Various artists :1. Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912. Photolithographs of watercolour drawings of New Zealand. [1910?] 2. Department of Maori Affairs. Maori housing. Departmental Standard plans. [1953-1954] 3. [Six volumes of caricature clippings by various cartoonists. 1911-1936]

Date: 1925 - 1933

From: Various artists :1. Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912. Photolithographs of watercolour drawings of New Zealand. [1910?] 2. Department of Maori Affairs. Maori housing. Departmental Standard plans. [1953-1954] 3. Walter Armiger Bowring, 1874-1931. [Cartoons of important New Zealanders]. 1902-1903

By: New Zealand. Parliamentary Library

Reference: E-962-q-6

Description: Caricatures of prominent New Zealanders. Subjects include George William Forbes, Joseph Gordon Coates, and Australian premier John Thomas Lang, among many others in the world political sphere at the time, including Hitler, Mussolini, Eamon de Valera, Oswald Mosley, Neville Chamberlain and Ghandi. Britain and the United States are referred to as 'John Bull' and 'Uncle Sam'. Topics include taxation, education, the Depression, trade exports, and Nazism and Fascism Cartoonists include Trevor Lloyd, Gordon Minhinnick, J C Hill, L C Mitchell, Blo and David Low, amongst others Album's General Assembly Library classification number was 741z, and its location at C277 Front cover verso has inscriptions: one is the name of the compiler, F.W. Oakley; the other reads 'Presented by Mrs Oakley / in memory of her late husband / to the General Assembly Library' (year not known) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Newsprint and other paper stocks clipped and glued to album pages; library-bound in textured buckram, half-leather stencilled sheepskin; 280 x 225 mm (cover); [312 p.]

Date: [ca 1900

From: Various artists :1. Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912. Photolithographs of watercolour drawings of New Zealand. [1910?] 2. Department of Maori Affairs. Maori housing. Departmental Standard plans. [1953-1954] 3. Walter Armiger Bowring, 1874-1931. [Cartoons of important New Zealanders]. 1902-1903

By: New Zealand. Parliamentary Library; S and W Mackay (Firm); Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912

Reference: E-962-q-1

Description: Image titles include: 'A Maori maiden'; 'Manawatu Gorge'; 'Hinemoa's Bath, Rotorua'; 'Wanganui River'; 'Otira Gorge, West Coast Road'; 'Mount Cook, Canterbury'; 'Mitre Peak, Milford Sound'; 'Nihotupu Falls, Auckland'; 'Lake Manapouri'; and 'River Avon, Christchurch' Total of ten pages out of 44 used. Bound by Parliamentary Library, using blank pages to bulk out the contents. Red buckram, half red morocco Catalogued by Parliamentary Library as the work of I W Wilson and ca 1910. The signature and style is that of L W Wilson, although the signature appears to read I W Wilson. The Alexander Turnbull Library holds the original watercolour for one reproduction, the view of Lake Manapouri (reference number A-123-002). It also holds second copies of several other reproductions, 5 with a separate printed portfolio cover titled 'New Zealand scenery. From water colour drawings by L W Wilson Esq. S and W Mackay, booksellers, Wellington'(reference number A-192-018/022). The portfolio-style cover with the latter group includes cotton ties opposite a spine binding, suggesting that the reproductions were unbound. Dating: Wilson left New Zealand in 1904. He probably had these copies made before leaving. The view of Manawatu Gorge was also published as a postcard. The Library holds a copy at E-279-160 sent in 1906. Title supplied by Library. Other Titles - [New Zealand scenery. From water colour drawings by L W Wilson Esq. S and W Mackay, Booksellers, Wellington] Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithographs on paper, 200 x265 mm, in binding 1/2 red calf and red buckram, 205 x 290 mm

Date: 1911 - 1931

From: Various artists :1. Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912. Photolithographs of watercolour drawings of New Zealand. [1910?] 2. Department of Maori Affairs. Maori housing. Departmental Standard plans. [1953-1954] 3. Walter Armiger Bowring, 1874-1931. [Cartoons of important New Zealanders]. 1902-1903

By: New Zealand. Parliamentary Library

Reference: E-962-q-4

Description: Caricatures of prominent New Zealanders including politicians, councillors, mayors and judges. Also features several Australian MPs. Subjects include William Massey, Joseph Ward, Maui Pomare, Sir Sidney Holland, Gorge William Forbes, Joseph Gordon Coates, among many others. Some photographs included. Topics include hunting, taxation, farmers, education and budget issues Cartoonists include John Henry Gilmour, Blo, Trevor Lloyd, Gordon Minhinnick, A.S. Paterson, and J.C. Hill, amongst others Album's General Assembly Library classification number was 741z, and its location at C277 Front cover verso has inscriptions reading: 'F.W. Oakley' and 'Presented by Mrs Oakley / to the General Assembly Library / in memory of her late husband' (year not known) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Newsprint and other paper stocks clipped and glued to album pages; library-bound in green textured buckram, half-leather stencilled sheepskin; 285 x 225 mm (cover); [324 p.]