Gulls

Date: [Between 1954 and 1968]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-200

Description: Album of photographs, some prints, some contacts from 35mm film, taken by Professor John Salmon in Wellington. Most of the images describe his use of different camera lenses and filters. Many of the scenes are taken from Professor Salmon's window at Victoria University of Wellington, showing different moods in different weather patterns. They include early morning, afternoon, and night views, northerly wind and southerly wind cloud patterns, including a southerly storm. He also has a large number of images of Wellington Harbour and wharves, again taken in different lights, showing ships, reflections and buildings. Other sequences show views of the Hutt Valley, Silverstream, and Glenmore Street in Wellington, many taken on misty early mornings. The last scenes are coloured photographs showing some of the decorations erected for the Royal visit of Queen Elizabeth II, in January 1954. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cream cover, Cobra ring binder; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1984

From: Various artists :Collection of photocopies, newspaper clippings and bromides of cartoons by Bromhead (A-314-1), Brockie (A-314-2) and J. C. Hill (A-314-3).

Reference: A-314-2-034

Description: Shows Lange standing on a beach. There are three men walking out of the sea carrying nuclear missiles and bombs. As they approach, Lange is squirting them with water from a hand-pumped hose (N.Z. defence force). There is a seagull flying above them. Refers to Labour's anti-nuclear policy. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1951

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-731

Description: Includes pencil sketches of Waiotahi Beach Opotiki 21/12/57; Waihau Bay 24/12/57; pohutukawa near the guest house at Waihau Bay 25/12/57; [pohutukawa at] Waihau Bay 28/12/57; seagulls; Waihau Bay 2/1/58; Waihau Bay 4/1/58; above Long Bay Coromandel; north of Tapu 18/12/58; Kikowhakarere Xmas Eve 1958; Otaina Bay; Kuaotunu. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Croxley Li-Flat artist's sketch block, spiralbound with 23 leaves, each 190 x 275 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1910

By: Edwin, Robert Atherton, 1839-1911; Gorton, Millicent, 1877-1966

Reference: E-277-q

Description: Chiefly ships, but showing one view of the Salt works in Edithburgh, several of trees in Edithburgh during a visit in 1910, colour notes, clouds, seagulls, trees, one view of H. M. S. Esk in 1860. The artist was a commander in the Royal Navy. He joined the New Zealand public service in 1871 and became the first director of the Meteorological Service in 1900. He lived on The Terrace, Wellington. Edithburgh is on the York Peninsula, near Adelaide, in South Australia Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Watercolours and pencil sketches 1 v. Brown linen Provenance: Mrs Gorton was the daughter of the artist

Date: 1982

From: Court Theatre (Christchurch) :[Posters for drama productions. 1970s- ].

By: Park, Marcelle, active 1982

Reference: Eph-D-COURT-1982-01

Description: Shows a seagull gliding on a grey blackground. Lettering is yellow and white. Designer identified in programme at Eph-A-COURT-1982. Other Titles - 1982 CRYPTICART CRYPTIC ART Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 540 x 368 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1982.

Date: [Between 1933 and 1958]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

Reference: PA1-q-203

Description: Photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1933 and 1958. There are various sequences as follows: Museum trip to Lake Waikaremoana, December 1946; Holiday trip in 1937 which included Mohaka, Lake Waikaremoana and Urewera Country; Cass-Torlesse biological trip, February 1936; South Island trip, March 1939; and a Southern Lakes and Hollyford Valley trip in January 1940. The holiday trip in 1937 includes photographs of the Mohaka Viaduct under construction. At the beginning of the album a photograph shows Lake Waikaremoana after 21 years of deterioration due to state Electricity Department actions. This image was taken in January 1958, from approximately the same spot as one taken in February 1937. The Cass-Torlesse biological trip includes an image of "vegetable sheep" (page 48). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

Date: 1887

From: Lister, Joseph Jackson 1857-1927 :[Lister album] 1886-1890 [Watercolours by Joseph, and possibly Isabella and Gulielma Lister]

Reference: E-394-f-044-1

Description: View of Ascension Island, from the sea, with Green Mt (2828 ft) marked, and a seagull, Sula leucogastra ' brown booby'. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 148 x 291 mm

Date: 1928

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :[Sketchbooks]

Reference: E-292-q-4-051

Description: Seagulls standing and sitting near the water's edge on the beach at Russell Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 140 x 233 mm

Date: [ca 13 November 1997]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Head, Jo, active 1998

Reference: EP/1997/4286

Description: Department of Conservation contractor David Pike injecting a black-backed seagull egg, Somes Island, as part of a control programme sponsored by Wellington Airport. Photographed ca 13 November 1997 by Evening Post staff photographer Jo Head. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm

Date: 1878

From: Walsh, Philip 1843-1914 :[Waitara sketchbook]

By: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: E-357-025/026

Description: Left image shows view from beach off Waitara looking out to sea with seagulls flying overhead (see E-357-027 for continuation of this image); right image shows Mt Egmont in the distance Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Off Waitara May 25, 1878 Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double image). Physical Description: Pencil 110 x 360 mm

Date: 1993

From: Clark, Laurence [Klarc], 1949- :New Zealand Herald; Cartoons, 3 August - 28 August, 1993

Reference: H-013-006

Description: Shows two Nauruans beside a statue of a seagull on the sea shore. Refers to the amount New Zealand is likely to pay in compensation for environmental damage caused by phosphate mining Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph

Date: 1917 - 1920

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-269

Description: A view of the harbour, showing a fishing vessel heading towards the docks. Seagulls skim the surface of the water. Pencil sketch, with colour legend noted in places Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Wellington Harbour [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 67 x 265 mm

Date: [ca 1911-1950s?]

From: Creator unknown: Lantern slides, chiefly of trips overseas, plants, and gardens

By: Hurley, James Francis, 1885-1962; Ponting, Herbert George, 1870-1935

Reference: PA11-276

Description: Lantern slides of birds taken circa 1929-1950s. One photograph is a hand-coloured copy of an original taken by Frank Hurley and another a copy of an image by Herbert Ponting, but otherwise photographers are unidentified. Some slides have captions written on paper affixed to the glass, that describe the location and subject. Images show terns nesting, a black-billed gull nest in a stump, and a young black-billed gull on the Mercury Islands. A pied shag is photographed on a coastal rocky island [Marotiri?], the gannet colony on Horuhoru Rock (including nests) is shown in two slides, and gulls are shown on the water at an unidentified location. Set also includes a hand-coloured copy of a photograph by Frank Hurley shows a King Penguin on Heard Island, Antarctica, [ca 1929-1930?] and a copy of a Herbert Ponting image shows Tera Nova cook Thomas Clissold and surgeon Edward Atkinson pulling a seal-baited fish trap from a hole in the ice [ca 1911]. Arrangement: Set contains slides from box 8 Quantity: 9 b&w lantern slide(s) comprising seven original b&w images and two copy images (one of which is hand-coloured). Physical Description: Lantern slides

Date: 1920 - 1932

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-176

Description: Shows a beach through a track that is cut away between grassy sand dunes. Seagulls are visible above the water, sun streams through the clouds. Probably somewhere on the Kapiti Coast Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 125 x 175 mm

Date: 1893

From: Various artists :[Watercolour and pencil drawings by members of the Lysaght and Stowe families. ca 1870-1930]

By: Lysaght, Emily Muriel, 1875-1971

Reference: B-190-053

Description: Shows two small fishing boats in a harbour, surrounded by hills, small islands and rocky outcrops. Three seagulls are in the foreground, at the water's edge Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on artist's paper, 125 x 230 mm

Date: [ca 1910-1930]

From: Morriss, Bernadette, fl 2014: Items relating to members of her family

Reference: PAColl-10218-1

Description: Photographs from the collection of Joan Fahey taken by a range of photographers, chiefly between circa 1910 and circa 1930s. The items include loose prints, and pages from a photograph album. The images are a range of family photographs and others, taken around New Zealand but also overseas. Photographs include an image of a tour group on camelback in front of one of the pyramids at Giza, Egypt; a Maori man wearing a cloak in front of a small thatched whare; postcard photographs of sheep at Panikau (Gisborne) and flocks of seagulls at Cape Brett; a panoramic image of Russell taken by J Burfoot; a group portrait of nuns; a group portrait of women in sailor dresses; a group portrait of children from Ponsonby; and photographs of World War I soldiers in uniform. Also included is a page from a photograph album showing soldiers in uniform, and images of war monuments and obelisks in Gisborne. One of the photographs from the album pages is a duplicate of PAColl-5932-14, which is available online as a a digital object. Quantity: 1 album page with 11 b&w original prints. 1 card with 2 b&w original prints. 9 b&w original photographic print(s) loose. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1958

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

Reference: B-131-13-121

Description: A page torn from a New South Wales School Magazine with a poem illustrated by Eileen Mayo. Illustrations are of shells, a whale, turtle, tropical fish and a seagull above and in swirling water Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset printing on paper, 238 x 152 mm

Date: 1958

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

Reference: B-131-13-121-a

Description: A page torn from a New South Wales School Magazine with a poem illustrated by Eileen Mayo. Illustrations are of shells, a whale, turtle, tropical fish and a seagull above and in swirling water Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset printing on paper, 238 x 152 mm

Date: [1930-1977]

From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 : Further papers

Reference: MSX-5560

Description: Scrapbook of notes, clippings, photographs and correspondence relating to Wellington seagulls and other sea birds; also duplicates of Lawlor's articles on Cook Strait and poems Quantity: 1 volume(s) (scrapbook).

Date: 1934

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to ships and shipping companies, mainly on voyages to and around New Zealand. 1934]

Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-1934-01

Description: Menu has a design of Mitre Peak and a seagull in flight. Inside is a programme of music, and the menu for the dinner and ball. The Commander was A H Davey, and a previous owner has stuck a photograph of the captain into the booklet, beneath the music programme. Inside front cover has a mounted photograph showing "The Napier Party" (Bill Painter, Grace Harris, Jack Harris, Louise Swailes, Ernie Swailes, Ada Painter), and there are two pages of autographs inside the back cover. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on pages of booklet, 247 x 159 mm, tied with yellow cord. Provenance: Donated by Mr C Stan Butcher, Lower Hutt, in 2004.