Space vehicles

Date: 1945 - 1950

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :[Five early cartoons. ca 1945-1950].

Reference: B-154-129

Description: Left half of a cartoon in two sheets; other half at B-156-130. At the left, two road workers frown as they look at the furrows gouged by trolley buses. At the right, workers at Rongotai Aerodrome discuss subdivision plans, in front of a hangar, with a rocket launch-pad in the background. Other Titles - \"One thing about trams, they used to break-up the roads just down the middle - these trolley buses do it all over\" Other Titles - \"I see that now that rockets don't need any runways they're going to sub-divide part of the 'drome into housing lots\" Date estimated as post Second World War. Estimated as pre-1950 because Lodge has not yet established his habit of incorporating the date into his signature. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing 320 x 445 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Frank Mitchell in 2002. Previously owned by his brother V Leonard W Mitchell.

Date: 1980

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

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

Reference: B-135-580

Description: The scene is another planet where a U.S. rocket has crashed spilling boxes of nuclear waste. Aliens are taking away and unpacking the boxes. One is sampling the contents of a box and saying how delicious it is. Extended Title - "Jolly nice of whoever sent it - it's absolutely delicious!" Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone, white gouache and crayon, 460 x 320 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1992

From: Clark, Laurence [Klarc], 1949- :New Zealand Herald cartoons, 17 March - 6 May 1992

Reference: H-009-007

Description: Shows a space vehicle circling the earth above the leak from the Sosnovy Bor nuclear power plant near St Petersburg Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph

Date: 1966

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

Reference: B-133-407

Description: Three spacecraft labelled Soyuz 6, 7 and 8 have collided in space. One Russian astronaut says, 'Another glorious first for Russia, comrade! Even before we have the station we have the first shunting accident in space!' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, yellow letratone and pencil, 272 x 405 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1986

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

Reference: A-364-001/029

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 29 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1927-1928, 1963-1981

By: Pickering, William Hayward (Sir), 1910-2004

Reference: 82-271

Description: Papers relating to Pickering's academic life at Canterbury University College, 1927-1928; a biographical sketch; correspondence between Pickering and Dr John Campbell; bibliography of his works; copies of short biographies and articles on him Source of title - Supplied title Pickering is a New Zealand-born scientist, specialising in jet propulsion technology, who has spent most of his working life in the United States with NASA Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Background to collection in Back file. Provenance: The papers partly collected together by Dr John A Campbell

Date: 1960 - 1969

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

Reference: A-310-123

Description: Two scientists hurrying across a field, 'rock bottom salaries', towards a rocket, watched by Keith Holyoake and his Minister of Finance, Harry Lake. The rocket is restricted by heavy cloud layers, labelled 'low wage stratum', 'higher rewards ...', 'sky's the limit'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone on paper ; 280 x 380 mm

Date: 2017

Reference: Eph-A-SPACE-2017-01

Description: Pamphlet giving a description of Rocket Lab and its Launch Complex 1, and how a launch may be viewed. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, on sheet tri-folded to 210 x 99 mm.

Date: 1980 - 1981

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

Reference: A-359-343/359

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 17 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1990 - 2002

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: A-366-054/095

Description: Cartoons on places in New Zealand and overseas relating to political and social issues, Maori language, the Treaty of Waitangi and Waitangi Day, and The Lord of the Rings movies. Quantity: 42 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Felt pen drawings on paper, sizes vary.

Date: October 1976

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6489

Description: Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida. NASA's John F Kenedy Space centre, Florida. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: 1961

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

Reference: A-310-105

Description: A Russian spacecraft passing through a shower of rugby memorabilia above Wellington Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper ; 280 x 380 mm

Date: 1969

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

Reference: B-134-175

Description: Shows Holyoake as the captain of a space rocket (Apollo 69) and Marshall is his co-pilot. On another rocket (Enterprise 69-12) Kirk is the captain with Watt as his right-hand man. The two space crafts are racing to get ahead of each other. Refers to opinion poll Extended Title - A-Poll-o 69 is moving more smoothly towards touch down. Captain Kiwi Keith peers anxiously ahead. This week Jack Marshall is back as co-pilot. He consults the charts. I've had it stormy enough! can't you think of another lunar sea?. That reminds Kiwi Keith who wonders what our arch rivals are up to?. Meanwhile on board enterprise 69-72 Captain Kirk too, is looking ahead. Summarise our final plans, Mr. Spocku-er- Mr Watt. Hugh Watt summarises. Captain Kirk decides to check position. Control answers Labour H.Q. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on paper, 270 x 320mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1953 - 1954

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: H-633-001/033

Description: New Zealand topics include advocation of a state lottery, the rising cost of living, increased car licence fees, sales tax, mortgage rates, petrol prices, the 1953 visit by Queen Elizabeth 11 and Prince Philip, electioneering for the 1954 election, home brew in prisons, inflation, water supply disputes and shortages in Auckland, the future of the wine industry, geothermal power, traffic transgressions, advertising on parking meters, the Russian space programme and an observatory in Auckland and attitudes to public works in Auckland such as the harbour bridge and drainage. International topics include Australian lotteries, Winston Churchill keeping 'communist hands off' British Guiana, political troubles in Trieste and East Germany, relations between the Untied States and the USSR, radioactive pollution around Bikini Atoll, the TATTS talks and atomic bomb threats, the arrival of the yacht 'Hemskerk' in Sydney, the sale of Russian Embassy cars in Canberra and Soviet Russia's space programme. Quantity: 33 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopies. Image sizes 178 x 228 mm approx.

Date: 1958

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :[Cartoons from the Free Lance Collection 1950s, by Nevile Lodge and Winton Bristow]

Reference: B-074-048

Description: Shows two Americian space scientists kneeling beside a small rocket and looking worriedly at the US satellite beside it, while a man looks through binoculars at a Russian satellite flying over the US Capitol Building, Washington DC. Refers to the American-Russian space rivalry of the period, and possibly to the Cold War Published in New Zealand Free Lance, 14 Oct 1957, page 4 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, 460 x 315 mm

Date: October 1976

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6490

Description: NASA's John F Kenedy Space Centre, Florida. Midwest USA from the air on the way to California. Los Angeles. Disneyland. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: 1984

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

Reference: A-361-001/021

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 21 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

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-387-217

Description: Shows Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev standing on top of the earth, pointing towards the moon. The moon has a worried expression on its face and is clutching a calendar reading 'Nov 7'. The moon is saying, 'Me?' Near Khrushchev's feet, people are boarding a spaceship. The words 'Bow wow' are written next to a satellite, possibly referring to the dog Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth. Question marks and hammer and sickle symbols are also orbitting the earth Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, blue coloured pencil and white corrector on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: 1961

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-387-220

Description: Shows a man getting out of bed in the morning and dressing in a suit. His wife is still in bed, bleary-eyed. The man says to his wife, 'Hop out soon, Dear, and pop on my eggs. I think I'll take a tour round the world before breakfast.' Probably refers to the launch of Vostok 1, the first human spaceflight in history, in April 1961 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: [ca 1979]

From: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]

By: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003; Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: A-454-437

Description: New Zealand has the space vehicle Skylab heading towards it. New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon is standing where Wellington is and saying “Bet it strikes here”. Another man is trying to get out of way by jumping off the South Island into the water. Caption reads “Skylab strike attitude altered”. Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink drawing, 245 x 210 mm