Places

Date: 1999

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

Reference: H-587-001/021

Description: Political cartoons. Shows a redneck's nightmare, ownership of the Whanganui River is given to Maori who loaded it onto the back of a truck and took it away. Comment on executive golden handshakes and reduntant workers having to sign up for the dole. Shows violent offenders at Paremoremo Prison selecting soft movies like 'The Sound of Music'. In the middle of a power blackout the family try and read the latest power bill, it's gone up. The effect on the opposition of Jonah Lomu being left on the reserve bench. Statue of Liberty calls for the poor and huddled masses but says 'no' to New Zealand lamb. Comment on New Zealand's response to America's tariffs on New Zealand lamb. The common man comments on Bill English upstaging Jenny Shipley at the National Party Conference. Maori MP calls for quotas in the public sector that will ensure employment for ethnic minorities. Hospital hygeine is called into doubt. A politician trys to sell the idea of deregulating the Dairy Industry. A woman comments to her husband that it's a good thing young men eventually grow out of wanting more sex. He wistfully agrees. Obituary for JFK Jr. 1960-1999 Comment on youth alcohol consumption. Auckland Hospital try to reassure the public all babies are born equally there but not necessarily treated equally after that. Comment on Christine rankin's over the top refurbishment of the dept of work and income. Celebration of three New Zealand triumphs. Mike Moore gets top job at WTO, the All Blacks beat the Australians and the Black Caps cricket team beat the English at Lords. Paul Holmes promotes his autobiography. F-16 fighter planes are promoted by an Air Force Officer. The lowering of the drinking age is debated in Parliament. Boys try to come to terms with the news that girls are better pupils than boys. Quantity: 21 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1952

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to women, women's roles, activities, issues, in New Zealand]

By: Reid, Beverley Elaine, 1931-2012

Reference: Eph-A-WOMEN-1952-01

Description: Booklet issued as part of an event to raise finds for a Pioneer Women's hall in Auckland, as a community centre for women. The project was started by Miss Ellen Melville, an Auckland solicitor and City councillor who died in 1947 [ie 1946]. The Caravanserai (based on the Turkish idea of a public building erected for the shelter of caravans) was an exhibition of goods from many countries of the world. The booklet gives a short account of the history and culture of each country. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet, 240 x 184 mm.

Date: 2001

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

Reference: H-661-001/061

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 61 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size

Date: [1980-1987]

From: Creative New Zealand: Collections relating to the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council and Creative NZ

Reference: PA12-5760

Description: Photograph of the Manurewa Community Arts Centre, manukau City, New Zealand. Views of the house used by the arts centre, and a record of the activities associated with it. The particpants are women and children. The Manurewa Community Arts Centre uses the house built by David Nathan in 1925. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1863 - 1865

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-008

Description: A party in the 1860s in a large living room or ballroom. Mistletoe is attached to a chandelier, beneath which is a chair draped with bonnets. Behind the chair is a young soldier in hiding. Four rather plain-looking women are heading towards the lures on the chair, while two prettier women in the foreground have their backs to their would-be swain and any potential kissing under the mistletoe. The soldier may be intended to be a self-portrait and the ballroom may be in Auckland. There are large pictures on the walls, chairs and couches against the far wall, a grand piano and the chair in the centre along with a chaise-longue. The artist was a surgeon with the British forces during the Waikato-Tauranga war of the mid 1860s Other Titles - Artful dodge Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 214 x 276 mm

Date: 1929-1948

By: Kendall, Leslie Frank, active 1920-1950

Reference: PA1-o-717

Description: Album compiled by Lesley Frank Kendall. The first section relates to tramping and the Mount Egmont Alpine Club. This includes - A large group of people on a mountain tramp ca 1929. Climbers on Mount Egmont. Building the first Syme Hut on Fantham's Peak, Mount Egmont, 1930. Military training camp at Long Bay. Emerson Street, Napier, in ruins, 1931. Two men on a motorcycle holiday. Group of photographs of the Wairarapa and Tararua Ranges. This includes - Men hunting in the Palliser Bay area. Views of the Rimutaka Range and road. Climbers on Mount Hector, Tararua Range, and at Kime and Field's huts. View of the Balclutha road bridge (built between 1933 and 1935). Kendall family members and a motor holiday in Central Otago ca 1936. This group also includes Queentown, the Buller Gorge, the DH 86 aircraft `Karoro,' and Canterbury. Views of Napier rebuilt. Sports matches include - New Zealand versus India, hockey, 1938. Otago versus Canterbury, rugby (probably Ranfurly Shield) 1938. Photograph group relating to a holiday in Auckland. Photograph group relating to a holiday at The Portage, Kenepuru Sound, Marlborough. Family gathering. Lesley Kendall in military uniform and Norma Clout on their wedding day, ca 1940. Group of photographs of unidentified children, people and places. Pig hunting trip, locality unidentified. Group of photographs of Lesley and Norma Kendall's first baby. Holiday on the South Island's West Coast. Wanganella on Barrett Reef, Wellington Harbour, 1948. Views of Ohinemutu and Whakarewarewa. Group of photographs relating to the Royal New Zealand Air Force training school at Levin, Second World War. Family photographs, views of Wellington, the Putangirua Pinnacles Palliser Bay, and Picton. Groups of people on holiday at Paraparaumu, 1930s. Groups of people on a day out at Ohariu Valley, Wellington, 1930s. Wellington College Mod. VB class, 1929. Lesley Kendall with athletic trophies for the 1929-1930 season. Family photographs, 1920s-1940s. House on Maungakiekie Avenue, One Tree Hill, Auckland. Group photograph of a dance party, Mount Eden, Auckland, 1930s. Two photographs of New Zealand Air Force groups, Second World war. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1950

By: Bishop, Bruce, active 1998; Bishop, Claire, active 1998; Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd

Reference: PA1-o-852

Description: Record of the operations of Academy Pattern Co Ltd, Auckland. There is a group photograph of the staff dated 1950, and all the other photographs show the processes involved in producing clothing patterns. Quantity: 1 album(s). Provenance: Donors inherited album from an aunt who was the wife of Allan Mungall, who with his brother Ray, set up Academy Pattern Co Ltd.

Date: 1927-1981

From: New Zealand News Ltd :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8070-3

Description: Photograohs of contestants in a competition for women models held by the Auckland Star in 1955. Views of the Star's offices in Shortland and Fort streets from 1927 to a model by two architectural students in 1977 of a possible building in the future, a group photograph of the staff in 1930, the Stoddard Road printery in 1962, newspapers for Coromandel being loaded onto an aircraft in 1979, and a portrait of G Burns. Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1878-1884]

By: Aitken family; Bartlett, Robert Henry, 1842-1911; Clifford & Morris (Firm); Foy Brothers (Firm); Hemus & Hanna (Firm); Martin, Charles, 1842?-1905

Reference: PA1-q-1083

Description: Album of photographs of Aitken family of Kereone. Includes photographs of Fiji by Dufty studio, and photographs from well-known New Zealand studios including Foy Bros of Thames, Clifford & Morris, Hemus & Hanna, R H Bartlett, Charles Martin, J Martin, and London Portrait Rooms. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top right - To Sandy from Jeannie - March 31st 1879 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 29.5 x 23 cm Provenance: Album was a gift from Jeannie Richmond to her brother Sandy (Alexander) Aitken on March 31, 1879. Sandy consequently filled the album with photographs of family.

Date: 1948-1989

From: Woods, Keith, 1928-1997 :Photographs relating to dance in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7161

Description: View of Poverty Bay and Gisborne from the air. Gisborne main street at night and view of the town. Gisborne Harbour, statue of Captain Cook, and war memorial, 1970. House being re-roofed, Glen Eden, Auckland, 1989. Portraits of grandmother and Mrs Hawthorn, 1948 and 1963. Views from Te mata Peak, Hastings, 1970. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1926

By: Young Women's Christian Association of Aotearoa-New Zealand; Dawson Printing Company

Reference: Eph-A-YWCA-1926-01

Description: Programme for a grand pageant and march of the nations. The pageant was entitled "Weavers All". Includes portraits of the following performers: Mrs Edgar Webb (stage manager), Miss Joyce Bremner (as "Everygirl"), and Miss Mavis Grevatt (harpist). Other named performers included: Conductor Mr W Edgar Webb, Myrtle Burns, Mrs Milne-Hovey, Lola Musseler, Noel Goddard, Miss Calyso Brooks, Miss M Couston, Myrtle Inskip, Dorothie Hoskin. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, each 237 x 182 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Nationwide Traders, Auckland, in 2005.

Date: [1980-1987]

From: Creative New Zealand: Collections relating to the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council and Creative NZ

Reference: PA12-5761

Description: Photograph of the Manurewa Community Arts Centre, manukau City, New Zealand. Views of the house used by the arts centre, and a record of the activities associated with it. The particpants are women and children. The Manurewa Community Arts Centre uses the house built by David Nathan in 1925. Quantity: 8 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1951-1988

From: Woods, Keith, 1928-1997 :Photographs relating to dance in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7158

Description: Hot springs, Rotorua area, taken at different times between 1970 and 1988. Portrait of Gillian Robinson, 1967. Lyttelton from the Port Hills, 1951. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 2002

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

Reference: H-666-001/014

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 14 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size

Date: 1896

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/4-034269-G

Description: Group of women on the edge of Lake Pupuke, Takapuna, Auckland, taken 1896 by Daniel Manders Beere. Lake Hotel and Sir Henry Brett's house in Killarney Street can be seen on the horizon. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: October 1988

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

Reference: EP-Cranes-03

Description: Caroline Nola in the operating cab of a tower crane, Auckland, New Zealand. Photographed by an unknown photographer in October 1988. Published in the Evening Post 21 January 1980. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 11 June 1925]

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: PAColl-4920-3-10-01

Description: Forty women grouped on the deck of the `Ruapehu.' They have come to New Zealand to take up work as domestic servants. Photographed by an unknown photographer circa 11 June 1925. This image was published in the New Zealand Pictorial Post, 20 June 1925. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver geltin print, 14.3 x 10.8 cm

Date: 1863

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-027

Description: An extensive view looking out to the water, with several small ships in Manukau Harbour, houses in the right foreground, a wharf to the left, and a woman on horseback, accompanied by a man standing by his horse in the left foreground. The woman is gesturing towards the view. Copied by Hamley from the drawings of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, Although the specific original for this work is not known, Williams did visit Onehunga in July 1864 - see his drawing titled Onehunga - July at E-510-001. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 175 x 250 mm

Date: 1860 - 1866

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-011

Description: Looking down to Manukau Harbour, with a sailing ship at a breakwater on a point of land to the left, and small craft at a jetty on the right. A few houses strung along shore with sections laid out in the foreground and a small church to the left. Mangere mountain is in the middle distance with Puketutu Island to the right. The background volcanoes are Ihumatao, near the modern airport. Two women, one with a parasol, and a man are gazing at the view from a low hill in the foreground Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Other Titles - Manukau Inscriptions: On separate label, once part of the backing board. Title in pencil. The first four words have been written over the erased fuller title including the words 'The western part of Auckland' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 234 x 342 mm Provenance: By descent to the Wilkie Family.

Date: 2 Sep 1943

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000572-F

Description: Uniformed female employees from the Westfield freezing works in Otahuhu, Auckland, grouped outside the factory buildings during Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt's tour. The women wear white coats and hats. A palm tree is on the right. Photograph taken on the second of September, 1943 by John Pascoe. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 20 572 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative