Military miniatures

Date: 1912

By: Anderson, Archibald G, active 1911-1914; Robertson, Herbert Donald (Dr), 1888-1980

Reference: A-148-005

Description: Caricatures the doctors as toy soldiers. One rides a wooden horse, drawing the other, asleep in a toy cart Inscriptions: Signed: Andy/12 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 104 x 157 mm

From: I'Ons, Frederick Timpson, 1802-1887 :[Caricatures of Sir Andries Stockenstrom, Governor of the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope] / F. I'ons del. - [Grahamstown? ; s.n., ca 1839?]

Reference: A-014-002

Description: Andries Stockenstrom as a small child dressed in skirts. An Afrikaans-speaking minister of religion is manipulating his apron-strings while he walks towards a fat figure on the left. The fat man is wearing a dunce's cap marked Commercial advertiser. A statue of blind Justice is behind, and on the right are a child's bed and a toy soldier on horseback Other Titles - Doctor Philip Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 268 x 332 mm

Date: 1914-1918

Reference: PAColl-6602

Description: Copy negatives of images in other colletions and images used in newsapers. Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-016347 to 016368 and 018066 Quantity: 22 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1994

From: Clark, Laurence [Klarc] 1949- :Editorial cartoons. 1 March - 30 April 1994

Reference: H-114-037

Description: Shows Helen Clark and Jim Bolger sitting at a table playing cards and using model ambulances and soldiers as the stakes. Refers to the government's deliberations on whether to send New Zealand troops to Bosnia Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: ca 1920 - ca 1935

From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs

By: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001

Reference: PA1-o-1043

Description: John Gambrill's model railway and miniature soldiers; Mollie Gambrill and two university friends in academic gowns; pet dogs; relatives and the children of relatives; records of holidays; Mollie, John, Edward and friends dressed as Red Indians at Lyall Bay. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1882

By: Daily advertiser and Wellington register (Newspaper); Hutchison, William, 1820-1905

Reference: A-095-024

Description: Cartoon showing Henry Bunny seated in a child's high chair and playing with toy soldiers. On the floor below an adjoining table are empty drink bottles. Behind him is a sign reading 'Instructions for volunteer commissioners - How not to do it - Refuge for ex-M. H. R.s' Supplement to: the Daily Advertiser. Wellington, 18 March, 1882. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph

Date: 2005

By: Battlefront Miniatures Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-MODELS-2005-01

Description: Fully illustrated sales catalogue showing battle scenes, and advertising "intelligence handbooks" for many battle scenarios based on historical battles. Also shows models of tanks, artillery, trucks and soldiers. Includes illustrations of paint sets, dice, tokens. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 20 pages, each 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 1950-2000

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

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-019

Description: Photographs relating to amusements, arranged alphabetically from MO to TO, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 1930 - 1939

Reference: Eph-F-COSTUME-1930s-01

Description: Display card, with foldout tab on the verso to enable it to stand up, shows four piles of boxes of Avon hosiery, with their prices ranging from the lowest to the highest price: Sylken Maid, Miss Elegance, Silver Strand, Shado-Free. These prices are displayed on flags held by toy soldiers. At the far left another toy soldier reviews these troops. Each of the boxes of hosiery shows its own graphic design; two are heraldic, one shows a woman in a long dress and the fourth shows the silhouette of a leg in a high-heeled shoe. Advertisements in 1934 (for example in Evening Post, 8 December 1934, page 21) show similar prices. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on card, 330 x 230 mm.

Date: 1925

From: Ephemera of quarto size relating to confectionery, chocolate, sweets, ice-cream and other sweet foods

By: Griffin's (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-CONFECTIONERY-1925-02

Description: Display card shows a young girl in 1920s dress offering a slab of Griffin's nut & raisin chocolate to a smaller boy who is sitting on the floor playing with blocks, a toy horse and a toy soldier. Date estimated from dates of advertising this product - see for example Press (Christchurch), 10 November 1925, Page 14 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on shaped display card, 245 x 300 mm.