Meteorological instruments

Date: 1955-1960

From: Poppleton, Philip George :Photographs of South Island, East Coast, North Island, and Campbell Island

By: Poppleton, Philip George, 1922-2002

Reference: PA1-f-196

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 9 February 1967

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1967/0474-F

Description: Meteorologists Dr D C Thompson (at the winch) and Mr J C Hickman with a kytoon at the first trial flight from Anderson Park, Wellington, taken 9 February 1967 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: [Circa 1970s]

From: Grainger, J :Negatives and photographs relating to Campbell Island

Reference: PA1-q-049

Description: Views of Campbell Island, including aerial photographs. Also views of meteorological station life, with internal and external photographs of various buildings, and meteorologcal equipment and personnel. Album created by Ian Stratford Stewart in preparation for his book "Campbell Island, a history" published by A.H. & A.W Reed in 1976. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album in green vinyl ring-binder, images attached to pages with self-adhesive strips, 30 x 26 cm

Date: 1960 - 1961

By: Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.); C M Banks Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-WEATHER-1961-01

Description: A single sheet calendar as a wall chart shows a picture of the globe of the Earth with a weather satellite above it. At top right is a chart showing relative altitudes of the troposphere, stratosphere and ionosphere, the height of the Russian sputnik and the Echo I, the auroro borealis and australis, and the heights of flight of planes, sounding balloons, anti-aircraft shells, and cloud types. Another chart at centre right shows wind patterns around the globe, and at lower left is a weather map of Australia and New Zealand. At lower ledft are illustrations of the covers of Post Office Savings Bank account pass books. An attached sheet of text discusses ascents into space, the developing science of meteorology, movements in the atmosphere, jet streams of the upper air, the ozone layer and its effect on sound waves, and the ionosphere. Other Titles - Meteorology Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, on sheet 560 x 330 mm, with attached offset print of same size Provenance: Donated by Brian de Joux, Wellington, in 2011.

Date: [ca 1970s]

From: Cooper, A Neill, 1927- :Transparencies of forest fires in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7495

Description: Transparencies of forest fires, meteorological stations and instruments, fire breaks in forests, and fire engines. Quantity: 15 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1929

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-5217-1/4-G

Description: Weather balloon about to be released from the Meteorological Enclosure on the Crown (now Observatory) Reserve, Botanic Garden, Kelburn, Wellington. On the left are the range finder and theodolite used in the observation of the balloon. The man on the left is Dr M A F Barnett (later a director of the Meteorological Service). The building on the rise is the Wellington Philisophical Society's (now the King) Observatory which was built in 1917. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [ca 23 Feb 1929]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-5216-1/4-G

Description: Weather balloon release, Meteorological enclosure, Crown Reserve, Botanic Garden, Kelburn, Wellington, circa 23 February, 1929. A range finder and theodolite are visible. Far left: Dr M A F Barnett (later a director of the Meteorological Service). Photograph taken by an Evening Post staff photographer. Other - Note on file print reads "See also EP-5217-1/2 for the earlier part of this event which was published in the Evening Post 23 Feb 1929." Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative