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Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925

Reference: A-104-048-a

Description: Shows cattle and horses grazing, farm buildings, a man on horseback at the left, and a carriage with horses at the right. There is bush on the hills, and mountains in background. See Ellis, E M. Early prints of N.Z. 1642-1875. Christchurch 1977 p. 192-193 Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - (On printed label): [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 210 x 300 mm

Date: 1910-1915

By: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985

Reference: PAColl-0370

Description: Set of photographs of drainage operations on the Hauraki Plains. Spoil from the canal and ditch construction was used as foundation for roads so road construction is also shown. The photographs include two men hay harvesting in front of a small house, a man in a flax field, a dredge at work, the labourers' camp, boats moored at a jetty in Ngatea. Some of the photographs are captioned. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Copy photographic prints Provenance: Given to J H Christie by Dennis Hancock, the grandson of H J Hancock who created the collection.

Date: 1981

By: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945-

Reference: H-670-001/003

Description: Cartoons showing farming life for Edna, topics cover; Edna's sacrifice for a prize bull, Edna trims the farm trees using a chainsaw and a trampoline, Edna assists with sheep dipping. Exhibited in 'The Famouse Five: Manawatu's Cartoonists on Show', Exhibition curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited at Te Manawa Art (Manawatu Art Gallery), Palmerston North, from 13 May to 23 June 2002, in association with Massey University and the Palmerston North City Council. Quantity: 3 photograph(s). Physical Description: A4 photocopies

Date: ca 1900s

From: Wairakei Album

Reference: PAColl-0710-1

Description: Eighteen photographs on two loose pages from the Wairakei album showing a large group of men and women picnicking next to a river, smaller groups of men in seated or standing poses, a group of young women and boys with two dogs, cattle in a field, a man fishing in a stream, and scenic views. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Possibly donated by R McKnight.

Date: [ca 20 Nov 1992]

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

By: Pigney, Ray, active 1988

Reference: EP/1992/4788-F

Description: Cattle (and farmer?) in the Wairarapa, including a Wagyu bull calf. Photographs taken circa 20 Nov Ray Pigney. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm

Date: 1950 - 1979

Reference: Eph-A-CATTLE-1950/1979

Description: Includes: 1956: The Committee of Management of the Auckland Herd Improvement Association (Incorporated) requests the pleasure of your company at the official opening of the Association's new office building. Somersby Building, 74 London Street, Hamilton. 21 June 1956. (And inserted invitation to Smoke Concert Party that evening) 1960: New Zealand Aberdeen Angus Cattle Breeders' Association. Catalogue of 40th show and sale of pedigree bulls to be sold in yards of the Southern Hawke's Bay Stock and Station Agents' Assoication. Dannevirke, 20-21 September 1960. 1976: Manawatu Jersey Cattle Breeders Club. 10th club show Golden Jubilee year. Mr & Mrs Hunt's property, Glen-Oroua. 11 December 1976. Programme 1977: Limousin and Charolais auction sale conducted by the N.Z.Charolais Cattle Society, and the N.Z. Limousin Society. Canterbury A & P Showgrounds Sale Pavilion, Christchurch New Zealand, 28 June 1977. Sales catalogue 1978: Whose calf is that? [Livestock Improvement pamphlet. 1978] Quantity: 1 folder(s) 5 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Booklets, pamphlet and fliers, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1857

By: Smith, Hannah Stephenson, 1813-1891; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-256-039-a

Description: Mount Taranaki on the left in the distance. Two cottages in a clearing backed by tall trees in the middle ground, with fenced in gardens. In the foreground a field with sheep and cattle and hay being hauled on a cart by oxen. The artist is very likely to be Hannah Stephenson Smith who drew views of a later family home in Taranaki, and was also the sister of the author of the book in which this view appeared as the frontispiece. Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, C. New Zealand or Zelandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Frontispiece. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 90 x 150 mm on sheet 120 x 180 mm

Date: [ca 1924-1958]

From: Vogt, Herlof Anton Herlofsen, 1914-1984:Photographs and postcards

By: Vogt, Herlof Anton Herlofsen, 1914-1984; Vogt, Birgette Marie, active 1950s-1990s

Reference: PA1-o-748

Description: Anton Vogt was conceived in 1914 just before his parents returned to Norway from Argentina. His father, Volrath Vogt, had gone to Argentina as a young man of 20 in 1905. There, among other things, he worked as gaucho, herding cattle on the Pampas. In 1912 he married Margot Herlofsen, another Norwegian in Argentina, and in 1913 they had their first child, Sito, Anton's sister. Anton was born in Norway where his parents lived during World War I. His father worked as a business man supplying chemical products to the British Government. After the war the family moved to London where Volrath established what was at first a successful business in the boom of the immediate post war years. When the business failed he moved with his family to the Waterberg district, 200 miles north of Johannesburg in what is today Botswana. There during the early 1920s he managed a 200,000 acre cattle ranch on the edge of the Kalahari desert for a Norwegian consortium When this venture came to an end in 1926 the family came to New Zealand and ran a small shop at Bucklands Beach, Auckland. Anton and his sister worked at various jobs during their late teenage years and largely supported the family financially. In 1931 Anton got a job with the Western Electric Company and they sent him to Hamilton where he Lived for most of the 1930s. He then went to Wellington in the late 1930s still in the employment of Western Electric. In late 1938 Anton married his first wife, Rosalind Lees, and in 1939 entered training college. He Worked in broadcasting during the 1940s. Anton and Rosalind had six children Photographs in this album cover the period from childhood in Norway during the First World War to young parenthood in the late 1940s. It is rich in Norwegian relatives, African cattle ranches and family, friends and colleagues in New Zealand. There is also an interesting personal record of Erling Tambs, a Norwegian yachtsman who sailed from Oslo to Auckland in the "Teddy" ca 1931 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1896 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-056

Description: A rural scene, possibly at Port Underwood, showing cattle grazing on the property of Mr A Hutt Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Underwood; Recto - beneath image - fields of Mr A Hutt. Underwood Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 (page size)

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Stack, Frederick Rice, -1873

Reference: E-106-f-036-1

Description: View from Lake Pupuke looking towards the city of Auckland. In the foreground cattle and sheep are grazing, and a man on horseback yielding a whip. Originally published in Stack, F R. Views in the Province of Auckland. [1862] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: wood engraving, 125 x 350 mm

Date: 1959

By: Ball, Murray Hone, 1939-2017

Reference: J-047-001/004

Description: Cartoons on various social and political issues covering topics; safety in school play grounds, the morning after ANZAC Day celebrations, stock diversification among farmers, television attempts to get a closer view of rugby games. Exhibited in 'The Famouse Five: Manawatu's Cartoonists on Show', Exhibition curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited at Te Manawa Art (Manawatu Art Gallery), Palmerston North, from 13 May to 23 June 2002, in association with Massey University and the Palmerston North City Council. Quantity: 4 photocopy/ies A3 size. Physical Description: A3 photocopies Processing information: Record updated on 29 June 2023 when the access and use conditions were updated per the agreement with Diogenes Designs Limited for the Murray Ball Estate.

Date: 1880s

From: Main, William :Two photograph albums

Reference: PA1-q-638

Description: Views of farmland, homesteads, mountains, forest, and people associated with Merrivale, Blackmount, and other stations in Southland. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Circa 1870s-1880s]

From: Sarney, H F (Mr), fl 1959 :Photograph albums of New Zealand scenes

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-065

Description: Album of landscapes taken by various photographers including Wheeler & Sons and the Burton Brothers, circa 1870s and 1880s. All the views are of New Zealand except the last sequence (p 33-37) showing Rio de Janeiro. Of particular interest are views of a wool wagon drawn by oxen, crossing a ford; a series showing an unidentified curved viaduct under construction (p 28-32); and a number showing a farm run by J F L Jetter at Te Puke when the land was partially cleared, with cattle grazing in paddocks, and Mr Jetter standing by a horse in a paddock in front of his home. Many of the images show uncleared land, with a deep ravine filled with native bush and tree ferns, and a stream running through (p 24-27). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover with embossed diamond shape pattern, bordered with gold; 32 x 38 cm

Date: 1981

From: Evans, Malcolm, 1945- :["Edna" cartoons published] 1989.

Reference: H-670-001

Description: Shows Edna's husband rowing a dinghy with a prize bull in it over flooded paddocks, while Edna is made to swim along side the boat. Exhibited in 'The Famouse Five: Manawatu's Cartoonists on Show', Exhibition curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited at Te Manawa Art (Manawatu Art Gallery), Palmerston North, from 13 May to 23 June 2002, in association with Massey University and the Palmerston North City Council. The first Edna cartoon ever published. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies A4 size. Physical Description: horizontal A4 photocopy

Date: 1918-1923

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-658

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Finding Aids: Photocopy of album showing which images copied in PAColl sequence at PAColl-1886.

Date: 1893

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks] 1890-1893

Reference: E-315-q-6-008

Description: View across flat farmland with low hills in the background. About a dozen cattle are moving towards a group of trees. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 151 x 251 mm.

Date: ca 1900s

Reference: PAColl-7530

Description: Photographs of land around Mangawhero and Mangapouri captioned on the reverse with the section numbers; also pictures of sheep and cattle farming in those areas. Also five photographs of land clearance and early settlement at Bethells or Te Henga. Photographs taken ca 1900s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s). Transfers: Three prints at PAColl-5800-42 to 44. Processing information: The negative at 1/2-005453 is a copy negative for an original print which is yet to be located.

Date: 1880 - 1891

By: May, Powell, active 1880s

Reference: B-064-010

Description: View from a low hill, looking east along a valley towards the sea. Cabbage trees, flax and toitoi in the foreground, a barn and other buildings with a track, a bullock-team hauling a cart with other cattle. In the middle distance, a row of young poplar trees along a fence, a cottage, the homestead and other buildings in the distance near the sea. Shows Whangaehu station, ca 60 km South east of Waipukurau, owned by A.H.Price 1880-1891. Other Titles - Whangaehu Station Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Powell May from an oil. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour with Chinese white 250 x 343 mm Provenance: Purchase: Frances Edwards Ltd, London, November 1966, for #55.

Date: 1894

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-169-019

Description: Cattle grazing on a plain, with haystacks and farm buildings in the background. Flax grows on the flat land. There are hills to the left and in the distance Inscriptions: On separate label, attached below work: title in pencil in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 58 x 242 mm

Date: [1930s, 1950s]

From: Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-653

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).