Tartans

Date: [1890-1899]

By: Dunedin Gaelic Society; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-f-316

Description: Album presented by Dunedin Gaelic Society to Hon John McKenzie, 30 March 1899. Album comprises: Photographs of Mitre Peak, White Terrace, Kakani Fall; and portraits of Te Hau Hau and Te Heu Heu Horonuku, by Burton Brothers, Dunedin Photograph of monument over grave in Dunedin of Alastair Ranaldson Macdonnell, 17th Chief of Glengarry. Photographs of Highland dancers, Dunedin Gaelic Society Choir, athletes, Highland Society Hawke's Bay, Invercargill Pipe Band, Dunedin Highland Rifles Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - [Front cover] "gualainn ri gualainn" is a gaelic term meaning "shoulder to shoulder" 'The history of the City of Invercargill Caledonian Pipe Band, formerly the Caledonian Pipe Band of Invercargill, and the Caledonian Pipe Band of Southland, and the Southland Pipe Band, 1896-1996' which includes a full list of band members photographed in PA1-f-316-6 is held by the National Library at reference NLNZ ALMA 992912823502836. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black morocco bound album 32x45cm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2010

Date: 1914

From: [Theatre ephemera and programmes for music-hall, comedy and variety productions in New Zealand, in 1914].

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1914-02-03

Description: Shows a half length photographic portrait of Harry Lauder and his wife, framed in a tartan border. Mrs Lauder wears a broad lace collar and leans over her husband's shoulder as he sits. The page is printed in navy blue ink. Extended Title - From J & N Tait. Harry Lauder souvenir, page 3 [1914 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on page of booklet, 247 x 185 mm.

Date: 1950 - 1969

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-387-078

Description: Shows two small children singing as three men dressed in kilts march past. The children have got the words to the song 'The Campbells Are Coming' wrong. The three men look embarrassed about being called 'Camp Belles' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, blue coloured pencil and white corrector on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: [1869 or 1870]

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: A-472-011

Description: A standing full length portrait of constabulary Officer Thomas Porter in bush-fighting costume. He is holding a rifle by the barrel and resting the butt of it on the ground. He is also wearing an ammuntion pouch and strap diagonally across his chest. A similar image was published in Cowan's 'The Adventures of Kimble Bent'. The artist is unidentified (possibly Eileen Cowan). Inscriptions: Verso - top left - 13 [in brushpoint] The photograph that this image is probably based on is at 1/2-011006-F. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on card, 261 x 100 mm

From: Wheatley, Sophia, fl 1830-1840s :[Collection of watercolours. 1836-1842]

Reference: E-028-q-046

Description: Drawing of a young man and woman dressed in traditional Scottish costume. The woman is glancing over her shoulder and smiling back at the man. The man is wearing a kilt of dark green, dark blue and yellow tartan. The woman is wearing a large mantle of red, yellow, dark blue and dark green tartan. Both were wearing hats with an embelm on the front, but in this scene the man has placed his on the ground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 228 x 163 mm

From: Wheatley, Sophia, fl 1830-1840s :[Collection of watercolours. 1836-1842]

Reference: E-028-q-051

Description: Shows a young woman wearing a plaid skirt, brown jacket and apron. She is holding a young child in her arms, while another child tugs at her apron and a young boy hides behind her carrying a red pitcher. She is standing beside a building with an open shutter. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 262 x 182 mm

Date: 1860 - 1879

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook [1856-ca 1890]

Reference: E-207-q-020-2

Description: Scotsman dressed in the Buchanan tartan and playing the bagpipes, with rural scene in the background Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - A Merry Christmas Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 165 x 107 mm

From: Wheatley, Sophia, fl 1830-1840s :[Collection of watercolours. 1836-1842]

Reference: E-028-q-047

Description: Drawing of a young man and woman dressed in traditional Scottish costume. They are standing facing each other, the woman with her hands out-stretched and the man with his hands palm to palm held up in front of his face. The man is wearing a kilt of dark green, dark blue and yellow tartan. The woman is wearing a large mantle of red, yellow, dark blue and dark green tartan under which she has on a dress with a pink skirt and white bodice. Both their hats are lying on the ground beside them. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 228 x 163 mm

Date: 1876

From: Gilmore, George Charles 1851-1935 :[Scenes in India, Ceylon, and Africa] 1876-1881

By: G, A (Artist), active 1870s

Reference: A-094-045

Description: Shows two Scottish soldiers in red jackets and green tartan kilts, with sashes worn diagonally across the body pinned at the left shoulder with a brooch. Both wear black busby hats, and long white spats with red and white tartan tops. They both hold swords. Other Titles - Seventy-eighth and ninety-second Inscriptions: Verso - centre - [Subtitle]; Verso - top centre - Kilarney [faintly] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 179 x 193 mm.

Date: ca 1910s

Reference: PAColl-4467

Description: A man in highland dress with a kilt and sporran dancing what is probably a sword dance and a man playing the bagpipes behind him. On the reverse are the partial words [C]ampbell Smith and Lovell. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

From: Wheatley, Sophia, fl 1830-1840s :[Collection of watercolours. 1836-1842]

Reference: E-028-q-045

Description: Drawing of a young man and woman dressed in traditional Scottish costume. The man is wearing a kilt of dark green, dark blue and yellow tartan. The woman is wearing a large mantle of red, yellow, dark blue and dark green tartan. Both are wearing hats with an embelm on the front. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 222 x 165 mm

Date: 1957

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1957/0309-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm

Date: [1870-1889]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/4-006596-G

Description: Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1958

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1958/0218a-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm

Date: 1870

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 :Collection of photographs

Reference: 1/2-011006-F

Description: Captain Thomas Porter (far right) with his [Ngatai? or possibly Ngai Tai] Maori auxilliaries outside the stockade and blockhouse at either Gisborne or Opotiki, in 1870. This photograph was published in `The Colonial New Zealand Wars' by Tim Ryan and Bill Parham, 1986, page 195. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Photographer unidentified. Previously incorrectly described as being taken by James Cowan. Updated 1 July 2016.

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Tesla Studios :Negatives of Wanganui and district taken by Alfred Martin, Frank Denton and Mark Lampe (Tesla Studios)

Reference: 1/1-016587-G

Description: Members of an unidentified pipe band gathered on an athletic track, probably in Wanganui, circa 1920s. The young boy and eight men are in Scottish dress and one holds bagpipes. Photograph taken by Frank J Denton. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: [1969?]

From: Hambleton, Nola :Photograph albums containing photographs of pianos and music shops

Reference: PA1-q-110-08

Description: Begg's shop window display advertising recordings and concerts by Scottish singer Niven Miller. Display includes a cardboard figure of Niven, record covers and lengths of tartan. Possibly in Christchurch. Photograph taken in (1969?) by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Possible date and location from paper slip in album. Inscriptions: [On loose paper between pages] Christchurch? [1969] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 17.2 x 25.2 cm, on album page

Date: 1956

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1956/0437-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1950 - 1959

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: Eph-E-WOOL-1950s-01

Description: Advertising poster shows a folded red and green tartan rug in the foreground, superimposed on a picture of a long train travelling through snowy weather. Backed on linen before arrival in the Library. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Colour lithograph, 1015 x 755 mm.

Date: 1964

From: Crown Studios Ltd :Negatives and prints

Reference: 1/2-195350-F

Description: Photograph taken by Crown Studios of Wellington. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative