Swordfish

Date: [193-?]

From: Jansen, Nancy (Mrs) : Tourist Dept lantern slides

Reference: PA11-213

Description: Quantity: 13 b&w original transparency/ies.

Date: ca 1927

By: Warne, Leon, 1895-1984; White, Leo Lemuel, 1906-1967; Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970

Reference: PAColl-3731

Description: Quantity: 114 b&w copy photographic print(s) in two boxes.

Date: ca 1930s

By: Thiem, Benno, -1934

Reference: PAColl-7974

Description: New Zealand scenes taken by Ben Thiem of Hokitika ca 1930s. Comprises scenes in the thermal district, Maori portraits, mountains and glaciers, pastoral scenes, rivers and lakes, and bush. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Purchased from John Arnold, book and antique dealer, February 2004

Date: [1934-1935?]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-052

Description: Publicity photographs taken by various unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways. The only identifying information is a few pencilled notes giving some locations, but there are no captions identifying people. There is a large sequence showing events surrounding the first celebrations marking the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi on 6th February 1934 attended by Lord Bledisloe. He had purchased the site, and donated money for the Treaty House renovations in 1932. The celebrations brought 10,000 Maori to Waitangi. The images show huge crowds, haka parties, various iwi performing, and parties of dignitaries including Lord and Lady Bledisloe, Joseph Gordon Coates and George William Forbes. Other scenes with Lord Bledisloe show him visiting the Waitaki Hydroelectric power station. Views of New Zealand include Government Tourist Bureau accomodation houses including those at Waitomo and the Hermitage (Mt. Cook); accomodation houses at Helensville and Parakai with interior and exterior views, and showing activities available (spa pools, games such as croquet, golf, and bowls); anglers standing by swordfish they have caught; skiing and ski lessons; and waterfalls. Industrial and agricultural views show dairy cows, citrus groves, the Kiwi Bacon Factory, printing presses, and race courses. A number show people at the beach at Mount Maunganui, and a large group picniking. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, red spine, entitled `Tours Book B3'; 40 x 58 cm

Date: 1843

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Sinclair, Andrew, 1794-1861

Reference: E-143-010

Description: Side view of two fish, one a swordfish Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pen and ink drawing

Date: between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2413-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a wide beach on Mayor Island, sea on the left. Seven men in two groups are hauling two large swordfish and a shark up the beach towards a form of scaffold with markers for measuring the length of the fish and with ropes hanging from a cross-beam. Small fishing hut centre left in front of a line of pohutukawa trees which edge the beach right across the image. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Deep Sea Fishing. Mayor Island. New Zealand. No. 829; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Deep Sea Fishing. Mayor Island Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 103.0 cm

Date: between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2410-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a wide beach on Mayor Island with the sea centre left. Four large swordfish and a shark lined up across the beach in the foreground. Small fishing hut in the centre of the image with a line of pohutukawa trees edging the beach across the image. On the far right there is a form of scaffold with markers for measuring the length of the fish and with ropes hanging from a cross-beam, for hauling the fish up. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Sword fish caught off Mayor Island. New Zealand. No. 828; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Sword fish caught off Mayor Island. N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 111.0 cm

Date: 1929-1937

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-61

Description: Includes Maori history, the effects of colonisation, Maori trans-Pacific migration, Maori and Pakeha internal and external travel, geographical histories, New Zealand flora and fauna, religion, astrology, health, disease, language, place names, poems and volcanology Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter (some with holograph annotations)

Date: 2002

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to fish and fish species in New Zealand and the Pacific]

By: Solander Group Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-FISH-2002-01

Description: Booklet gives details about the fish caught by the Solander fishing company. Pages list the spcies of fish caught, with a photograph of the whole fish, a typical cut, and serving suggestions. Fish species include: bigeye tuna, yellowfin tuna, swordfish, mahimahi, wahoo, moonfish, blue marlin, striped marlin, albacore tuna. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 207 x 148 mm. Provenance: Donated by Commander Denis Fairfax, Plimmerton, in 2012.

Date: 1980 - 1989

By: Taiyo Gyogyo Kabushiki Kaisha; Manley, N A (Mr), active 2002

Reference: Eph-E-FISH-1980s-01

Description: Six posters each showing colour illustration of a species of fish or sea creature. A world map at the bottom of each chart shows the location of each species, including a few located in and near New Zealand waters. Charts are entitled: No 1: Tunas, bill and sword-fishes No 2: Squid and cuttle-fish No 3: Salmons, trouts No 4: Crabs No 5: Codfishes No 6: Shrimps, lobsters Most of the text is in Japanese, but the scientific name of each species is given. Other Titles - Taiyo Gyogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters. Physical Description: Colour photolithographs on posters, each 1020 x 730 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr N A Manley in 2002.

Date: 1969 - 1976

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :Original cartoons [ca 1973]

Reference: B-127-076

Description: Shows a man in a dinghy, a cigarette in one hand and holding a fishing line in the other. He is lying back in the dinghy imagining the swordfish he might catch. Cartoon which appeared in the `Homespun' column, published in the Auckland Star Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, 280 x 280 cm

Date: 1924

By: New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts; Skinner, William Alexander George, 1865-1939

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-NZ-1924-02

Description: Brochure advertising the attractions of New Zealand as a big game fishing destination. The cover wrap shows photographs of the bays and inlets of New Zealand's coastline, and a deep sea fisherman standing beside a captured swordfish. Inside the brochure is text, and further photographs of scenic coastlines, fishing boats, swordfish, a remora having its grip tested, hapuka, and head of captured mako sharks. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brochure, 7 pages 242 x 310 mm, folded to 242 x 103 mm. Provenance: Purchased from J R Witte, United States, in 2006.

Date: [ca 1950s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-5936-60

Description: Swordfish, photographed circa 1950s by an unidentified photographer. Location unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1850 - 1890

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

Reference: E-207-q-069-1

Description: Drawing of the head of a swordfish with following numbered detailed drawings: a. 3 first vertebra with bifurcated spinous processes forming a grove to receive b. 11 interspinous processes consolodated [sic] to form a plate and c. 11 rays of dorsal fin. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 160 x 253 mm

Date: [between 1920 and 1945]

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-10029-G

Description: Photograph taken by Leo White. Labelled 'swordfishing'. Shows Sid Irving reaching into the mouth of a striped marlin to remove the hook. The fish was caugh on the launch 'Marlin' in the Bay of Islands. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [between 1920 and 1945]

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-10017-G

Description: Photograph taken by Leo White. Labelled 'swordfishing' Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [between 1920 and 1945]

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-10021-G

Description: Photograph taken by Leo White. Labelled 'swordfishing' Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [between 1920 and 1945]

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-10039-G

Description: Photograph taken by Leo White. Labelled 'swordfishing'. Shows a striped marlin being hauled aboard the launch 'Marlin' at Bay of Islands. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches

From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives

By: Bruce's Stores

Reference: 1/2-007228-G

Description: A swordfish, caught in Russell, held up by its tail. A boat called the 'Alma G' is in the background. Taken by Bruces Stores[?]. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1930

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-25223-F

Description: Four men swordfishing in the Bay of Islands. Sid Irving is holding on to a swordfish on the back of the boat. Photograph taken by Leo White Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, ¼ plate