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Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :Which solves the mystery of Young Nick's Head [ca 1957]
Date: 1869 - 1956 - 1779 - 1958
From: Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].
Reference: B-140-018
Description: Six-panelled account giving further information about Nicholas Young, his life and premature death in Hawaii and his association with Captain Cook. These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore. Information supplied by a great-niece of Nicholas Young to the cartoonist and supplementing his lack of knowledge displayed in a previous cartoon (B-140-017) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Jenny Gibbs, of Auckland, in 1995.
Pickersgill, Richard :A chart of part of the So. Contit. between Poverty Bay and the Co...
Date: 1769
By: Pickersgill, Richard, 1749-1779; Cook, James, 1728-1779
Reference: MapColl-832.1aj/[1769]/Acc.12471
Description: A chart of the coast of the North Island, New Zealand between Bay of Plenty ans Tolaga Bay. The map shows soundings along coastline and has information about population, land use and contact with Maori. Other Titles - South Continent discovered Majesty's A hand written note under the title says "This chart was taken before this country was found to be an Island". Table showing the longitude of several places settled and magnetic variation for various places are also inscribed. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Photograph, 69 x 97 cm.