Elephant seals
Chatham Islands album
Date: 1938
Reference: PA1-q-052
Description: Album chiefly shows members of a Lands & Survey team surveying boundaries etc, in the Chatham Islands, and in South Canterbury, circa 1938. Residents of the Chatham Islands, various locations in the islands and activities such as sheep transportation from the islands to Lyttelton and Wellington by ship are shown. Another sequence shows drainage and irrigation procedures in South Canterbury. The photographer is probably Russell Gladstone Dick, later the New Zealand Surveyor-General. Other - Source of descriptive information - Card inserted in album which reads "Ample evidence this is a 1938 Lands and Surveys team surveying boundaries etc ... The photographer is shown in photos 126, 127 and 112, and is probably Mr Dick, later NZ Surveyoe General ..." Signed "Rhys Richards". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark blue cloth-covered album, 35.5 x 22.5 cm
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :Barrie Devenport's crossing of Cook Strait was a great...
Date: 1962
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
Reference: B-137-475
Description: Shows a man with an inflatable toy in the sea, a swimmer in a bathing cap who is sitting on a rock on a beach, a man sunbathing, 'Blossom' the elephant seal and a man taking ferry bookings at a counter. Refers to Barrie Devenport's swim across Cook Strait. Blossom (Elephant seal) came ashore at Oriental Bay, Wellington in 1962. Returned again the following year. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, 230 x 345mm
Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Cartoons for the Evening Post, 1962]
Date: 1962
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
Reference: B-137-474/496
Description: Cartoons commenting on social and political life in 1962 including the economy, sport and recreation. Quantity: 22 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings, sizes vary
Jeavons Baillie's slides of art workes, Wellington and the sea elephant "Blossom"
Date: 1965
From: Baillie, William Jeavons Hall, 1941-:Slides, photographs, and other material
Reference: PA12-0243
Description: Blossom (Elephant seal) came ashore at Oriental Bay, Wellington in 1962. Returned again the following year. Quantity: 13 colour original transparency/ies.
Transparencies of Humphrey elephant seal and Moana Point subdivision
Date: 1976-1989
From: Watt, James Norwood, 1928-2018: Collection
Reference: PA12-12037
Description: Colour transparencies of elephant seal Humphrey taken by James (Jim) Watt in Whangamata Harbour, circa 1984-1989. Also photographs of Moana Point Subdivision, including construction of bridge and causeway and road works, circa 1976-1986. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :The attack on a Hawke's Bay rowing skiff by a sea elep...
Date: 1967
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
Reference: B-137-323
Description: Shows three vignettes: a rowing four and their cox in a line in the water after a sea elephant (at left) has sunk their skiff; an angry swordfish writes a trespass notice against sportsmen of several sorts, on a rock; fish stage a concerted attack en masse upon three spear fishermmen. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone 410 x 295 mm, on sheet 525 x 344 mm.
Greenall, Frank :[Robert Muldoon, ca 1980s]
From: Greenall, Frank :[Cartoons of Robert Muldoon, 1980s]
Reference: A-298-002
Description: Robert Muldoon depicted as an elephant seal Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy of ink drawing
Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Cartoons for the Evening Post, 1962]
Date: 1962
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
Reference: B-137-520/542
Description: Cartoons commenting on social and political life in 1962 including the economy, sport and recreation. Quantity: 22 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings, sizes vary
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :Too good to be true. 12 September 1966.
Date: 1966
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
Reference: B-133-503
Description: A suburban interior show a mother in apron at the stove saying brightly to her husband in the living room, that because it was fine she let the boys go fishing - and it's been so peaceful, it's seemed to good to be true. Through the large picture window, two boys drag a sea elephant along towards the house. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone and pencil, 285 x 400 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.
[Elephant seal, Campbell Island]
Date: [1958 or 1959]
From: Poppleton, Philip George :Photographs of South Island, East Coast, North Island, and Campbell Island
Reference: PA1-f-196-44-1
Description: Elephant seal, Campbell Island, photographed 1958 or 1959 by George Poppleton. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - "Beachmaster Bull" Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Colour print 89 x 127 mm mounted on album page
Smith, Ashley W., 1948- :News. There will shortly be a burial for a 1 tonne, 5m. elepha...
Date: 2002
From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]
By: Smith, Ashley W, 1948-; New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)
Reference: DX-023-220
Description: The scene is a cemetery where a few mourners, a minister and a penguin are standing beside an empty grave. Five men are struggling to drag the coffin with the elephant seal in it to the grave. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).
J C, fl 1891 :The Macquarrie Islands. [1891]
Date: 1891
From: New Zealand Graphic. [Auckland, N.Z., 1890-1908]
By: New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal
Reference: PUBL-0126-1891-365
Description: Shows an arrangement of ten images including: The North End, Bishop and Clerk Rocks, The Nuggets, The ketch Gratitude, Lusitania Bay - oil works and penguin rookery, SS Kakanui, Mainsail Reef, King penguins, Sea elephant, South East Harbour. Other Titles - Macquarie Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, on page of newspaper
[Elephant seal, Campbell Island]
Date: [1958 or 1959]
From: Poppleton, Philip George :Photographs of South Island, East Coast, North Island, and Campbell Island
Reference: PA1-f-196-44-5
Description: Elephant seal, Campbell Island, photographed 1958 or 1959 by George Poppleton. Inscriptions: Album page - right of image - "Mud!, Mud!, Glorious Mud!" Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Colour print 88 x 126 mm mounted on album page