Pastures

Date: 1965

By: Kawase, Torukichy Isamu (Dr), 1908-1999

Reference: MS-Papers-0683

Description: Unpublished manuscript recording family background from 1855 laeding to studies at Lincoln College from 1931 to 1934 directed toward pasture improvement in Japan. The bulk of the work gives an account of pressure applied by the Japanese High Command upon Kawase during World War II to disclose information on New Zealand to aid proposed invasion of the country. Describes conditions in Japan during the war. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (27 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Professor I D Blair, Lincoln College, Canterbury, 2 Aug 1971

Date: 1870 - 1879

From: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850?-1936? :[Sketchbook; New Zealand, South American, Canary Islands, and English scenes, 1870s?]

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: E-044-q-2-006

Description: Probably a scene on the family farm at Mokoia Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil in album, page size 228 x 296 mm

Date: 1976-1977

By: Levy, Enoch Bruce (Sir), 1892-1985

Reference: MS-Papers-3410

Description: The autobiography describes the main events in Levy's life, both personal and professional. It outlines the highlights of his research and also describes his visits to Europe in 1937 and 1949. Levy was the director of the Grasslands Division of the DSIR from 1937-1951. He was an agrostologist. Quantity: 8 folder(s) (330 leaves). 0.08 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and photographs

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7805

Description: Transparency slides of various locations, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: [190-?]

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

Reference: 1/1-039614-G

Description: View looking across farmland to the New Plymouth breakwater. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1950s-1960s

Reference: PAColl-0233

Description: Covers land clearance and development of pasture and crops designed to retain soil fertility. Also includes portraits of people involved in the fertiliser and farming industry. Quantity: 63 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 2009

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to agriculture, farms and farming]

By: PGG Wrightson Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-FARM-2009-01

Description: Catalogue of pasture grass seeds including ryegrass, fescue, white clover, cocksfoot, chicory, lucerne, pasture mixes. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 43 pages, 297 x 212 mm.

Date: 1925 - 1935

From: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 :[Original art works for, and print of, advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals, mostly 1920s-1930s. Artwork by Neville L and Trevor Rykers, 1940s and 1950s].

Reference: B-185-049

Description: Page layout for a magazine cover, shows a small girl sitting in a field looking at flowers in her hand. Beside her are two lambs. Further off in the field, cows graze under poplar trees. The image is a combination of two joined photographs with black and white gouache fill. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Collaged photolithographs, ink and gouache, on card 328 x 260 mm.

Date: [Between 1895 and 1916]

From: Nicol, Robina, 1861-1942: Photographs

Reference: 1/4-121345-G

Description: Cybele Ethel Kirk and unidentified woman in paddock. Country road past fences, and macrocarpa trees below hills in background. Photograph taken ca 1895-1916, probably by Robina Nicol of Wellington. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [Between 1895 and 1916]

From: Nicol, Robina, 1861-1942: Photographs

Reference: 1/4-121346-G

Description: Woman and child in paddock. Photograph taken ca 1895-1916, probably by Robina Nicol of Wellington. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1955-1971

By: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002

Reference: PA-Group-00375

Description: Wellington, openings of Parliament, politicians, Governors General, show personalities, Antarctic teams, police, army, visiting diplomats and heads of state, ship visits, memorials, RNZAF, fighter planes and fighter plane training, rugby and rugby players and selectors, film censorship, conferences, agricultural air shows, artists, royalty, manufacturing industries, models and fashion parades, New Zealand Players, etc Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 35mm-18037 to 18703, 120-0881 to 0959, 1/4-071736 to 072044, 1/2-177020 to 177461. Quantity: 1483 b&w original negative(s) 78 120 strips comprising 158 images, 666 35mm strips comprising 1,976 images, 308 1/4 plate negs, 441 1/2 plate negs. Total images 2,883. Finding Aids: Library generated negative registers provide a good access point to this collection. The negatives are listed within subject groupings.. Processing information: Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4814 to PA-Group-00375 in 2009.