Camels

Date: 1942

From: Hall, James Oliver, 1916-2006 :[Caricatures and cartoons from the 2nd World War] 1943

Reference: B-099-003

Description: Nine scenes depicting life in Egypt as viewed through the eyes of a soldier. Shows Egyptian men and women at work; camels being used for transportation; sightseeing; pyramids; Egyptian mother and child, etc. Drawn up the lefthand side is a date palm showing a man at the top harvesting the dates. Along the bottom is a view of the Nile. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 345 x 500 mm

Date: 1925-1935

From: Moore, Leonard Albert L, fl 1890-1970 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-1690

Description: Photographs include views of Tianjin in the 1920s, including the European concessions and executions Leonard A L Moore was in business in Tientsin (now Tianjin) during the 1920s-1930s, and was associated with the Tientsin British Municipal Volunteer Corps. Quantity: 68 b&w original photographic print(s). 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-0599; papers of Leonard Albert L Moore.

From: [Walsh, Philip] 1843-1914 :[Middle East and New Zealand sketchbook] 1883-1892.

Reference: E-369-043

Description: Sketch of a camel with harness Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 105 x 184 mm

Date: 1865

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-116

Description: Shows the city in the middle distance, a field with trees, camels, figures in the foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, watercolour, chinese white 390 x 300 mm

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-661-001/061

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 61 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size

Date: 2001

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to confectionery, chocolate, sweets, ice-cream and other sweet foods]

By: Turnbull Systems Project. Evaluation Team

Reference: Eph-A-CONFECTIONERY-2001-01

Description: Front of bag shows a scene of a camel train approaching the Pyramids by moonlight. The back lists the ingredients of the licorice, a fictional excerpt entitled "The Secret of the Black Pharaoh", and a table of nutritional information. Quantity: 1 bag. Physical Description: Photolithograph on foil-lined brown paper bag, 237 x 182 mm. Provenance: Donated by members of the Turnbull Systems Project Evaluation team on 10 May 2001.

Date: 1868

From: Liverpool, Cecil George Savile Foljambe, Earl of, 1846-1907 :[Sketchbook] 1868

Reference: E-304-034

Description: Shows a man tying a huge load on a kneeling camel Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 100 x 280 mm

Date: 1920 - 1940

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-755

Description: Includes pencil sketches of cemetery headstones, lions and lion cubs, birds (including quail and crane (?)), camels, longhorn cattle, monkeys, crested bird, pelican, egret or stork, budgerigars. Also includes loose watercolour of Wellington Harbour and loose watercolour of cockatoo and other caged birds. Notes inside front cover refer to expenses for food and travel in Waiotapu, Palmerston North, Hamilton, Rotorua. These appear to be related to the images in sketchbook at E-738. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Hardbound sketchbook with marbled cover, with 35 leaves, each 203 x 163 mm.

Date: [1890s]

By: Hemus and Hall (Firm); Pitt, S L (Miss), active 1975

Reference: PA1-o-418

Description: Album of photographs, chiefly showing scenes in Western Australia, particularly around Coolgardie and Norseman. Most of the identified views were taken by Hemus & Hall (a photographic firm in Bayley Street, Coolgardie between 1895 and 1906). A number of views show the use of camels and camel trains in Western Australia, with one showing the first steam train entering Coolgardie on 23rd March 1896. Many of the images are unidentified, but two are shown as being in New Zealand. One shows the Thames Pharmacy, owned by George Denby; and the other is a bush scene at Waikawau. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black buckram cover; 25 x 31 cm

Date: 1865

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-126

Description: Shows a temple, people and camels in the foreground Other Titles - Poona Hindu Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & pencil 228 x 315 mm

Date: 1868

From: Liverpool, Cecil George Savile Foljambe, Earl of, 1846-1907 :[Sketchbook] 1868

Reference: E-304-035

Description: Shows an Arab man in a striped garment leading a laden camel Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 100 x 280 mm

Date: 1865

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-120

Description: Shows a man with a camel; storks in flight and nesting on a minaret or brick column, possibly Roman. A building in the right foreground, and another on a hill in the distance Inscriptions: Backing board, lower right: title in pencil in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour 322 x 234 mm

Date: 1940

From: [Ephemera relating to carnivals and celebrations in New Zealand. 1940-1949]

By: Hornblow Print

Reference: Eph-A-CARNIVAL-1940-01

Description: Flier advertising a carnival fair in Wellington over the summer season is illustrated with a photograph of two people riding a camel at the right. The text lists some of the attractions: Duncan & Walker's motor dodgem speedway, merry-go-round and joy planes, side shows including Cassim Mahomet (soldier, author, traveller and composer) presenting Ranee the Indian wonder woman who performs miracles; the "Merman" (half man, half fish) from Aden on the Red Sea; Delgados Celebrity Circus; games of every description. Three copies held: two copies on pink paper, one one blue paper. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 226 x 142 mm.

Date: 1910 - 1929

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-380-050/053

Description: Includes sketches of lions, camels, penguins, birds; and of hills and rough harbour water. Quantity: 12 drawing(s) on four sheets. Physical Description: Pencil drawings on sheets, sizes varying from 205 x 260 mm, to 260 x 410 mm.

Date: [ca 1914-1916]

Reference: PAColl-D-0710

Description: Three officers talking to an Egyptian in the desert. Behind are three young Egyptian men and their camels. The one facing the photographer is smoking. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) handcoloured. Physical Description: 305 x 380 mm mounted on card

From: [Walsh, Philip] 1843-1914 :[Middle East and New Zealand sketchbook] 1883-1892.

Reference: E-369-044

Description: Shows a camel with harness, standing. Also shows a camel lying down but head has been omitted. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 105 x 184 mm

Date: 1865

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: B-041-018

Description: Desert landscape, with date palms, and a small Arab settlement. To the left, a woman and child and a man with two camels. Likely to be Egypt or Palestine, visted by Fox in 1865. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour pasted to board, 205 x 347 mm Provenance: Not known

Date: 1916-1917

By: Wilkie, Donald J, active 1982

Reference: PAColl-0183

Description: Photographs taken during World War I, photographer unknown. Each photograph is annotated on the reverse - possibly by Donald Wilkie. They show military personnel in Egypt around the battles of Magdhaba (1916) and Rafah (1917). Includes: - Infantry marching, and riding on both horse and camel back, heading to and from battle, - Turkish prisoners and guns which have been captured, - Military camp near El Arish, - A minesweeper wrecked off the coast, - Hospital, hospital train, and wounded soldiers being transported by Red Cross carts, - and a football match between Auckland and Wellington troops. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints (mainly silver gelatin prints) Processing information: This collection was retrospectively described in 2015. D J Wilkie's role in the creation of this collection is unknown.

Date: 1914-1918

By: Moore, Arthur Briscoe, 1891-1985

Reference: PAColl-0480

Description: Contains photographs relating to the Sinai and Palestine campaigns of World War I, taken by various, mainly unidentified, photographers. - Includes photographs relating to the New Zealand Mounted Rifles, mainly the Auckland Mounted Rifles. Images feature military transportations and convoys including those featuring camels carrying supplies and fording a waadi, horses, mules, the S S 'Willochra' at steam, the Auckland Regiment Transport camped at Bethlehem in August 1918, the construction of the first ANZAC bridge over the River Jordan and various groups crossing it, and a convoy that has been attacked on the Beyrout [Beirut] Road with dead animals and wrecked carts, and a convoy on the road to Jerusalem near the Garden of Gethsemane. Other images include Turkish and German prisoners of war (including a large group at Kastal and a small group of officers), war graves and burial scene, the bodies of two soldiers killed in action, various military camps (including Ferry Post Camp), air craft (including a plane that has been shot down and H M A 'Carthusian' taken by A J Iles), the wreck of a British Mother Tank in Gaza, and an unidentified man posing beside an anti-aircraft gun. Recreation scenes show the New Zealand sports day at Richon and rugby game between New Zealand and Australian troops on New Year's Day 1919. - General Allenby appears in a number of images including motoring through Paris following victory in Jerusalem and at the New Zealand sports day at Richon, Palestine (also with Major General Edward William Clervaux Chaytor). A group photograph shows unidentified soldiers on board the S S 'Willochra', an unidentified portrait taken by T G Palmer (Cameron Street, Whangarei) with four young soldiers in uniform, and four men mounted on horses after winning hurdles team event at Tauherenikau in 1918. - Includes one aerial image of an unidentified coastal camp. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Relationship complexity - a number of prints in this collection are held in the National Army Museum collections: Trooper Rodney Rushington Taylor (service number 13/238) of the Auckland Mounted Rifles (accession no: 1992.1173.2) Arrangement: Prints have been numbered 1-52. This order has been maintained. Quantity: 52 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - it is likely that 'A night stunt of the Auckland Mounted Rifles' (reference number 80-057) was transferred from this collection to the Manuscripts section in 1980 (though no precise record of this exists, only that the manuscript item was transferred from a photo collection).. Processing information: Archivist's note - Originally allocated reference number in 1980. Descriptive record created and research on collection undertaken by A&D staff in 2015.

Date: [1930s?]

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

Reference: PA11-272

Description: Lantern slides of Africa, including identifiable places and scenes in Egypt, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and South Africa. The images were taken by unidentified photographers, probably in the 1930s. Some slides have captions written on paper affixed to the glass, that describe the location or subject. Seven of the copy images are from a larger numbered sequence of commercial slides. The images include: - Scenes in African villages and rural locations showing: herding of cattle, use of mortar and pestle, streets with dwellings, building of a hut, weaving, drying of crocodile skin, markets, man holding snakes, and people carrying bowls on their heads. - Members of various African tribes, including the Dinka people of Sudan and the Kikuyu people of Kenya (also known as Agikuyu). - Ruins of the ancient city of Great Zimbabwe. - Colonial buildings, including the Maputo Railway Station (Mozambique). - Coconut and other palms, banana, and baobab trees. - Camels being ridden, pulling wagons with barrels, or resting. - Sisal being produced, including stripping and drying of the fibre. - Scenes in Egypt, including the pyramids and the Great Sphinx of Giza, Aswan Dam, the Cairo Museum, streets and buildings of Cairo, and wharfs and boats along the Nile. - The Amphitheatre in the Drakensberg Range in South Africa. Arrangement: Set contains slides from box 10 Quantity: 108 b&w lantern slide(s) comprising 100 original b&w images (one with colour tinting), and 8 copy b&w images. Physical Description: Lantern slides