Deforestation

Date: 1948

From: Butcher, Charles Henry, 1887-1957 :Lantern slides of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA11-262

Description: Contains lanterns slides depicting the destruction of Waipoua kauri forest in ca 1948, probably taken by William Roy McGregor. Images published with William Roy McGregor's conservation campaign pamphlet 'The Waipoua forest' (1948). Slides feature forestry roads, milled timber, Kauri trees, deforestation, and uprooted stumps. An unidentified figure appears in one slide [McGregor?]. Quantity: 14 b&w lantern slide(s). Physical Description: Lantern slides

Date: [ca 1970-1985]

By: Native Forests Action Council (N.Z.). Rotorua Branch

Reference: PA-Group-00824

Description: Images relating to the logging of native forest in New Zealand and the effects on the surrounding environment, ca 1970s-1980s. Pukerimu Stream and Westland are key areas of focus. Photographers are unidentified. Prints are collected by the Rotorua branch of the Native Forest Action Council. Accompanying information - A sheet describing an unidentified set of images is in box PAColl-10050-3. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s). 69 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s). 5 colour prints from publications. 5 colour original negative(s) strips with 15 images. 5 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Photographic prints, transparencies, and 35mm film strips Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2086: Native Forest Action Council. Rotorua Branch: Records. See also Cartographic, Ephemera and book collections..

Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10645-02

Description: Prints chiefly of welding industry events, Miramar Gas Works, and nature, taken by Les Cleveland, circa 1960s to 1980s. Contains prints developed by Wellington Photographic Supplies in eight separate photo wallets. Prints include: - Demolished buildings at the Miramar Gas Works with the Taubmans paint factory in the rear of one image. - Machinery and welding demonstration of Argon Arc technology at Industrial Gas Co, Gracefield, with onlookers, 1962. Delegates and speakers at a welders conference. - Heraldic display at Hopwood Hardware, Palmerston North and the adjacent G H Bennett and Company Ltd Booksellers and Stationers in 1971. Also cars and pedestrians on Broadway. - Car wrecks and cutover bush in the Ruahine Ranges. - Skiers on the National Downhill slope, Whakapapa Ski Field, as well as tow house and tow repairs. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 115 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 item(s) of photographic ephemera original print wallets. Physical Description: Photographic prints and print wallets

Date: 1988 - 1992

From: [Posters concerning the environment and environmental protection. 1990, and undated 1990s].

By: Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand

Reference: Eph-D-ENVIRONMENT-1990-03

Description: Poster shows a photograph of bare earth where a forest has been cut down and all trees removed. Quotation is from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", Act 3, scene 1. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 595 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated by Michael Pringle, Wellington, in 2016.

Date: 1975 - 1989

By: Pringle, Michael James, 1962-; Beech Forest Action Committee

Reference: Eph-C-TIMBER-1980-01

Description: Poster shows illustrations of an occasional table and of a tree stump. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 380 x 243 mm. Provenance: Two copies donated by Michael Pringle, Wellington, in 2016.

Date: 2011

By: Warwick Henderson Gallery

Reference: ArtEph-2011-W-01

Description: Essay about Wooller's theme in this painting exhibition on the them of deforestation, with reproductions of six works, featuring native bush overlaid with panels of lettering, documents. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Folded pamphlet, 300 x 212 mm

Date: ca 1880s

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025844-G

Description: Scene in the Rimutaka Range, Wellington region, New Zealand, circa 1880s. Looks along an unidentified creek, towards a railway bridge and deforested hillsides. Photograph taken by William Williams. Inscriptions: from neg bag: No 442 "Rimutaka, Bridge o'er creek" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: January 1906

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/2-140732-G

Description: Scene including Catlins Lake, and areas of land cleared of trees, January 1906. Photograph taken by William Williams. Note on back of file print reads "from stereo card PA Series 4:1377 - Catlins Lake from our camp. Jany. 1906 W.W " Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: date unknown, circa 1910?

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-071686-F

Description: Deforested landscape with log being transported along a bush railway, (at Ormondville?), circa 1910. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 30 Mar 1902

From: Duncan, Russell James, 1855-1946 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-137-20

Description: Highest point on Motuara Island, Queen Charlotte Sound, 30 March 1902. Shows an unidentified man with a cat on his lap, seated amongst tree stumps. Photograph taken by Russell Duncan. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Highest spot Motuara Island, Queen Charlotte Sound. On 31st January 1770 a post was set up here and New Zealand taken possession of, for the use of His Majesty King George III, and the Sound dignified with the name of Queen Charlotte. A bottle of wine was drunk and the empty bottle given to a native chief who was pleased with his present!; Album page - above image - #20 Cook's First Voyage Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.6 x 20.2 cm, on album page Processing information: Digitised scan taken from copy negative 1/2-031683

Date: [191-?]

From: Walkley, Mr : Photographs

Reference: 1/2-035197-F

Description: Horse drawn cart hauling a load of lengths of timber, Hautapu district, Hawke's Bay, circa 1910s. Huts in the background, amongst a deforested area. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 2007

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0004379

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The politician tells someone on the phone that he can't see the trees or the woods. When his adviser queries the phrase used and wonders if he didn't mean 'the trees FOR the woods' the politician tells hime that he was talking about deforestation. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920 :Negatives of Taranaki

Reference: 1/1-006493-G

Description: Roots of a rata tree encircling the trunk of a host tree on a hillside that has been almost cleared of vegetation, probably in Taranaki. Photograph taken ca 1900 by William Andrews Collis. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Showing how rata kills the tree upon which it grows.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 2544 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative