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Date: 1814 - 1964

By: Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall, 1901-1971; British and Foreign Bible Society; Moody, B S (Mrs), active 1970s

Reference: C-077-025

Description: Marsden, his eyes closed, a Bible in his left hand, standing slightly left of centre in a makeshift pulpit draped with black cloth, preaching to a congregation of Maori and Pakeha men, women and children at Rangihoua, Bay of Islands. At least two of the congregation are also holding Bibles. Maori dwellings and canoes beyond on the beach, with European rowboats also pulled up on the beach. The original painting from which the reproductions were taken - a watercolour according to information supplied at the time of the donation, but the reproduction looks more like an oil, and oils were the artist's normal medium - was sent to America, presumably to the Bible Society in New York. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Leonard C. Mitchell Commissioned by the Bible Society to mark the 150th anniversary of the occasion depicted and said to be one of only two reproductions made from the original watercolour, the other held by the Bible Society in Wellington. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 390 x 481 mm (sight) Provenance: Mrs Moody was the widow of a former Secretary of the Bible Society in New Zealand.

Date: 1930 - 1939

From: [New Zealand. Dept. of Industries and Commerce, Tourist and Publicity?] :Tongariro National Park, New Zealand; playground of the North Island. G H Loney, Government printer, [1930s]

By: Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall, 1901-1971; Loney, George Henry, 1871-1957

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Tongariro-1930s-01-front

Description: Shows three fashionably dressed figure playing golf in front of the Chateau Tongariro, with Mount Ruapehu in the background. Exhibited in 'To market, to market' Exhibition of advertising and commercial ephemera from the Printed Ephemera Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library. First Floor foyer, National Library of New Zealand, 5 August - 16 September 1997. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on front cover panel of folded pamphlet. Physical Description: Coloured print, 240 x 104 mm.

Date: 1930 - 1937

From: New Zealand Government Tourist and Publicity Department :New Zealand. [ca 1935].

By: Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall, 1901-1971; New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-NZ-1935-04-cover

Description: Shows scene looking through columns towards the children's swimming pool in the Blue Baths, Rotorua. (identified from similar photograph inside booklet). A woman in a black bathing suit stands in profile at right, while sunlit figure in red bathing suit stands by pool ladder-steps. This image also appeared on a "poster stamp" issued by the New Zealand Government Tourist and Publicity Department (see booklet of stamps at Eph-A-TOURISM-NZ-1930s). Booklet used by visitor to New Zealand in 1937/38, therefore dated no later than this. Other Titles - Booklet cover Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - L C Mitchell Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cover of booklet.. Physical Description: Photolithograph 213 x 134 mm.