Eucalyptus

Date: 1852

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :Drawings of Eucalypts. [Between 1851 and 1854]

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: E-165-410

Description: Botanical drawing of eucalypt leaves, flowers and seeds, made by William Swainson during his tree surveys for the governments of Victoria and Tasmania (Australia), 1851-1854. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 225 x 183 mm

Date: [Between 1940 and 1942]

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

Reference: PA1-o-564

Description: Scenic views of Cambridge, the lake at Hamilton, Puketeraki, Piha, and the farm `Rozel' near Ohaupo, interspersed with portraits of family and friends, chiefly taken by Rhoda McWhannell. One photograph shows Rhoda McWhannell's parents (William Duncan Ross McCurdie and Olga Mariquita McCurdie) reading congratulatory messages on their Golden Wedding Anniversary. This album gives the date as 1942, but a previous album gives it as 1941. Rex Hamilton, Bill Hewett and Frederick McWhannell are photographed in military uniform. Photographs of people identified only by surname are Mrs Bowler, Dr Gower and Dr Gribben. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with pale green and cream marbled cover, pale green spine and cord; 20.5 x 24.5 cm

Date: [Between 1948 and 1958]

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

Reference: PA1-o-562

Description: Album of photographs of family and friends probably taken by Rhoda McWhannell. They include a sequence at the beginning of the wedding of Brian Stewart Geddes, and Audrey Marion (nee Hopkins), on 14th May 1945. Their family, especially their daughters Elizabeth Anne, and Jane Margaret, are photographed as babies, and as they grow. Scenic views include the Gisborne region; and Kawau Island, with a large group in Mr McDowell's party, deep-sea fishing from a launch, showing their catch of hapuka A group of women from the Women's War service Auxiliary at Katikati are seen in two images; and a meeting house at Katikati. The last few images show the nursery at Rozel, where Frederick and Rhoda McWhannell developed eucalyptus seedings for forestry. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, entitled `Photographs'; 16.5 x 24.5 cm

Date: 1853

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: Micro-MS-0503

Description: Notes on Eucalyptus, cassuarina and echidnocarpus of Victoria and Tasmania. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (c400p.). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

By: Van Raalte, Henri Benedictus, 1881-1929

Reference: B-096-012

Description: Monotone sepia aquatint, with gum trees on the left, framing a distant view of hills, probably in South Australia Signed. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches

Date: 1875-1876

From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3615

Description: Consular and diplomatic activities in the Australian and in the Fench Pacific colonies, particularly New Caledonia and the issue of escaped communard prisoners. Includes papers on French exploration of New Guinea, possible annexation of the New Hebrides, ship movements and distribution of plants, particularly eucalyptus. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1853

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-023-011

Description: A drawing of a eucalypt Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 185 x 115 mm

Date: 1968

From: Alexander, John Hood, 1917- :New Zealand historic buildings. Pen wash paintings with text by John H. Alexander. Auckland, Morton Williams Ltd, 1968.

Reference: B-086-018

Description: View of the stone mission house at Mission Bay, Auckland. In the foreground are two large trees (possibly gums). Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, sepia, on sheet 142 x 182 mm

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: E-131-q

Description: Botanical drawings of eucalypt leaves, flowers and seeds, with notes, made by William Swainson during his tree surveys for the governments of Victoria and Tasmania (Australia), 1851-1854. The sequence is continued by a bound volume at E-165. The group has been allocated the numbers 1 to 404 (by the artist?) in blue pencil on each page (but not every page so numbered has a drawing). There is an additional sequence of numbers given by the artist in graphite on each page, but these are not in order and some numbers repeat themselves. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) unbound sheets in 1/4 green morocco box, 70 mm thick. Physical Description: ca 400 pencil with ink & pencil notes on sheets 226 x 187 mm

Date: 1852

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :Drawings of Eucalypts. [Between 1851 and 1854]

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: E-165-099

Description: Botanical drawing of eucalypt leaves, flowers and seeds, made by William Swainson during his tree surveys for the governments of Victoria and Tasmania (Australia), 1851-1854. The artist's numbering is out of sequence and this item, numbered 99, lies between numbers 68 & 69. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 228 x 185 mm

Date: 1930 - 1939

From: Field, Robert Nettleton, 1899-1987 :[Collection of sketches, 1926 to 1961]

Reference: A-265-030

Description: Drawing of large tree, possibly an Australian gum, with cows grazing nearby Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 253 x 160 mm

Date: 1927

By: Van Raalte, Henri Benedictus, 1881-1929

Reference: B-096-013

Description: An evening scene with tall eucalypts reflected in a pool among hills. Probably a South Australian scene. The copy held in the Australian National Gallery has a suggested date of 1927 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint 255 x 445 mm

Date: [192-?]

From: Kirk, Thomas William, 1856-1936: Photograph album

By: Gall, Ernest, active 1920s

Reference: PAColl-0536-1

Description: Photographs of a Japanese garden with a pruned red pine (rimu) and a woman in a kimono approaching the house; the edge of Puketitiri Forest; an old gum tree at Glenelg; and some tall ponga near Pipiriki. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1877

From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3617

Description: Consular and diplomatic activities in the Australian and in the Fench Pacific colonies, particularly New Caledonia with regard to the persecution of protestant islanders in Mari Island, Loyalty Islands. Also re Tahiti affairs and the Tahiti Protectorate Flag, a proposed French colony in N.W. Australia, the wreck of the Beulah off Tahiti, and the export of eucalyptus and other australian seedlings to Algeria. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1976 to 1977

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

Reference: PA1-q-282

Description: Album of photographs relating to Rhoda McWhannell's family and friends. The bulk of the album consists of her travel to South Africa to stay with her brother Bill McCurdie and his wife Inga at their home in Kloof; visiting Mauritius on the way; and areas they visited in South Africa. The latter part of the album is in two sequences. The first shows Rhoda McWhannell's niece Sally Pat McCurdie and her fiance Keith Orange photographed at `Rozel' in November 1976; then their wedding at Auckland Cathedral on 18th December 1976. The second section is scenes at Rozel in January 1977 with trees and farmland; and a group of women playing croquet on the lawn. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with orange vinyl cover; 33.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: 1852

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :Drawings of Eucalypts. [Between 1851 and 1854]

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: E-165-119

Description: Botanical drawing of eucalypt leaves, flowers and seeds, made by William Swainson during his tree surveys for the governments of Victoria and Tasmania (Australia), 1851-1854. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 228 x 185 mm

Date: 1887

From: Hands, Alfred Watson, 1849-1927 :[Scenes in New Zealand] 1865, 1881, 1887

By: Hands, Alfred Watson (Rev), 1849-1927

Reference: A-254-014

Description: A young Norfolk pine growing in a lawn, flanked by part of the trunk and a few branches of one of the native pines with dense low trees in the background. A few visible branches overhead may be from a eucalypt Other Titles - Near Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 355 x 180 mm Provenance: Donation; Mrs M S G MacLeod, Tunbridge Wells, 12 August 1977

Date: 1889

Reference: A-175-007

Description: Shows a wooded stream with the roof of a homestead on the far bank, beyond bushes, with another small building on left. One tree in the foreground is a eucalypt Dating: Georgina Hetley visited Australia in September 1889 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 206 x 170 mm

Date: 1907

By: Lindsay, Lionel Arthur (Sir), 1874-1961; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-065-006

Description: A grove of gum-trees, their trunks gleaming white against the night sky Print number 5 in an edition of 30 Inscriptions: Recto - Signed and numbered Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching with aquatint, 180 x 120 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 202 x 145 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1904

From: Chevalier, Caroline, 1836?-1917 :Sketchbook 1903-1904

Reference: E-065-2-002

Description: Looking up a terraced hill with formal orange gardens, a large house and palm trees at the top of the hill. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, page size 135 x 221 mm