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Date: 2002

By: Winter, Mark, 1958-; Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-703-001/019

Description: Topics include teacher shortages, Prince Harry smoking pot, Tuku Morgan and the Oscars, the internet, the exclusion of Zimbabwe from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, the death of Middle East peace plans, film star Russell Crowe in New Zealand, Helen Clark as the Mona Lisa, the proposed establishment of a new supreme court to take over Privy Council functions, firearm laws, winter gear for Southland police, knighthood for rock star Mick Jagger, a crate as 'art', the new Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard and inflation, Winston Peters and immigration, Saddam Hussein's response to United Nations arms inspectors, United Future and its closet skeletons, United States President Bush and his policy on Iraq, and genetic engineering in animals. Quantity: 19 print-outs on white card. Physical Description: Black ink on A4 size card

Date: ca 1860s-1880s

By: Browne, Charles Pelham, -1916; Swan & Wrigglesworth (Firm); Bartlett & Company (Auckland, N.Z.); Tait Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-5454

Description: Unidentified carte-de-visite portrait by Bartlett & Co, Auckland; unidentified carte-de-visite portrait by Swan & Wrigglesworth, Wellington & Napier; carte-de-visite view of Presbyterian Church, Hokitika, by Tait Bros, Hokitika; cabinet card portrait by C P Browne, Gisborne. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Basile Leon, Massachusetts, USA, 1996

Date: 2003

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-701-001/023

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Topics include ACT list member of Parliament Donna Awatere-Huata's alleged misuse of funds for a stomach stapling operation and her refusal to resign from her party, Maori activist Titewhai Harawira and Waitangi Day, an artist painting a portrait of the 'painted' apple noth, govenrment negotiations with Tranz Rail and derailment, heat affecting railway lines, bush fires in Australia and United States threats to attack Iraq, United Nations attempts to slow down American policy on Iraq, American threats of sanctions against North Korea and their nuclear programme, President Bush's State of the Union address, the Black Caps fear of terrorism when on tour, the overburdening of the health system with administrators, President Bush's record of capital punishment and Saddam Hussein's of genocide, Israel's refusal to comply with United Nations resolutions to withdraw from occuppied territory, the arrival of pit ball dogs on Noah's Ark being the signal for all the other animals to burst out of it and away, racial bickering in New Zealand and the remoteness of the establishment of Maori TV channel. Quantity: 23 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

Date: 1894-1897

By: Hendry, J, active 1890s; New Zealand Photographic Company (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-5455

Description: 3 photos of James Nairn Arrangement: Copy negatives housed at 1/4-030938, 030939 and 030942 (see PAColl-6853) Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1900s

By: Lander, Loretta Elma, 1941-2021

Reference: PAColl-5757

Description: Portrait of Edward Cutts, race-horse breeder and trainer of Chokebore Lodge, Riccarton, Christchurch; and a handcoloured portrait of his daughter, Alberta Cutts. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donor is descendant of Edward Cutts.

Date: 1814

By: Broughton, William, 1768-1821

Reference: MS-Papers-0943

Description: Describes the massacre of the crew and passengers of the ship `Boyd' at Whangaroa, 1809 and the rescue of his daughter by Captain Berry, 1812 Relationship complexity - Original and water-colour portrait held in National Library of Australia, Canberra (ANL:NK 382) In 1809 Elizabeth Broughton, aged two, and her mother were passengers on the General Boyd, sailing from New South Wales to England. The vessel called at Whangaroa Harbour in northern New Zealand where it was attacked by Maori, and most of the crew and passengers killed. Elizabeth was one of four survivors. She was rescued after three weeks. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 leaf). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: [ca 1910s-1920s]

By: Crown Studios (Palmerston North, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-57-29

Description: Portrait of G T Currin taken in the studio of Crown Studios, Palmerston North. He is wearing a three piece suit and a hat and holding a walking stick in one hand. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - G T Currin. Ship P of W. Nelson 26 Dec 1842 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 38.5 x 30.5 cm on mount

Date: [ca 1863-1888]

By: Young, Archibald, -1954; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Caney, Ebenezer, active 1883-1887; De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Savage, Charles Roscoe, 1832-1909; Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA1-q-748

Description: Photograph album of images taken by various photographers (identified below). Chiefly scenic views of New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii, and United States of America. Also eight images of Fijian and Samoan persons. Album compiled by Archibald Young ca 1888. - Album features photographs of New Zealand, including Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Gisborne, Port Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Hutt Valley and river, Waitakere Falls, Oamaru, Queenstown, Waikato River at Ateamure [sic], Mt Earnslaw and Lake Wakatipu, Milford Sound, Lake Manapouri, Ohinemutu, Lake Rotorua and Mokoia, and Wairakei. Also includes series of George Dobson Valentine images relating to the eruption of Mount Tarawera (before and after), including the Pink and White Terraces, Tikitapu Bush, Lake Rotomahana, Echo Lake and rent in the side of the mountain. Album also contains images relating to Maori, including King Tawhiao but also unidentified group images, meeting houses, various carved object, and dried heads. - Images from Australia feature: Cape Raoul, Mount Wellington and other Tasmanian scenes; Melbourne city scenes, including 1888 Exhibition building, Scots Church, Federal Coffee Palace, Princess Theatre, and Bourke Street; Ballarat; Garden Gully Goldmine; Sandhurst, including the School of Mines and Industry and the Shamrock Hotel; Blue Mountains, New South Wales, with Katoomba Falls, Govett's Leap, Weeping Rock, and Jenolan Caves featured; and a panorama of Sydney, including the harbour. - Photographs from the Republic of Hawaii feature Diamond Head, King's Palace and Princess Ruth's Palace, Coconut grove at Waikiki, Hawaiian Hotel, E C Hall's residence, gardens at Queen Hospital, and various dance groups. Photographs from the United States of America feature: San Francisco images include general city views, the observatory at Golden Gate Park, and Beach Drive from Cliff House; various images of geological formations in Yosemite Valley including Yosemite Falls, Merced River, and an unidentified group standing on Glacier Point; Salt Lake City, including the house of Brigham Young and the Mormon Tabernacle; Colorado Springs' Antlers Hotel and Garden of the Gods; and a number of images of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Line, including railway engine and passenger cars, Castle Gate, Marshall Pass, and Royal Gorge. - Also contains a number of portraits of unidentified Fijian and Samoan women and girls, and one group portrait of Fijian men. - Photographers include John R Morris, [James?] Connolly, Burton Brothers, Daniel Louis Mundy, George Dobson Valentine, David Alexander De Maus, Josiah Martin, Ebenezer Caney, [W M?] Reynolds, Chuck Photo, Faber Photo San Francisco, Charles Roscoe Savage, and William Henry Jackson -Miscellaneous materials include a loose print of a construction [mining? drilling?] scene [ca 1880s-1890s] and pressed leaves that are dark brown against paper but reddish brown when held to the light. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Opposite leaf to album page one `Daddy went twice around the world but the second time he got a chill playing deck cricket'; On album page 45, above photograph of Hawaiian Hotel (Honolulu) `Daddie had breakfast with the King & Queen of Honolulu'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album Provenance: Donor is a distant relative of Archibald Young.

Date: [ca 1910s-1920s]

By: Crown Studios (Palmerston North, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-57-28-2

Description: Portrait of an unidentified woman. She has grey hair worn in a bun and is wearing spectacles. Her portrait is taken in Crown Studios, Palmerston North, ca 1910s-1920s On Verso - Studio portrait of an unidentified man with grey hair, a moustache and trimmed beard Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 39.5 x 32 cm on mount

Date: [ca 1910s-1920s]

By: Crown Studios (Palmerston North, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-57-28-1

Description: Portrait of an unidentified man. He has short-cut grey hair and is wearing a moustache and trimmed beard. He is dressed in a three piece suit and has a chain hanging from a buttonhole on his waistcoat. The medal on the chain has on it the heads of King Edward and Queen Alexandra (in profile). Taken in the studio of Crown Studios, Palmerston North, probably 1910s-1920s On Verso - Studio portrait of an unidentified woman with grey hair and spectacles Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 36.5 x 29.5 cm on mount

Date: 1880s

By: Gibbs, William Brickell, 1844?-1898; Main, William, 1934-2023

Reference: PAColl-5901

Description: Album of parliamentary portraits by William Brickell Gibbs Album of photographs of Merivale Station, Southland Arrangement: Albums at PA1-o-889, and PA1-q-638. Quantity: 2 album(s).

Date: [ca 1930s-1950s]

From: Thorp, Nigel fl 1995 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1541

Description: Photograph album of portraits of unidentified people. Includes photographs of ocean travel on a cruise ship, vacation in Australia other unidentified locations. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 245 x 300 mm

Date: 1948

By: Navy League of New Zealand. Canterbury Branch

Reference: ArtEph-1948-W-02

Description: Lists the works of New Zealand miniaturist Mrs Elsie M White, and gives some biographical details about her. The catalogue list 263 works by her. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages.

Date: 1952

From: Bensemann, Leo Vernon, 1912-1986 : Twelve boxes of wood blocks and prints. 1930-1950s

Reference: Series-7036

Description: Printing blocks include: 1. Self portrait - Study and pencil portrait with hat and pipe (205 x 157 mm). 2. Bookplate "S S" - Sally Simmons - translation of Greek words is: "I detest all common things" 3. Initial "L" for Leo (100 x 80 mm) 4. Keith Elliott, V.C. (210 x 148 mm) 5. Pardoner's tale (220 x 160 mm) 6. Drawing for "Nastagio and the Obdurate Lady" by Boccaccio (122 x 122 mm) 7. Donne - Text from "Why puritans make long sermons ..." (132 x 112 mm) 8. Prospero (200 x 152 mm) Sheets of prints include: Pencil self portrait Keith Elliott, V.C. Prospero Pardoner's tale Donne - text from "Why puritans make long sermons"; inital "L" for Leo; Sally Simmons bookplate; [and] Drawing for "Nastagio and the Obdurate Lady" Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 8 b&w art print(s) on four pages. 8 object(s) printing blocks. Physical Description: Block prints and lead mounted on wooden blocks, sizes varying Processing information: Library reference changed 21 December 2022 as part of the curios and objects survey. Previous reference: Curios-035-011.

Date: 2004

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DX-022-128

Description: A man stands and looks at four artworks that have been defaced by splatterings of black paint, while an official explains the exhibition. Quantity: 1 digital image(s) ..