Magpies

Date: [Circa 1900s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-301

Description: Photogprahs of New Zealand circa 1890s to 1900s, probably taken by George William Barltrop. The first sequence includes scenes around Auckland harbour, including Rangitoto Onehunga, with one view of passengers on board the ferry `SS Takapuna'. One photograph shows a group of young Maori standing on the bank of the Whanganui River (four young men under an umbrella). Wellington area views of Pahautanui (Pauatahanui), Horokiwi, Lyall Bay and the Wellington Heads. On page 873 (the album pages run from 856 to 895), there is a postcard with heads of George William Barltrop and his wife Emma Jane Barltrop, with a collage of images relating to the Missions to Seamen. Slipped beneath the postcard is the death notice for Emma Jane Barltrop (died 24 September 1954). There are views of the Rimutakas from the railway line; a flock of sheep being herded along a road in palmerston North; three people standing outside a wooden bungalow in Palmerston North; and there is a view of another house in Feilding. The river mouth at Oroua; the grounds of the Wanganui Race Course (with white swans on the lake; a woman feeding a peacock, and a woman under an umbrella, walking on rail tracks beside the sea at Castlecliff; followed by three views from a boat on the Whanganui River, one a view of Upokongaro, with the church spire just visible, and two of groups of Maori waiting on the riverbank. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover entitled `Photographic views'; 20.5 x 17.5 cm

Date: 1961-1981

From: Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand Inc: Records and recordings

Reference: 84-180-55

Description: Consists of files on: Te Pohue Forest Sanctuary (Kiwis); Whakatane Regional Reserve, Waioeka Gorge Bush; Maroa Reserve; Waipahihi Botanical Reserve; Boyd's Bush; Birds - Moa and Huia etc Quantity: 1 box(es). Finding Aids: Preliminary list of box contents available.

Date: 1900

By: Cayley, Neville Henry Peniston, 1853-1903

Reference: B-101-008

Description: An Australian bird Inscriptions: L.r: Neville: Cayley: Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 261 x 293 mm (mounted)

Date: 1977

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-135-186

Description: This cartoon features a Lion skulking away, chased by a magpie, after losing its jersey labelled The Big Reputation, when the Lions rugby team was almost beaten by the Hawkes Bay team Label on recto Sporting Lodge 23/5/77 Extended Title - Lions 13, Hawke's Bay 11 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone, 250 x 390 mm

Date: 1900 - 1920

By: Crisp, James Alexander, 1879-1962

Reference: B-101-001

Description: Shows two magpies facing each other in a flat field. Inscriptions: bottom left - James A. Crisp Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 177 x 287 mm

Date: 1900

By: Cayley, Neville Henry Peniston, 1853-1903

Reference: B-101-009

Description: An Australian bird Inscriptions: L.r: Neville: Cayley: Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 289 x 152 mm (mounted) Provenance: Purchased from Mrs Hanify, Wellington, April 1969

Date: 1998

From: Secker, Hallam Leslie, 1923-1998 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6594-10

Description: Copies of photographs of the Seckers' garden in Upper Hutt showing chrysanthemums and magpies; notes on the garden and detailed observations by Alma Secker on the magpies inhabiting their garden. Also note re drugs syndicate next door which forced them to leave Upper Hutt, and note from Alma Secker re her husband's efforts. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Originals of photographs of the Secker garden.

Date: 1873

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :[Birds, mostly Australian] 1873

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908

Reference: B-107-035

Description: An Australian bird Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 230 x 320 mm

Date: Oct 1949

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-163

Description: Photographs published in NZ Free Lance, Oct 1949 Includes: Display of aircraft at Society of British Aircraft Constructors' Exhibition held at Farnborough; RNZAF Berlin Airlift crew and shield (a gift from RAF comrades at Lubeck); RMA Ararangi, Solent flying-boat at Mechanics Bay, Auckland (built specially for Tasman Empire Airways); Sir Leonard Isitt with Capt C G Griffiths; members of the Ararangi crew. Also: National Chinese Sports Tournament held in Auckland to celebrate Chinese National Day - Betty & Mona Kwok playing table tennis; teams from Auckland, Hamilton, Otago & Wellington; Lion dance and Charles Wah Lee & Willie Wong playing Chinese drum and cymbals. Also: Timaru Main School 75th anniversary celebrations - Pioneer group; drill display; march past of present-day pupils; John Wilds (first day pupil) laying wreath on the war memorial. Also: Hyrdo-electric works on Molyneaux River, diversion at Roxburgh hydro works (J D S Roberts, photographer); veterans of South African campaign at 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the South African War (includes H R Wright, Surgeon-Captain Eugene J O'Neill, C Quinn, J W Horne, F Lange, C Ashenden and R Rose); floods at Greymouth; `Aiki', the 20 year old magpie and her egg; staircase in the home of Mr & Mrs F W Dunnage of Papanui, Christchurch (bought out from England in 1851). Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: ca 1920s

By: Burke, Walter Ernest Messervy, 1866-1954

Reference: PAColl-0513

Description: Two photographs of children on a donkey and a pony, probably on Sumner beach taken by Walter Burke of Sydney and one at least being of his son; view of rounding up sheep in Canterbury also by Walter Burke; four smaller photographs of pigs in mud, swans, a dove and a magpie in a wicker cage. The one of the dove is captioned "examples of my father's natural history photography which he greatly favoured". Complete total of photographs unknown Pat Lawlor and Keast Burke corresponded on the subject of Australian photographers and writers (see MS-Papers-1280 etc) which is possibly how Lawlor came by these photographs. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1880

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Australasian birds; original drawings. 1867. [ca 1880-1881]

Reference: E-055-005

Description: On left the head and shoulders of the magpie lark from Victoria showing the white markings above the eye and on the side of the head. The bill and eye are yellow. On the right the head of the bee eater from New South Wales. The bill and eye mask are black; the eye is red. The crown is green changing to golden yellow and then rufous (at back of the head). There is a thin violet blue stripe extending from the bill to the back of the head. Beneath this stripe is a wider stripe of golden yellow on the cheeks. Below this again is a patch of black. The plumage on the back is green (same as green on the front of the head), with rufous shoulder patches [?]. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 85 x 115 mm

Date: 1960s

By: Secker, Hallam Leslie, 1923-1998

Reference: PAColl-6006

Description: These photographs are part of a larger collection comprising files of correspondence relating to Secker's interest in ornithology (includes Perrine Moncrieff), Ian Gordon and his dictionary, the Wildlife Service and DoC and the acclimatization of chrysanthemums; and subject files of clippings and reviews and comments by Secker on New Zealand's ecponomic situation including the New Right, relations with Australia, Japan and Asia and related topics Quantity: 1 album(s). 15 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 2016

Reference: Eph-A-PEST-2016-04

Description: Illustrated pamphlet advertising trip traps to catch magpies, cats, peacocks, possums, pukeko and rats. TrapWorks is the business of trapper Neale Blaymires. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset pamphlet tripart-folded to 210 x 101 mm.

Date: 1990 - 1999

Reference: Eph-B-PEST-1990s

Description: Includes: Includes flyers and ephemera issued by the Forest Research Institute Toxicology Laboratory, the Ministry of Forestry, Wellington Regional Council, the Department of Conservation, Parva Plants, Manawatu-Wanganui Regional Council. Topics include possums, wild ginger, nodding thistle, mustelids, invasive creepers and climbers, flies and insects, magpies, feral cats, gambusia (mosquitofish), hemp agrimony, aquatic weeds, old man's beard, tussock moth, environmental safety of pesticides. Also includes information about the pesticide called Mite-E Predator. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and photocopies, sizes varying up to 300 mm.

Date: 1895 - 1905

By: Flower, Thomas, active 1900

Reference: B-101-004

Description: Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 315 x 289 mm Provenance: Purchased from Mrs Hanify, Wellington, April 1969

Date: 1954

By: McKenzie, A Don, -1990; Lilburn, Douglas Gordon, 1915-2001; Glover, Denis James Matthews, 1912-1980

Reference: fMS-Papers-4796

Description: Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Article by Lisa Futschek concerning this work in 'Canzona' 1991, pages 56-57. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Don McKenzie asked Douglas Lilburn to compose a work for the Otago University Adult Education choir at Hyde, Otago, which had an odd combination of voices, and his request resulted in this work. Don McKenzie held this score personally, and Pat Cressey who for many years worked with him until his death in 1990, was in charge of tidying up his affairs. Donor/Lender/Vendor - (A93-163) - Donor Don McKenzie estate

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: 1987 - 1991

From: Various artists :[Postcards]; produced in conjunction with the exhibition "Fabulous and Familiar; children's reading in New Zealand past and present". [Wellington], National Library Gallery, 1991.

By: Frizzell, Dick, 1943-

Reference: E-279-q-148

Description: Reproduction of a painting by Dick Frizzell depicting two magpies fighting in the air. The postcard was produced in conjunction with the exhibition `Fabulous and Familiar', National Library Gallery, 1991 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 1 colour photolithographs, 105 x 150 mm

Date: 1981

By: Ching, Raymond Harris, 1939-; International Art Centre (Auckland)

Reference: D-019-004

Description: Two young magpies Limited edition of 500 signed and numbered by artist; library has 26/50 artist proof. Same as D-004-a Inscriptions: On print: `Young magpies (pica pica) drawn from nature, life size' Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 490 x 660 mm on sheet 630 x 770 mm

Date: 1981

By: Ching, Raymond Harris, 1939-; International Art Centre (Auckland)

Reference: D-019-004-a

Description: Two young magpies Limited edition of 500 signed and numbered by artist; library has 26/50 artist proof. Same as D-004 Inscriptions: On print: `Young magpies (pica pica) drawn from nature, life size' Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 490 x 660 mm on sheet 630 x 770 mm