Places

Date: 1879

From: Thomas, E A C, 1825- :[Album of a visit to the Motueka area and North Canterbury]

By: Thomas, E A C, 1825-

Reference: E-305-q-021

Description: A rural scene on the Motueka River showing a house surrounded by trees, and Mt Salzburg and Sugar Loaf hills in the distance, The name Mount Salzburg appears to be no longer in use Other Titles - Motueka river Salzburg Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and crayon, 210 x 220 mm.

Date: 1986 - 1989

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Christchurch star (Newspaper : 1958- )

Reference: A-316-060/084

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. New Zealand switches from milk in bottles to milk in cartons. Hayley's Comet turns out to be disappointing for most star gazers. High number of requests for aid from sports and charity groups. Children deny tobacco advertising influences their smoking habits. Core samples are taken from the hull of the New Zealand entrant to the America's Cup. 1986 - the International Year of Peace - $1,746,000,000,000 spent on weapons. Mother's Day again. Burglar makes himself at home. General election candidates begin their hand-shaking tour of the rural areas. There's a big turnout for the rugby on election day. People are getting overloaded with the morning radio bad 'news'. Christmas shopping bedlum is upon us. ANZAC Day shows the difference between the self-sacrificing of the returned service men and women and the selfishness of youth. The French do another nuclear bomb test. Cups are shown off at the yacht club, some for winning races but mostly for winning court battles over yacht race rules. Parents supporting their children from the rugby sidelines are becoming increasingly violent. Over-crowding of New Zealand prisons. New Zealand's economic slump sees long ques of people waiting to get Government assistance through the Dept. of Social Welfare. Rogernomics puts the whole country into crisis. Post Offices are closed around the country. Children embrace cigarette smoking. Hospital emergency outpatients restrict their services in an effort to cut costs. Pakeha consider how they can benefit from the Maori land claim process. The law struggles to deal with complications of using force in your own self defence. Ozone layer threatened by fumes, smoke and smog. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). 24 photocopies. Physical Description: A4 size original and photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: 1890

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks] 1890-1893

Reference: E-315-q-3-004

Description: A rural scene at Waimate showing fenced paddocks to the right, the main street, the church and a row of dwellings to the left. The Southern Alps are in the background Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - W M H 20 Oct 90; Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 180 x 128 mm

Date: 1884 - 1886

From: Medley, Mary Catherine 1835- :Mary C. Medley's sketch book ; visit to Rotorua before Tarawera eruption [No.] 12. 1884-1886.

By: Harper, Laura, 1833-1887

Reference: E-377-027

Description: A rural scene on the road to Ohinemutu, possibly drawn by Laura Harper Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Road to Ohinemutu Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 125 x 210 mm.

Date: 1926

From: Jones, Dudley William Carmalt 1874-1957 :New Zealand sketches / [by] C. J. [ca.1937].

Reference: E-347-007

Description: A rural scene near Oamaru, showing a dwelling and paddocks Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of pencil sketch, 150 x 104 mm

Date: [ca 1898-1899]

By: McAllister, James, 1869-1952

Reference: 1/2-065619-G

Description: The Reid family outside their slab hut home, Whangamomona. From left: Edith May, Sara Ann, Elizabeth (Dolly), William Alexander, and Alexander William Reid. Photograph taken by James McAllister circa 1898-1899. Source of descriptive information - Reid family members identified by family member. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - left of image - 567 Reid - 12 Cab [possibly ordered for the Reid family, 12 Cabinet cards] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [between 1892-1910]

From: Child, Edward George, 1860-1949 :Photographs of the Ohingaiti district

Reference: 1/2-032310-G

Description: George Edward Reid, Annie Reid, and children Myrtle and George, alongside a hut on Toe Toe Road, Taihape, circa 1897. Photograph taken by Edward George Child. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1873

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-013-09

Description: A rural scene near Temuka, showing a house with fenced garden and mountains in the background Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Top of page, above all images] Near Timaru 1873; Recto - bottom left - K Holmes; Recto - bottom right - Temuka Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 70 x 122 mm

Date: ca 1910

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-008498-G

Description: The Landing, Taumarunui, New Zealand, photographed circa 1910, for The Press newspaper of Christchurch. Shows an unidentified Maori man in a waka on the (Wanganui?) River, and a dwelling, with wooden walls and roof, on the bank behind. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: [ca 1939]

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: MNZ-1903-1/4-F

Description: Tutira Station homestead and garden, Central Hawke's Bay, circa 1939, photographed by John Pascoe. Image published in the 'Making New Zealand', Vol 2, No 20, page 17. Caption from the publication 'Making New Zealand' reads: "Tutira homestead, Hawke's Bay. Well ordered lawns and trim gardens have been made, where virgin bush once spread across the slopes." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative