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W D & H O Wills :A sporting holiday in New Zealand. No. 23 Pig shooting [1927]
Date: 1927
From: W D & H O Wills (Firm) :A sporting holiday in New Zealand. [Set of 50 cigarette cards]. W D & H O Wills, Bristol & London [ca 1927].
Reference: Eph-A-PICTURE-Cards-Wills-Sport-23
Description: Card shows a photograph of two pig hunters with their dog and with a wild pig they have shot. There are flax bushes in the background. The verso explains that Captain Cook liberated the first pigs in New Zealand. The method of using dogs to help in the kill is explained and the location of the photograph is given as near Lake Te Anau. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on cigarette card. Physical Description: Photograph on cigarette card, 59 x 71 mm.
Flax bush and man, Foxton
Date: 1943
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-001499-F
Description: Flax bush, and unidentified man alongside, Foxton. Photograph taken circa 5 February 1945 by John Dobree Pascoe. Other - Pascoe's caption, from the Photographic Archive file at 6/1/30, for the first of the set of photographs at 1/4-001498 to 001506, reads: "When New Zealand lost her overseas markets in hemp from flax, she perfected the fibre from flax (phormium tenax) for use in the manufacture of woolpacks. Over 30,000,000 sheep are shorn every season, and their wool must be pressed into woolpacks for transport and storage. These nine photographs give a glimpse of an industry that has developed since 1934." Caption - Pascoe's caption for this image in Photographic Archive file 6/1/30 reads: "A typical stand of flax, in its natural state. 500 people are employed in cultivation, harvesting, dressing and weaving." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Bales of flax fibre ready for market
Date: [ca 1910]
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-1438-1/4-G
Description: View of bales of flax fibre (often known as New Zealand hemp, or New Zealand flax, but more correctly known as phormium tenax). The negative is a copy of an image in an unidentified publication, photographed by an unidentified photographer. Copy photographed by Albert Percy Godber circa 1910. Inscription from the publication is visible on the negative, but is not shown on the File Print. Information about place taken from Godber File at TL6/1/15 (1/4 plate. Flax industry. Makerua. Box 13. Copy). Possibly from the Weekly Graphic. Inscriptions: Recto - Plate No. 13. Hemp baled ready for market. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches
Babbage, Herbert Ivan, 1875-1916 :The Steps, Zig Zag, Hawera. [1900]
Date: 1900
From: Babbage, Herbert Ivan, 1875-1916 :[Album of watercolours]
By: Babbage, Herbert Ivan, 1875-1916
Reference: E-285-q-025
Description: A cliffside path with steps descending to a beach, looking south Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 230 x 295 mm
Flax worker feeding a flax leaf into the stripper
Date: [ca 1910]
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-1439-1/4-G
Description: View of a flax worker feeding a flax leaf into the stripper. The negative is a copy of an image in an unidentified publication, photographed by an unidentified photographer. Copy photographed by Albert Percy Godber circa 1910. Inscription from the publication is visible on the negative, but is not shown on the File Print. Information about place taken from Godber File at TL6/1/15 (1/4 plate. Flax industry. Makerua. Box 13. Copy). Possibly from the Weekly Graphic. This image also reproduced in "Phormium tenax : the New Zealand fibre industry" by Esmond H Atkinson" Inscriptions: Recto - Plate No. 8. Feeding the leaf into the stripper Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches
Taking flax into shed for treatment, Lake Ohia
Date: [191-?]
From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland
Reference: 1/1-010558-G
Description: Flax workers taking bundles of New Zealand flax (phormium tenax) into shed for treatment, Lake Ohia, Northland. Photograph taken circa 1910s by Northwood brothers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Stack of flax fibre
Date: [191-?]
From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland
Reference: 1/1-010556-G
Description: Stack of New Zealand flax (phormium tenax) at Lake Ohia, Northland. Photograph taken circa 1910s by Northwood brothers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches
[Cook, Hinehauone Coralie], 1904-1993 :[House at Carterton, 10 Rexwood Street], Oct. 1973
Date: 1973
From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Loose prints, drawings and paintings; and two albums of prints and drawings. 1924-1991]
Reference: E-915-q-026
Description: Shows the flat-roofed house, garden and driveway of the residence of the artist and her husband. There is a climbing flowering plant (possibly a large-flowered clematis) on a trellis, and a flax bush and poppies or ranunculi overhanging the driveway. Loose in pages of scrapbook. Photographed in E-918-q, 106/289. Details supplied in Rod Cook's notebook at E-918-q. Other Titles - October Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 230 x 293 mm.
Green flax awaiting treatment outside shed, Lake Ohia
Date: [191-?]
From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland
Reference: 1/1-010554-G
Description: Green flax (Phormium tenax) awaiting treatment outside shed at Lake Ohia, Northland. Treated fibre is hanging alongside to dry. Photograph taken circa 1910s by Northwood brothers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Cutting flax on the Makurerua swamp for the Miranui flaxmill near Shannon
Date: 1917
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: 1/2-065683-G
Description: Shows four men cutting flax on the Makurerua swamp for the Miranui flaxmill near Shannon. Photograph taken by George Leslie Adkin ca 1917 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Unidentified locality, Horokiwi Wellington, New Zealand
Date: [ca 1903]
From: McIntosh album 17
Reference: PA1-o-301-865
Description: View across a padock to two small wooden buildings. A horse is grazing in front of one of them. In the foreground there is a tree trunk and mixed ground cover which includes a flax plant in flower and ferns. Probably photographed by George William Barltrop in about 1903. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Horokiwi Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15 x 11 cm
Flax swamp at Wai-kakariki lagoon near Levin
Date: 1912
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: 1/2-065686-G
Description: Shows a flax swamp at Wai-kakariki lagoon near Levin - Foxton highway. Photograph taken by George Leslie Adkin ca 1912. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Flax drying outside shed, Lake Ohia
Date: [191-?]
From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland
Reference: 1/1-010552-G
Description: New Zealand flax (phormium tenax) hanging up to dry outside shed at Lake Ohia, Northland. Photograph taken circa 1910s by Northwood brothers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Baker, William George 1864-1929 :L Taupo [ca 1900?]
Date: 1890 - 1910
By: Baker, William George, 1864-1929
Reference: G-616
Description: View looking south, possibly from where the Waikato River exits from the lake. There are six Maori in a canoe in the foreground and part of a village in the right foreground with a carved wharenui, with three Maori on the front porch. A smaller hut is to the left of the wharenui. There are cabbage trees and flax bushes around the marae area. There is a smaller canoe on the lake in the middle distance. Mounts Tongariro, Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu can be seen in the distance. Mount Tongariro has steam rising from its crater Compare a very similar watercolour by Baker in his sketchbook E-628-005. The only detail that differs is that the watercolour lacks the smaller canoe in the middle distance A watercolour version by Baker of the same view (300 x 400 mm) in a private collection, probably another preliminary version with minor differences, was shown in an exhibition at Pataka, Porirua Museum of Arts and Cultures, April to August 2007 - The itinerant artist: revisiting the paintings of William George Baker Other Titles - Lake Taupo Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [title and signature in red brushpoint] Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 590 x 890 mm
Maori group cutting flax at Lake Ohia
Date: [ca 1919]
From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland
Reference: 1/1-006285-G
Description: Unidentified Maori men, women, and children, cutting flax at Lake Ohia, circa 1919. Photograph probably taken by Arthur James Northwood. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Flax drying outside shed, Lake Ohia
Date: [191-?]
From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland
Reference: 1/1-010557-G
Description: Flax worker spreading hankis of New Zealand flax (phormium tenax) to dry outside shed at Lake Ohia, Northland. Photograph taken circa 1910s by Northwood brothers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Babbage, Herbert Ivan, 1875-1916 :A study from the garden, Rotokawau. Dec. 20th 1900.
Date: 1900
From: Babbage, Herbert Ivan, 1875-1916 :[Album of watercolours]
By: Babbage, Herbert Ivan, 1875-1916
Reference: E-285-q-027
Description: A garden scene showing flowers and flax plant with the sea in the background Other Titles - Rotokauwau. Virginia Lake Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 230 x 295 mm Provenance: Donation: Mr R. R. Babbage (see TL3/1/1, 18 May 1971).
A flax worker harvesting the green leaves, using a sickle
Date: [ca 1910]
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-1437-1/4-G
Description: View of a man harvesting green flax leaves using a sickle. The negative is a copy of an image in an unidentified publication, photographed by an unidentified photographer. Copy photographed by Albert Percy Godber circa 1910. Inscription from the publication is visible on the negative, but is not shown on the File Print. Also visible is the number 7013 on the original image. Information about place taken from Godber File at TL6/1/15 (1/4 plate. Flax industry. Makerua. Box 13. Copy). Possibly from the Weekly Graphic. Inscriptions: Recto - Plate No. 2. Harvesting the green leaf. The "cutter" uses a sickle.; Marginal notes on negative - bottom right - 7013 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches
Erua, with the railway station and houses in the middle background.
Date: Between 1912 and 1916
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-0867-1/2-G
Description: Township of Erua, with the railway station and houses in the middle background, and swampy ground with flax bushes in the foreground. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, between 1912 and 1916. Original print in Godber Album Vol 101, p 47 (PA1-o-195) Inscriptions: Album page - Erua. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches
Flax worker with harvested leaves of flax (phormium tenax)
Date: [ca 1910]
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-1435-1/4-G
Description: View of a man with a bundle of flax leaves after harvesting from a single bush or clump. Negative is a copy of an image in an unidentified publication, photographed by an unidentified photographer. Copy photographed by Albert Percy Godber circa 1910. Inscription from the publication is visible on the negative, but is not shown on the File Print. Also visible is the number 7017 on the original image. Information about place taken from Godber File at TL6/1/15 (1/4 plate. Flax industry. Makerua. Box 13. Copy). Possibly from the Weekly Graphic. Inscriptions: Recto - Plate No. 3. The harvested leaf from a single clump or bush.; Marginal notes on negative - bottom right - 7017 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches