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Date: 1959

By: Ball, Murray Hone, 1939-2017

Reference: J-047-001/004

Description: Cartoons on various social and political issues covering topics; safety in school play grounds, the morning after ANZAC Day celebrations, stock diversification among farmers, television attempts to get a closer view of rugby games. Exhibited in 'The Famouse Five: Manawatu's Cartoonists on Show', Exhibition curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited at Te Manawa Art (Manawatu Art Gallery), Palmerston North, from 13 May to 23 June 2002, in association with Massey University and the Palmerston North City Council. Quantity: 4 photocopy/ies A3 size. Physical Description: A3 photocopies Processing information: Record updated on 29 June 2023 when the access and use conditions were updated per the agreement with Diogenes Designs Limited for the Murray Ball Estate.

Date: 1920 - 1940

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-755

Description: Includes pencil sketches of cemetery headstones, lions and lion cubs, birds (including quail and crane (?)), camels, longhorn cattle, monkeys, crested bird, pelican, egret or stork, budgerigars. Also includes loose watercolour of Wellington Harbour and loose watercolour of cockatoo and other caged birds. Notes inside front cover refer to expenses for food and travel in Waiotapu, Palmerston North, Hamilton, Rotorua. These appear to be related to the images in sketchbook at E-738. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Hardbound sketchbook with marbled cover, with 35 leaves, each 203 x 163 mm.

Date: 2001

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

Reference: H-673-090/112

Description: Cartoons on political and social issues. Shows the changes within coalition government as a genetic mutation where the Labour Alliance strands are repalaced with the Labour Greens strands. Comment on the plight of the refugee boat people. All Blacks coach John Mitchell calls for more excitement from the All Blacks. Jim Bolger promotes Kiwi Bank to other former world leaders. New Zealand horse Ethereal wins the Melbourne Cup. Helen Clark protects Turiana Turia from opposition accussations of political interference. President Bush attempts to calm and reassure the American people in the face of extreme threats from Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network. John Howard wins another term as Australian Prime Minister on the backs of refugee boat people. Jim Anderton and Bill English look for ways to provide gaurded support for New Zealand SAS involvement in Afghanistan. Shows lions in a zoo with a sign 'Big Cat poisoning Times...' The new rule in Kabul Afghanistan, don't dare NOT to show yourself. Shows a man having his beard removed and a women removing her veil. Both regimes the now deposed Taleban instituted. A bin Laden supporter talks about the perfect weapon they have against the American led attack into Afghanistan. However they have some problems with detonating the nuclear bomb. Factions within the Alliance Party turn on each other and vow to fight to the death. Comment on the increase in alcohol consumption due to the lowering of the drinking age, and expectation that the same thing will happen when cannibis is legalised. Shows the maze of buildings that United States Air Force missiles are trying to penetrate in Afghanistan. The chance of striking a target is pretty low. The Prime Minister is swollowed by a giant snake during a visit to the Amazon. A reporter asks her how the Amazon compares with NZ eco-tourism. Jim Anderton pretends to fire a gatling gun every time the Alliance Party President, Matt McCarten appears on television. Helen Clark arrives home to find the house demolished. Refers to Alliance Party infighting. Shows Jim Anderton and Matt McCarten facing off over the breakfast table. A Black Caps cricket player thanks an African rain-man for helping the team by creating rain which washed out the second test. Jim Anderton reassures everyone that the crisis within the Alliance Party is now over and he and Matt McCarten are now pulling in the same direction. The Alliance boat is now however sinking. New Zealanders make love twice a week on average. A woman comments that it is decidedly average. Afghanistan Alliance soldiers run over Taliban prisoners in an armoured tank. They blame the prisioners for being in the way. Quantity: 23 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: December 1921-ca 1924

From: Derbidge, M (Mrs), fl 1920-1935 :Photographs of the Derbidge and Harding families

Reference: PA1-o-1185

Description: Photographs of the Hall and Harding families in Hawkes Bay and at Ellerslie Race Course, portraits of Miss Macdiarmid, Mr Halliday and the Penneys, a group shot in front of a meeting house in Rotorua, man with barrel in front of cart from Timaru Brewery Co, the entrance to the British and Intercolonial Exhibition at Hokitika, the Public Trust Office building of Christchurch under construction, and the ship TSS Aeneas, taken ca 1924 by Mrs M Derbidge. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1910 - 1929

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-380-050/053

Description: Includes sketches of lions, camels, penguins, birds; and of hills and rough harbour water. Quantity: 12 drawing(s) on four sheets. Physical Description: Pencil drawings on sheets, sizes varying from 205 x 260 mm, to 260 x 410 mm.

Date: 1950s-1960s

From: Wassiliewa, Galina (estate) :Photographs relating to life and ballet career of Galina Wassiliewa in Lithuania and Wellington.

By: Wassiliew, Wassili, 1916-1983

Reference: PAColl-6125-27

Description: Photographs of animals in zoos, or a zoo, including a series of a chimpanzees tea party. Plants mainly from Wassiliew's garden. Quantity: 63 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1920 - 1939

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-738

Description: Includes watercolour and pencil sketches, of birds (various), daisies, Ngauruhoe, a lakeside, a high country lake side, hills, trees and bush, Huka Falls, various views around Aratiatia Rapids, Lake Okaro near Waimangu - Mt Tarawera in background, Botanical Gardens Wellington, Karori, Wgtn Harbour, Somes Island, York Bay (various), tree ferns, Point Halswell Wgtn, Hutt Valley near Kaitoke, Te Awanga H.B.; birds and lion at Wellington Zoo. One of the inside back pages gives a list of food provisions needed for "4 days walking". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Hardbound green buckram volume, pages 260 x 203 mm.

Date: 1922

Reference: Eph-E-DRAMA-1922-01

Description: Shows text, with a picture of a lion caught in a net, and a mouth at the lower right. Dated from the dates of programmes elsewhere in the Ephemera Collection. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Chromolithograph on sheet 1005 x 378 mm.

Date: [Between 1931 and 1966]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-204

Description: Album containing many contacts from 35mm film, as well as black and white prints of differing sizes, taken by Professor John Tenison Salmon. He takes particular interest in the flora and fauna of New Zealand, the damaging effects of road construction, erosion from bush felling, and destruction caused by introduced species including deer. There are huge collections of close-up images of various plants (only a few of which are listed above), including flowers, leaves and seeds. He comments on mangrove swamps at Tauranga, which are growing at the furthest point from the Equator possible for them to exist. The other important collection shows various stages in the life cycle of insects and animals, including wetas, katydids, different types of moths, mosquitoes, bees, stick insects, and native New Zealand frogs (Hochstetter's frogs) (p. 91-92). Photographs relating to wetas include scenes of ovipositor tracks of cave wetas in the mud in Waitomo Caves; different varieties of wetas including cave wetas; and weta nests. In 1935 he photographed two Australian species of lizards which he found in the yard of the Dominion Museum, the Australia crested dragon, and the Australian blue-tongued lizard. Many of these photographs were taken on a photomicroscope, including photographs of rock sections (p. 72-75), and photographs of insects and larvae. There are also views of his photomicrosope equipment. Professor Salmon worked at Victoria University, and there are numbers of "contaflex" views of Wellington from his office window, taken to demonstrate the use of various filters (p. 26-29). There are also images of Professor Salmon in his study lab in April 1955; and further images of him in the Entomological Department of the Dominion Museum. Page 35 has views of a science exhibition organised by the Wellington Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand held in the Wellington Town Hall, 12-14 April 1948. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 29.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: 1977

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: B-183-039

Description: Shows what is probably the last page of the 'Spring frolic' programme, with a cleaner standing holding a broom amidst a pile of debris, which includes musical notes, broken instruments, bottles and the conductor lying in the rubbish bin. At bottom right is a lion dressed as a conductor, with a music stand bearing a sign saying 'The end'. The concert and drawings for the accompanying programme are based on the Hoffnung Music Festival Concerts. Gerard Hoffnung (1925-1959) was a cartoonist and gifted musician who in 1956 started the Hoffnung Music Festivals, an original brand of symphonic caricature that received international acclaim Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Lion panel green [in pencil]; Recto - bottom left - Eric Heath [artist's signature] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink drawing, 38 x 23 mm on card 457 x 363 mm Provenance: Donation: Jennifer Zwartz, Wellington, 2011

Date: 1911

By: Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: C-047-002

Description: A series of cartoons related to Henry Thomas Joynt Thacker, a Christchurch Mayoral candidate, leading a Salvation Army band by beating a large drum, and escaping from "The no-licence volcano". The other cartoons appear not to depict Dr Thacker, but show a tram supposedly running late, references to the Hon. D. Buddo, to Prime Minister Massey, to farmers, to Lord Roberts tugging a lion (Great Britain) by the tail in an attempt to introduce compulsory military training, to forthcoming elections. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink 525 x 435 mm

Date: 2011

By: Andrew McManus Presents (Firm)

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-Popular-2011-01

Description: Poster advertising a reggae music festival, is designed in Rastafarian colours red, yellow and green, with a logo at the top showing the silhouette of a lion, flanked by coconut palms and a vinyl disk at the centre of the word "Ragga/Muffin". The performing artists are shown below, on a black background. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital print, 595 x 420 mm.

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Three cartoons mostly published by the Dominion. 1970s?]

Reference: B-056-013

Description: A keeper letting a car exit from high wire cage gates. The car's driver is invisible, apart from a lion's paws on the steering wheel. Refers to the possibility that the car's driver has been eaten by a now-escaping lion in a safari park Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 400 x 510 mm

Date: 1887-1925

By: McParland, Frank, active 1900-1920s; Carter, Gilbert, active 1950s-1980s

Reference: PA1-o-908

Description: Album of photographs of sporting activities and personalities, especially boxers, compiled by Frank McParland, proprietor of the Tramway Hotel in the 1920s, and a noted Wellington sporting personality. Also included are photographs of the cabinet and politicians of Seddon's Liberal Government, various horses and carriages, and views of the arrest of Rua and scenes in Wellington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Frank McParland was a friend of Gilbert Carter's father, to whom he gave this album.

Date: 1951

By: New Zealand observer (Newspaper); Choate, Francis Desmond, 1916-2001

Reference: J-065-059

Description: Three vignettes. In the top two, a Persian man sees off a lion (Great Britain) out of Persia, an Egyptian man shoos a bulldog (Great Britain) out of Egypt. In the bottom, standing on the outline of New Zealand, a Maori man points a finger at a Pakeha man saying "You!" Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy.

Date: 2010

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0016363

Description: Two very cool-looking lions tell a couple of flirty girls on the ferry that they are fans of the South. One of them has the text 'I (heart symbol for 'love') the Maneland' on his black singlet and the other has the text 'Pride of the South'. Context; 'It's mission accomplished for Malik and Zulu, two five year old male Lions that are on a one year breeding loan to Orana Wildlife Park from Wellington Zoo. In June, two lionesses produced five cubs - the first Lion cubs to be born at Orana in five years'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1935

By: Florian, active 1935

Reference: A-136-018

Description: The original drawing for a coat of arms for a named New Zealand family showing a lion rampant, and the motto 'Vae victis' ('Woe to the vanquished'). At top left is a list of amendments to be made to this drawing, including: Mailed hand on sword hilt Sword continuing through body Scroll gold Wash colors Mouth to snarl Enlarge 2 1/2 times On parchment Other Titles - 1935 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 174 x 144 mm.

Date: 1911

Reference: A-052-002

Description: A central shield, with three ships in its centre, the four stars of the Southern Cross and a sheaf of wheat on its left, a sheep's carcass and a crossed mallet and hammer on its right. Above the shield is the British lion holding the Union Jack. To the left is the figure of a woman, holding the New Zealand flag, to the right, the figure of a Maori man in piupiu and woven cloak, holding a taiaha. There are flourishes below, with the word "Onward" on a scroll, and the inscription below that, signed by G. Ambrose, Secretary, York Herald. Based on an original drawing in the collection of Te Papa, formerly the National Museum Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, 266 x 202 mm

Date: 1908

By: Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937

Reference: C-109-020

Description: Shows a kiwi dressed as an All Black with a defeated British lion. They are on a rugby field, with ecstatic crowds behind them. A photographer (might this be Trevor Lloyd?) crouches on the left taking pictures. Context: The cartoon shows a 1908 test game during the tour of New Zealand of a British team (comprising English and Welsh players). There were three tests: the All Blacks won 2 and one was drawn. Overall points were 64 for the All Blacks and 8 against. This cartoon celebrates the New Zealand victory in the third test at Auckland. New Zealand won 29-0. Dating: the cartoon was originally dated by the Library as 1905 when it was described in 1979, on the assumption it showed the All Blacks playing in Britain. The scene is in New Zealand and the cartoon was published in the Auckland Weekly News 30 July 1908. Exhibited in 'Guts and Glory' an exhibition of rugby cartoons, organised by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive Trust in association with the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, at the National Library Gallery, 15 July - 7 November 1999, and then touring until 2001. Curated by Susan Foster. Supplied title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, sepia ink and wash, Chinese white and some watercolour, 380 x 537 mm

Date: 1904 - 1914

From: [Postcard album of cards collected by Joye Taylor. ca 1905-1915].

By: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-4-042-3

Description: Postcard shows a photograph of the lion King Dick in an oval inset. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, sepia, 89 x 139 mm.