Tapestries

Date: 1951

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

Reference: B-131-02-052

Description: Exhibition catalogue with introduction, catalogue listing, illustrations and annotations in pencil by artist Eileen Mayo. Inside the front cover are several postcards and a first day cover. One postcard (unused) is of a tapestry; one of Edinburgh Castle is a Christmas card sent to Australia from Ronald Cruikshank; another, also a Christmas card for 1952 is from Dame Laura Knight; another postmarked Dec 1948 is from Ethel Pye; the first day cover, postmarked 2 Dec 1970 is from the Director-General of the New Zealand Post Office, is the Chatham Islands issue for 1970 and is stamped with two stamps designed by Eileen Mayo, showing Chatham Islands lily and the albatross Quantity: 1 published book. Physical Description: Photolithographs with text, 27 p. 215 mm. stapled

Date: 1948 - 1952

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

Reference: B-131-02-053

Description: Two postcards featuring the tapestries of Jean Lurcat. Two featuring details from the Musee de Cluny's 'La dame a la licorne' in Paris Quantity: 1 published book. Physical Description: 4 postcards in envelope

Date: 1955-1971

By: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002

Reference: PA-Group-00375

Description: Wellington, openings of Parliament, politicians, Governors General, show personalities, Antarctic teams, police, army, visiting diplomats and heads of state, ship visits, memorials, RNZAF, fighter planes and fighter plane training, rugby and rugby players and selectors, film censorship, conferences, agricultural air shows, artists, royalty, manufacturing industries, models and fashion parades, New Zealand Players, etc Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 35mm-18037 to 18703, 120-0881 to 0959, 1/4-071736 to 072044, 1/2-177020 to 177461. Quantity: 1483 b&w original negative(s) 78 120 strips comprising 158 images, 666 35mm strips comprising 1,976 images, 308 1/4 plate negs, 441 1/2 plate negs. Total images 2,883. Finding Aids: Library generated negative registers provide a good access point to this collection. The negatives are listed within subject groupings.. Processing information: Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4814 to PA-Group-00375 in 2009.

Date: [ca 11 Mar 1963]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-7796-93

Description: Portrait of New Zealand artist Louise Henderson, standing in front of the large tapestry she designed for the wall of the New Zealand Room in the Hong Kong Hilton Hotel, on display in Wellington. Shows Henderson holding an open Landfall magazine and smoking. Photograph taken circa 11 March 1963 by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - 798; Verso - top right - Largest / 3/ x 1/2 / Local Mon; Verso - bottom right - Date stamp: 11 Mar 1965; Verso - bottom centre - Original caption: Mrs Louise Henderson of Auckland, with the huge tapestry she designed for the wall of the New Zealand Room in the Hotel Hilton, Hong Kong. The tapestry and other New Zealand works of art for the hotel are on display in Wellington. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20.4 x 16.2 cm Processing information: Formerly filed in Turnbull Library Pictures at: 920. Henderson, Louise Etiennette Sidonie. 1963