Poultry

Date: 1884

By: Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Auckland-1884-01

Description: A schedule of categories for prizes, and general regulations. Categories include: horses, draught horses, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, dogs implements and carriages, local manufactures. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 70 pages each 209 x 138 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 2006.

Date: 1940s-1950s

From: Rehabilitation League New Zealand Inc :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-0237

Description: Photographs of a pig farm at Belfast; poultry farm in Canterbury; leather work at Disabled Soldiers Factory, Christchurch; 30 ft launch built by a disabled veteran. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - beneath image - Captions Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s) Composite. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints, various sizes, mounted on card

Date: 1880

By: Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Auckland-1880-01

Description: A schedule of categories for prizes, and general regulations. Categories include: horses, cattle, sheep, swine, dairy produce, poultry, pigeons, dogs (sporting and non-sporting), implements, local manufactures (furniture, saddlery, ovens, biscuits, preserved meats, extra exhibits of wagons and buggies). Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 38 + [6] pages, 213 x 137 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 2005.

Date: [ca 1900]

Reference: PAColl-6563

Description: Captain William Jenkins feeding his chickens in the house he built on Rangiuru Road, Otaki and one of him standing at the door to his house. The house remained standing until 1986. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015204 to 015205 and 1/2-049538; Print of one of the images available at PAColl-6563 Quantity: 3 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1858

By: Richardson, Sydney, active 1858; Richardson, Will, active 1858

Reference: A-048-052

Description: Shows farm buildings and the farmhouse of the Waikaraka Station. There is a range of hills in the background. Notes on the back identify, from left 'Stock yard, cow shed and wood shed', 'Lutomus (?) house' (a neighbouring house); 'Poultry house'; 'The House'; 'Shepherds house and kitchen'; 'Dairy & horse'; 'Water'; 'Tent'. Another note states 'The distant hills are thickly wooded - but in at the back of them is a fine open country - The land all round the House is open & fertile - the bush being but a narrow belt about a mile long, following windings of a nice creek of good water.' For further information, see Bagnall, A.G. "Wairarapa" pages 177-178,329-330. Title and date provided by donor. Inscriptions: Verso - (Scattered in ink) Hut, Water, Dairy & Store, Shepherds House and Kitchen, The House, Poultry House, [illegible name] House, Stockyard, Cow Shed and Wool Shed.; Verso - The distant hills are thickly wooded - but in at the back of them is a fine open country - the land all round the house is open & fertile - the bush being but a narrow belt about a mile long, following the windings of a nice creek of good water. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawing on paper, 146 x 226 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Phyllis Richardson, Eketahuna, 1990.

Date: 24 February 1956

From: Minhinnick, Gordon, 1902-1992 :[111 original pencil and ink cartoons. 1930s-1980s]

Reference: C-171-019

Description: Depicts a farmyard scene with Auckland Mayor John Luxford as a farmer ('Old Man Luxford') leaning on a fence and reading a newspaper. The farmyard contains a number of traditional farm animals (pigs, cows, chickens, ducks and a farm dog) that are being terrorised by baby crocodiles. Traditional stock feed has been replaced with 'Best Algae'. Brown's Island is visible in the background. Refers to two news stories, the first that the Auckland Council was considering farming Brown's Island and the second that farmed crocodiles 'pay dividends'. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Farmer John [in pencil]; Recto - top right - Minhinnick [in ink] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Felt pen and pencil on paper, 365 x 500 mm

Date: 1910

By: South Taranaki Winter Show Company Ltd; C O Ekdahl (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-South-Taranaki

Description: A schedule of categories for prizes, and general regulations. Categories include: cheese and butter making, ham and bacon, dairy utensils, school gardens, photography, penmanship, school essays, feancy work, farm produce, seeds and grains, grass seeds, fruit, poultry (ducks, hens, pigeons), cats, dogs. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 36 pages, 220 x 140 mm.

Date: 1830 - 1840

By: Ashworth, D J, active 1840s

Reference: A-209-038

Description: A street scene in Mauritius, with three open-fronted shops or stalls. The left shop is selling fruit, the central one small birds, the right-hand one poultry and other groceries Inscriptions: Pencil inscription on the verso of A-209-031, referring to numbers A-209-031 to -038 'D. J. A.'s old drawings' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 120 x 171 mm (irregular) Provenance: Purchased with other Ashworth family material, Sotheby's auction, London, 1966

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039557-G

Description: Group at Urenui Pa, with dogs and fowl. A turkey is sitting on the roof of the nearest whare. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top centre - Urenui Pah, Taranaki Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1958 - 1962

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :[Original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1957 to 1968].

Reference: A-310-164

Description: A scene inside a poultry farm. One hen has accidently knocked out another one (a chook) instead of punching in to register for shift work Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper ; 234 x 380 mm

Date: 1890

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks and catalogue of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, 1889-1890] ca 1860-1893

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-324-q-1-023

Description: An upper view showing a girl driving four geese. A lower view dated 13 September 1890, showing a team of four horses galloping in front of a carriage Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, sizes vary, glued to album page

Date: 1885 - 1895

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks and catalogue of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, 1889-1890] ca 1860-1893

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-324-q-1-027

Description: An upper view, a rough sketch possibly showing two figures seated at the base of a large tree. A lower view showing a farmhouse with a wooden chimney, a pond, and a woman feeding hens. The lower view is signed R H, lower left Quantity: 1 drawing(s). 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Pencil (upper view) and wood engraving, (lower view), sizes vary, glued to album page

Date: 1885 - 1895

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks and catalogue of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, 1889-1890] ca 1860-1893

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-324-q-1-075

Description: Preliminary drawings of a sheep's head, of a horse's head, of the side view of a hen, and of sheep in a paddock Quantity: 3 drawing(s). Physical Description: Two coloured pencil, one graphite, sizes vary, glued to album page

Date: 23 Mar 1969

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/254

Description: Grace Richards of Invercargill recalls her days on the small farm owned by her father when she was boss of the fowl run. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Accompanying material - Script at MS-Papers-1239, folder 82 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0259 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 11 Minutes Duration.

Date: 1896

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1891 and 1895-1896]

Reference: E-033-2-014

Description: An unfinished sketch showing a girl near pecking hens, with a structure or bush behind them Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on paper, 205 x 125 mm

Date: 1896

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1891-1896]

Reference: E-496-q-027

Description: A duck and two hens Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper glued to sketchbook page, page size 111 x 183 mm

Date: 1900 - 1999

Reference: Eph-B-POULTRY-1900s

Description: Includes: 1911: A&P Food Co. Ltd. A&P poultry accounts and record of egg-laying competitions complete to 31 March 1911. Printed by Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. 1925: South Island Poultry, Pigeon & Canary Association :Championship awarded to Mr A E Hough for Best utility black orpington male, At Christchurch, June 11th, 12th + 13th, 1925. G E Jeffreys, pres[ident]; R Pearce, sec[retary]. L Times print [ca 1925] 1945: Turners & Growers Ltd. Matters of interest to poultry keepers; sales of live poultry [1945] 1970s: New Zealand Poultry Board. Alison Holst's recipes for "roasting fowl"; poultry for the family. 7 stapled mimeographed sheets Tegel table turkey. A juicy story; a guide to the preparation and cooking of your tegel turkey [1970s] (2 different recipe fliers of this title; 2 copies of one of them) Tegel chicken recipes. Double-sided mimeographed sheet. 1970s 1974: World Poultry Congress, New Orleans, August 1974. 30 days $1199 [Flier] 1976: The World's Poultry Science Association. New Zealand Branch. Announcing the only official tour from NZ to the First Australasian Poultry and Stock feed Convention, Melbourne Australia October 1976. Pamphlet 1978: Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries. Two day farm tour 22 and 25 May 1978 (To coincide with Massey Poultry Convention). Pink flier 1979: Kentucky Fried Chicken. My kind of chicken; my kind of town. Save $3.40 at Kentucky Fried Chicken [Sheet of coupons. 1979] 1980s: Cooking the Maggi way; Poultry dishes [Recipe book. 1980s] 1992: Grafton Gourmet Poultry. Price list / order form. August 1992 Kentucky Fried Chicken. Tenderbake. Flier of coupons [1992] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs and offset prints, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1920 - 1950

Reference: Eph-A-POULTRY-1920/1950

Description: Includes: 1925: New Zealand Utility Poultry Club's Young Bird Show. Special prize awarded to [A E Hough]. Best Light Sussex Cockerel or Pullet. Date March 20 1925 [Small card] 1929: 27th Grand Championship Exhibition of Manawatu Poultry Association. Fancy and utility poultry ducks, pigeons and canaries to be held at National Dairy Show. 20-22 June 1929. [Schedule] 1931: 29th Grand Championship Exhibition of Manawatu Poultry Association. Fancy and utility poultry ducks, pigeons and canaries to be held at National Dairy Show. 16-20 June 1931. [Schedule] (2 copies) 1932: 30th Grand Championship Exhibition of Manawatu Poultry Association. Fancy and utility poultry ducks, pigeons, canaries, rabbits and cats to be held at National Dairy Show. 16-18 June 1932. [Schedule] 1940s?: Christchurch Poultry, Pigeon & Canary Club. Special prize ... for Winner largest class utility, exhibited by A Hough, pen no. 168 [Card. 1940s?] 1945: New Zealand Poultry Flock Improvement Plan. List of accredited breeding flocks for 1945 1947: Bromley Park Hatcheries Ltd. New Zealand's most up-to-date stud and brooding plant, Bromley Park, established 27 years. Tuakau, on the main trunk railway, 35 miles south of Auckland. 1947-1948. Wilson & Horton Ltd, printers, Auckland 71548. 1950: NZ Heavy Breed Poultry Club. Special prize awarded to A Hough. Canterbury A&P Royal Show 1950 [Card] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs and offset prints, sizes varying up to 240 mm. Provenance: Some items donated by Dylan Owen, Wellington, in 2006.

Date: 1973

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-134-481

Description: This cartoon relates to the growing diversity of types of farming and features the office of the Farm Advisory Officer. There are files scattered all over the room, labelled Asparagus, Deer, Potato, Deer, Dairy, Fruit, Poultry, Oyster, Sheep, Wheat, Mussel, Eel, Mushroom and Mussel, and the window is broken. Two men are in the room. One is looking out the broken window and the other is saying the words that form the title of this cartoon. Label on verso dated Thurs 4/10 Extended Title - With so much farming going on in this country, who'd want to be some people! Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 280 x 394 mm

Date: 1924 - 1986

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Reference: C-117-075

Description: Still life with dead red cockerel and fish hanging upside down. Reproduction of original oil. "Reproduced with the kind permission of the Field family trustees". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Frances Hodgkins. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 430 x 540 mm