Banksia

Date: 1958 to 1959

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

Reference: PA12-8821

Description: Transparency slides of Australia selected by Mr Williams as a representative collection to be used in a series of lectures on his return to England. This sheet shows Australian plants and birds; the Cotter Dam; the stained glass window in the War Memorial in Canberra; Government House (Yarralumla) in Canberra; jacaranda trees at Grafton. These are followed by images that Mr Williams purchased showing Australian plants and birds, aerial views of Melbourne and the Great Ocean Road; Louttit Bay, Lorne; McKenzie Falls; a stone bridge into the Melbourne Botanical Gardens; and two views of Mount Olga. The slides are not filed in his original numerical sequence, and are selected by subject relating to particular talks. Arrangement: These slides were selected by Mr Williams from his original sequence to create a representative collection of Australian images which he used in illustrated lectures on his return to England. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-7058

Description: Photographs of the Adelaide area taken in the 1960s by John Ingle. Views include herons, and pelicans on Lake Alexandrina; roadside exhibition of old machines; a gum tree with a label showing where bark had been cut for a canoe; open country in northern Adelaide; bottle-house at Barossa; the Barossa Reservoir Dam, with views downstream, the "Whispering Wall" where a voice can be heard from one end to the other (140 meters), the dam after summer drought showing an exposed old bridge; carex plants (named as "nigger boys" plant in Ingle's index), and a banksia plant; the hills of Adelaide; an old mine entrance. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 1772

By: Forster, Johann Georg Adam, 1754-1794

Reference: A-143-004

Description: A pink banksia flowerhead with leaves Believed to be by Georg Forster, who accompanied Cook on his second voyage. Cook did not visit Australia on his second voyage, and Forster must have copied one of the dried specimens taken back to London from the first voyage Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - initialled in ink: G F; Verso - top left in ink: No. 5. Top centre, in ink: Banksia Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white on board, 376 x 274 mm Provenance: Possibly purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull

Date: 1940 - 1960

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Reference: D-015-001

Description: A black cockatoo perched on a branch of white Banksia, designed as a tourist poster for Australia Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print, 1010 x 634 mm Provenance: Donation: Eileen Mayo, Christchurch, 1994

Date: 1840 - 1870

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-106-3/4

Description: Shows the leaf of the banksia serrata and of the banksia solonis. Quantity: 2 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pen and ink 130 x 35 mm.

Date: 1840 - 1870

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-106-1

Description: Shows a serrated banksia leaf. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pen and ink, 140 x 40 mm.