Shellfish - New Zealand - Wellington Region
Animal Habitat Class
Date: 1952
From: Wellington Workers’ Educational Association: Collection
Reference: PAColl-3540-02
Description: Contains original photographic prints taken by J Garrett and unidentified photographer(s). Images show the Wellington Workers' Educational Association Animal Habitat Class at rockpools on along Wellington's south coast. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).
Three children eating pipi on Petone Beach
Date: 4 January 1979
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1979/0029-F
Description: Three girls eating pipi collected from the Petone Beach. They are from left: Denise Wilson, Marama Lum, and Teresa Mahara. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Toheroa
Date: September 1968
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1968/4058
Description: Photograph of a toheroa in shallow water on a beach, taken ca September 1968 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Caption - Original Evening Post caption reads: "Plump and succulent, this a toheroa. Admired by the gourmet and sought by hundreds who seldom find, he is plentiful on many beaches at Wellington's back door. This photograph shows the feeding suckers, elastic syphons which periscope to the sand surface, and the flat shovel-like tongue which is beginning to dig an escape." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative 5.7 x 5.7 cm Finding Aids: Print available in Turnbull Library Pictures Evening Post illustrations files at EP-NZ Zoology-Fish-Toheroa (17/4).
Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897: [Round the Rocks, Clyde Quay, McLoughlin's Farm]
Date: 1858
By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897
Reference: B-168-022
Description: A scene showing Clyde Quay with Mount Victoria in the background. In the left foreground is a group of Maori, two of whom are sitting, three who are digging for pipis on the beach, with large kete for gathering them. Other Maori are visible in the scene. On the right is a kainga with palisades, with several European buildings beyond that. McLoughlin (name from auction catalogue) might refer to Mary, the wife of Timothy O'Loughlin, who was living at Clyde Quay at the time. Timothy drowned in 1848; Mary died in 1897. Accompanied by a newspaper article from "The Dominion", Monday 25 September 1933, entitled 'Changes of 50 years: Metamorphosis of a site. Clyde Qy. development'. Other title: O'Loughlin's farm Title inscribed in pencil by unidentified hand on backing recto. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud 1858 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, 250 x 348 mm, adhered to card