Places

Date: 11 Dec 1979

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

Reference: EP/1979/4353-F

Description: Original caption reads: "Forestry spokesman for the Environment and Conservation Organisations (ECO) Mr Guy Salmon unfurls a symbolic unsigned cheque made out to Minginui Sawmills Limited for $500,000 on the steps of Parliament yesterday. "Conservation organisations have been pressing the Government to extend such a loan so that the Minginui mill could afford to install machinery to process exotic (pine) timber at its Whirinaki State forest site. "The cheque, representing a Development Finance Corporation suspensory loan, was presented to the deputy Opposition leader, Mr David Lange, yesterday afternoon as part of a conservation protest at Parliament. "The organisations say that a suspensory loan would in effect provide a guarantee to continued employment to the Mingunui village residents." (Evening Post, 12 Dec, 1979). Evening Post photograph. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1957-2006

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-1

Description: Photographs of the North Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1957 to 2006. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Includes photographs of buildings, mainly commercial premises, in Wellington and Wanganui, 1957-1959. Also contains images of two old farm cottages in the Wairarapa, a tree house in Paihiatua, a car yard in Petone, and a shop reusing ammunition boxes from World War II as a flowerbed in Palmerston North. A number of photographs from 2002 document the protest around the building of the inner city bypass in Wellington. These images feature Tonks Avenue, protestors, affected buildings, an individual who was to be being evicted, and protest art. Two 2006 mages show demolition on Kensington Lane. Images of people include two women drinking beer in Ohingaiti, a motorcycle family in Turangi, and young children climing on a wooden sculpture in Porirua. A series of Maori carvings in public spaces includes sculptures on the Petone Foreshore, in Te Rauparaha Park, Porirua, and Tokaanu. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 19 October 1986

From: Smith family :Photographs relating to peace and nuclear disarmament demonstrations

Reference: PA1-f-331

Description: Album of photographs recording the New Zealand Peace Ribbon, a continuous string of banners expressing "what I cannot bear to think of as lost forever in a nuclear war" that in Wellington went from the United States Embassy in Thorndon to the Russian Embassy in Karori, Sunday, 9 October 1986. This idea had originated with an American woman, Justine Merritt, who in 1982 organised the first of such ribbons and used it to circle the Pentagon and other public buildings in Washington DC as a protest against the arms race and nuclear war. In 1986 Barbara Holt of the United Nations International Year of Peace Aotearoa Committee took up this idea, and with the help of Justine Merritt who happened to be visiting friends in New Zealand at the time, launched a successful publicity campaign for the project. The Peace Ribbon was a prelude to United Nations Disarmament Week which took place from 25 October to 2 November 1986. (Information from Peacelink, February 1987, p9). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 2002

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DX-005-349

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 1989

From: Murphy, Nigel Ralph, 1958- :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6624

Description: Photographs taken by Nigel Murphy showing Hepburn and Napier Streets, Freeman's Bay, Auckland, at the time the motorway was being built in 1979. Also includes photographs of Wellington in 1989 showing Chinese-owned restaurants and businesses, and protests at the Chinese Embassy in Glenmore Street, against the Tainanmen Square massacres. Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and dye coupler prints