Communication

Date: 1850 - 1890

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook [1856-ca 1890]

By: Jackson, Mason, 1819-1903

Reference: E-207-q-064

Description: Shows an aboriginal man calling `Coo-oo-oo-ee' to attract the attention of fellow aborigines in the distance. He is standing on a rocky spur overlooking a stream and rocky land below. The men below are crossing the stream and walking up a hill in single file carrying spears. Beside the man on the spur is another man who is lying down with his spears on the ground behind him, watching the scene below. Compare with watercolour by George Lacy entitled `Coo-oo-oo-ee!!' at B-067-030 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 245 x 170 mm

Date: 2005

By: Massey University

Reference: Eph-E-UNIVERSITY-Massey-2005-01/03

Description: Posters advertising courses of study at Massey University: The poster advertising Communications courses shows a photographic detail of a pinstripe suit jacket, the middle one of its three buttons stitched on in pink with the buttonhole in pink. The poster advertising Design courses shows a blue plastic stencil of various objects: chair, camera, hand, face, figure, aeroplane, computer screen, and briefcase The poster advertising the Health courses shows objects arranged in a cross: cellphone, hypodermic syringe, Digi-Cam, stopwatch and blood pressure gauge. Courses in Health include Environmental Health, Midwifery, Nursing, Sports Studies and Social Work. Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, 840 x 595 mm.

Date: 17 Sep 1972

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/412

Description: Diana Greensill of Raumati Beach tells us, how it was a day of great rejoicing when the Marlborough Sounds got linked up to the town telephone exchange. Recalls that they felt civilization had reached them at last and describes how the wires ran hot while they savoured the joys of communication. Gives a description of the various systems of communication used by the settlers in the years prior to the link-up. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Accompanying material - Script at MS-Papers-1239, folder 114 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0422 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 9 Minutes Duration.

Date: 1970 - 1993

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons on topics of defence, politics, social issues, whimsy, medical issues, pollution, conservationists, trade unions, space exploration, animals, police & crime, Television, farming, sport, war, and transport. 1970-1990s].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: B-145-267/293

Description: Includes cartoons about: fuel rations; unity of nations in space; Mars exploration; preparation for alien communication; satelite accidents; rubbish in space; moon colonisation; humans reaching the stars; Russian gardens in space; satelite problems; possible migration to Mars in 50 Years; mystery space debris; leadership in space; American shuttle landing in Russia; Americans may settle on the moon; scientists want sex experiments in space; search for alien life in outer space; proposed Japanese cemetary on the moon; $45 million for a space toilet. Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those for which no date could be found are arranged according to estimated dates. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by the artist. Quantity: 27 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 350 x 500 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1956

From: Helm, Arthur Stanley, 1914-1998 : Papers relating to Ross Sea Committee and Trans-Antarctic Expedition

Reference: 73-132-5/03

Description: This document outlines communications equipment and use, and covers radio, power, and line telephony Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2006

From: Darroch, Bob, 1940- :[Cartoons published in the Whangarei Report for the year 2006]

Reference: H-751-052

Description: It's the weekend and two men are chatting across the fence as they mow their lawns and clean their cars and do other blokey things. One of them comments that bad language seems to have got worse but that he hasn't noticed. His language is peppered by censored expletives indicating that he is unaware of the bad language that he uses every time an adjective is required. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy

Date: 2006

From: Darroch, Bob, 1940- :[Cartoons published in the Whangarei Report for the year 2006]

Reference: H-751-051

Description: An elated father looks at the words, 'ma ma' on his mobile phone. The baby is lying in his cot playing with another mobile phone, he has punched the words 'ma ma' by accident perhaps. This is an interesting comment on how much communication seems to be taking place via cell phones. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy

Date: 1987

From: University of Canterbury. Department of Education : Records of the first joint AARE/NZARE conference, Christchurch

Reference: 89-012-02

Description: Includes papers by groups of people, John Codd, Don McAlpine, Wanda Korndorffer, Jan McPherson and Graeme Bassett, of Massey University, Dept of Education; and E Burman, M N Lovegrove and R Lewis, of Auckland Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [18-?]

By: Russell, Thomas, 1830-1904

Reference: MS-Papers-1175

Description: Russell's list of code words for communications with the NZ Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 2006

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1941- :[19 cartoon illustrations published in the Dominion Post between 22 July 2002 and 12 January 2004.]

Reference: H-737-004

Description: An image of a crazy-looking scientist laughing with delight as he stares through a large square pair of spectacles and as lightening flashes leaping out of electrodes fixed to his head dance about him. To illustrate Bob Brockie's science column in 'Hello Features'. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy, A4 size.

Date: 1865

From: Lacy, George, ca 1817-1878 :[Australian drawings] [ca 1865]

Reference: B-067-030

Description: Shows an Aboriginal man calling Coo-oo-oo-ee to attract the attention of his fellows in the distance. He is standing with his spears beside him on the ground on a rocky spur overlooking the rocky landscape beyond. Below him are further Aborigines carrying spears, walking in single file down a mountain path. Hovering overhead are two eagles. Compare with an engraving of a very similar scene entitled `Coo-oo-oo-ee' at E-207-q-064 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 249 x 440 mm

Date: 1987

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :One folder of original cartoons published in the Auckland Star in the 1970s and 1980s.

Reference: A-305-173

Description: The cartoon shows two men with their tongues tangled together. Refers to the wind up to the 1987 election and the boredom of public political debates. Negatives at PA Collection 5371 Bromhead Collection Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card 160 x 250 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1987

By: Wellington Polytechnic

Reference: Eph-D-TECHNICAL-Wellington-1987-01/04

Description: Four posters on the theme of telecommunications, the history of coomuncation from earliest times, satellite transmission, telegraph poles. It is uncertain if these posters were produced as a class exercise, or if they were published to advertise Telecom. Quantity: 4 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprints, 697 x 490 mm.

Date: 2013

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024995

Description: The Politician announces a new 0800 number to contact the government, which will put calls through to a call centre in India. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017915

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister tells the press that the public will be consulted at every stage of the project and then he tells his adviser that he wants the project completed in one big stage. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0000987

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The Minister decides to think at least once before he speaks. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0006021

Description: Shows an arm on whose sleeve in the word 'Telecom'. The hand is separated from the arm and appears to be walking away. Refers to the separation into three units as part of regulatory moves to break up the company's monopoly which according to Communications Minister, David Cunliffe, should create a level playing field, more choices and lower prices. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1937

From: [Ephemera relating to telephones, telephone exchanges and subscribers. 1900- ]

By: New Zealand Post Office

Reference: Eph-A-TELEPHONE-1937-01

Description: Shows a house on top of a pinnacle. Letter addressed to Miss Viola Cook of Gisborne, from a correspondent in New Plymouth. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on lettercard. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on lettercard 83 x 131 mm (folded)

Date: 2006

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0002655

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The politician's son asks his father what political speak is if text speak is speech without vowels. The politician's wife, who is sitting nearby in an armchair, replies that it is speech without meaning. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

Reference: DCDL-0005002

Description: Shows people sitting at cafe tables in Bad Manners Street. At one table both people have mobile phones as heads and each phone makes a rude face at the other. At a second table one person has a mobile phone head and chats away smiling while her friend sits looking bored. Refers to the strange habit of having mobile phone conversations while chatting with others. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).