Places

Date: 1855 - 1863

From: [Duppa, George 1817-1888] :[Sketchbook ca 1852-1860]

Reference: E-080-q-3-011

Description: A series of quick sketches. A two-storied house with another at right-angles (or the same house seen from a different angle) is the most finished. It may show the artist's house at Amuri. There are fifteen drawings of men's faces, including one of a moustached man with upper body including, possibly in a military uniform. There are several cows drawn from several angles and one horse's head. There is also a small drawing of two stick-figure men lining up to fight one another with seated figures behind them. The drawing is undated but the details are likely to have been observed at Duppa's Amuri run in the 1860s. The inside back cover of the sketchbook includes the name and English address of Duppa's nephew, Bryan, who visited Amuri in 1863 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 185 x 270 mm

Date: [ca 1910s]

Reference: PAColl-6888

Description: Two images of a man cutting his son's hair sitting on a waka next to the Whanganui River; two of a waka being rowed on the river and one of the crew holding their hoe; a cow being lifted by a winch into a boat; yachts and row boats in Auckland harbour for the Auckland Regatta; two of Auckland harbour ferries; a steamer at a pier on the Whanganui River; three children playing on a shore line near Auckland with a pier in the background; a group of men, women and children round a camp fire with a makeshift tent in the background; and a row of houses with the wreckage left from a fire in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044216 to 044228 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

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: [ca1895-1920]

Reference: PAColl-6759

Description: Scenes of returned soldiers being given instruction in agricultural techniques. They include a photograph of the syllabus offered, men in the field tending crops and cows and views of the men in a group eating from billies. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-028842 to 028851 Quantity: 10 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: 1927

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :[Sketchbooks]

Reference: E-292-q-1-015

Description: Steer resting on the ground beside a barbed wire fence. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 60 x 130 mm on page 185 x 130 mm

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: 1842 - 1847

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

Reference: B-049-044/046

Description: Shows views in the Hutt Valley, Wellington and Wairarapa. At the top, a view looking west along Palliser Bayl, with Hokorewa Pa visible on the flat land near the coast in the distance, at the mouth of the Ruamahanga River. In the centre a view from the hills above Brooklyn and Ohiro Valley, looking west towards the harbour entrance. A few sheep are grazing in the foreground. Mount Victoria, Evans Bay and Lyall Bay can be seen. At the bottom, the house of William Swainson, with other buildings around it and trees on both sides. Three cows grazing in the foreground. Other Titles - William Swainson Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1932

From: Field, Robert Nettleton, 1899-1987 :[Collection of sketches, 1926 to 1961]

Reference: A-265-085

Description: Outdoor scene possibly a farmyardin the vicinity of Queenstown, with buildings on the left and a cow and chickens in the yard outside. There is a chair and table in the foreground on the left, and mountains in the far distance. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Title in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil. 201 x 169 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.

Reference: B-049-012/014

Description: Three engravings from watercolours by S. C. Brees, Principal Surveyor to the New Zealand Company in Wellington, 1842-1845. They show a pa in the foreground close to Porirua Harbour, with a view of the harbour and hills, a European man with swag, walking stick and dog in the foreground; New Plymouth looking south along the coastline with Mount Taranaki and the Sugar Loaf rocks in the background, cows in the foreground and the houses of the town in the middle distance; two buildings of Joseph Thom's whaling station, with washing hanging up, barrels in the foreground. Other Titles - Porirua. Taranaki Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on sheet 365 x 261

Date: 1886 - 1911 - 1938

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/2/3-Acc.38773

Description: Identifies with coloured dots areas of sheep, cattle, dairy cows and pig farming in the North and South Island. 1886, 1911, 1938. [ms map] Quantity: 12 manuscript map(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Ink drawing on linen. Scale indeterminable. 86 x 122 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1891

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/3/10-Acc.38840

Description: Identifies tentative 1891 dairy cow distribution in the South Island Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil tracing on greaseproof paper. Scale indeterminable. 50.5 x 149.5 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1891

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/3/11-Acc.38841

Description: Identifies dairy cow distribution in the North Island 1891 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil tracing on greaseproof paper. Scale indeterminable. 85.5 x 136 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6488

Description: 17 views of Aoraki/Mount Cook one of which shows two men on horseback, one a cow grazing on the plains in the foreground, and one an old, delapidated hut possibly a tramping hut. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044126 to 044142 Quantity: 15 b&w original negative(s) glass. 2 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: These negatives belong to a sequence of unidentified negatives. The negative register has the heading Mount Cook for them but the provenance is unknown. 1/4-044135 is missing at the time of entry but is most likely to belong to this collection.

Date: 1855 - 1863

From: [Duppa, George 1817-1888] :[Sketchbook ca 1852-1860]

Reference: E-080-q-3-005

Description: Four cows in the foreground, with flax bushes in flower to the left. Behind them, to the right are two substantial houses, at right-angles to one another. There is a range of high hills in the background The drawing is undated but is more likely to show Duppa's Amuri run in the 1860s than his Waimea run in the 1840s. The inside back cover of the sketchbook includes the name and English address of Duppa's nephew, Bryan, who visited Amuri in 1863 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 185 x 270 mm

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/3/12-20-Acc.38842-38850

Description: Identifies dairy cow distribution in the North and South Island (maps incomplete) Quantity: 7 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil tracings on greaseproof paper. Scales indeterminable. 63.5 x 101 cm, or smaller Finding Aids: Inventory available.

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/1/4-Acc.38703

Description: Identifies number of dairy cows, with one dot representing 2000; cattle (one dot also representing 2000); pigs (one dot representing 800) and sheep (one dot representing 20,000) Quantity: 3 manuscript map(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream paper. Scale indeterminable. 45 x 63.4 cm Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1917

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-216

Description: Shows two white cows grazing in a paddock. A third (brown) cow is being milked by hand. Wooden fence posts, trees, and shrubs are shown. In the background the top of a roof with a chimney is visible, and behind it some hills The reverse of the image reads: 'Lake Taupo. March 2 1917' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 125 x 166 mm

Date: 1958 to 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8807

Description: Transparency slides of New Zealand selected by Mr Williams as a representative collection to be used in a series of lectures on his return to England. This sheet starts with a series of maps, a world political map, map of the sea floor showing the relationship of New Zealand with the various undersea mountain ridges etc., New Zealand physical, rainfall, and geological maps. Views of Cape Maria van Diemen and Rangitoto nearing New Zealand on board ship. Auckland Harbour from the air; Auckland from Devonport; Ninety-Mile Beach; country near Waipoua Forest, the road into the forest, and Tane Mahuta, on the way to Kaipara; Kaihu River and coastal country between Trounson's Forest and Waihue; and Omamari beach and stream. The last five views show aspects of Holmridge farm owned by Mr Williams' friends Ruth and Vernon Woods. Arrangement: These slides were selected by Mr Williams from his original sequence to create a representative collection of New Zealand images which he used in illustrated lectures on his return to England. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1928

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :[Sketchbooks]

Reference: E-292-q-4-055

Description: Top half of the page - Drawing of a cow resting on the ground Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 233 x 140 mm

Date: 1970

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-060

Description: Shows a farmer with his sheep and a cow. They are all sweltering in a paddock under a hot sun. The next scene shows the three of them dancing around in the rain. In the final scene, the farmer is looking rather concerned at a newspaper with the heading "Auckland Unions plans to ban beer deliveries". In the distance behind him is a view of the Auckland Harbour Bridge and One Tree Hill. Refers to rain saving farmers and their livestock and restrictions on beer deliveries in Auckland. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, 225 x 320mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.