Seeds - New Zealand

Date: 1990 - 2002

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: A-366-431/461

Description: Cartoons on political and social issues in New Zealand and overseas. Quantity: 31 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black felt pen drawings on paper, sizes vary.

Date: 1952

By: New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association of Canterbury; Collins, Burton Wallace 1916-1977; Goodwin, Jill Marion, 1947-

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Farmers-1952-01

Description: Catalogue listing flower seeds, vegetable seeds, insect and blight destroyers, and sundries with fertilising instructions for various types of plants. There is also a small section on garden tools, and an illustration of a hand lawn-mower. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 24 pages, each 211 x 140 mm. Provenance: Donated by Jill Goodwin in 2002.

Date: 1951 - 1957

From: [Ephemera up to quarto size, relating to botany, botanical species and specimens, in New Zealand]

By: New Zealand. Department of Agriculture. Seed Testing Station; Moss, Geoffrey Robert, 1926-

Reference: Eph-B-BOTANY-1950s-01

Description: Includes an envelope for a seed sample, a pink record card, three certificates of analysis (for 1951, 1952 and 1957), a certificate of pedigree, classification sheets and working sheets, a chart of seed vitality, a list of crop seeds, and a grass seed price list from Hodder & Tolley dated May/June 1952. Seed testing was carried out by around 100 staff working at the Department of Agriculture in Palmerston North. Quantity: 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and typescript, sizes varying Provenance: Donated by Geoffrey Moss, Wellington, in 2007.

Date: Between 1959 and 1982

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8855

Description: The first 19 slides are untitled but show mycorrhiza (fungi) on douglas fir roots; the trunk of a "rusty gum", kowhai seeds; bark of several trees including eucalyptus sideroxylon and an oak tree; one jacaranda bloom and jacarnda foliage; hellebore corsicus; hosta leaves; a Judas tree; eucalyptus micocorys; bunya pine tree; twisted maple trunk; Friesian heifers; a eucalyptus maculosa; and wych elm blossom. The last three show the Homestead at Takahe Creek, and a man only identified by Christian name "John" with Rusty the spaniel in the garden. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1906 - 1949

By: Te Aro Seed Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-TeAro

Description: Sales catalogues for Te Aro Seed Company, Courtenay Place Wellington, including illustrations of flowers and vegetables. Years held are: 7 undated; 1906? (2 copies), 1922, 1923 (2 different), 1925, 1926, 1930, 1931 (2 different), 1932 (2 different), 1934/35, 1940/41, 1941/42, 1943/44, 1944/45, 1945/46 (2 copies), 1946/47 Quantity: 31 booklets. Physical Description: Booklets, sizes under 230 mm.

Date: 1936 - 1944

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-742

Description: Includes pencil sketches of eclipse of sun December 14th 1936; Mt Tarawera Lake Okaro; heron (design for woodcut); [nikau at] Morere Oct 1944; Morere NZ (design for woodcut); Morere Sept 1944; Wainui[?] Beach Gisborne Sept 1944; Young Nick's Head [from Gisborne]; Coast just south of Gisborne from train 9?sept/44; Mahia from Kopuawhara Stn., nikau and mountains (design for woodcut); [kowhai seedpods] (woodcut design), Maori motifs. Other Titles - "Rathbone" sketch book series 31 ... Winsor & Newton Ltd Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Hardbound grey volume, of 30 leaves, each 128 x 185 mm.

Date: 1949

From: F Cooper Ltd :[Horticultural sales catalogues. 1924, 1941, 1942, 1949, 1960s?]

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Cooper-1949-01

Description: A sales catalogue for vegetable and flower seeds, 1949-1950. Front cover shows a man and woman in gardening clothes, standing beside a wheelbarrow full of vegetables. Back cover shows the F Cooper logo featuring the head of a Maori chief. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Offset prints in booklet of 44 pages, each 250 x 185 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2005.

Date: 1951

From: Te Aro Seed Company :[Garden guide or garden annual - price lists. 1900s-1940s]

By: Te Aro Seed Company Ltd; L T Watkins Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-TeAro-1951-01

Description: Sales catalogue for Te Aro Seed Company, Courtenay Place Wellington, including llustrations of flowers and vegetables. Front cover shows harvested vegetables arranged in a garden, and an inset illustration of a young smiling Chinese woman dressed in a kimono beside two roses. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 64 pages, 213 x 138 mm. Provenance: Purchased at New Zealand Book Auctions, 22 February 2009

Date: 1946

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Winstone-1946-01

Description: Lists plants and seeds for sale. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 32 pages, 215 x 142 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Edward Mosig, Australia, in 2011.

Date: 1953 - 1960

By: Kerse, Allan Renton, 1919-2011; Kerse, Gladys Jane, 1921-2008

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Winstone-1955-01

Description: Lists plants and seeds for sale and gives a recommended calendar of garden activities for each month. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 60 pages, each 245 x 182 mm. Provenance: Donated by Renton and Gladys Kerse in 2002. Previously owned by Ms E M (Minnie) Sim of Heriot (aunt of Mrs Kersey; died early 1970s).

Date: 1931

From: Te Aro Seed Company :[Garden guide or garden annual - price lists. 1900s-1940s]

By: L T Watkins Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-TeAro-1931-01

Description: Sales catalogue for Te Aro Seed Company, Courtenay Place Wellington, including illustrations of flowers and vegetables. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 64 pages, each 232 x 152 mm.

Date: 1890 - 1900

From: Various artists :[Watercolour and pencil drawings by members of the Lysaght and Stowe families. ca 1870-1930]

By: Lysaght, Emily Muriel, 1875-1971

Reference: B-190-072

Description: Shows a flax bush near some water, with three seed fronds emerging from its middle Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on artist's paper, 280 x 380 mm

Date: ca 1960s-2020

From: Ephemera donated to and collected by the Alexander Turnbull Library from 2020

By: Bank of New Zealand; Boys' Brigade in New Zealand Inc; Hastings District (N.Z.). District Council; New Zealand Police; NZ Transport Agency; Social Credit (Political party : N.Z.); Victoria University of Wellington; Yates New Zealand Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-OCTOBER-2020/2

Description: Comprises: McDonalds Monopoly chip packet, dated verso September 2020; Bank of New Zealand envelope, dated verso 1970s; Yates beetroot seed packet, circa 2013; Pix Rite-Change conversion wheel, used to convert shillings and pence to dollars and cents when New Zealand switched to decimal currency in 1967; Invitation for Brian Van Rooyen to attend dinner with then-Prime Minister Helen Clark at Premier House for the 2005 British and Irish Lions Tour of New Zealand; A Boys' Brigade Jubilee Trek sticker, dated 23 March 1985; A Sanyo Rally of New Zealand sticker, dated 25-28 June 1983; A booklet issued by the New Zealand Police titled "What you need to know about the new firearms laws", circa 1993; A sex and relationships pamphlet issued by Victoria University of Wellington, which primarily discusses consent and sexual harassment, date unknown; A COVID-19 flyer regarding Hastings District Council rates and annual plan, dated April 2020; A pamphlet campaigning to save Newlands supermarket, dated 1995; A Social Credit Party pamphlet, dated verso 2020; A Firstlight Broadcasting Network pamphlet relating to The Great Controversy, circa 2020; A Jehovah's Witness pamphlet, circa 2020; A Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency flyer titled "COVID-19 impacts on expiry dates and fees", circa 2020. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 15 pieces of ephemera.

Date: [1909-1974]

From: Mowat family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7496-02

Description: Identified persons entered under Name; also includes letters from Eveline, Dashwood (1954); account, A G Mowat with Dr David Blackley (1934); letter from June, Nandi Airport, to her family (1952); letter to Dear Dad, Air Department, Wellington (1940) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1930s-1940s]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 19

Reference: PAColl-7985-65

Description: Men loading seed onto a tractor, from a truck, during the 1930s or 1940s. Location and photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1950-1969]

From: Hamilton, Walter Ian, 1905-1991: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7938-72

Description: Two samples, one of seeds from Mr A C MacDiarmid, Keri Keri Central (1955); and some old unidentified tablets given by J A G, to Hamilton at The Homestead, Kerikeri Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1 May 1941-16 Jun 1942

From: Heenan, Joseph William Allan (Sir), 1888-1951 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1132-170

Description: San Francisco Junior College - seeds. See folder 143, 177 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1934

From: Te Aro Seed Company :[Garden guide or garden annual - price lists. 1900s-1940s]

By: L T Watkins Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-TeAro-1934-01

Description: Sales catalogue for Te Aro Seed Company, Courtenay Place Wellington, including illustrations of flowers and vegetables. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 96 pages, each 247 x 156 mm.

Date: 1949

From: Te Aro Seed Company :[Garden guide or garden annual - price lists. 1900s-1940s]

By: L T Watkins Ltd; Hale, Allen Matthew, 1890-1973

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-TeAro-1949-01

Description: Sales catalogue for Te Aro Seed Company, Courtenay Place Wellington, including illustrations of flowers and vegetables. Front cover shows a young Chinese woman reading a Te Aro seed catalogue, with a basket of vegetables in front of her. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 64 pages, each 218 x 142 mm. Provenance: Donated by the estate of Mr A M Hale in 1976.

Date: 1980

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

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

Reference: C-127-051

Description: A sunflower, a cut pumpkin and a cut pear, all showing their seeds No. 17, p. 114 in Margaret Taylor's listing of the collection Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and edition number. Signature bottom right [both in pencil, in the artist's hand] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 604 x 345 mm