Children playing

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PA7-51-28

Description: View of people on the beach at Island Bay. Young children are playing on the sand, or in dinghies and canoes close to the shore. Fishing fleet is at anchor in the bay. Photograph taken by S C Smith in 1920s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Island Bay. Wellington. New Zealand. 890 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 155 x 205 mm

Date: 2002

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

Reference: H-671-001/018

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Shows the 'Peace Processor' machine in action where Jewish and Palestinian antagonists are placed in one end of the machine and after numerous processes they come out the same. Jim Anderton proposes drastic remedies for medical problems. Shows Helen Clark as a mother trying to deal with her infantile fighting MPs. Shows Labour's Finance Minister, Michael Cullen, taking money from Health and Education to top-up the Government's Superannuation Scheme and then borrowing money to fund Health and Education. This is to show people that the Government is not borrowing to fund the Superannuation Scheme. Shows the Alliance Party waka spliting apart with rowers rowing in two different directions. Comment on Israel blaming Yasser Arafat and the Palestinians for the devastation caused to Palestine by the Israeli military. Shows Queen Elizabeth expressing her appreciation for having turned up for her mothers funeral and having worn a dress rather than her trade-mark trouser suit. Comment on the effectiveness of Jim Anderton in Government. Comment on Jim Anderton's pattern of changing political skins from Labour to New Labour to the Alliance and now onto what ever his new Party will be called. Comment on the poor showing of the National Party in public opinion. Shows a customer to the new Kiwibank wanting to have an account in both Kiwibank and with his existing bank until he decides later which way to go. He adds that Mr Anderton must understand this as he is assuming the same position over being the Government leader of the Alliance but setting up a new party in opposition to them later in the year. Comment on shift from Privy Council to NZ Appointed Court - infers that the new system will be more a roll of the dice rather than a matter of impartially balancing the scales of justice. Comment on the Helen Clark art forgery incident. Illustrates the demonisation of Yasser Arafat. Comment on the increasing need for vigilence in protecting our children from all forms of violence and abuse. Comment on NZ losing the right to co-host the Rugby World Cup with reference to the Helen Clark art forgery incident. Shows the Auckland public looking for alternate ways to blanket spraying to get rid of the Painted Apple Moth. A suggestion is to make the Rugby Union and Trevor Mallard responsible for its protection. This refers to them losing the right to co-host the Rugby World Cup. Comment on National's new tax package. Quantity: 18 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies.

Date: ca 1860s-1880s

By: Lennard, Leslie Maurice Wyn, 1903-1988

Reference: PAColl-6553

Description: 6 views of Auckland: looking along Mount Eden Road; looking towards Mount Eden from Epsom with two children in the foreground, one on a tricycle; looking down on Hobson Bay with large houses dotted along the shore; view from Mount Eden showing the domain and Parnell Road; looking down from Mount Eden towards One Tree Hill and Epsom; and Symonds Street showing the Old Grammar School and grounds. Photographs taken by John Kinder. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015135 to 015140 Quantity: 6 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives Provenance: Owned by Mr L M Lennard in 1959, who subsequently gave the originals to the Auckland City Art Gallery.

Date: 1984-1985

From: Davies, Sonja Margaret Loveday, 1923-2005 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1448

Description: Photographs of the preparation and functioning of the Blenheim Community Creche that opened in 1985. Shows interior and exterior scenes of children, including special needs children, and staff. First page of album has the following dedication: 'To Sonja to commemorate the opening of the Uptown Community Creche Blenheim, February 23rd 1985, with appreciation from the staff and children'. Other - Album contains newspaper clippings and other documents relating to the Creche Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue album; 25 x 22.5cm

Date: 1955

By: Martin, Hannah, 1830-1903

Reference: qMS-1344

Description: Childhood reminiscences of Hannah, who left England with her parents Jane and Francis White, in 1834 on the `Friendship', and lived until 1849 at Hokianga with her father who was a timber merchant. On the voyage to New Zealand the family was shipwrecked off Norfolk Island, and rescued by convicts working there. Hannah describes her life at Hokianga concentrating primarily on childhood games. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (10 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (28 cm, grey pamphlet case)

Date: [ca 1950]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Bremford Studios

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-148-003

Description: Two small girls on the merry-go-round at Caroline Bay, photographed ca 1950 by Bremford Studios of Timaru. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Young & old enjoy the merry go round so well patronised in Caroline Bay.; Verso - bottom centre - Bremford Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 165 x 220 mm

Date: 1955 - 1956

From: Acres, Avis, 1910-1994 :[Original illustrations for "Opo the gay dolphin". 1955-56].

By: Acres, Avis, 1910-1994

Reference: B-087-019

Description: Shows Opo (a young female dolphin which frequented Opononi in the mid-1950s) in right foreground surrounded by children, two of whom are stroking her. Others watch from the pier and beach, and there is a two-storeyed verandahed guesthouse(?) in the left background. Extended Title - Illustration for "Opo the gay dolphin" (1956). Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - A.A. Dated 1955-56, as book, "Opo the gay dolphin" was published in 1956. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 370 x 280 mm.

Date: 1912

By: Lindsay, Lionel Arthur (Sir), 1874-1961; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-066-014

Description: Looking up a narrow lane between tall stone buildings in The Rocks, Sydney,. In the left foreground are two boys, one seated, one holding a hoop. A large dead rat lies on the street between them. A woman walks down the land, holding a metal container, possibly for milk. Other people are also in the lane Another copy, no. 2, at A-066-013 Other Titles - The Rocks, Sydney, Malcas Arms, Maori Lane Inscriptions: Recto - Signed Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Mezzotint with etching, 164 x 120 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 232 x 178 mm

Date: 1968

From: Alexander, John Hood, 1917- :New Zealand historic buildings. Pen wash paintings with text by John H. Alexander. Auckland, Morton Williams Ltd, 1968.

Reference: B-086-020

Description: View of a wooden house surrounded by a picket fence. There is washing hanging on the line and smoke coming from the chimney. A sign in front of the fence reads `School'. Two small boys carrying flags are running along a path beside the house. There is a man carrying a bucket and fork on the path on the far left. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, sepia, on sheet 142 x 182 mm

Date: [1980-1990]

By: Morris, Peter Gillard, 1922-2000

Reference: MS-Papers-5565

Description: Comprises recollections of Morris who lived in Karori, Wellington; he describes his family, education, games, friends, social activities, discusses religious and racial differences and other matters. He describes briefly his time in the army and the narrative ends shortly after the end of World War II. Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - fMS-176-179 also by Gillard is described as Notes for a thesis on unemployed organisations in NZ; and letters from him are in MS-Papers-5201-117 Morris responded to an advertisement of Ann Gluckman's for reminiscences of people brought up in the NZ in the 1920s and 1930s for a planned publication which never eventuated Quantity: 1 folder(s) (14 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph annotations Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr P G Morris, Auckland, 1996

Date: 1945-1959

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-170

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1945-1959 Views of Orewa; Waiwera; Milford Beach (with holiday makers & life guards); Oneroa Beach, Waiheke Island; beach at Devonport; children playing on beach; Westhaven & St Marys Bay taken from harbour bridge; lower Queen Street with Post Office building on left. Views of the Auckland War Memorial Museum and Cenotaph; Robert Burns statue in Auckland Domain; Yvonne Sloan, Auckland Training College student on the steps of the Museum; Tamaki Drive (includes Tamaki Yacht Clubhouse); Savage Memorial; Panmure Basin (& leisure craft at anchor); Parnell Baths & Judges Bay; donkey rides at Mission Bay; Cornwall Park (& view of One Tree Hill); views from Mount Eden, one looking towards Manukau Heads with Mount Eden in foreground, the other looking towards city and Rangitoto. Auckland Railway yards taken from Gladstone Road, Parnell, 1957; aerial view of Waitemata Harbour looking towards Firth of Thames (Whites No 42969); Morris Minor parked on scenic drive, Waitakere Ranges. Quantity: 39 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1909-1925

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-376

Description: Family photographs of the Cameron family at Te Ore Ore and elsewhere (a comprehensive guide to the photographs has been prepared by the family, and is available with the item Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Finding Aids: A photocopy of the information sheets in the front of this album can be found in the PAColl sequance at PAColl-1886. Photocopy of the album showing which images have been copied at same location.

Date: 1955 - 1956

By: Acres, Avis, 1910-1994

Reference: C-099-006

Description: Shows dolphin in centre of a ring of children, tossing a red ball above her nose. In left distance is beach with flowering pohutukawa trees. Extended Title - Illustration for "Opo the gay dolphin" (1956). Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Avis Acres Dated 1955-56, as book, "Opo the gay dolphin" was published in 1956. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 380 x 560 mm.

Date: 1955 - 1956

From: Acres, Avis, 1910-1994 :[Original illustrations for "Opo the gay dolphin". 1955-56].

By: Acres, Avis, 1910-1994

Reference: B-087-017

Description: Shows boy and girl on gently rolling sand, finding speckled eggs among sparse grass. Tern and dotterel wheel overhead, and other children play in the background, with the sea beyond. Other Titles - The children roamed about searching for nests of tern and dotterel Extended Title - Illustration for "Opo the gay dolphin" (1956). Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - A.A. Dated 1955-56, as book, "Opo the gay dolphin" was published in 1956. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 370 x 280 mm.

Date: [ca 1950]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Crago, Eric William, 1904-1992

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-148-001

Description: Father and children damming a stream at a Taranaki beach, photographed ca 1950 by Crago Studios of Ne Plymouth. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - And father must play too! Age long fun of damming a seaside stream attracts father - he tackles the job in true [incomplete] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 159 x 210 mm

Date: 1913

By: Lindsay, Lionel Arthur (Sir), 1874-1961; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-063-007

Description: A broad intersection, showing Old Miller's Street, Dawes Point, The Rocks, Sydney, close to the water's edge. The Harbour View hotel is on the left, houses and a road rising up the hill on the right. A man leads a horse and cart, right of centre, and children play on the street to his right Print number 2 in an edition of 50 Another copy at A-063-008 A copy of the same etching in the National Gallery of Australia is dated 1925 Other Titles - Old Miller's Street, Dawes Point, Sydney. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Signed. Also titled, and numbered, No. 2, lower right Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 106 x 236 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 190 x 272 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1993 - 1995

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Hutt News (Newspaper)

Reference: A-316-106/123

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. Relationship between drinking and increased resistance to colds, joys of club rugby, crisis of resources in the health system, the downside of community involvement in crime prevention, public opinion is negative over clergymen and politicians, increased leisuretime leads to more time spent in criminal activities, violence on the sports field reflects violence in the world around us, Police respond to apparent home-alone case, the publically hounded life of the British royals, current socially unacceptable behaviour blamed on our forebears, women ponder the wonders of evolution, sporting ties bring peace and understanding through onfield competition, UN Peacekeepers observe the war, fallout from French bomb tests at Mururoa, woman tries to get her husband put down, children encouraged to watch more TV and spend less time playing outside in the sun. Original drawings for A-316-111, -113 and -121 in a separate folder, and separately catalogued. Quantity: 17 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: 1924-1995

From: Gale, Len 1926- : Papers relating to left-wing activity and cartoon art work

Reference: MS-Papers-5568-4

Description: Comprises a series of weekly letters from Gale to his grandson, Cody, telling him of his boyhood, adventures, family, friends and life in Auckland when he was growing up. Topics covered include oyster fishing, the zoo, Western Springs Speedway, the Wynyard Wharf, the camp on Motuihe Island, schooldays at Mt Albert primary school, the axe, huts, curtain rods, the `Herald' round, a fire, tennis, golfers, lightning, a seaman and a sailor, frogs and mosquitoes; and the Titirangi mechanics and short pieces not part of the letters Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1913

By: Lindsay, Lionel Arthur (Sir), 1874-1961; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-063-008

Description: A broad intersection, showing old Miller's Street, Dawes Point, The Rocks, Sydney, close to the water's edge. The Harbour View hotel is on the left, houses and a road rising up the hill to the right. A man leads a horse and cart, right of centre, and children play on the street to his right Another copy at A-063-007 A copy of the same etching in the National Gallery of Australia is dated 1925 Other Titles - Old Miller's Street, Dawes Point, Sydney. Miller. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Signed. Also titled and dated by the artist Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 106 x 236 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 190 x 272 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1930 - 1939

From: Field, Robert Nettleton, 1899-1987 :[Collection of sketches, 1926 to 1961]

Reference: A-265-020

Description: Sketches of figures, a horse and a mastless yacht. In upper righthand corner three drawings of a man wearing a hat (two viewed from behind); middle right, a yacht at anchor, labelled `Taieri Mouth'; lower right drawings of children walking, running, jumping and kicking a ball; lower left a woman pushing a baby in a pram (viewed from behind); upper left, a horse from behind; in the centre the head of a man wearing a hat and with a moustache. Other Titles - Taieri Mouth Inscriptions: Recto - right of image - Taieri Mouth in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 216 X 196 mm