Sharks

Date: ca 1910-1940

From: Guest, Ernest Matthias Capewell, 1873?-1957: Photographs of the Chatham Islands

Reference: 1/2-037595-G

Description: Photograph taken by Ernest Guest, between circa 1910 and 1940, Chatham Islands. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass plate negative.

Date: 1987

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

Reference: A-362-249/268

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 20 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: ca 1927

By: Warne, Leon, 1895-1984; White, Leo Lemuel, 1906-1967; Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970

Reference: PAColl-3731

Description: Quantity: 114 b&w copy photographic print(s) in two boxes.

Date: 1984

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

Reference: A-361-048/064

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand 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: 1983 - 1985

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Christchurch star (Newspaper : 1958- )

Reference: A-316-036/054

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. English royals sell off surplus New Zealand gifted wedding presents. New economy-fare airlines hit the skys. People encouraged to talk to their plants. Vehicle license fees up by 93%. Claims that human water-births would contribute to world peace.. Father's Day now celebrated during school holidays. Public response to grocery price-freeze. Maori rugby tours avoid arguements over racially selected teams. Two men muse over the reason for burning Guy Fawkes. Protesting at Waitangi on Wantangi Day. New Zealand fear of nuclear warships accelerates. Airlines begin serving liquor on board flights. Test-tube baby experiments have been approved in Auckland. People consider the 1984 'end of the world' scenario. Marsden Refinery workers return to work after their strike. Marsden Refinery workers strike. The Muldoon National Government calls a snap election amidst the Marsden Refinery strike. New Zealand resistance against the a USA Navy warship. Patients in the hospital outpatients get their respective wounds dealt to following protests for and against rugby tours and gay rights. Quantity: 19 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: 1950

By: Beach, Earle, active 2008

Reference: Curios-032-039

Description: Sword with wooden handle, the blade covered with woven flax. Shark's teeth stand out on both edges of the blade, tied in place with light brown and dark brown cord. A few of the shark's teeth are missing from the edges, about eight from one side and six from the other. Sword estimated by Gail Clay, to be dated ca 1950. Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Wood, shark tooth, flax, cord, 620 x 52 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-8935 - Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Transfers made from here..

Date: [ca 1930-ca 1940]

From: Webb family: Transparency slides of new Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-6796

Description: Tourist boats on the Whanganui River. Paddock of sweeds. Children showing lambs. Otahuna (house), Taitapu, Canterbury. Mount Tarawera. Flowering pohutukawa. Sharks. Men and luggage on stony bank. Milford Sound. Man and woman on rocky coast. Birds (black robin?) feeding from tin containers. Mount Sefton. Trout, Rainbow Springs, Rotorua. Ice skating partners,. Shovel ray fish. Eroded hill country. Lava hills, Waimunga, Rotorua. Aircraft in flight. Quantity: 23 b&w original transparency/ies 3 hand coloured images. 1 colour original transparency/ies Dufaycolor.

Date: 1915

By: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937; Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931

Reference: A-140-002

Description: Front view of an earring and 2 cross-sections. The earring is shaped to resemble a shark's tooth "Found by Mr. Draycol D. Birkett" Inscriptions: Verso - Easter Island inscriptions Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour [2 inch long] Provenance: Elson Best Collection

Date: 2004

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

Reference: H-738-026/045

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 20 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

Date: [ca 1930s-1950s]

From: Unwin, William Henry 1909-1992: Photographs relating to the life and career of musician Harry Unwin

Reference: PAColl-10379-5

Description: Photographs relating to Harry Unwin and his life as a musician touring in New Zealand and Australia, 1930s-1950s. Also includes images of tourist activities and hunting scenes. Taken by a range of unidentified photographers with some images likely taken by Unwin. - Contains various images of Unwin with fellow band members from Parkes Maori Band, circa mid 1930s. These include street scenes in which the men are dressed in suits and recreational activities such as visits to a swing bridge, beach, bush, and in a boat [while on tour in New Zealand?]. Another set of images taken later in Unwin's career shows Unwin and others [musicians?] drinking in tuxedoes. - Images also show tourist activities in Australia while on tour with the Kiwi Concert Party; Unwin is seen posing with a baby kangaroo in Melbourne, at "[Creek?] Emu Park" with a stuffed crocodile, by a sign for an attraction called "Crystal Cave", and in Perth at Scarborough Beach and by the State War Memorial (Kings Park). Also contains photographs of an unidentified hunting party at a beach [or estuary?] who are seen posing with guns by a turtle that has been shot and killed and with a dead shark. Unwin appears in photographs beside a burning tree and standing by a utility vehicle on a kangaroo hunt with two unidentified men. - A number of the Australian prints have annotations on the rear of the photograph. Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1903

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to Auckland as a tourist destination]

By: Harding & Billing (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Auckland-1903-01

Description: Lettercard showing seven views: Entrance to Port Fitzroy, Great Barrier Auckland and harbour, from the Fire station Auckland Harbour, Regatta Day Yachts racing, Auckland harbour An awkward customer (captured shark) Shag Rock near Waiheke Mansion House Kawau Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on card 183 x 248 mm, folded to 183 x 125 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in February 2015

Date: 1793

From: Nodder, Richard Polydore, fl 1786-1820 :[Zoological plates / by R P Nodder and others] - London, 1789-1813

By: Nodder, Frederick Polydore, 1751-1800

Reference: E-129-q-004

Description: A spotted shark Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 118 x 201 mm (trimmed sheet) Provenance: Collection of William Swainson

Date: [ca 1960]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-054026-F

Description: Shark fishing at Kaipara Harbour. Photograph taken ca 1960 by a New Zealand Free Lance staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register "Shark fishing at Kaipara Harbour; exporting from Henderson district". Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 7 Oct 2006 - 07 Oct 2006

From: Oral history of Cook Strait Whalers based in Tory Channel

By: Mears, Walter Noel, 1926-

Reference: OHInt-0856-12

Description: Interview with Noel Mears, born in Havelock in 1926. Talks about growing up in the Marlborough area, first at Ria Valley. Comments on having several jobs, marrying young, and his wife Dawn dying during childbirth. Refers to meeting his second wife Alice when she visited the whaling station. Talks about moving to Hastings when he left whaling, working at the freezing works for a time and later owning Hilton & Mears Monumental Masons. Outlines getting a job at the Peranos' whaling station about 1950, operating a winch in his first season and then becoming a flenser. Discusses working conditions and the factory being upgraded each year. Talks about living with his wife's uncle Bernie Gardiner in an ex-army hut, and refers to parties with Ted, Tai, Dookie, Cairo and Ossie Huntley and others. Comments on harpooning sharks from a dingy. Interviewer(s) - Loreen Brehaut Accompanying material - Digital abstract accompanied by a brief biographical document Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016014 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 52 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5776, OHDL-001409. Includes colour portrait (OHDL-001410) Search dates: 1926 - 2006

Date: [ca 1960]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-054034-F

Description: Shark fishing at Kaipara Harbour. Photograph taken ca 1960 by a New Zealand Free Lance staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register "Shark fishing at Kaipara Harbour; exporting from Henderson district". Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca 1960]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-054015-F

Description: Shark fishing at Kaipara Harbour. Photograph taken ca 1960 by a New Zealand Free Lance staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register "Shark fishing at Kaipara Harbour; exporting from Henderson district". Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 2018

From: Edition Habit: [Five calendars for 2018]

By: De Winter, Rob, active 2015-2016

Reference: Eph-A-CALENDAR-2018-EH-5

Description: Calendar of 12 openings. The front cover shows the Shark wall in Cable Street. The photographs of the artworks are all by Rob de Winter, taken in 2015-2016. Three of the artworks are by BMD and one is by Bodhi; the artists of the rest are unidentified. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on calendar, 212 x 212 mm (stapled)

Date: 1862-[ca 2005]

From: Tiller, Eileen, active 1957-2014: Collection

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Hinemoa (Ship : 1876-1944); Meluish, William, 1822?-1888; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Schaef, Arthur Waldemar, 1867-1940

Reference: PAColl-10718

Description: Contains photographs relating to the Hansen family, circa 1862 to 1990s. Taken by Hansen family members and photographers including Frank Arnold Coxhead, Fredrick George Radcliffe, Arthur Waldemar Schaef, William Meluish, and Burton Brothers. A commercial set of "New Zealand Graphic Series" stereoscopic prints shows a trip down the Whanganui River and the town of Whanganui. These are taken by Fredrick George Radcliffe with the exception of one photograph by Arthur Waldemar Schaef. The collection also contains a stereoscopic print titled "Milford Sound Starvation" by the Burton Brothers showing two men posed with empty barrels and an empty bottle on the rocky shore at Milford Sound. Photographs by Frank Arnold Coxhead show numerous views of Puyseger Point and its surrounds including Preservation Inlet. Futher nineteenth century prints include photographs, largely taken in Fiordland and the Otago Region, of landscapes (including Milford Sound, Dunedin gardens and coast, and Lake Wakatipu and surrounding peaks) and buildings in Dunedin (Garrison Hall, Knox Church, First Church, and Royal Exchange Hotel). There are also photographs of roading (Otira Gorge, Hokitika Road), railways (Rimutaka Incline), and an unidentified shepherd with his dog and herd of sheep. Other photographs include a William Meluish photograph of the goldrush at Gabriel's Gully, Tuapeka, taken in 1862. There are photographs relating to roads, railways, buildings, mainly in the Otago Region Assorted family prints from circa 1900s to 1930s include a photograph of Anders Hansen on board the government steamer 'Hinemoa' and further photographs taken on board the 'Hinemoa'. Other identified Hansen family members are George and Annie Hansen, who are also photographed on board a ship, which is likely bound for the Auckland Islands circa 1925. Other photographs relating to boats and shipping include row boats and small steamers on the water [delivering supplies from lighthouse tenders?] and wool being loaded into barges at a coastal woolshed and wharf. Photographs from the Wellington Region show Eastbourne and Wellington Harbour scenes. Photographs relating to a coastal farm, possibly Orongorongo Station, feature farm buildings, an unidentified group of three women and a boy riding in a cart drawn by a draught horse with another saddled horse behind, and two men shooting and bludgeoning a shark on the rocky shore. There is also a photograph of an unidentified wedding party. Two photographs from circa 1990s to 2005 show carved greenstone and bone Māori artefacts, collected by Anders Hansen and his family when he was the lighthouse keeper at Little Papanui on the Otago Peninsula. A Hansen family trip to Rarotonga and Aitutaki in 1977 includes photographs of accommodation (a resort, Rapae Motel) and other buildings, beach scenes, vehicles (bus, cars, motorcycle, tractor), a variety of flora (trees, flowers, and other plants), a waterfront scene, thatched roofs under construction, and local people (children by the road, women collecting water lilies, group selling produce). Identified buildings are Cook Island Liquor Supplies and a post office. Also photographs relating to Vaipae and the Ngatangiia Passage. Donor identified some images as being taken on a journey to the Auckland Islands. Greenstone and bone artifacts that appear in photographic prints are now at the Otago Museum. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 61 b&w original photographic print(s). 54 colour original photographic print(s). 13 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) stereoscopic. 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Photographic prints and ephemera. Provenance: Series of photographs by Frank Arnold Coxhead were given to Anders Hansen by the photographer while he was the lighthouse keeper at Puysegur Point circa 1880s to 1900s.

Date: 1930s

From: Scrimgeour, P :Albums and photographs relating to Reverend Colin Scrimgeour

Reference: PA1-o-1023

Description: Dr Harold Pettit and others deep sea fishing. One of the boats is named Valhalla and there are many photographes of the catch hung up for viewing Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1975 - 1981

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 boxes of cartoons drawn for the "Dominion", 1970-1980s?].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: C-132-790/809

Description: Includes cartoons about sharks at the beach, Uri Geller, a Wahine Memorial park, political candidates bombarded with vegetables which are then reclaimed by throwers, West Coasters' reaction to the Beech Forest and Mount Davey schemes, the Army wearing pantyhose at Waiouru to beat the cold, Spike Milligan promoting himself on TV, the first day of spring, the sinister intelligence of computers, bitterness in the world chess championships, skateboards parked outside a house with a party going on, circus parade up Willis Street, photographer burns all his negatives to publicise his exhibition, lost Goldie paintings found, gold dredging on the Kapiti ("golden") Coast, sex education in schools, computers keep tabs on business man's spending. Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those for which no date could be found are arranged at around the estimated date. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Quantity: 20 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 510 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.