Vacations

Date: 1983 - 1985

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Christchurch star (Newspaper : 1958- )

Reference: A-316-036/054

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. English royals sell off surplus New Zealand gifted wedding presents. New economy-fare airlines hit the skys. People encouraged to talk to their plants. Vehicle license fees up by 93%. Claims that human water-births would contribute to world peace.. Father's Day now celebrated during school holidays. Public response to grocery price-freeze. Maori rugby tours avoid arguements over racially selected teams. Two men muse over the reason for burning Guy Fawkes. Protesting at Waitangi on Wantangi Day. New Zealand fear of nuclear warships accelerates. Airlines begin serving liquor on board flights. Test-tube baby experiments have been approved in Auckland. People consider the 1984 'end of the world' scenario. Marsden Refinery workers return to work after their strike. Marsden Refinery workers strike. The Muldoon National Government calls a snap election amidst the Marsden Refinery strike. New Zealand resistance against the a USA Navy warship. Patients in the hospital outpatients get their respective wounds dealt to following protests for and against rugby tours and gay rights. Quantity: 19 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: 1949

By: Tasman Empire Airways Ltd; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd; W Haythorn-Thwaite Advertising Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-AVIATION-TEAL-1949-01

Description: One side of sheet shows a photograph of a TEAL flying boat ZK-AMM, and a map of Queensland. The other side show hibiscus flowers, a woman in a bathing suit sunbathing, a couple dining on the plane, an aerial photograph of Sydney, and scenes in Brisbane and Hayman Island. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithographs on both sides of sheet 760 x 555 mm, originally folded in 9 panels, each 255 x 185 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 2006.

Date: [1970-1980]

From: Cooper, Peter, 1918-2004 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7485-04

Description: Holograph and typescript drafts Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1873-1973]

From: Richmond, Jessie Messervy, 1899-1985 : Further Richmond family papers

Reference: 91-262-3

Description: Diary of Mary Elizabeth Richmond, Napier (22 Jan-Apr 1873?); obituary of Richmond and newspaper clippings re Richmond's kindergarten work, ca 1910-1932; League of Mothers monthly paper, articles written by Richmond; poetry written by Richmond (1880s); two inward letters to Richmond; letters re J Richmond Trust; `Narrative of the Atkinsons and Smiths' collected by Emily Richmond (1935); and miscellaneous material about the Atkinson/Richmond family Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [ca 1915-2003]

From: Bartel, Susan Elizabeth, 1943- :Photographs relating to Susan Bartel and family

Reference: PAColl-7862-1

Description: Photographs of Susan Bartel and her family, comprising scenes in the United States, Pacific Islands and New Zealand, taken ca 1915-2003. Arrangement: Digital prints are from files held at PADL-000001 to PADL-000009 Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). 311 digital prints.

Date: [ca 1930s-1980s]

From: Unwin, William Henry 1909-1992: Photographs relating to the life and career of musician Harry Unwin

Reference: PAColl-10379-8

Description: Photographs relating to Unwin's interest in cars and his caravan, circa 1930s-1980s. Taken by a range of unidentified photographers. Some photographs likely taken by Unwin. - Includes images of Unwin and an unidentified woman on a holiday in a caravan at a seaside motor camp. Also contains a series of images of Unwin posing in his underwear and with a Morris Minor car and, in the same series, holding a rubbish bin above his head. - Also includes a set of greeting cards (two with images of Coromandel Peninsula towns and another showing Castlepoint lighthouse) and a postcard sent from "Vi" (in envelope with return address [T Mason?]) relating to holidays and including snapshots of a house and group of unidentified elderly people. Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s). 13 colour original photographic print(s). 1 colour copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 9 Nov 1927-3 Dec 1934, 28 Aug 1985

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11956-07

Description: Contains outward correspondence from Phyllis Long to her friend Doreen Ross of Waitomo. Long writes from England and Srinagar in Kashmir about her life. Includes descriptions of teaching and schools in both England and India, Long's engagement to Eric Tyndale-Biscoe, wedding, and birth of their son Hugh (and raising him by Truby King's method) and daughter Ann. Description of Kashmir include where they live; having servants; lakeside and houseboat holidays as well as skiing, hiking, and horse riding trips in the mountains; the family donkey and teaching the children to ride; riots by the Muslim population; and still and film photography. Long also reacts to the news from New Zealand including the health of friends, slump in wool prices, and construction of Tongariro Chateau at Mount Ruapehu "it sounds to us the place must be entirely ruined with this new hotel". Also describes returning to England to live with her parents in Cambridge and travelling around the United Kingdom with Tyndale-Biscoe as he gives talks about Kashmir. Also contains an official bulk letter from Tyndale-Biscoe in his position at the CMS Schools relating news that Hindu widows may now be remarried, the 1928 flood in Srinagar, and the religious riots. One letter sent from Doreen Ross to Eric Tyndale-Biscoe (dated 29 Aug 1985) describes finding Phyllis's letters under the bed. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript

Date: [ca 1930s-1950s?]

From: Creator unknown: Lantern slides, chiefly of trips overseas, plants, and gardens

Reference: PA11-281

Description: Lantern slides of gardens, flowers, houses and buildings, farming, and vacations in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, circa 1930s-1950s. Photographer(s) are unidentified. Some images are labelled with captions naming the subject. Slides include: - Photographs relating to gardening, including a variety of flower gardens and vegetable gardens. These include an unidentified woman in her vegetable garden on a farm with a spaniel watching on, a man with a plough in a vegetable garden on the same farm, and a group of unidentified women with a wheelbarrow full of produce. Two studio images show plants formally arranged in pots [possibly copies?]. - Image of houses and buildings in New Zealand, including unidentified villas, Auckland University Clock Tower, 'Otahuna' (the residence of Sir Heaton Rhodes in Tai Tapu) with field of blooming daffodils in the foreground, [railway?] sheds at the Port of Tauranga with Mount Manganui in the background, the T&G Building and adjacent earthquake memorial colonnade in Napier, and the Cawthron Institute building and garden in Nelson. Set also includes images buildings in England including a country cottage, Tudor houses [in Chester?], the chapter house of an unidentified cathedral, and Georgian terrace houses. The English images also include unidentified people. - Holiday photographs include Milford Sound, Farewell Spit (with lighthouse and dunes), and coastal and lake scenes (with boats, including the launch 'Ratahi'). Unidentified people appear in a number of these photographs. Also includes a single photograph of the Pan American Airways (Pan Am) seaplane 'Honolulu' on the water and two photographs of the parade at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in London, with one showing Queen Elizabeth in her carriage. - Images relating to farming and industry include a ewe and a lamb in a paddock, a flock of sheep being corralled by farm dogs, hay making, wool being loaded onto a barge, and [flax?] drying in a field. Arrangement: Set contains slides from box 6 Quantity: 26 b&w lantern slide(s). 14 colour lantern slide(s). Physical Description: Lantern slides

Date: [ca 1920-1960]

From: Luckens, Kathleen Muriel, 1878-1971: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10779

Description: Collection of photographs taken by unknown photographers, likely between 1920 and 1960. Some of the photographs may have been taken by Kathleen Luckens herself. Some prints are annotated verso, likely by Luckens, and feature holiday scenes and people, all taken in New Zealand. Excluding one portrait of Luckens, all of the subjects are unidentified. Comprises one photographic portrait of Luckens taken by an unknown photographer circa 1960; four photographs of holiday scenes, some featuring inscriptions that note the location as Paihia, circa 1940s; two photographs of Daresbury Rookery in Christchurch, taken circa 1940s; one photograph of the exterior of Waihi Hardware; one photograph of the exterior of St Paul’s Church in Pahia; and one photograph taken circa 1920 of a woman holding two large bouquets of flowers featuring the inscription "Lilium aurelian grown in Norana Ave Remuera Auckland". Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Hare, Evelyn Nina, 1911-1989: Collection

Reference: PA12-12163

Description: Transparencies of travel overseas in Canada, Italy, Greece, and Lebanon, circa 1960s. Likely taken by Evelyn Hare. Most slides have captions. Photographs include sites in Beirut (Phoenicia Hotel, Hare swimming in the Mediterranean Sea, airport, view of swimming pool and coast from St Georges Hotel); Canada (Grouse Mountain chairlift in Vancouver, Niagara falls); England (Joan at St James Palace, group portrait (including Hare) on London street with Queen's Guard, royal parade for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, view back to Dover from the deck of a boat); Greece (Hare at the Acropolis in Athens, the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion); Italy (travelling party outside St Peter's a Basilica, eating in outdoor area at Hotel della Muse in Rome, and boats in Naples Harbour). Also photographs of unidentified houses [in England?] and cars at an unidentified snowy mountain pass. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies mounted in card with captions. Physical Description: Colour transparencies mounted in card.

Date: 1897-1898

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: MS-Papers-12245

Description: Manuscript and ephemera relating to Pearce family travel to Canada on board the RMS 'Miowera' and to their later time in the United Kingdom and Egypt on the same vacation, 1897-1898. Include material relating to performances with printed and handwritten programmes for shows at the Criterion Theatre (London), on board the RMS 'Miowera', and at an unknown venue. Also P&O brochure "Egyptian Passage Arrangements Homewards 1897-8" and menu for Hyde Park Club as well as two postcards. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Transfers: From PA1-o-1985. Loose photographs to be found at PAColl-10493-4..

Date: 1914-1915

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1988

Description: Photograph album of Pearce family overseas holiday, Heretaunga buildings, and soldiers at Trentham Racecourse, 1913-1915. Captions identify some people and places though people are often identified by initials. Holiday locations visited are England, Scotland, Isle of Wight, Alberquerque, Papeete, Tahiti, and Rarotonga. Photographs show buildings, people, events, and activities. Included in England photographs are military recruitment tents [London?] and Hyde Park Gate with spotlight mounted on it in 1914. Heretaunga photographs show Golf House, eeling hole, and Pearce family house and garden. Donor's note that accompanied album read: "A Pearce album" Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 96 b&w prints. Physical Description: Dark brown card photograph album, 22 x 17.2 cm

Date: 1884

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1274

Description: Scrapbook compiled by Vida Warren containing photographs and other materials from travel within New Zealand and on to the United Kingdom and Europe via various ports in 1884. In addition to photographs, the album contains drawings and paintings, pressed flora (flowers, ferns, and seaweed), printed matter, and newspaper clippings collected on the trip. Photographs are largely taken by commercial photographers. Photographer(s) unidentified. New Zealand images show views and buildings in Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, and sights in the Rotorua District. Also includes photographs of an unidentified Māori man and woman and a painting of a whare. Photographs collected on the voyage to London are largely cityscapes and street scenes. They show Sydney, Melbourne, Aden, Port Said, Malta, and Gibraltar. Other materials relating to the voyage include the menu from on board the SS 'Te Anau' (New Zealand to Australia) and material such as a programme for a concert from the RMS 'Mirzapore' (Australia to London). There is also a description of a fancy dress ball (including design for invitation, paintings of characters in costume) that took place on the 'Mirzapore'. Material from the United Kingdom includes photographs, postcards, and clippings of buildings, cityscapes, and scenic images. Locations visited include Westminster Abbey, Windsor Castle, Derbyshire, Edinburgh, the Scottish Lakes, Perth, Glasgow. Warren also went on a driving tour through Wales and there is material relating to this trip. Also included are clippings and invitations relating to the marriage of "Ms Platt", photographs of Vida Warren posing with other unidentified young women, and a hand-illustrated story titled 'A lover's quarrel'. Photographs from Europe includes cityscapes. Locations visited include Belgium, Germany, and France. Materials from the voyage of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company ship SS 'Valetta' include menus, programmes for concerts, a printed list of saloon passengers, newspaper clipping of passenger arrivals, telegrams relating to the arrival of the ship, and a hand-written note reading: "Miss Warren. Yours is the most boisterous table in the Valetta - [JO?]". Album contains one tintype, a studio portrait of two unidentified men. F Inscriptions: Album page - centre - Cintra Quantity: 1 album(s) containing around 65 photographic prints. Physical Description: Maroon and red album, 31 x 26 cm, containing photographs, paintings, pressed flowers, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and mss.

Date: 12 January 2009

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-174

Description: Shows John Key lounging on a beach chair drinking a cocktail. His adviser tells him that his critics are saying that he is being unpatriotic and that he should spend more time in Omaha rather than Hawaii. Key complains that Nebraska is too cold at this time of the year - Confusing Omaha in Rodney District with that of a city in Nebraska. Refers to the Prime Minister having holidays overseas while the country is in recession. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - 1201A8CARTOON 157.2 x 129.5mm Pls correct & send to GNZHARTPIX MediaGrid [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s).

Date: 1938-1939

By: McBride, Muriel, active 1938-1985; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PA1-q-150

Description: Photographs of YMCA Christmas trips in 1938 and 1939, to Milford Sound and the Whanganui River, taken by William Hall Raine. As well as photographs there are a number of newspaper and magazine cuttings, some of which were produced in the New Zealand Free Lance (January 25, 1939), following the Wellington Y.M.C.A. party on their trip to Milford. The photographs of the Whanganui trip were not taken by William Hall Raine, as he was on the Milford trip at the time. The Whanganui scenes are in an envelope inserted in the front of the album, and show the party travelling by ferry up the river, with picnics on the bank. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, entitled `Scrap album'; 29.7 x 23.4 cm

Date: ca 15 Jan 1982

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Scott, Don, active 1970s-1980s

Reference: EP/1982/0137-F

Description: Boys playing pool as part of a Porirua Council holiday scheme. From left: George Reid 14, Jeremy Avison 11, Michael Manning 8, Robert Chappell 9. A trailer advertising the Porirua City Council Funbus is in the background. Photograph taken circa 15 January 1982 by Evening Post staff photographer Don Scott. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

Date: 1945 - 1950

By: McNamara, John Joseph, 1918-2001

Reference: A-369-088/098

Description: Collection of political cartoons published in The Southern Cross which mainly relate to Sidney Holland and his conservative policies, as well as the New Zealand forces that were sent to Japan after its deafeat in World War II. Also contains cartoons that are specific to the Wellington region with particular reference to mayor William Appleton and the prison on Mt Crawford. International issues are also adressed; especially those relating to Britain's class sysyem and the social problems that the nation faced in the aftermath of World War II. Quantity: 11.

Date: 1988

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-363-032/052

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 21 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary.

Date: 1958

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :[Cartoons from the Free Lance Collection 1954 to 1960]

Reference: C-076-171

Description: Four scenes depicting those on holiday Publication - Published on 3 Jan 1958, page 4 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 184 x 660 mm

Date: 1950 - 1969

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-387-110

Description: Shows three frames illustrating unrelated topics. The first frame shows two men sitting in a bar and discussing the rising price of beer. The second frame shows a man reading the newspaper, surrounded by his wife and eight children. The newspaper headline reads 'Convention of NZ holiday and travel assn. to be held in Christchurch next week'. The man says, 'Well! If they could tell me how I could take a holiday, or travel...' The final frame is titled 'Flu once again -(or should we say)- still taking heavy toll of city staffs.' It shows a woman complaining to the manager of a store because a man is serving customers at the cosmetics counter Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on card, 250 x 280 mm