McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978
McIntosh, A D, 1906-1978
Librarian, senior public servant, diplomat. Known as 'Mac'. Credited with the building of the New Zealand diplomatic service post World War II.
Secretary to the War Cabinet, 1943-1945, Secretary External Affairs and Permanent Head of Prime Minister's Department, 1943-1966. Appointed New Zealand's first ambassador to Rome in 1965.
After retirement, McIntosh served in a number of public roles, including Chair of the Trustees of the National Library of New Zealand, the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, and the Broadcasting Council of New Zealand. Knighted in 1973.
Husband of Doris McIntosh, 1934-1979 (née Pow).
Manuscript
Date:
Apr-May 1978
From:
King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection
Reference:
77-107-13
Description:
Interviews undertaken by King as part of his research for a biography of Peter Fraser
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Date:
Mar-Apr 1978
From:
King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection
Reference:
77-107-12
Description:
Interviews undertaken by King as part of his research for a biography of Peter Fraser
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Physical Description: Typescripts
Manuscript
Date:
Jul-Aug 1978
From:
King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection
Reference:
77-107-16
Description:
Interviews undertaken by King of Sir Alister McIntosh, Harold Kemp, Dr Beeby and Noel Pharazyn as part of his research for a biography of Peter Fraser
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Physical Description: Typescripts (carbon copies)
Map
Date:
1850
From:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978 :McIntosh Collections of antique maps
By:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978; La Riviere, Anthony, active 1850
Reference:
MapColl-929aj/[ca.1850]/Acc.34525
Description:
From the Sir Alister McIntosh Estate
McIntosh Collection, item 126
Quantity: 1 map(s).
Physical Description: Lithograph, black & white, scale [ca. 1:2 080 000], 21 x 28 cm
Manuscript
Date:
Sep 1978-May 1979
From:
King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection
Reference:
MS-Papers-2096-2
Description:
Transcripts of interviews with Arnold Nordmeyer, Sir Alister McIntosh and E A Gibson with notes on Peter Feraser; a further acquisition of transcripts of interviews with Ormond Wilson, Martyn Finlay, Mrs Baxter, Alister McIntosh and Lady McIntosh
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Physical Description: Typescript
Manuscript
Date:
Aug-Sep 1978
From:
King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection
Reference:
MS-Papers-2096-1
Description:
Transcripts of interviews with Arnold Nordmeyer, Sir Alister McIntosh and E A Gibson with notes on Peter Fraser; a further acquisition of transcripts of interviews with Ormond Wilson, Martyn Finlay, Mrs Baxter, Alister McIntosh and Lady McIntosh
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Physical Description: Typescript
Manuscript
Date:
1970
By:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978
Reference:
MS-Papers-4017
Description:
Talk prepared for British Council exhibition on Katherine Mansfield which was displayed in Rome in January 1970, and subsequently in other European cities. Accompanied by explanation by McIntosh and memo about Mansfield Exhibition by R R Cunninghame, Ambassador in the Hague.
Referred to in `Katherine Mansfield: Manuscripts in the Alexander Turnbull Library'
Source of title - Transcribed title
Quantity: 1 folder(s) (37 leaves).
Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)
Map
Date:
1912
From:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978 :McIntosh Collections of antique maps
By:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978; Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877
Reference:
MapColl-945aj/1914/Acc.42783
Description:
McIntosh Collection, item 104
Quantity: 1 map(s).
Physical Description: Engraving, black & white, scale [ca. 1:455 000], on sheet 69 x 103 cm. (1730)
Map
Date:
1780
By:
Cook, James, 1728-1779; McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978; Hogg, Alexander, active 1778-1819
Reference:
MapColl-833aj/[1780]/Acc.32061-2
Description:
Map of Cook Strait in the vicinity of Queen Charlottes Sound and Admiralty bay. Relief shown by hachures and bathymetric soundings.
Referenced in Tooley, 720
Reserve copy Acc.32074
Quantity: 2 map(s).
Physical Description: Engraving, b & w, 20.4 x 32cm, Scale not given
Provenance: From McIntosh Collection, items 110, 111
Image
Date:
1968
By:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978
Reference:
PAColl-6588
Description:
Three views of a man holding a portrait on an ivy covered doorstep, two of the reverse and one of the front. The inscription on the reverse of the portrait says Captain J Cook 1770. However, a note on the file prints says that the portrait was found by the donor in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1968 and is clearly not Captain Cook the explorer. Photographer unidentified.
Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/4-016477 to 016479
Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).
Map
Date:
1772 - 1969
From:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978 :McIntosh Collections of antique maps
By:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978; Cook, James, 1728-1779; Bayly, John, active 1755-1782
Reference:
MapColl-Reserve-830atc/1772(1969)/Acc.33644
Description:
Original engravings, lithographs and facsimiles of maps from 16th to 19th centuries
McIntosh Collection, item 15
Quantity: 1 map(s).
Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, scale [ca. 1:4 5000 000], 37 x 28cm
Map
Date:
1877
From:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978 :McIntosh Collections of antique maps
By:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978; Petermann, August Heinrich, 1822-1878; Justus Perthes Verlag
Reference:
MapColl-830a/1877/Acc.33636
Description:
Shows provinces, place names, topographical features of New Zealand, West Australia and Tasmania. Has inset of Auckland and Manukau Harbour.
McIntosh Collection, item 7
Quantity: 3 map(s) on 1 sheet.
Physical Description: Engraving, coloured, scale 1:5 000 000, 32 x 39cm
Map
Date:
1867
From:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978 :McIntosh Collections of antique maps
By:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978
Reference:
MapColl-910a/[1867]/Acc.34708
Description:
From the Sir Alister McIntosh Estate
McIntosh Collection, item 118
Another copy, McIntosh Collection item 84 at MapColl-910a/[1867]/Acc.34709
Extended Title - Published in: Naymiller, F. and Allodi, P. Atlante di geografia universale ... 1867, plate 55.
Quantity: 2 map(s).
Physical Description: Engraving, outline colour, scale [ca. 1:38 000 000] at Equator, 31 x 40 cm
Map
Date:
1816
By:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978; Reichard, Christian Gottlieb Theophit, 1758-1837
Reference:
MapColl-910a/1816/Acc.32823
Description:
Map of New Zealand, Australia and Southwest Pacific Islands; some relief shown in hachures, little of interiors filled in; compass rose on equator; outlines coloured. Has inscription 'Hand-Atlas no. 50' in top right hand corner.
Probably from: Atlas uber alle Theile der Erde...Gotha, 1816-1828.
Referenced in Tooley, page 223
Quantity: 1 map(s).
Physical Description: Engraving, hand coloured, 26.6 x 32.6cm, Scale not given
Provenance: From McIntosh Collection, item 2
Donated by A.D. McIntosh
Map
Date:
1862
From:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978 :McIntosh Collections of antique maps
By:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978
Reference:
MapColl-830a/[1862]/Acc.34910
Description:
McIntosh Collection, item 12
Quantity: 1 map(s).
Physical Description: Coloured, scale [ca. 1:4 250 000], 38 x 31cm
Manuscript
Date:
1933
By:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978
Reference:
MS-Papers-1688
Description:
Confidential report on amalgamation of libraries in Wellington into a National Library
Source of title - Supplied
Quantity: 1 folder(s) (37 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Typescript
Map
Date:
1843
From:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978 :McIntosh Collections of antique maps
By:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978; Hughes, William, 1817-1876
Reference:
MapColl-830a/1843/Acc.32067
Description:
Map of New Zealand with relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Insets: Van Diemens Land; The settled portion of Western Australia. Plate LVII. W. Hughes 1843 in bottom right corner.
Referenced in Tooley, 199
McIntosh Collection, item 11
Quantity: 3 map(s) on 1 sheet.
Physical Description: Engraving, coloured outlines, Scale [ca. 1:4 3000 000], 37.9 x 26.9cm
Map
Date:
1794
From:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978 :McIntosh Collections of antique maps
By:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978
Reference:
MapColl-223a/1794/Acc.42759
Description:
McIntosh Collection, item 130
Quantity: 1 map(s).
Physical Description: Engraving, coloured, scale [ca. 1:35 000 000], diameter 58 cm.
Map
Date:
1769 - 1770
From:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978 :McIntosh Collections of antique maps
By:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978
Reference:
MapColl-Reserve-830atc/1769-70(1969)/Acc.32824
Description:
ATL Friends reproduction of Cook's chart of New Zealand
McIntosh Collection, item 90
Quantity: 1 map(s) facsimile.
Physical Description: Photolithograph, black & white, scale not given, 35 x 34 cm.
Map
Date:
1800
From:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978 :McIntosh Collections of antique maps
By:
McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978
Reference:
MapColl-942.4a/1791/Acc.42781
Description:
McIntosh Collection, item 127
Quantity: 1 map(s).
Physical Description: Engraving, black & white, scale [ca. 1:615 000], 30 x 22 cm
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