Electric toasters

Date: 3 March 1976

From: Minhinnick, Gordon, 1902-1992 :[111 original pencil and ink cartoons. 1930s-1980s]

Reference: C-171-093

Description: Sam is shown taking his piece of toast to the 'Acme Fire Insurance Co Ltd' after burning it at home in his toaster. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Sam - Going up! [in pencil]; Recto - bottom right - Minhinnick. [in ink]; Recto - beneath image - N.Z. Herald, 3.4.76 [in ink] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Felt pen and pencil on paper, 195 x 580 mm

Date: 1959 - 1961

From: [Ephemera relating to household appliances, electrical appliances, household utensils. ca 1960]

By: Ultimate Ekco (NZ) Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HOUSEHOLD-1960-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue of items on sale: radiograms, the Ultimate car radio, portable radios, record players (tablegrams), mantle radios. Also illustrates the "first N.Z. built pop-up toaster", the Ultimate Electric rangette, "Minigrill", fan heaters, and radiant heaters, convector "log fires", irons, electric jugs, and a Thermovent space heater. Despite the title, no television sets are shown. The catalogue presumably dates from about 1960, the date of arrival of television in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints in booklet, 24 pages, each 138 x 113 mm. Provenance: Donated by Joy Fahey, in 2008. Transfers: Collection taken as a whole by NZ & P, transferred from there..

Date: 1990 - 1994

Reference: Eph-A-HOUSEHOLD-1990/1994

Description: Includes: Air Guard automatic aerosol dispenser. Card [1990s?] Goldair 2400W fan heater, model 3514TC & 3514TS. Operating instructions 1990s? Goldair fan heater model GFH150 operating instructions 1990s? Goldair dual function portable fan heater; models 3052/3052T. Operating instructions 1990s? Goldair warrantee [after 1993] Breville supa snacka (1993), Skope heated towel rail (1993), Whiteway refrigerator FR-060C (ca 1994) Creda thermal panel radiators (1992-1994), Hitachi vacuum cleaner model CV-180C, 180M (1994), Multipurpose iron model IS-803 (1990s?), Kambrook toaster KT20 (1990s?), Black & Decker dustbuster (1993) Includes advertising for Sunbeam Whisper 1200 food processor (early 1990s?), Champion juice extractor (ca 1990), Microlene water cooler (ca 1990), Vax vacuum cleaner (1991), Mitsubishi and Frigidaire and Fisher & Paykel appliances as sold by Hutt Valley Energy Board Includes operating instructions for Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, pamphlets and fliers, sizes varying up to 250 mm.

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0023860

Description: Shows the South island of New Zealand depicted as a burnt piece of toast in a toaster. Refers to multiple fires in the Canterbury region in the midst of high temperatures and dry weather. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1950 - 1959

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: Eph-E-HOUSEHOLD-1950s-02

Description: Poster shows illustrations of an electric jug, toaster, iron and small stove. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph and screenprint, 1015 x 760 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2007.

Date: 2010

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014563

Description: The cartoon shows Labour MP Shane Jones in one slot of a toaster while his credit card is in the other. The toaster is labelled 'Career aspirations' and the word 'toast...' appears above. Refers to the making public by the government of ministerial spending on their tax-funded credit cards that has caused embarrassment for several MPs, particularly Shane Jones and Chris Carter of the Labour Party. Shane Jones has hired porn movies and Chris Carter spent money on flowers, massages and restaurants. There is a wordplay on the word 'toast' meaning 'toasted bread' and also meaning 'an end to an aspiration' as in 'his career is toast'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: [ca 1940]

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

By: Christensen, Edward Percival, 1907-1982

Reference: PAColl-3060-018

Description: Christensen family breakfasting in their house in Collingwood Street, Waterloo, Lower Hutt. Shows a group around a kitchen table set with crockery. The boy, Eric Leonard, is using a toaster. His mother Violet pours water from an electric jug into a tea pot and his father Edward Percival (the photographer) is seated on left. Photograph taken circa 1940. Caption in Making New Zealand reads: "The toaster and water-jug show the everyday use of electricity in the home." Published in Making New Zealand, Vol 1, No 13, page 20 Source of descriptive information - Location and persons identified by family member. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print (retouched) 20.4 x 15.3 cm