Terns

Date: 1944-1945

From: Duthie, Alastair Simpson, 1912-1995 :Photographs of Lincoln Ellsworth Antarctic Expedition, coast watching in Sub-Antarctic Islands, service in Pacific, 1939-1945

Reference: PAColl-8102-3

Description: Landscape and coastal views of Norfolk Island and Philip Island; the remains of convict settlements and prisons at Kingston; Duthie and collegues visiting seabirds nesting on Philip Island; photographs of Gannets, Terns and Bosun Birds taken while on Philip Island; group photographs of Duthie and other men of the military meteriological service, one group taken outside "Pine Villa Weather Office." Photographs of Alister Duthie and collegues in military uniform; photographs of New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands, which are mainly views of local places and people, most unidentified. Quantity: 76 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1985

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir) 1916-1987 :[Christmas and greetings cards from the Fleming family, and preparatory montages and sketches. 1951-1986].

By: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987; Fleming, Margaret Alison (Lady), 1917-2000

Reference: A-304-024/025

Description: Shows panels relating to Charles Fleming's "Science, settlers and scholars", marae at Mokai, Chatham Islands fauna, Mount Bruce (a takahe), Nga Manu Trust, Monet loan exhibition, terns, a wading bird at Upper Waitaki catchment, Palliser Bay trip. Quantity: 14 drawing(s) and 10 pieces lettering stuck on cardboard.. 12 drawing(s) (both ink and photocopied), and 3 pieces lettering, in envelope.. Physical Description: Ink drawings, black and white, mounted on card, 290 x 415 mm. Loose drawings and photocopies measure from 56 x 70 mm, to 122 x 163 mm. Provenance: Donated by Lady Margaret (Peg) Fleming of Wadestown, in 1993.

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 1911-1950s?]

From: Creator unknown: Lantern slides, chiefly of trips overseas, plants, and gardens

By: Hurley, James Francis, 1885-1962; Ponting, Herbert George, 1870-1935

Reference: PA11-276

Description: Lantern slides of birds taken circa 1929-1950s. One photograph is a hand-coloured copy of an original taken by Frank Hurley and another a copy of an image by Herbert Ponting, but otherwise photographers are unidentified. Some slides have captions written on paper affixed to the glass, that describe the location and subject. Images show terns nesting, a black-billed gull nest in a stump, and a young black-billed gull on the Mercury Islands. A pied shag is photographed on a coastal rocky island [Marotiri?], the gannet colony on Horuhoru Rock (including nests) is shown in two slides, and gulls are shown on the water at an unidentified location. Set also includes a hand-coloured copy of a photograph by Frank Hurley shows a King Penguin on Heard Island, Antarctica, [ca 1929-1930?] and a copy of a Herbert Ponting image shows Tera Nova cook Thomas Clissold and surgeon Edward Atkinson pulling a seal-baited fish trap from a hole in the ice [ca 1911]. Arrangement: Set contains slides from box 8 Quantity: 9 b&w lantern slide(s) comprising seven original b&w images and two copy images (one of which is hand-coloured). Physical Description: Lantern slides

Date: 2016 - 2017

From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]

By: Macready, Sara, 1950-

Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-2017-01

Description: Calendar reproducing the artist's sketch of dolphins, terns, a seahorse skeleton, varieties of sea creatures, starfish, oystercatchers, seals, kayakers, shells, penguins, in Golden Bay and nearby locations including Ligar Bay, Wainui, Rototai Beach, Wharariki, Pohara. Dates on January page have an error. Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on calendar of 12 openings, 210 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated by Sara Macready, Motupipi, in 2016.

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

Reference: B-131-13-061

Description: Three birds and a turtle Probably drawn to illustrate The School Magazine, New South Wales Quantity: 4 drawing(s). Physical Description: 4 ink on paper, glued to one card, 203 x 208 mm

From: Various Artists :[Early natural history prints. 1844-1875]

Reference: A-458-014

Description: A profile view of a Black-fronted tern, on a rock formation near the sea, with a black head, white underside and blue-grey plumage on its back Other Titles - Black-fronted tern [translation] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, on sheet 255 x 315 mm Provenance: Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, February 2013

Date: 25 May 2016

From: Winter, Mark, 1958-: Original cartoons by Chicane (Mark Winter), from 2007-2018

By: Winter, Mark, 1958-; Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: A-478-032

Description: Shows six of New Zealand's 'most endangered species': the Maui dolphin, the Mokohinau stag beetle, the Canterbury knobbed weevil, the fairy tern, the kirkii quillwort aquatic fern and DOC funding. Refers to cuts in funding for the Department of Conservation. Two variant version of this cartoon were recieved by the Library as digital files. Note from the cartoonist states that some of the text present in the image was not published ('based on National selection'). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 23.5.16 [in pen] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, felt-tip pen and whiteout on paper, 210 x 300mm

Date: 1932 - 1934

From: Daff, Lily Attey, 1885-1945 :[New Zealand birds] / L A Daff [ca 1933]

Reference: A-270-009

Description: Adult bird in the foreground, with another flying in to land Original illustrations for the artist's An album of New Zealand birds. Wellington : Reed, 1974; published to celebrate 50th anniversary of Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society. Mounted on boards. Exhibited in 'Wild Things: Botanical and Zoological Art from the Alexander Turnbull Library' exhibition, National Library Gallery, 22 November 1998 - 21 March 1999. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gouache on board, 227 x 341 mm (image) on board 267 x 383 mm

Date: 1932 - 1934

From: Daff, Lily Attey, 1885-1945 :[New Zealand birds] / L A Daff [ca 1933]

Reference: A-270-010

Description: Adult bird flying in to land beside the nest, with a single large speckled egg on a few strands of grass on a rocky shelter. Another bird standing watch in the background. A flowering daisy-like rock plant just above the nest. Original illustrations for the artist's An album of New Zealand birds. Wellington : Reed, 1974; published to celebrate 50th anniversary of Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society. Mounted on boards. Exhibited in 'Wild Things: Botanical and Zoological Art from the Alexander Turnbull Library' exhibition, National Library Gallery, 22 November 1998 - 21 March 1999. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gouache on board, 227 x 341 mm (image) on board 267 x 383 mm

Date: 1960 - 1962

By: Acres, Avis, 1910-1994; Ornithological Society of New Zealand

Reference: E-279-q-012/015

Description: Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on cards 100 x 150 mm

Date: 1960 - 1962

From: Acres, Avis, 1910-1994 :[Christmas cards depicting keas, white fronted terns, kingfishers and long tailed cuckoos. [Christchurch], The Ornithological Society of New Zealand [ca 1961]

Reference: E-279-q-012

Description: Shows three tern standing on rocks, and two in flight. Two islands in the distance. Includes descriptive text about the white-fronted tern on inside of the card Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 100 x 152 mm

Date: 1974 - 1975

By: Acres, Avis, 1910-1994

Reference: D-029-006

Description: Chart of 9 New Zealand birds, with portion of text beside each illustration. Shows: Caspian tern, little blue penguin, whitebacked magpie, whitefronted tern, skylark, pipit, gannet, Californian quail, myna. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Sheet E First edition of "Identification guide to New Zealand birds", was published in Wellington in 1975. Quantity: 9 watercolour(s) on board with text.. Physical Description: Watercolours on board, 1150 x 503 mm.

Date: 1932 - 1934

From: Daff, Lily Attey, 1885-1945 :[New Zealand birds] / L A Daff [ca 1933]

Reference: A-271-001

Description: Shows an adult Caspian tern and an immature bird to the left on the seashore. Two other terns hover in the right background. Original illustrations for the artist's An album of New Zealand birds. Wellington : Reed, 1974; published to celebrate 50th anniversary of Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society. Mounted on boards Other Titles - Caspian tern Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gouache on board, 227 x 344 mm (image) on board 267 x 383 mm

Date: [Between 1880 and 1889]

From: Burton Brothers :New Zealand Through the Camera

Reference: PA4-0247

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of birds, Tern, Oystercatchers and Plovers, taken in the 1880s by the Burton Brothers of Dunedin. Inscriptions: mat verso - bottom left - New Zealand through the camera. Burton Brothers, Photos., Dunedin, N.Z. Birds of New Zealand - Terns, Oyster catchers and Plovers Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1968

By: Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899; Ornithological Society of New Zealand

Reference: E-279-q-028

Description: A tern in flight. Based on a hand-coloured lithograph, "Sterna frontalis", Plate 20 Extended Title - From: The Zoology of the Voyage of H. M. S. Erebus and Terror...London: 1844-75. Vol I Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour print 5 x 4 inches

Date: 1908

From: Oliver, Walter Reginald Brook, 1883-1957 :Photograph album of Kermadec Islands Expedition 1908

Reference: PA1-q-135-38-5

Description: Sooty tern colony, Raoul Island. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic print, 7.2 x 10 cm, on album page

Date: ca 1930s

From: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946 :Prints and negatives of New Zealand wildlife and scenery

Reference: 1/2-010015-F

Description: Photograph of a woman walking among white fronted terns at Waitaki, Otago, taken by Thelma Kent, circa 1930s Note on back of file print reads: 1988, according to John Dowling: - white fronted terns Note on back of file print reads: At Waitaki Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1839 - 1843

From: Richardson, John (Sir), 1787-1865 :The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus and Terror ...1839 to 1843... London, E. W. Janson, 1844-1875.

By: Hullmandel & Walton (Firm); Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899

Reference: PUBL-0124-1-020

Description: Four white-fronted terns (sterna striata) flying above the sea The earlier name for this bird (sterna frontalis) has been changed to sterna striata Other Titles - Sterna striata Extended Title - From Richardson, J. The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus and Terror ... 1839 to 1843 ... (London, E. W. Janson, 1844-1875). Volume 1, Birds, Plate 20 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured, 315 x 245 mm

Date: 2000-2005

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000505

Description: Photographs of Punakaiki or Pancake Rocks, West Coast. Includes photographs of walkways in the Paparoa National Park, blowholes, marine bird life, accommodation facilities, commerical buildings, cafes and tourists. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (punakaiki)" Quantity: 217 digital photograph(s).