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Auckland City and Ruapehu

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7817

Description: Transparency slides of Auckland, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides.

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Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965 :Young fantails [on calendar. 1955]

Date: 1955

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

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-384-007

Description: Woodcut shows a parent fantail feeding two chicks on a branch. The calendar page is for December 1955. Note on verso says: John saw this at the Little Barrier Island Inscriptions: Verso - centre - John saw this at the Little Barrier Island Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Woodcut 72 x 117 mm on paper mounted on card, 230 x 179 mm.

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Decorative stained glass windows from Christchurch and Wellington houses, 1895-1905

Date: 1895-1905

From: In the Light of the Past :Photographs of New Zealand stained glass in houses and public buildings

Reference: PA12-1438

Description: Most of the windows are of geometric design using unpainted coloured glass. Many of these windows have realistically painted inserts depicting birds on leafy branches -- some of them native birds, and in one case the head and upper body of a woman in a classical style. All of the windows are in styles originating in the late 19th century. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

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Birds on Kapiti Island

Date: November 1984

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6503

Description: Photographs of birds on Kapiti Island. Silvereye (Tauhou) and nest of chicks. Fantail (Piwakawaka) and nest of chicks. Bellbird (Korimako) and nest of chicks. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

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Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965 :[Black fantail, kawakawa, birds & flowers sketchbook. 1...

Date: 1952 - 1961 - 1955

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

Reference: E-750

Description: Includes pencil sketches of R. nivicola Jan 31st the last just above Kapuni hut, Kapuni hut Feb 1952, Geranium Kapuni hut 7/3/52, Dawson Falls March 1952, on way to Ohakune to stay with Tom [...] 21/11/55, Luxmore with kowhai [and] snow, kawakawa May 1961 (design for woodcut?), black fantail at Te Anau (design for woodcut), kingfisher and stilt. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Grey-covered booklet of 24 leaves, each 100 x 168 mm.

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Slides of New Zealand

Date: 1958 to 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

By: Rangi Slides

Reference: PA12-8806

Description: Transparency slides of New Zealand, some purchased and some taken by Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams'). Purchased slides (14 unnumbered slides following no. 975) were in part produced by "Rangi Slides". The first two slides show samples of kauri gum, and no. 975 shows the Franz Josef Glacier terminal face. The following 13 slides show New Zealand birds with the 14th one showing flowers of the native kaka beak. Slides on this sheet are numbered 972-975, with no. 974 removed for Mr Williams lecture series which are filed in a separate sequence. Followed by 14 unnumbered slides. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slide (no. 974) showing aerial topdressing at Holmridge farm (Waihue), as part of a representative collection on New Zealand which he used in lecture series on his return to England. This sheet of slides contains numbered slides 972, 973 and 975, with a note saying "End of numbered slides". These are followed by 13 purchased slides of New Zealand birds and one of native kaka beak flower. Quantity: 17 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

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Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :Fantails [at Fitzherberts?], Hutt [ca 1845]

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-005

Description: Two fantails in dense bush amongst tall tree trunks, Hutt Forest, Hutt Valley Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 5.5 x 3.7 ins

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[Proof sheet of 12 copies of a greetings telegram, with fantail and kowhai. 1960s]

Date: 1960 - 1969

Reference: Eph-E-STATIONERY-1960s-01

Description: Shows twelve reproductions of the same image, the face of a greetings telegram with a fantail perched on a kowhai branch at lower left. At top right is a scene of a lake (possibly Lake Matheson) with tree fern and native bush on its shore and snowy mountains in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on sheet 760 x 1010 mm.

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Artists unknown :[Carved paua brooches made by Italian internees on Somes Island. 1940-...

Date: 1940 - 1945

By: Casa, Paul, 1903-2001

Reference: Curios-021-016

Description: Includes small paua carvings of a tiki, a fantail and a bow-tie. Quantity: 3 curio(s). Physical Description: Paua carvings, sizes varying around 50 x 25 mm. Provenance: From the collection of Paul Casa, 2003. Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts A2003-067..

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