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Date: 21 Aug 1872-15 May 1873, 22 May 1873-20 Sept 1875

By: Barnes, L A W, active 1872-1875

Reference: MSY-6144

Description: Log book kept by Barnes while he was serving aboard HMS Minotaur, HMS Pearl and HMS Sappho. During the first voyage HMS Minotaur travelled from Portsmouth to Lisbon, Madeira and Gibraltar. During the second voyage HMS Pearl and HMS Sappho travelled from Portsmouth to Lisbon, Cape of Good Hope, Perth, New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania, Adelaide and New Hebrides. During the second voyage Barnes was aboard HMS Sappho for most of the month of August 1875. The log book contains nautical entries, facts, maps and watercolours relating to the voyages. After the October 3rd 1874 entry, there is a longer commentary on the recovery of the ship McGregor off the coast of Fiji. Relationship complexity - See Micro-MS-Coll-20 for items relating to these voyages Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Processing information: Digitisation details - Volume includes inserted maps and sketches. These pages have been digitised in situ.

Date: 1882 - 1886

By: Meek, James McKain, 1815-1899; J T Smith & Company

Reference: Eph-E-HISTORY-Canterbury-1882-01

Description: An ornate arrangement of panels of text, of various typeface, and featuring the clouds of glory of the British Empire. Each Canterbury town is described in a decorative panel of its own. A history and chronology of major events in Canterbury's history is given, and several local businessmen are named: Robert Watson, tailor and habitmaker; John Moore, boot and shoemaker; D Inwood, baker and miller; Drs Donald and Barker, medical profession; W Wilson, nurseryman and seed merchant; C W Bishop, storekeeper and general mertchant; George Gould, storekeeper and general merchant; Golden Fleece Hotel, Ellis and Cartner; A J Alport, auctioneer and commission agent; J Anderson, blacksmith and practical engineer; R Wormald, solicitor and conveyancer; Joyce and Turner, butchers. From the poster itself, the date appears to be around 1882, because of the last date on the chronology. However, biographical notes about Meek mention a date of 1886 or 1887 for his Canterbury poster. Other Titles - Christchurch, situated in Lat. S. 43 [degrees] 31'.34" Long. E.172 [degrees] 38' Cathedral), is the most central city of the Middle Island of New Zealand. "A future Britain for a southern world". The city is, at the present time, the capital of the rich agricultural district of Canterbury ... integral part of our great Empire on which the sun never sets, and o'er which Victoria our Royal Queen sways her royal sceptre. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Lithograph on poster, 1020 x 685 mm.

Date: May 1948

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Bigwood, Kenneth Valentine, 1920-1992

Reference: 1/2-030008-F

Description: Dining room at a camp for British immigrants in Dunedin, May, 1948. Photograph taken for the National Publicity Studios by K V Bigwood. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 2014

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0028196

Description: Cartoon shows the Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge arriving in New Zealand with the infant Prince George. A crowd greets them, many of whom wave British flags or wear royal tour t-shirts. One small girl wears a Lorde t-shirt naming her hit song Royals, and looks confused, asking where Lorde is. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1971

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to immigration to New Zealand, problems and issues of new immigrants and refugees]

Reference: Eph-A-IMMIGRATION-1971-01-front

Description: Shows a young blond couple hand in hand in bathing costumes, running along the beach at Oriental Bay Wellington. Extended Title - Printed in England by Oxley Press Limited, Nottingham, May 1971. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph on cover of folded pamphlet, 216 x 95 mm.

Date: 1899

By: Hunter, Ashley John Barsby, 1854-1932; New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal

Reference: J-040-001

Description: New Zealand is shown as a small boy in sailor costume riding on the tail of a kangaroo bounding across the Tasman sea from New Zealand to Australia. Exhibition and book captions read - New Zealand supporters of federation [with Australia] stressed the shared British stock, language, Queen, God and trade possibilities. New Zealand would progress by 'leaps and bounds' with an assured market for cereals, fruit and some manufactured goods. South Seas isolation was another reason for embracing federation. There was uneasiness about growing German power and French intentions in the Pacific. There was also fear, however, irrational, of the 'yellow peril'. Exhibited in 'The Other Side of the Ditch' exhibition of cartoons on the New Zealand-Australian relationship curated by Ian F. Grant of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited in the National Library Gallery from 28 November 2001 to 24 February 2002 to mark the centenary of Australian Federation. Also exhibited at X Space Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland in mid-March 2002 and at Old Parliament House, Canberra, Australia from 26 March 2003 to 29 June 2003. Published in 'The Other Side of the Ditch' by Ian F. Grant, published by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive in association with Tandem Press, 2001. Extended Title - A contemporary prophesies that should New Zealand join the [Australian] Federation the colony would progress by "leaps and bounds". Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies A3 size. Physical Description: A3 size photocopy.

Date: 8 Dec 1768-22 Jun 1770

By: Hicks, Zachary, 1739-1771

Reference: qMS-0954

Description: Log written by Hicks on the voyage of scientific discovery of the `Endeavour' to New Zealand, 1768-1771. The first page of the log contains copies of two letters by James Cook to the Admiralty relating to Cook's vessel the `Grenville' which had its rig changed in Debtford in 1764. Also three letters to Cook from the Admiralty Office, the Navy Office and the Victualling Office. At some point this page has been tipped into the log. First entry in the log is Thursday the 8th December 1768 recording the departure of the `Endeavour' from Rio Janerio. Daily entries include course position of the vessel, wind and weather conditions, bearings of the ship when at anchor, and general observations of life on deck as the ship made the trip around Cape Horne to King George Island then onto the South Pacific. Continues with the mapping of New Zealand and voyage to the eastern coastline of Australia. On 11th June 1770 the `Endeavour' ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef and eventually made its way to a river mouth (Endeavour River). Repairs were carried out over the next seven weeks. Last entry in the log is Friday 22nd June 1770. The log does not include the page containing entries for the crew's first sighting of New Zealand, October 1769. Publication - Further information regarding Hick's log is published in `The Journals of Lieutenant Cook's Officers', by James Cook. Other - Page(s) for the log entries for 14-24 January 1769, 13-18 August 1769, and 6-15 October 1769 are missing from the manuscript, either cut or torn out. See reference in `Cook Journals Vol 1, The voyage of the Endeavour', edited by J C Beaglehole, 1955. Zachary Hicks (Hickes) was a Royal Navy officer and second-in-command (second lieutenant) on Cook's 1768 voyage to New Zealand on the Endeavour. Hicks Bay in the Gisborne region is named after Zachary Hicks. The Endeavour sailed into the bay on the 31st October 1769 where they were meet by two canoes of fifty Māori each who dared the English to fight. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (134 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (33cm; cream vellum boards in navy morocco case) Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull from Bernard Quatrich in London, in 1900, for £110