India

Date: 1980

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-135-683

Description: The scene is Muldoon's parliamentary office. His outline is sitting at the desk. His secretary has opened the office door to find anti-nuclear protestors outside but cannot say if Muldoon is there or not. In the waste paper basket is a newspaper announcing that Tom Scott, a Listener journalist, is still being barred by Muldoon from accompanying the official delegation to the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in India in September 1980. Extended Title - Mr. Muldoon announced that the nuclear-powered U.S.S. Truxtun will again visit Wellington next month. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone, 455 x 320 mm.

Date: 1880 - 1900

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: E-280-043/048

Description: Scenes of India and possibly Sri Lanka Inscriptions: [Some signed] H. Robley. Quantity: 6 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash drawings 137 x 87 mm

Date: 1870

From: Statutory Branch. Head Office. Department of Lands and Survey :[Aperture cards of] maps and plans

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-L&S-G62

Description: Copy of published lithographed map that shows Colonal Lambton's network of triangulation in southern India; the meridional and longitudinal chains of principal triangles; base lines measured with Colby Apparatus; astronomical, pendulum and tidal stations. Secondary triangulation to fix peaks of Himalayan and the Soolimani Ranges completed to 1st May 1870. Quantity: 1 map(s) on 2 aperture cards. Physical Description: 35mm microfilm inserted into card, scale 1:6 082 560, copy at same size as original Provenance: Donated by Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, November 1982

Date: 1782

By: Wale, Samuel, -1786; Hogg and Company

Reference: B-041-008

Description: "Engraved for Millar's New complete & universal system of geography". Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, plate mark 283 x 167 mm, on sheet 450 x 230 mm Provenance: Unknown.

Date: 1862

From: Simpson, William, 1823-1899 :Sketchbook. India, Madras, Bombay and voyage home. 1861-1862.

Reference: E-063-021/022

Description: Lefthand page - Drawings of six figures. Shown from various angles but mainly from the back. One of the figures is a watercolour, another has a touch of orange colour on the headwear, and a third drawing has `orange' written alongside to indicate the colour of the headwear. Also drawings of an ox laden with bags, and two oxen and a cart. Righthand page - Drawings of five figures; shown from behind or from the side. One woman is kneeling down and preparing food. Also drawings of an ox-drawn cart and a goat. Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, double page size 78 x 276 mm

Date: 1979 - 1980

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

Reference: A-359-326/342

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: [1960-1967]

From: Hansen, Raymond Ernest, 1910-1985 : Papers

Reference: 84-204-11

Description: Files (1) Outside world (attitudes both ways) with `Beeville bulletin' n148 (Dec 1964) and Open letter to every man and woman, especially to the head of every government, and those who rule the world in other ways with poems, `Call of love' and `Myself and the world' (1963); (2) Other communities, newsletters from Koinonia Community, Georgia (1967); (3) 1961, Ra;'s India trip, with poem, `Rishi Valley visit (narrative)' by Ray Hansen (1961) and a newsletter to the consumers of Beeville honey by Francis Hansen; and (4) Art, culture, mores, Beeville, with circular letters etc from the Hebrew Evangelization society, brochure for one-day school in interior design (Auckland University) and part of `Beeville bulletin' n 147 (1964) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1880 - 1900 - 1889

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon 1840-1930 :[Postcards of scenes in India. ca 1880s. ca 1900]

Reference: E-280-045-1

Description: Shows a crocodile chasing a man along a river bank. Only the man's leg can be seen on the right of the postcard as he runs away from the crocodile. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash drawings 90 x 140 mm

Date: [ca 1970]

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsborough, 1910-1990: Essays and papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1037-3

Description: Includes chapters: To Singapore - Fall of Singapore - Retreat from Sumatra - The Arabian Sea - Karachi - From Indus to Nile - North West Frontier Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1919 - 1924

By: Hope, Will, active 1910-1920s; Daily Mirror (Newspaper); The Communist (Newspaper); Moir, Alan, 1947-

Reference: J-043-001/021

Description: Two cartoons published in the Daily Mirror, circa 1919-1924, and nineteen published in the weekly magazine Communist, circa 1920-1923, on European political issues. Quantity: 12 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Two A4 size and 10 A3 size photocopies.

Date: 1880 - 1900 - 1889

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon 1840-1930 :[Postcards of scenes in India. ca 1880s. ca 1900]

Reference: E-280-047

Description: Shows a Gurkha holding a sword Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash drawings 140 x 90 mm

Date: 1941, 1945

By: Bourke, Gerard (Father), active 1941-1984

Reference: MS-Papers-1732

Description: Two diary volumes (1) describing Bourke's pastoral work in Karachi and travels in India, voyage from Calcutta to Singapore and situation there until he was taken as P O W to Thailand; and (2) describing the return to Singapore and liberation. Bourke records his religious activities, taking Mass, marrying couples etc, and notes the numbers attending services. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (case folder; two vols). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1981

From: GirlGuiding New Zealand : Records

Reference: 88-130-25/4/10

Description: Attended by Adrienne Court, Anne-Marie MacMillan Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1932

From: Lake, Beverley Muriel, fl 1982 :Family photographs, views of Sweden and New Zealand

Reference: PA1-o-254

Description: Album of photographs relating to a bible school in India, "V.H.S.", at Mussoorie, in hill country, Uttar Pradesh. Most of the images are of students and staff at the school, with a few showing the locality, including an Indian man with his water wagon drawn by an ox, a group of Indian women, a view of the snow-covered mountains in the distance, and the Kemptie Falls. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Soft-covered album with reproduction oil painting of a lake attached to front cover; 18.5 x 18.5

Date: Jul 1857-Nov 1857, Jul 1858

By: Constable, George W, active 1857-1858

Reference: qMS-0515

Description: Daily journals of ship-board life. The first journal is of a voyage in a ship carrying troops to Calcutta; the second is of a voyage in a ship carrying timber from Moulmein, Burma. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (29 pages plus 34 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: (38 cm, brown suede) Provenance: Purchased, 8 January 1969, from John Summers

Date: 1860-1866 [ie 1864]

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: MS-2346-2347

Description: Describes service in India and journey to New Zealand; state of colony and views on colonial government; activities as officer commanding 57th Regiment and troops in Taranaki from 1863; notes social and economic conditions; Maori movements; describes storming of Katikara Pa Jun 1863 and destruction of pa on Patua(?) Ranges Source of title - Transcribed Arrangement: MS-2346-2347 are boxed together Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (24cm, marbled boards, ¼ red calf, black linen) Provenance: Appear to be a draft and a fair copy but there are different corrections and additions on each MS-2346 contains photo-copied sketch showing ppositions of pa on the Patua ranges

Date: ca 1960

From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-599

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1860-1870

By: Simpson, William, 1823-1899; Hewitt, Ann Penelope, 1884-1972

Reference: E-064

Description: 27 sketches made during Simpson's voyage from Italy to the Gulf of Suez, 10-18 Mar 1868. The first sketches depict the island of Stromboli. Other sketches show various views of Mount Etna, Lipari or Aeolin Islands, coastline of the Straits of Messina, scenes of Suez, coastline of the Gulf of Suez. Tipped into the back of the sketchbook are nine drawings made in India, Jan 1860 and Feb 1861. Some are undated. Also a sketch of Spieckern, Germany, dated 22 Sep 1870. Relationship complexity - See also Simpson's Indian sketchbook [E-063] for other sketches made in India Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 37 pencil and pencil & watercolour in sketchbook, page size 140 x 230 mm. Includes 5 smaller leaves tipped in at rear of volume. Faded navy or black embossed cloth covers.

Date: 1879

From: Thomas, E A C, 1825- :[Album of a visit to the Motueka area and North Canterbury]

By: Thomas, E A C, 1825-

Reference: E-305-q-063

Description: An outdoor scene with a large group of Indian men and two European men sitting and standing around a table. Behind is a higher bench, presided over by three European men, attended by two Indian men. A group of Indian men observe the scene from an arched doorway on the left, in a building behind the bench. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, hand-coloured, 187 x 237 on sheet 254 x 304 mm

Date: 1937-1987

From: Davin, Daniel Marcus, 1913-1990 : Literary papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5079-018

Description: Includes letter from WDF from South India (1937) (identified persons entered under Name) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts Processing information: Record updated 3 November 2023 when the requirement to permission for access was removed.