Humpback whale

Date: 1895

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Five watercolours and twelve drawings of whaling scenes near Whangamumu. 1895].

Reference: B-159-014-1

Description: Shows the tail of a hump-backed whale that is thrashing about to rid itself of the net and barrel floats it is tangled with. At the right is a rowing boat with six whalers in it. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Wash drawing on sheet, 275 x 378 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2002.

Date: 1895

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Five watercolours and twelve drawings of whaling scenes near Whangamumu. 1895].

Reference: B-159-017-2

Description: Shows sketches of the head and fin of a humpbacked whale as seen fron the side, and a detail of the fin and eye seen from slightly above. Other Titles - Humpbacked Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on sheet, 275 x 378 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2002.

Date: 1979 - 1980

From: [Posters concerning the environment and environmental protection. 1970s].

By: Cooke, Howie, active 1970-1990s; Project Jonah N.Z.

Reference: Eph-D-ENVIRONMENT-1979-02

Description: Poster chart shows profile illustrations of the following whales: Left column: Blue whale, fin whale, right whale, humpback whale, Sei whale, Bryde's whale, minke whale Centre column: Sperm whale, orca (killer) whale, pilot whale, pygmy sperm whale Right column: Beaked whale, bottlenose dolphin, common dolphin Two copies held. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print, 420 x 590 mm.

Date: 1985

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[Original cartoons drawn in 1985, mainly for the New Zealand Listener].

By: Greenpeace New Zealand

Reference: C-133-100

Description: Shows an illustration of a humpback whale surfacing from the deep sea, with a mushroom cloud looming in the clouded sky behind. Poster based on this drawing is held in the Ephemera Collection at Eph-D-GREENPEACE-1985-02. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on sheet 640 x 324 mm. Provenance: Acquired from Mr Philip Oliver of Wellington in 2003.

Date: 1993 - 1999

By: Telecom Corporation of New Zealand

Reference: Eph-F-TELEPHONE-Cards-1990s

Description: Includes: $5 cards: Animal affections - black rhinoceros; Anne Geddes baby; Antarctic series II; Apple pie snowboarder (McDonalds sport series); Bellbird Anthornis melanura; Big Mac basketball (McDonalds sport series); Close-up of blue flags - T Fitzharris - Key Light; Cyanea jellyfish; Farmyard friends; Happy Father's Day; Have a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year; Humpback whale - international collectors' issue 1995; Kiwiana 1999 - A feed of fish n' chips by Fifi Colston; Kiwiana 1999 - Get in behind by Fifi Colston; Native Pacific - Kiwi and clematis; "New red" - 1999 new chip phonecard; New Zealand holiday - baches, beaches, bottled Nan's peaches, eight ball over, huge pavlova; New Zealand holiday - wetsuits, weather's fine, clocks on summertime, sea breeze blowing, biscuit towing; New Zealand Maori team - the inaugural George Nepia Trophy tournament March 20-24 Napier [1995]; Passing time (McDonald's Always a Great Time series); Quarter pounder surfer (McDonalds sport series - printed over WWF New Zealand fur seal, with overprinting partly removed); Shell encourages better driving (golf); Shell Ranfurly Shield rugby - Robbie Deans, Canterbury; A Thank you from Telecom; A trademark Jeff Wilson try!; Turrets & towers - Auckland's opulent Civic Theatre; 23rd National Scout Regatta 1994; Unto us a child is born - the Shepherds; Up on the house-top (Merry Christmas from Telecom); World Wildlife Fund for Nature New Zealand - New Zealand fur seal; WWF kakapo; $10 cards: Antarctic series II - Emperor penguins ... commemorating the 40th anniversary of Scott Base 1997; Kea nestor notabilis; "New green" chip phonecard 1999; New Zealand holiday - strawberry, sunscreen, choc dipped ice-cream, home-made mayonnaise, lunchtime lazy days; Taine Randell leads the mighty Haka, 1997 $20 cards: World Wildlife Fund for Nature New Zealand - Hooker's sea lion Quantity: 37 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on plastic cards. Physical Description: Photolithographs on plastic cards, 55 x 85 mm. Provenance: Collected by Zoe Brownlie; donated 2011.

Date: 1959 - 1960

From: Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Original drawings for "Whaling in early New Zealand", by A W Reed, 1960. ca 1959-1960]

Reference: A-407-004

Description: Illustration shows scale drawings of five different whale species: blue whale, fin whale, right whale, sperm whale and humpback whale. At the right are a lance and a blubber spade. The illustration was made in preparation for "Whaling in early New Zealand", Reed Publishing Ltd, 1960. Supplied title is taken from that of the corresponding image in the book "Whaling in early New Zealand". Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on card, 378 x 270 mm.

Date: 1985

By: Greenpeace New Zealand; Hodgson, Trace, 1958-; Wellington Media Collective

Reference: Eph-D-GREENPEACE-1985-02

Description: Shows an illustration of a humpback whale surfacing from the deep blue sea, with a red mushroom cloud looming in the yellow clouded sky behind. Poster is laminated. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Screenprint, 808 x 348 mm. Provenance: Acquired from Mr Philip Oliver of Wellington in 2003.

Date: [193-?]

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: MNZ-0064-1/4-F

Description: Dead humpback whales floating alongside the whaling boat the C A Larsen. Originally published with the caption: `Whales alongside the "C. A. Larsen." The dead whales float on their backs, showing off the graceful flutings of their stomachs, here swollen with interior gases.' Photograph taken circa 1930s?, possibly by a Marine Department photographer. Other - Published in `Making New Zealand' Vol 1, No 4, page 29 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Provenance: Photograph from the Marine Department for the Department of Internal Affairs' publication `Making New Zealand' (1939-40).

Date: 1895

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Five watercolours and twelve drawings of whaling scenes near Whangamumu. 1895].

Reference: B-159-019-1

Description: Shows a spouting hump-backed whale pursued by men in a rowboat. Other Titles - 1895 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on sheet, 275 x 378 mm.

Date: 1 June 1953

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Zoology-Whales-01

Description: An Humpback whale being laid open by staff at J A Perano's factory in Tory Channel. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on Sunday the 1st of June 1953. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 24.2 x 18.5 cm

Date: 1895

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Five watercolours and twelve drawings of whaling scenes near Whangamumu. 1895].

Reference: B-159-015

Description: Shows a hump-backed whale leaping from the water, to land on its back. There are headlands in the right distance. Other Titles - 1895 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash drawing on sheet, 275 x 378 mm.

Date: 1895

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Five watercolours and twelve drawings of whaling scenes near Whangamumu. 1895].

Reference: B-159-016

Description: Shows a hump-backed whale spouting, and thumping its tail on the water. In the two rowboats at the right are men with harpoons. The foreground barrel floats suggest that the whale is caught in nets. The title may refer to the "dubbing" sound of the tail beating the water. (See Oxford English dictionary) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash drawing on sheet, 275 x 378 mm.

Date: 1980

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

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

Reference: C-127-053

Description: A centrally-placed humpback whale, with a smaller bottlenose whale below No. 27, p. 114 in Margaret Taylor's listing of the collection Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title. Signature bottom right [both in pencil, in the artist's hand, i.e. unnumbered artist's proof] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 367 x 612 mm

Date: 1 June 1953

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Zoology-Whales-02

Description: Whale steak being striped from the carcass of an Humpback whale by staff at J A Perano's factory in Tory Channel. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on Sunday the 1st of June 1953. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 24.2 x 18.5 cm

Date: [ca July 1948]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Arriens, W (Dr), -1962

Reference: PAColl-8163-38

Description: Body of a humpback whale being processed at the Perano Whaling Station, Fishing Bay, Tory Channel. Shows men in oil-skins on the whale, which is partially covered by a shed at the end of a jetty. Photograph taken circa July 1948, by Dr W Arriens. Inscriptions: Verso - top right - P21/7/48; Verso - centre - Right compo / 9 5/8 x 3 3/8 / 3/16" gutter / on wood; Verso - bottom right - Sanders Photo Studio 153 Willis St [Photographer's stamp] Photograph taken in the course of a cruise on the yacht Viking, owned by Bryan Todd. In the course of the cruise the yacht, based at Te Awaiti, followed Joseph Perano and his sons, Glibert and Joseph, as they caught 11 whales. Source: Free Lance 21 July 1948. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.1 x 15.4 cm

Date: [ca 12 Jul 1954]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Argosy Studio

Reference: PAColl-8163-25

Description: Photograph of a dead humpback whale lying on the ramp of the whaling station at Tory Channel in Malborough. Shows the buildings of the station at the water's edge, and a man looking on from a ramp in the background. Photograph taken in September 1954, by Argosy Studios for the Free Lance. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Published 21 Jul 1954 page 28 [publication stamp]; Verso - centre - A whale weighing about 50 tons is hauled up the Ramp at the Whaling Station, Tory Channel [attached slip]; Verso - bottom right - right 10 3/4 x 4 12/7/54; Verso - bottom left - Photo Copyright By / Argosy Studio / Picton / No 4928 [photographer's stamp] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.6 x 16.8 cm