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Date: 1979

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-135-496

Description: This cartoon features prime minister Muldoon with a large axe behind his back. He is enticing a terrified kiwi labelled South Pacific Television from the door of Avalon, the television centre in Lower Hutt Label on reverse dated 14/3/79 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 320 x 435 mm

Date: 1919

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to guns, rifles, shooting and ammunition. 1911-1919]

By: Hazard, William Henry, -1899; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-GUN-1919-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue for a gun manufacturer. Shows guns, rifles, revolvers, cartridges, bullets, shot-gun covers, axes, pocket knives, cigarette lighters, dog calls, whistles, duck calls, Meilink's deposit vaults, electric flashlights. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 40 pages, each 250 x 90 mm. Provenance: Purchased from South Sea Books, Christchurch, in 2009.

Date: 2002

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-674-066/087

Description: Cartoons on political and social issues. Obituary to the Queen Mother. The two methods of applying pressure in the Middle East crisis, awesome fire power and suicide bombers. Helen Clark welcomes Jim Anderton back into the fold of the Labour party. The New Zealand cricket team manage to pull a rabbit from the hat to draw a test series. Jim Anderton leads his followers to another promised land shown as a high wire that's going nowhere. As President George W Bush calls for Israel to withdraw from Palestine, a dog (Ariel Sharon) urinates on his leg. President Bush tries to mediate peace negotiations betweem Arafat and Sharon. A septic tank is on daily call to clean up the mess in the Alliance Party caucus. Two coffins are carried by pallbearers. The first contains the body of the Queen Mother, the second, the remains of Helen Clark's plans for a Republic. Bill English hears the news that Helen Clark has enough support to rule for life. Comment on Helen Clark's involement in signing art works that she didn't paint. Graham Murries coaching career is resurected following the Hurricanes win over the Brumbies. Lawyers discuss the reasons not to sever links with the Privy Council; many of the reasons are led by self interest. The United States congratulates itself while Israel and Palestine come closer and closer to annihilation. New Zealand's arm is severed by an axe as they reach out to hold the Rugby World Cup host status. The axeman is Australian. Baby Kahu Drurie is returned to her family by a New Zealand police officer following being kidnapped. Winston Peters wonders whats happening to New Zealand when he exposes the Treaty grievance industry and Helen Clark is shown to be a forger, the result is her popularity soars and his doesn't move. Comment on the Catholic church's lax approach to priests having sex with their congregation. Shows the positive effect on the New Zeland Police the progress of two high profile cases have had. The NZRFU offer the two executives who negotiated the World Cup Host contracts a gun and two bullets to end their misery. Israeli tanks crush the Palestinian Refugee Camp in an effort to end the cycle of hate. Derek Fox accuses jounalists of Maori-bashing when they ask for accountability over the appointment of conman John Davy as CEO of the Maori Television Service. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1912

By: Anderson, Archibald G, active 1911-1914; Robertson, Herbert Donald (Dr), 1888-1980

Reference: A-148-001

Description: Caricatures of Doctors P R Woodhouse (Napier) and H D Robertson (Wanganui), and Sister Frances Price (R R C), all at Wanganui Hospital. They are shown marching along purposefully, holding two screaming infants. One doctor holds an axe, the second a bottle of medicine. The title refers to King Herod's massacre of the innocents Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: Andy / 12 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 221 x 287 mm

Date: 1886 - 1890

From: Lister, Joseph Jackson 1857-1927 :[Lister album] 1886-1890 [Watercolours by Joseph, and possibly Isabella and Gulielma Lister]

By: Williams, William, 1858-1949

Reference: E-394-f-023

Description: On the left, two carved wooden axes with stone blade. On the right, three waka huia, with huia feathers and an ?ostrich feather. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - titles in pencil Quantity: 2 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen prints, 189 x 153 mm

Date: 1876

By: Florance, Augustus (Dr), 1812-1879

Reference: A-196-030

Description: A man sitting astride trimmed logs and kauri trunks, smoking a pipe while he watches another man felling a kauri. A tree fern and a nikau to the right. May possibly show Hutt Forest (where the artist lived) rather than the kauri forests of Northland. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: A.H.F. 1876 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone watercolour 207 x 247 mm

Date: 1971 - 1975

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-; Webb, Norman David, 1913-2005

Reference: G-236

Description: A two part picture, showing heavy snow falling on small island on left, pylons weighted down with snow and couple by small fire made from last surviving trees, trying to cut through Cook Strait cable with an axe; whilst on righthand island, with its healthy pylons, man rests comfortably in armchair, hat and scarf, in front of TV which announces:"Storms bash S.I. Possible cuts". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Eric Heath; Recto - beneath image - [Title] (very faded); Recto - beneath image - (Written in crayon on the glass, by Norman Webb, because original had faded): [Title] Appeared in the Dominion for 8 March 1973. "New Zealand energy journal", vol. 48 (Dec 1975) pages 261-263, has article entitled "A study of the implications of cutting the Cook Strait cable", by P D Lucas, B A Murtagh, and B R Smith; this tells that power had been conveyed from South to North for more than a decade, but that in recent years, South Islanders had been dissatisfied with shortages they had been forced to endure because of the power needs of the North Island. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and Chinese white on paper, 450 x 640 mm (sight). Provenance: Donated by Norman Webb, in 1996.

Date: 1945 - 1950

By: McNamara, John Joseph, 1918-2001; Southern Cross (Newspaper : 1946-1951)

Reference: A-369-135/152

Description: Political cartoons from the end of the ministry of Peter Fraser, the lead up to the 1949 election (in which he was defeated by Sidney Holland), and the first year of Holland's ministry. These cartoons mainly address Holland's link to the British conservatives (which McNamara had a very negative view of), and cuts he made to wages, pensions and allowances when he came into power. Other cartoons relate the post-war political situation in Britain and the United State's aid of the country. Some illustrations of animals are also included. Quantity: 17 newsclippings. Physical Description: Newspaper clippings glued to wallpaper, sizes vary

Date: 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-109-033-a

Description: Shows the saw mill in a clearing in the bush. In the centre foreground a group of five men, some Maori and some pakeha, stand or sit together, holding axes. At the right a man works at a bullock wagon. In: Brees S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. (London, 1847) Plate 16, No. 48. text p.29. Another copy at E-070-010 Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 117 x 167 mm

Date: 1840 - 1865 - 1908 - 1850

By: McCormick, Arthur David, 1860-1943; Fry, Patricia Susan, 1924-2019

Reference: A-004-037/047

Description: Titles: Heke fells the flagstaff at Kororareka; Farewell to Hawaiki; Victors in the fight; The fight in Massacre Bay; A dreadful recognition; Signing the Treaty of Waitangu; Phillpotts at Oheawai; A boy's heroism: "Awake! Awake!"; Major Witchell's charge at Nukemaru; The frenzy of the Hauhau. The incantation; Butters gives the alarm - Poverty Bay. Title supplied for each image. ATL has Reginald Horsley's "New Zealand. Romance of Empire" at NZ&P 993.1 HOR Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 11 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, coloured, each image 155 x 112 mm, on sheet 203 x 135 mm.

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 2nd series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-453-f-012-3

Description: Six men building a small wooden hut (or whare) in a bush clearing. Two men are placing planks on the hut, one is chopping down a tree, one is trimmed a felled tree trunk, amother is carrying a tree-fern trunk towards the hut, and the last is lifting another trunk. A nikau is on the left of the hut and the stumps of trees are on the slope to the right with dense bush in the background Other Titles - Whare Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen 100 x 150 mm

Date: 5 Feb 1958

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Ransfield, T, active 1950s

Reference: 1/2-042899-F

Description: Photographer: T Ransfield, fl 1950s Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 2001

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DX-006-025

Description: The future of West Coast logging is questioned as an axe-man runs after a tree trying to cut it down. He says; 'Not another GM Rimu.' Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 1857

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 2nd series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-453-f-010

Description: Three settlers felling timber. Two are working with axes at the trunk of a rata, centre right, while a third is resting in the left foreground. There are large tree-ferns and several nikau in the clearing beyond the men, with tree trunks piled up and native bush around the edges of the view. Mount Taranaki can be seen in the background Compare a similar view in monotone wash, rectangular shape, at E-453-f-013-1 Other Titles - Bush felling Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 200 x 280 mm

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: PUBL-0020-07-3

Description: Shows bushclearing along the path which became the Hutt Road. One man chops at a tree trunk with an axe, while two Maori stand in the path. The tranquil water of Wellington Harbour surrounded by bush-covered hills, show in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 191 x 160 mm, on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1850 - 1851

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889

Reference: C-054-014

Description: The Ngati Toa chief and tohunga Te Rangihaeata seated with his family (?). Behind the group is a thatched raupo whare. A dog lies in front, as well as a gourd, a cauldron and an axe with a carved handle. Inside the whare can be seen an unidentifiable object, possibly a charcoal burner. The sketch is unfinished Rangihaeata is not known to have fathered children, so the three young women with him are likely to be nieces or cousins. The woman leaning against him may be Rangihera, also known as Rangihira and Te Rangiuira, his niece. The source for the date 1850 is not known. The work bears no inscriptions. It may also be 1851, the likely date for C-054-020, the more finished and altered version of this view. Compare C-054-020 R. A. Oliver's 'Rangi-Hira (flash of lightning) the wife of the chief Rangihaeta [1847-1851] a more finished watercolour showing Rangihaeata with two young women and an older one, as well as a standing older man behind the group. The same cauldron and gourd are on the ground in front of the group, a whare is behind them beyond a large hollow tree trunk and the Paekakariki coastline is in the background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 265 x 375 mm

Date: 1847

From: McCormick, Arthur David 1860-1943 :[Illustrations from "New Zealand; romance of empire", by Reginald Horsley...with twelve reproductions in colour from drawings by A.D. McCormick, R.I. London, T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1908].

By: McCormick, Arthur David, 1860-1943

Reference: A-004-044

Description: Bugler William Allen sounding his horn to give warning during a night attack at Boulcott's farm, Hutt Valley. Redcoat soldiers lie dead in the foreground and in the left background, and the boy is about to be killed with an axe blow by a Maori man on the left. Extended Title - From Horsely, Reginald. New Zealand. Romance of Empire. London, 1908. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, 155 x 112 mm, on sheet 203 x 135 mm.

Date: 1844 - 1908

From: McCormick, Arthur David 1860-1943 :[Illustrations from "New Zealand; romance of empire", by Reginald Horsley...with twelve reproductions in colour from drawings by A.D. McCormick, R.I. London, T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1908].

By: McCormick, Arthur David, 1860-1943

Reference: A-004-037

Description: Shows Heke at the top left, wielding an axe. The flagpole is at the centre, and another figure holds the British flag which has been lowered. A group of armed Maori watch from the right foreground. Extended Title - From Horsely, Reginald. New Zealand. Romance of Empire. London, 1908. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 155 x 115 mm image size, support 203 x 136 mm.

Date: 1905

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/2-140718-G

Description: Photograph taken by William Williams Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Photographer identified by curator John Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Stereographic dry plate glass

Date: 1860 - 1863

By: Cooper, Alfred John, 1831-1869; Mouton, W J (Mr), active 1969

Reference: A-235-009

Description: Two men (Cooper faces the viewer at left, Lavin at right) cutting through the trunk of an enormous tree, their dog (identified as Rover)standing on the fallen trunk. Exhibited in 'Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art' Exhibition at Auckland City Art Gallery, 2 February - 22 April 1990. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. Title from descriptive notes by J. Lavin on back Inscriptions: Verso - title and descriptive text in ink in the hand of John Lavin: 'Bushwork. Crosscutting timber in Lavin's Bush for nails, that's the job i am at present occupied about. I as at work at it to day. I get my neighbour Mr Cooper to help me to crosscut. The falling and splitting I do single-handed. My neighbour Cooper is facing you, very like him. My back towards you. Rover on top the log. John Lavin.' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 74 x 129 mm