Bamboo

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[Photographer unknown] :Peradinga Gardens, Ceylon. Bamboos [1890]

Date: 1890

From: Lister, Joseph Jackson 1857-1927 :[Lister album] 1886-1890 [Watercolours by Joseph, and possibly Isabella and Gulielma Lister]

Reference: E-394-f-057

Description: A large cluster of bamboo Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 187 x 265 mm

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Watanabe, Seitei, 1851-1918 :Setei kacho gafu. [1890]

Date: 1890

From: [Various artists] :Japanese colour prints. [Late nineteenth or early twentieth century?]

By: Shotei Hiroaki Takahashi, 1871-1944; Watanabe, Seitei, 1851-1918

Reference: E-274-01

Description: Collection of single and double page bird and flower illustrations in polychrome woodblock print technique; roosters, turtles, plants and trees, landscapes Note on cover incorrectly attributes the volume to Shotei instead of Seitei Cover: Outer colours light card, ivory with silver-blue design of bamboo leaves and shrubs, with title cartouche in running script album title and artist name. Front matter publication details and colophon. Each illustration with Setei's hanko seal in red. Together with E-274-3 and E-274-4 this group comprises the complete set of this publication. Other Titles - Seitei's drawing book of flowers and birds. No 3 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Coloured woodblock prints in bound volume, in printed stitched cover, 250 x 170 mm

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Tsukioka Kogyo, 1869-1927 :[Fireflies at night. 1890s]

From: Various artists :[Examples of Japanese art. 19th and early 20th centuries]

By: Tsukioka Kogyo, 1869-1927

Reference: A-055-005

Description: A very dark night scene of fireflies on bamboo leaves against water. A square surimono format woodblock print A copy in the collection of the British Museum was purchased in London in 1906 Inscriptions: Recto - centre left - signature [nearly illegible black on black]: Seal. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Colour woodblock print, 239 x 251 mm

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Papers re landscape architecture

Date: [1952-1965]

From: Strewe, Friedrich Georg Theodor (Odo), 1910-1986 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5921-056

Description: Comprises articles by and about Strewe on gardening, landscape gardening, architecture, the environment and related matters; also includes advertising flyer for his business and background article about him Arrangement: Photocopies of articles in fMS-Papers-5921-1 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Of garden plans, accompanying articles by Strewe

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Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :Bamboo boat by Alma Butterfield. [Illustrated ...

Date: 1956

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

Reference: B-131-13-123

Description: A page torn from a New South Wales School Magazine with a poem illustrated by Eileen Mayo. The illustration is of a bamboo leaf made into a tiny boat sailing in water, with a dragonfly hovering above it. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset printing on paper, 238 x 152 mm

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Innocent Packaging: [Five wrappers for Smartass toilet tissue. 2018?]

Date: 2017 - 2018

By: Innocent Packaging (Firm)

Reference: Eph-C-PACKAGING-2018-01/05

Description: Five sheets of packaging for "totally tree-free toilet paper", made from fast-growing sugar cane and bamboo fibres free of bleach, inks, dyes and perfume. All have a panel of small print with information about the product and its advantages for the environment. Designs are: 01. Pink - with illustration of the entire digestive tract 02. Yellow - showing the word SMARTASS constructed of photographs of funnel, bamboo,woman, donkey in toilet, small child, cylinders 03. Aqua - with the word "smartass" 04. White - with an overall pattern of toilet rolls 05. Black - with the word "smartass" Quantity: 5 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief prints on wrapping sheets, each 300 x 360 mm.

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Bamboo for the Wellington Sun Festival of 17 December 1983, being stacked in Tauranga

Date: [ca Dec 1983]

From: Bleakley, Joe, fl 1980-2000s: Photographs relating to the Wellington Sun Festival in 1983

Reference: PA12-9231b

Description: Colour transparencies showing bamboo in Tauranga being stacked for the truck and rail journey to Wellington where it was used to make structures for the Wellington Sun Festival at Oriental Bay of 17 December 1983. Photographer unidentified. Taken circa December 1983. Arrangement: These transparencies followed PA12-9231a when the collection came into the Library. Quantity: 13 colour original transparency/ies strips with 21 images.

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Bamboo for the Wellington Sun Festival of 17 December 1983, being collected and stacked...

Date: [ca Dec 1983]

From: Bleakley, Joe, fl 1980-2000s: Photographs relating to the Wellington Sun Festival in 1983

Reference: PA12-9231a

Description: Colour transparencies showing bamboo being collected and stacked in Tauranga for the truck and rail journey to Wellington where it was used to make structures for the Wellington Sun Festival at Oriental Bay of 17 December 1983. All photographs taken by Joe Bleakely, circa December 1983. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies.

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Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Bamboo painted in Chinese manner. ca 1968]

Date: 1968

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook]. December 1967-May 1968

Reference: E-473-f-029

Description: Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 205 x 260 mm

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Series 5 - Ethnomusicology activities at the VUW School of Music

Date: 1973-2008

From: Thomas, Allan, 1942-2010 : Papers

Reference: Series-4909

Description: Includes assorted materials of concert programmes, visitors, talks, lectures, workshops, demonstrations, and some materials from courses in the ethnomusicology section Quantity: 7 folder(s). 40 colour original transparency/ies. 24 b&w original transparency/ies. 8 videocassette(s).

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Music of bamboo

Date: 2006

From: Thomas, Allan, 1942-2010 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-9892-26

Description: Papers relating to the Radio NZ Concert Composer of the week series which Allan Thomas devised on music associated with bamboo Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

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Isaachsen, John : John Isaachsen's bamboo nursery

Date: 1968?

By: Isaachsen, John, active 1968

Reference: qMS-1042

Description: Account of methods of growing bamboos, and of different species Other Titles - Title on spine: John Isaachsen's bamboo industry Quantity: 1 volume(s) (6 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) (34 cm; blue pam case)

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[Godfrey, Bob], fl 1960-1970s :Peter Pan exotic Chinese foods. Spring rolls, curry rice...

Date: 1965 - 1975

By: Peter Pan (Firm); Godfrey, Bob, active 1960-1970s

Reference: Eph-C-FOOD-1970s-02

Description: Poster advertising a range of prepared foods shows at the left a silhouette of a robed pigtailed Chinese man standing beside bamboo. Colouring is dark blue on fluorescent pink. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 463 x 296 mm. Provenance: Purchased from a private vendor, May 2011.

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Minhinnick, Gordon (Sir), 1902-1992 :The pressure of events has drawn us much closer to...

Date: 1961

From: [Various cartoonists including Sir Gordon Minhinnick 1902-1992] :[Newspaper clippings of cartoons from New Zealand newspapers. 15 December 1948 to 5 September 1972.]

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992

Reference: E-549-q-13-003

Description: Shows a group of eight men (S.E.A.T.O.) with a large snake (LAOS) coiled tightly around them. There are bamboo trees surrounding them. Refers to the South East Asia Treaty Organisation feeling the pressure from Laos. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Newsclipping Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

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[Walsh, Philip] 1843-1914 :T. Joyce's, Paihia. Mar 13 1889.

Date: 1888

From: [Walsh, Philip] 1843-1914 :[Middle East and New Zealand sketchbook] 1883-1892.

Reference: E-369-098

Description: Shows a two-storied house amidst trees and a garden with a picket fence running down the side. There is a ladder and a wheelbarrow on the ground by the side of the house. The plants include a banana palm and bamboo. Thomas Joyce was farmer and boarding-housekeeper (see qMS Worsfold. L. Social History of Russell pp. 91-92) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 110 x 180 mm, in album

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Hay, J D, fl 1912 :Otago Trades & Labour Council's Industrial Exhibition. First class d...

Date: 1912

By: Hay, J D, active 1912; Otago Trades and Labour Council; Fergusson and Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Eph-C-EXHIBITION-1912-01

Description: Certificate shows a woman at the left in classical robes holding out a laurel wreath towards the scroll showing the name of the award winner. Beneath the scroll is an illustration of a handshake. Other Titles - November December Other Titles - Fergusson & Mitchell, Dunedin Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on certificate. Physical Description: Lithograph with gold highlights, 310 x 435 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Otago Heritage Books in 2003.

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[Doubleday, William or John], fl 1880s :Brisbane Queensland 1885

Date: 1885

From: [Doubleday, William and John], fl 1880s :[Twenty-three watercolours of New Zealand and the Pacific. 1884-1885]

Reference: C-150-001

Description: Shows a large domed building, the Parliament House, surrounded by trees. There are tall bamboo plants in the left foreground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 122 x 185 mm.