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Date: 1960 - 1969

From: [Programmes and ephemera relating to boxing, boxers].

By: Wellington Boxing Association

Reference: Eph-A-BOXING-1960s

Description: Includes: 1960s: Canterbury Boxing Association. Itinerary card, NZ Junior Boxing Championships 1960: Boxing tournament (Main fight Mosese Varasikete v Sonny Pehi). Athletic Park, 27 February 1960. Programme. 1962: New Zealand Amateur Boxing Championships. YMCA Stadium, Gisborne, 10-12 September 1962. Programme 1963: New Zealand Amateur Boxing Championships. Canterbury Court Stadium Christchurch, 23-25 September 1963. Official programme 1964: 52nd New Zealand Amateur Boxing Championships. Town Hall Wellington, 28-30 September 1964. Souvenir programme (Front cover shows Wally Coe, NZ and British Empire Welter Champion; inside are brief notes on 1963 winners: Bill Kini, Bruce Johnstone, Tommy Dunn, Murray Emmerson, Wally Coe, Brian Maunsell, Manoel Santos, Turori George, John Wills and Brian Kendall) 1968: Manawatu Boxing Association presents the New Zealand Senior Amateur Boxing Championships 1968. Izadium, Fitzherbert Avenue Palmerston North, 23-25 September 1968. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s) 5 programmes; 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying around 297 x 210 mm. Provenance: Some programmes donated by Boxing New Zealand in 2007. Transfers: Material from the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-1563..

Date: 1950 - 1959

From: [Programmes and ephemera relating to boxing, boxers].

Reference: Eph-A-BOXING-1950s

Description: Includes: 1950s?: Wellington Boxing Association. Pass out 1951: New Zealand Amateur Boxing Championships 1951. Opera House Palmerston North, 24-26 September 1951. Programme 1952: Wellington Boxing Association. George Burke (Wellington) v Alfie Emerson (Australia); and, "Chub" Keith (Wellington) vs Don Mullett (Wellington). 18 February 1952. Programme 1953: Waimate Boxing Association. 25th jubilee 1928-1953. Anniversary programme 19853. 1954: New Zealand Amateur Boxing Championships. Town Hall Wellington. 13-15 September 1954. Souvenir programme. 1954: Gerald Dreyer v Barry Brown. Basin Reserve, 15 January 1954. programme. 1957: Barry Brown (Wellington) v Ulf Christensen (Wellington). Wellington Town Hall, 24 June 1957. Programme. 1959: New Zealand Amateur Boxing Championships. Theatre Royal Timaru, 5-7 October 1959. Souvenir programme Quantity: 1 folder(s) 7 programmes; 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying around 297 x 210 mm. Provenance: Some programmes donated; some purchased. Transfers: Material from the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-1563..

Date: 1980 - 1989

From: [Programmes and ephemera relating to boxing, boxers].

Reference: Eph-A-BOXING-1980s

Description: Includes: 1981: New Zealand 1981 Amateur Boxing Championships. Civic Centre Upper Hutt, 25-29 August 1981. Programme 1984: Winstone NZ Boxing Championships. Sports & Conference Centre, Rotorua, 20-25 August 1984. Itinerary card 1984: Professional boxing, Lower Hutt Town Hall. 4 July 1984 at 8.00 pm. Steve Freeman vs Jeff Smith. Ringside $15.00 [Ticket] Quantity: 1 folder(s) 2 programmes; 1 ticket. Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying around 297 x 210 mm. Provenance: Two items donated by Boxing New Zealand in 2007.

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: 2001

By: Waerea, James, 1940-2019; NZ Truth (Newspaper)

Reference: H-658-001/016

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international issues. Quantity: 16 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: 16 A4 size photocopies of faxed drawings.

Date: 1974

By: Calcott, Peter, 1940?-

Reference: Eph-D-SPORTS-1974-02

Description: Each poster promotes the Games which ran from 24 January to 2 February 1974. Each poster shows a figure engaged in a different sport; these include: running, cycling, boxing, swimming butterfly stroke, shooting, weightlifting, wrestling, bowls, badminton. Two copies of each of the nine promotional posters. Artist identified in personal communication in 2002. Quantity: 9 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters. Physical Description: Photolithographs mainly 595 x 420 mm. Provenance: Acquired in the 1970s.

Date: 1940 - 1949

From: [Programmes and ephemera relating to boxing, boxers].

Reference: Eph-A-BOXING-1940s

Description: Includes: 1944: Boxing and wrestling contest. U.S.A. v N.Z.. New Caledonia, B.R.D. 8 February 1944. Programme. 1946: Auckland Boxing Association. New Zealand Amateur Championships. Town Hall Auckland, 23-25 September 1946. Itinerary. 1946: Hutt Valley Boxing Association. Vic Patrick (Australia) v Bos Murphy (New Zealand). Recreation Ground Petone, 27 April 1946. Programme (2 copies). 1946: Wellington Boxing Association. Professional middleweight contest. Ray Dunn (Australia) v Henry Robertson (Christchurch). Town Hall Wellington, 7 October 1946. Programme 1946: Wellington Boxing Association. Special middleweight contest: Jack Kirkham (Australia) v Bos Murphy (New Zealand). Town Hall Wellington, 21 October 1946. Programme 1947: Wellington Boxing Association. Amateur and professional tournament. Special heavyweight contest: Jack Johnson (Australia) v Don Mullett (NZ). Town Hall Wellington, 5 May 1947. Programme 1947: Wellington Boxing Association. Amateur and professional tournament. Special welterweight contest: S Edwards (Wairarapa) v H Hanson (Hanson's). Town Hall Wellington, 16 June 1947. Programme. 1947: Wellington Boxing Association. Senior amateur championships. Special light heavyweight contest: Dick Morgan (England) v Darcy Hoffman (Dunedin). Town Hall Wellington, 15 September 1947. Programme 1947: New Zealand Amateur Boxing Championships. King Edward Barracks Christchurch, 22-24 September 1947. Souvenir programme 1948: Wellington Boxing Association. Amateur tournament (R Chooque - Dunedin v Stuart Gunn - Pahiatua). Town Hall Wellington, 31 May 1948. Programme 1948: Wellington Boxing Association. Amateur tournament (Harry Hanson v Scotty McLeod). Town Hall Wellington, 12 July 1948. Programme 1949: Hutt Valley Boxing Association. Professional tournament (Laurie Petersen v Clarrie Gordon). Recreation Ground Petone, 19 February 1949. Programme 1949: New Zealand Amateur Boxing Championships. Town Hall Wellington, 26-28 September 1949. Programme (2 copies) and itinerary. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 10 programmes. Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying around 297 x 210 mm.

Date: [ca 1920-1938]

By: Clark, W R, active 1930s-1981; K H Shea (Firm); Esquilant, William Charles, 1866-1952

Reference: PAColl-0318

Description: Photographs of acrobatics performed by members of Northey's School of Physical Culture, both indoors and outdoors, and interior photographs of the school itself. The interiors include the dressing room, the bathroom and equipment such as dumbells, boxing gloves, fencing foils and masks, indian clubs, vaulting horse, mats etc. Men are shown using fixed medicine balls for boxing practice. On the walls of the school are inspirational slogans and pictures of strong men such as Sandow. The other photographs are: J P Northey holding a rifle on the Otago Peninsula; W R Clark outside Otago University; and a group of people at De Beche Hut in Mount Cook National Park including a man called Smith who later died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. A lot of the photographs are captioned on the reverse. The only identified photographers are K H Shea and Esquilant. Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Loose photographic prints, one mounted.

Date: 1945 - 1950

By: McNamara, John Joseph, 1918-2001; Southern Cross (Newspaper : 1946-1951)

Reference: A-369-041/059

Description: Drawings and caricatures of sports related figures who flourished during the 1940s and 1950s. Includes All Blacks Charlie Oliver, L. Savage, "Has" Catly, and goal-kicker Morrie Doyle, and in other sports boxer Cyril Hurne, American wrestler Dick Raines, and an unnamed female tennis player. Other portraits are of Alex Pratt (manager of Hutt Speedways Ltd), George Welch (secretary of the Wellington Indoor Bowling Association), Mic Zamba (president of the Wellington Softball Association) and boxing trainer Archie Lechie. A number of plain diagrams illustrate boxing and wrestling technique. The original collage of caricatures of McNamara's Southern Cross Collegues used in their 1949 Christmas card and another of two men playing rugby are included. Quantity: 16 newsclippings. 2 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on paper and blue pencil 295mm x 390mm, black ink and white out on paper 240mm x 285mm, and newspaper clippings glued to wallpaper, sizes vary.

Date: 5 Feb-9 May 1929; 15 Jul-17 Aug 1949

From: Heenan, Joseph William Allan (Sir), 1888-1951 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1132-233

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1880s]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA7-42-06

Description: A posed photograph taken at Atiamuri on the banks of the Waikato River. A group of men have alighted from a horse-drawn carriage. The horses are unharnessed and feeding from a wooden trough. Two groups of men are shaking hands while children and adults look on. A man and a woman are standing nearby. To their right is a wooden cottage with smoke coming from a chimney and another thatch-roofed building. Photograph taken by Frank Arnold Coxhead in 1880s. A similar image at PA7-41-26 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Ateamuri, Waikato; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - F.A.C. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14 x 19.3 cm on mount

Date: [ca 1910s-1950s]

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6866

Description: 152 views and portraits. They include: at least 22 of Picton and and the surrounding area showing boating in the harbour, people pic-nicking on the waterfront, people watching a rowing race, a speedboat called Pelorus Jack racing in the Sounds, and ferries coming in to the terminus; 10 images of the geothermal area around Wairakei inlcuding mud pools and geysers; nine images of a Studebaker Commander 6 either parked at scenic views or driving along country roads; eight images of men talking possibly at race meetings; six of the timber industry particularly the building of a timber boom; four aerial views of a liner coming into Auckland harbour; three views of groups of well-dressed men and women wearing what are possibly conference badges in an area decorated with bunting; three similar images of a large group of women photographed at Te Aro School near the Carillon also with conference badges; three general views of Wellington harbour; three images of the Spa Hotel, Taupo; two images of two women in bathing suits; two views of the railway station from The Terrace, Wellington; two views of a girl in Wellington Botanic Gardens; a scene on board the RMS Mononwai with a woman being photographed framed by the life belt; two of Aorangi; one of the ferry Cobar in Wellington Harbour; two of children riding on donkeys; two of the same elderly couple outside their house; two of young men on the boat Starlight; a group of what are probably sheep shearers outside their shed; Aotea Quay, Wellington; the yacht Ilex in Wellington harbour; children playing on swings; a large wooden gothic style house (location unknown); sheep droving; two women on a Bell Bus Company tour; various scenes on board ship including passengers watching an entertainer, a boxing match and a crossing the equator ceremony; a ship's officer climing down a rope ladder on the side of a ship; two of kauri trunks being transported on the Roxen, 1932; and a small child looking at an overturned carved wooden statue. The majority of the remaining images are of unidentified landscapes. Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-030982, 030983, 030985, 030992 to 030996, 030998, 031005, 031007 to 031010, 031012, 031013, 031016 to 031045, 031049, 031051 to 031059, 031154 to 031192, 031198 to 031203, 031205 to 031217, 031227 to 031248, 031737, 031739, 031740, 092294 to 092305 Quantity: 114 b&w original negative(s) film. 38 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: ca1900-ca1939

By: Clough, Richard Lea, 1939-

Reference: PAColl-4788

Description: Arrangement: Negatives in 35mm sequence at 17762 - 17771. Identification of and information relating to the subjects of the negatives is housed in PAColl-4788-1 (IRN 182384) Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 10 b&w copy negative(s) 35mm strips containing 42 images.

Date: 1990 - 1999

From: [Programmes and ephemera relating to boxing, boxers].

Reference: Eph-A-BOXING-1990s

Description: Includes: 1997: 100th anniversary celebration - Bob Fitzsimmons' world heavyweight boxing title bout. Ireland versus New Zealand invitation team. Timaru, 17th March 1997. Souvenir programme. 1998: Oceania Amateur Boxing Championships. Upper Hutt Civic Centre, 20-24 April 1998. Hosted by Wellington-Hutt Valley Boxing Association. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s) 2 programmes. Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying around 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 1918-1935

From: Joplin, Elizabeth :Two photograph albums: World War One, Egypt and Gallipoli: Return from World War One, farming and family 1930s

By: Halse, George Clinton, 1895-1955

Reference: PA1-o-682

Description: The Album contains photographs of NZ troops returning from WWI (including life on board a troopship, crossing the Equator, views of Panama Canal); opening up farmland in the vicinity of Mt Ruapehu; new farm houses; various harbour scenes; sports teams; two photographs of a plane "crashed" at New Plymouth; a 1920ish motor car - later burnt out; one view of an iceberg "taken on the way to Archangel" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album approx. 207 x 252mm Transfers: Three loose photographs found in this album are at PAColl-3392-1.

Date: [ca 1884]

From: Christie, Hettie Florence, 1902-1988 :Photographs and album of New Zealand scenes

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA7-41-26

Description: A posed photograph taken at Atiamuri on the banks of the Waikato River. A group of men have alighted from a horse-drawn carriage. The horses are unharnessed and feeding from a wooden trough. Two men are shaking hands, while four men are posing as boxers behind them. Two young Maori women are standing nearby and looking towards the camera. There is a small wooden cottage and a thatch-roofed building to their right. Photograph taken by Frank Arnold Coxhead in 1880s. Similar image at PA7-42-06 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Ateamuri, Waikato, Auckland, NZ. 182; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - F.A.C.; Backing board recto - bottom right - Photographer's embossed stamp Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.5 x 20 cm

Date: June - October 1917

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-o-1393

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui (HMNZT 86) on following voyages: Wellington to Plymouth, England, with 26th Reinforcements. Left Wellington 13 June 1917, called at Albany WA (22-23 June), Cape Town (11-18 July), Free Town (31 July - 3 August), arrived Plymouth 15 August 1917. Plymouth, England to Port Chalmers. Left Plymouth 30 August 1917, called at Cape Town (19-22 September), arrived Port Chalmers 12 October 1917. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth-bound album with green morrocco spine and corners, 24 x 19 cm

Date: 1998

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

Reference: H-539-044/062

Description: Astronauts try to escape the reminiscing of an earlier generation astronaut. Saddam Hussein and Bill Clinton work out a deal where Clinton looks good to the American public at mid-term elections, and America lifts the sanctions against Iraq. Inland Revenue Department employees sell information about clients to debt collection agencies. Tales of extraordinary courage including reading Jim Bolger's autobiography 'view from the top' in one sitting. Richard Prebble offers words of encouragement to Jenny Shipley and at the same time secures a ball and chain around her ankle. Rod Deane of Telecom manipulates the Maurice Williamson puppet while saying it is the Minister's call whether they deregulate further or not. A large shark (Shamrock Holdings) is about to devour a smaller shark (BIL) in a corporate raid. Generation X do not really benefit from changes to the student loan scheme. Jenny Shipley drives a stake through the heart of John Luxton for backing Producer Board reform. Iraq stands defiantly against the United States until they see the proximity of their weapons. Comparison between Theodore Roosevelt's and John Luxton's approach to problems. Jenny Shipley considers face-to-face diplomacy with Malaysian leader, Mr Anwar. Comment on Winston Peter's ability to bounce back come election time. Web pages have been sabotaged world-wide forcing people into unfamiliar pastimes like talking to their children. The political right is about to be hit by a train (Labour and the Alliance Parties). Jenny Shipley views economic policy and intervention differently from the comfort of Singapore. Comment on the outrage generated by the idea of having a compulsory photo identification on drivers' licences. National's defence policy regarding a 3rd ANZAC frigate comes under question by the Prime Minister. General Pinochet may be sent back to Chile to stand trial on charges of torture, murder and genocide. Quantity: 21 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1969 - 1975

Reference: Eph-C-BOXING-1969-01

Description: Shows small portraits of Monty Betham (NZ Middle & Light Heavy Weight Champion), Gordy Lawson (Canada), Super Nuu "Knockout" Tanuvasa (Hawaii and NZ), Rocky Taupola (American Samoa), and "Eddie Cotton" (Unbeaten in NZ, fought Harold Johnston & Jose Tores for the world title). Dated from perpetual calendar. Style is probably late 1960s. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on poster 443 x 327 mm.

Date: 1932

From: [Programmes and ephemera relating to boxing, boxers].

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-BOXING-1932-01

Description: Programme for the New Zealand Amateur Boxing Championships of 1932. Programme features photographs and biographical notes on the following boxers: Alan Maxwell (front cover), Tom Heeney, Bobby Blay (Victoria, Australia); group composite of J Leckie, T Morgan, A Campbell, F Taylor, J broadfoot, V Parker, H Johns; Tommy Doble and Jack Jones; Jack Dempsey; "Tiger" Tommy Donovan; Bobbie Purdie, Bert Lowe, Primo Carnera, Peter Sarron. Page 31 has a list of all New Zealand champion boxers since 1902 (to 1932). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 32 pages, each 215 x 140 mm. Provenance: Purchased from New Zealand Online Book Auctions in July 2006.