Aircraft carriers - United States

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: 1930

From: Gibbens, Ken :Photographs of New Zealand, Australia, California, Hawaii, Samoa and Fiji

By: Gibbens, Ken, active 1920s-

Reference: PA1-o-836

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1954-1957

From: McKinnon, Walter Sneddon, 1910-1998 :Albums relating to periods as Armed Forces Attache to USA, 1954-1957

Reference: PA1-q-706

Description: Record of the commanding officers, some of the warships and aircraft, and a naval college of the United States Navy, and an aerial view of the Pentagon, Washington DC. Album was presented to Brigadier Walter S McKinnon, OBE, New Zealand Army by Rear Admiral Laurence H Frost, Director of US Naval Intelligence. McKinnon was Armed Forces Attache in Washington, DC from March 1954 to January 1957 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1968

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; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-133-684

Description: A U.S. aircraft carrier has berthed in downtown Wellington. Sailors on the deck have mooring ropes and marlinspikes. The captain says jauntily to an office worker whose high rise office he has just crashed into, 'So we said the heck with it, we'll run her right up to the wharf.' Exhibited in 'Lodge Laughs at Wellington: Celebrating the life and works of cartoonist Nevile Lodge' exhibition of cartoons By Nevile Lodge on Wellington topics over the period 1943-1988, curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive for the Wellington Museum of City and Sea, and exhibited at the Museum from 25 May to August 2004. Published in book 'Lodge Laughs at Wellington' by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive, 2004. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black and white ink, crayon, letratone and pencil, 276 x 475 mm