Reginald Jeffrey, 1904-2001

Reference: OHColl-0563/1

Description: Reg Shaw was born in Leeds, Yorkshire in 1904. Recalls his parents and the family's emigration to New Zealand in 1908. Describes his father's work as a builder, employment with Walter Graham and Sons in Christchurch and move to Wanganui in 1917. Recalls that this was to enable his father, Ben Shaw, to supervise the construction of the Sarjeant Gallery on behalf of Walter Graham. Describes living at 48 Somme Parade since 1917. Discusses early plans for a harbour in Wanganui and the transporting of frozen meat from the freezing works to ships. Discusses the Sarjeant Gallery and its construction from Oamaru stone. Recalls the opening of the Gallery and his father's role as a stonemason. Explains the history and construction of the Durie Hill Tower and the transporting of stones for it on a togo up the river. Describes the Tower's construction with a trammel and the fact that the construction was not finished as originally planned. Explains his interest in the motor mechanic industry in Wanganui, apprenticeship at Chevannes Garage and partnership with Ozzie Allen. Recalls his time in the Army. Describes becoming an insurance assessor, playing `too much sport' and Lodge involvement. Talks about marrying Connie Carvell in 1933, his children Peter, Brian and Graham and his father living with them for 23 years. Notes that he has his licence at the age of 98. Describes Victoria Avenue in 1917 including trams, cars and early engineering businesses. Mentions being one of the first A Grade mechanics in the country. Interviewer(s) - D'Arcy Dalzell Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008321 - OHC-008322 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2566. Two photographs of Reg Shaw

Date: 1980

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1980

Description: Includes: Chameleon Circus [cabaret performance]. Group constists of Aileen Davidson, Tim Hyde, Garth Frost, May Lloyd, Elizabeth Tolley, Stephen McCurdy. Includes photographs of the performers. Performances at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 12-13 April 1980. Flyer. The Company of Musical Players presents Music Hall 1980. Producer-Musical director, Bob Whyte. Musical co-ordinator and orchestra leader, Joyce Brown. Programme. (2 copies). The Dick Emery show [with] Dick Emery, Laurie Dee, Jodi Vaughan, Gray Bartlett & The Showband. Ace of Clubs. Souvenir brochure 1980 [to be unfolded as a poster] Foxton Little Theatre presents Music Hall. Director John Hornblow. 3-10 May 1980. Programme The Mask Project presents Mask-A-Reading. Performers consist of Victoria Boyack, Tim Denton, Gillian Clark, Rob Jayne, Matthew Fisher, Murray Edmond. 1980. Programme. Red Mole. NZ Students Arts Council presents NZ Tour, Feb-March'80. Performers include, Allan Brunton, Sally Rodwell, Deborah Hunt, Jan Preston, Martin Edmond, John Davies and Neil Hannan. Public shows - Wellington 9-10 February, State Opera House; Hamilton 15-16 February, Founders Theatre; Palmerston North 21-22 February, Opera House; Dunedin 29 February, Concert Chamber. Campus shows - Otago University 28 February; Lincoln College 1 March; Canterbury University 2 March; Victoria University 4 March; Massey University 5 March; Waikato Students Union 6 March; Auckland University 7-8 March. 1980. Flyer. (3 copies). I'll Never Dance Down Bugis St Again with Red Mole. Majestic Cabaret, Wellington. 8 June 1980. Ticket. (2 copies). Oliver's Cabaret, no.5 Lloyd Street, Wellington. Billy Washington's Drifters recreating the fabulous 50s and 60s as only they can, 18-20 September. Les Girls Hollywood Nites, 29-30 September [and] 5-8 October (also one performance at Upper Hutt Town Hall, 1 October). Miss World Glamour Spectacular starring Miss World 1979-80 (Miss Bermuda Gina Swainson); runner up Miss United Kingdom (Carolyn Seaward); Miss New Zealand 1980 (Miss Waikato Vicki-Lee Hemi); Wellington's own Tracy McIntyre. Lower Hutt Town Hall one night only. Diamond Lil's Travelling Road Show, at Olivers 13-17 October, and Lower Hutt Town Hall 20 October. Christmas Scandals, a Christmas Review at the Caltex Lounge. 1980. Flyer. Quantity: 7 programmes and flyers. 4 duplicates. Physical Description: Booklets and flyers, sizes varying up to 210 x 168 mm. Provenance: Some items donated by Noelene Wevell, Wellington, in 1998.

Date: 1953-1971

By: Tylee, Marion Elizabeth, 1900-1981

Reference: MS-Papers-3043

Description: The papers consist of inwards letters relating to Marion's career as an artist, newspaper cuttings about art in New Zealand and overseas and a biographical note by Marion about her aunt Alice Lethbridge Avery. Source of title - Supplied Marion Tylee studied art in Miss Baber's academy in Wellington. In 1923 she won a NZ Academy of Fine Arts award for a watercolour. In 1927 she studied in London and in Paris. From 1945 Marion lived and worked in Palmerston North and played a major role in the development of the Manawatu Art Gallery. Quantity: 4 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter.

Date: 1985

Reference: Eph-D-GRAPHIC-ARTS-1985

Description: Includes posters for: Auckland City Art Gallery. Sea & shore; coastal and marine pictures of Auckland and the North, 1824-1926. 15 March to 5 May 1985. (2 copies) Albrecht Durer. Engravings and woodcuts. National Art Gallery. 13 June-25 July 1985. (2 copies) Elizabeth Grainger. "Sparrow fall" (poster). 1985. William Hogarth. "The Rake's progress"; engravings. National Art Gallery. 27 July - 22 August 1985. (2 copies) Linda Hubbard. Paintings by Linda Hubbard. City Limits Cafe, from August 5-25 [1985]. (2 different - 2 copies of one, one of the other) Knokke-Heist 1985. 24e Wereld Kartoenale. Jill McIntosh. Spectres; prints and drawings. Bowen Galleries, 11-25 March [1985] (2 copies) Claude Monet, painter of ligt. Auckland City Art Gallery. 29 April - 9 June 1985. (2 copies) Stanley Palmer, Prints - drawongs. Gingko Gallery 30th March - 25th April 1985. Paintings by Pippa Sanderson. Bowen Galleries. 22 July - 3 August 1985. Michael Smither; an introduction. National Art Gallery. 5 July - 25 August [1985]. (Original exhibition held December 1984 at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery) Michael Smither. National Art Gallery, until August 25th [1984]. (2 copies) Ron Stenberg. Paintings and drawings. Gallery 22, 22 Lady Wynd Cupar Fife. 19 October - 6 November 1985. Subsidised by the Scottish Arts Council. Quantity: 13 colour photo-mechanical print(s) plus duplicates of many. Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying below 800 x 600 mm.

Date: 1910-1959, nd

By: Velden, Petrus van der, 1837-1913; Van der Velden, David, active 1958

Reference: MS-Papers-5796

Description: Correspondence, newspaper clippings, lecture notes on art theory and exhibition catalogue collected by Petrus van der Velden and his immediate family Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, ms, typescript, printed matter Provenance: Collected by International Art Centre from Mr David van der Welden, Sydney ca 1958 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 44 photographs (PA Coll-4810).

Date: 1889

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995: Photographs

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925

Reference: PA1-o-761

Description: Photographic record of gallery interiors hung with paintings by British and European artists, selected by William M Hodgkins for the 1889/1890 Dunedin Exhibition. Photographs taken in 1889 by David Alexander De Maus. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1983-1992

By: Simpson, Peter Alan (Professor), 1942-

Reference: MS-Papers-5218

Description: Comprises text of a talk on the art of Leo Bensemann, given by Peter Simpson at the National Library, Wellington (3 Sep 1992); letters from Leo Bensemann to Kay Roberts, Galerie Legard, Wellington (1983-1985) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss and typescript

Date: 1880s

By: Wilson family

Reference: PA1-o-767

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Donor is direct descendant of Wilson family

Date: circa 1880, 1934 - 1955

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Powell, Arthur Walter, 1893-1970; Wade, Keith Reginald, 1920-1992; Dunstan, Harold J, active 1939-1947

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-029

Description: Scenic photographs of the North Island, 1934 to 1955. Includes Manawatu - Wanganui, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Taranaki, Northland and Auckland Regions. Also includes photographs of the first school in Palmerston North and the Bank of Australasia Corner, Palmerston North, circa 1880. Photographers include W. Hall Raine, Keith R. Wade, Harold J. Dunstan, J M S Beale, A W Powell, and aerial photographs by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 77 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints