Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945

Date: 1925-1948

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-188

Description: Overseas photographs for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1925-1948. Includes list of photographs Quantity: 43 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1938

From: New Zealand National Party: Political pamphlets, fliers, and election propaganda

Reference: Eph-A-NZ-NATIONAL-1938-01-07/08

Description: Pages 7-8 of booklet put out before 1938 election. Shows an arrangement of text with portraits of Ramsay McDonald (at left), Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler and a war scene at right. Tells that periods of socialism in Russia, Italy and Germany then led to the excesses of those countries' leaders. Extended Title - From "Your future in your hand" election booklet for 1938, centre spread pages 7 and 8. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on pages of booklet.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 240 x 360 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1945

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: E-605-q

Description: Includes cartoons about: Sunspots, Hitler, Semple's monetary reforms ("The Greeks had a word for it - "Semplocoon" group); Walter Nash on the radio, Hon P C Webb, "Old Soldier Sam" character, Goebbels, the Germany-Russia-Italy triangle, John A Lee kicked out of the Labour Party Easter Conference, income tax increases, selling butter overseas, Hilter claims Poland, bombing Poland, the 'Port Bowen' (ship) in Wanganui Harbour, Includes cartoons by other cartoonists in British papers: Strube, Illingworth, Churchill, Chris Seare[?], Fenwick, G S Sherwood. Also includes cuttings of some cartoons by David Low. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - (Front cover): Register of mortgages Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 60 newsclippings (approx), stuck into lined exercise book, with red marbled cover 323 x 207 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1944

By: Tennent, R, active 1940s

Reference: E-570-q

Description: Includes caricatures of: "My dear friend Josef" (Hitler, Stalin, and MUssolini). King Adolf I The Nazi "Air Marshal" [Herman Goering]. "Benito, where art thou?" (a sailor looks through a telescope for Mussolini) "My brave Navy" (Mussolini salutes the Italian fleet) Laval. The new French Govt? (This was drawn before the French fiasco). Ribbentrop (From caricature by Cabon) [Neville Chamberlain] The Pascifist [sic]. "This was drawn before he got the kick out" [Heads of British politicians]. Sir Kingsley Wood, Halifax, Simon, Chamberlain, Atlee, Morrison, Bevin, Duff Cooper, Alexander "Got tam the "Fuhrer"" (exclaims a Nazi pilot shot down off Dover). Hitler wearing the world on his brain. "Gory" Goering "I want peace with England" [proclamation by Hitler]. Stalin [to S Cripps]: "Well, I hope you are a better specimen than the last bloke they sent!" After the war (Let us hope). Winston C. "I've come to bury Caesar not to praise him [Churchill buries Mussolini]. All dressed up and nowhere to go [Mussolini]. Deflated. [Mussolini]. Dec[ember] 18th, 1940. Benito shows his paces. "Haven't I a fine seat?" [Mussolini on horseback]. Nazi invasion of Britain. [Hitler to Mussolini as they examine a German plane called "Briton's terror"]. You must have dropped a nut or something Herman; the damned thing won't go". Composite picture of the Commintern pact. Ger[many], It[al]y, Jap[an. ie Hilter, Hirohito, and Mussolini]. Decorating Europe. Adolf: "I can't get that piece to lie straight". [Hitler wallpapers Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark & Norway, France, but finds a problem covering Britain]. Loose sketches from the back of the album (including drawing of R Algie, and illustrations for Dickens' books) are located at A-338-010/079. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Almost all signed R.T.] Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Wash drawings stuck into scrapbook of 14 leaves, inside tan alligator cover, 298 x 235 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1944

By: Tennent, R, active 1940s

Reference: A-338-010/079

Description: Illustrations for the novels of Charles Dickens, including: Bleak House, Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist. Also illustrations for The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Temptation of St Anthony, Adam & Eve, humorous sketches of scantily-clad women, Ali Baba. World War Two cartoons include: "The Nazi fruit tree" (hanged bodies), "His Master's Voice" (Mussolini as a dog listening to Hitler on gramophone), "What did you do in the last great war Daddy? (asked of Premier Valera of "Eire"), Herr Hess, "Ridiculous Impossiblities" (a Gestapo angel), "Ridiculous impossibilities" (Hitler singing hymns in a Salvation Army hat), "Vot am I?" (An American Jew tries to hide his nose as he gives money for the British War loan - implies the push by Jews for America to join the war against Germany). Also includes sketches on both sides of a sheet, depicting Professor R Algie. (at A-338-026-1/2) Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Almost all signed R.T.] Quantity: 23 watercolour(s) some on both sides of 1 sheet. 65 drawing(s) some of both sides of 1 sheet.. Physical Description: Watercolours and wash drawings, on sheets of varying sizes up to A4 size approximately. Provenance: Purchased from Dunbar Sloan auction 13 February 1994, lot 468/469. Transfers: The album which was acquired with these works, is housed at E-570-q..

Date: 1940 - 1952

By: Wesney, Robert Arnold, 1914-1998

Reference: A-341-085/108

Description: Includes: A Nazi mixture - Mother Goebbels fancy cookery (Goebbels stirs the cauldron of German news rations. 1940?) Mein Gott! and I'm fully extended!! (Hitler flees from Father Time. ca 1940) Painful abstraction (Winston Churchill, dentist, extracts the German Navy from Hitler's mouth. ca 1940). Mein Gott, Churchill!! (Winston Churchill is introduced to Hitler as his "protection". ca 1940). Attack on British Isles. (The German Blitzkreig propaganda pushes the enthusiastic German public, which pushes Hitler. ca 1940) Southland fighter plane. (Southland fighter plane sends Hitler, Goebbels, Mussolini running. ca 1940). The March of Liberation. "Seize the world and liberate the peoples to a higher culture" - Mein Kampf. (Clipping from Southland Daily news, 1 June 1940). Naziculture. "Look Josef! There's still some French lilies in my new garden! (Hitler and Goebbels tend a garden almost full of swastika flowers. Southland daily news. 29 June 1940). "Are you sure you chaps won't take a hand!" - "No thanks, we've given up gambling!!" (Hitler plays cards with Chamberlain, and tries to get Stalin and Mussolini to join in. ca 1940) "Who 'bones' the cat?" (Goering, Hitler and Mussolini have managed to get the bone of Trondheim off the Norway dog, but the Lion of the Allies guards a larger bone, which they need. Southland daily news. 10 May 1940). Just like Popeye. Italian Navy spinach [and] Nazi Navy spinach - "We thrive on it!" (Sailor of HMS Faith tucks into a meal of tinned spinach. Southland daily news. 6 July 1940). The water jump (The jockey Hitler stands dejected, stopped by the barrier of the British Navy, from jumping the English Channel. ca 1940). [Use of the trams for multifarious purposes to save petrol: mail services, milk deliveries, furniture removal, kindergarten, drinking bar]. Southland daily news, 24 August 1940. News item - a number of well known cricketers have joined the Air Force. (A German bowler bowls to an R.A.F. batsman. ca 1940). Up - or down? (New Zealand helps Britain to scale the War effort peak, and stop it slipping into the Nazi depths). Southland daily news. [ca 1940]. Outclassed. (As Hitler walks between Denmark and Norway on the earth above him, the Devil considers that he himself is outclassed and will have to resign. ca 1940). Monkey business. (Hitler plays the Italian organ while Mussolini dances monkey-like. Southland daily news. 15 June 1940). ...[Open?] season. They won't let me settle for long nowadays! (Hitler the goose flies over Norway fleeing the guns of the Allied assistance. ca 1940). "We go to bed to forget the strain and worries of the world in sleep!" (And promptly begin dreaming of capturinfg Hitler, ... Mr Nash taking more of our wages ... Postmaster general tampering with our letters ... petrol restriction nightmare. Southland daily news. 17 August 1940). "I tell you guys I'm definitely not playing in this game. You'll have to play on your own marits!! (The Fifth Column briefs the Nazis before their rugby match against Britain. ca 1940) "Let me assist you boys". (The Bluff Harbour bandwagon entertains. ca 1952). What MORE do you want? (Southland rugby player wins many rugby games against other provinces, but still cannot get the NZ Rugby selectors to take notice. 1952) "We'll slay 'em". NZ Boxing champs at Invercargill - Administration vs C C Gerrard; Organisation vs Pat Hughes. (ca 1952) Maybe they'll push if the going gets really tough ... (sportsmen on a cart to sports centre 50,000 miles away. ca 1952) Changing his spots - Mr Hyde [and] Dr Shekel. (Politican taxes alcohol but gives out trust disbursements for the public good. ca 1952). Quantity: 25 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Newsprint clippings stuck to lined paper, images approximately 115 x 162 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Noelene Wesney in 1999.

Date: [ca May-July 1940]

By: Paterson, Alan Stuart, 1902-1968

Reference: MS-Papers-12896

Description: A school exercise book repurposed as a scrapbook and filled with cartoons by A.S. Paterson, circa May-July 1940. The cartoons have been clipped from the Dominion newspaper. The scrapbook's green cover has been printed professionally, and entitled ""THE DOMINION PICTURE" SCRAP-BOOK". The cover features a cartoon illustration by A.S. Paterson of a rosette of playful cats. The contents of the scrapbook includes: - Two newspaper clippings on the inside cover, and a hand written name "Alison Turner"' plus address. - Pages contain newspaper clippings (some have been date stamped) of cartoons by A.S. Paterson. The cartoons cover the progression of World War Two within Europe, on the home front in New Zealand, and within British colonies such as Kenya during 1940. Title supplied by Library. Picture scrapbook possibly compiled by Alison Turner during the 1940s using Alan Stuart Patterson's cartoons from 'The Dominion' newspaper. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1930 - 1976

From: Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976]

Reference: Eph-B-CABOT-Scrapbooks-01

Description: Includes clippings about: Side shows 1930-1970s (1962, 1963 and 1969 Industries Fair Christchurch; 1969 various shows including in Australia and Europe; O'Connell's Circus; Evans Bay carnivals 1930s; NZ Easter Show 1972; interview with Sid Bernard in NZ Radio review 21 January 1938; Buxton's Pixietown; 1940 Royal Show; Hitler and Mussolini faces as targets in a side show at Evans Bay Carnival ca 1938; Wanganui Carnival 1950s?; "Princess Ubangi", "Isom", "Dollita", "Anna John Budd", and the "Pig-a-Dilly Circus" at the Evan's Bay Carnival; "midget bride" at Petone Carnival; "Jumbo the giant St Bernard dog", "St Moritz skaters", "Wee Jimmy" (horse), "Chang the pin-head Chinaman" and "Betty the tattooed Venus" at Evans Bay Carnival). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Newsclippings stuck into pages of scrapbook

Date: 1941 - 1936 - 1944

By: Elmes, Jack George, 1916-1985

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WII-Elmes

Description: Includes: Holy Stairs; manner of visiting and devoutly ascending the Holy Stairs. Rome 1944. Amalfi [and] Ravello [tourist brochure]. 1936. Souvenir of the war in Italy; entire sets of stamps commemoratives of Mussolini and Hitler issued in 1941. [To Joan with love from Daddy, Bari, Jan 44]. British military currency as issued for Italy. One shilling. One Reichsmark, Nazi currency Napoli, 32 vedute [tourism brochure with 32 views, photographs] Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 220 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr John Elmes; collected in Italy by Jack G Elmes, during war service. Transfers: Material in the same accession also at Eph-A-CARDS-Christmas-WWII-1944; and Eph-B-WAR-WII-Italy-1944. Other material from the same provenance is housed at: PA-Group-00223 and MS-Group-1361..

Date: 1939 - 1945

By: de Castro, Ian Douglas, 1923-1999

Reference: A-303-013

Description: Shows profiles of Axis leaders Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler as pigs. Assumed to be part of the de Castro papers - slightly unclear. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, on paper 176 x 243 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives -.

Date: 1940 - 1946

From: Tennent, R, fl 1940s? :[Album of World War II cartoons. 1940s?]

Reference: E-570-q-001

Description: Cartoon drawing of [Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini] Inscriptions: Recto - right of image - RT Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash drawings, 280 x 215 mm (page size)

Date: 1968

By: Filer, David, 1949-; Brockie, Robert Ellison (Dr), 1932-

Reference: A-480-005

Description: Finance Minister Robert Muldoon portrayed as Benito Mussolini. On verso inscribed in pencil: 'Cover of "Cock" magazine 1968 / The original signed 'Original George Wilder' / This true likeness widely reproduced in the student press'. The cartoon used as the cover for the magazine is a different version from the drawing exhibited in 1976. It uses Muldoon's real surname insted of the comic 'Muldone' moniker. It is undated, and 'Sketch by George Wilder' is printed in type bottom right. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Brockie 1968 [in ink] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, pasted to card, 420 x 325 mm Provenance: Acquired by the donor at a cartoon exhibition in Wellington in July 1976. Processing information: De-framed by the Library.

Date: 1700-1940

From: The Graham Bookplate Collection; bookplates collected by David H Graham. [1500-1950s]

Reference: BOOKPLATES-Graham-Miscellaneous-1

Description: Includes bookplates made for: Barnton John Biddulph, by C Helard 1904 Arthur Bond Sir Oswald Walter Brierly (bookplate by John Leighton, 1891) Willam Bromley of Abberley Worcestershire Gilbert Burnet Lord Bishop of Salisbury Henryson Caird Franciscus Praepositus Cann. Regg. in Polling. 1744 Barbara Constance John Gregory Crace Sir Arthur John Evans 1851-1941 Dr Med A Ewert Thomas Gaisford 1779-1855 Colonel G R Gayre David Lloyd George Robert Gourlay Willam Court Gully Baron Hawke Robert Hoblyn 1710-1756 Giles Stephen Holland, Earl of Ilchester Oliver Wendell Holmes Frederick Locker-Lampson (Poet) 1873 Richard Southcote Mansergh Edmund McClure James Birtley McNair The Mitchells - Nithsdale Arthur Harold Moginie Camden Morrisby Charles Morse Benito Mussolini A C Brisbane Neill John Cole Nicholl, Merthyr Mawr, Glamorganshire, by John Leighton 1878 John Cole Nicholl, Merthyr Mawr, Glamorganshire (plus design drawing for same, by John Leighton, F.S.A.) John Clare Ridgway 1871 Arthur Francis Rowe Herbert Edward Ryle 1903 Francis Henry Salvin Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751-1816 Leonard James Shrubsall Arthur Sparrow 1895 Stephen Spaulding in memoriam 1907-1925 (University of Michigan) Edmund Stevens John A Stewart William Stuart Stirling-Crawfurd Sir Ronald Storrs Captain George S C Swinton George Nugent Ross Wetherall George Lea Wilton Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman (by J Forbes Nixon) Also includes a group of plates featuring the portrait of the person commissioning them, or in whose memory they were made: Emma M Stallman Althouse / C F Gibson 1925 Emil Bund memorial collection 1941, Carnegie Library Pittsburgh George Clulow, by R Hope 1896 Timothy Cole collection, Vassar College Library / T Cole Timothy Cole Timothy Cole Alphaeus T Coleano / Evans 1935 John G Curtis Library, Columbia University Department of Physiology Silas Wright Dunning bequest, University of Michigan general Library Napoleon J Gilbert J Cardoso Goncalves [Spain] Stuart Tubbs Henshaw, his book Percy J Marks Alberto Ortigao de Oliveira (by F Valenca) The Edward Waldo Pendleton Library / W H W Bicknell 1926 John A Penton Edwin David Sanborn, librarian. Library of Dartmouth College [1878] L Clark Seelye fund (Smith College Library) Alison Stone David Richard Tomson (St Newts) M E Wadsworth collection, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Robert Mark Wenley, professor of philosophy 1896-1929, gift of his children to the University of Michigan / W H W Bicknell 1938 Quantity: 1 box(es). Physical Description: Engravings, etchings

Date: 26 February 1941

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

Reference: C-171-006

Description: Depicts a woman, possibly Britannia, holding a small Mussolini by the nape of the neck. She is holding a handkerchief over her nose to denote her disgust. Includes a quote from Mussolini's speech to the Blackshirts on 23 February 1941: "History takes one by the throat". Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Not the throat, - the nape. [in pencil]; Recto - bottom right - Minhinnick. New Zealand Herald 26/2/1941. 26 Feb 1941. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Felt pen, pencil and crayon on paper, 360 x 500 mm

Date: 1938 - 1939

From: Various artists :Collection of newspaper clippings, photocopies and bromides of cartoons by various cartoonists

Reference: A-312-2-001/011

Description: Cartoons collected for Ian Grant's book "The Unauthorized Version" This box contains one folder of cartoons by W. Blomfield from the "New Zealand Observer" and "Freelance" from 1890 to 1899 (A-312-1), one folder of cartoons by Angus from 1939 (A-312-2), one folder of cartoons by Bill Paynter (A-312-3), one folder of cartoons by Tom Scott (A-312-4), one folder of cartoons by W. A. Bowring (A-312-5), one folder of cartoons by `BLO' (A-312-6), one folder of cartoons by Waite from the "Taranaki Daily Times" (1948 and 1949) and "Otago Daily Times" from 1949 (A-312-7) and one folder of cartoons by Ashley Hunter from the "New Zealand Graphic" and "Ladies Journal" (A-312-8). Several of the cartoons refer to the Social Security Act, which was passed by the House of Representatives in 1939[?], and implemented a wide range of social welfare for the New Zealand public. The cartoons refer both to the subsequent rise in taxation and the opposal of the bill by the British Medical Association. Quantity: 11 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopies

Date: 1940 - 1946

From: Tennent, R, fl 1940s? :[Album of World War II cartoons. 1940s?]

Reference: E-570-q-016

Description: Cartoon drawing of [Mussolini] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - RT; Recto - top right - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash drawings, 280 x 215 mm (page size)

Date: 1940 - 1946

From: Tennent, R, fl 1940s? :[Album of World War II cartoons. 1940s?]

Reference: E-570-q-018

Description: Shows Mussolini on horseback Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - RT; Recto - above image - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash drawings, 280 x 215 mm (page size)

Date: 1934

By: Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937

Reference: B-115-049

Description: Shows the League of Nations seriously ill in bed, tended by a concerned France and England (John Bull). Mussolini, as Italy, declares "Incurable!". America, Germany, Russia and Japan look in through the window and appear pleased at the decline of the League. Original for cartoon published in New Zealand herald on 23 May 1934. Other Titles - A very bad case Other Titles - A serious illness Inscriptions: Signed: T L Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 270 x 410 mm on hseet 300 x 490 mm

Date: 1944

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Johnston, Alan Raymond, 1919-2007

Reference: A-279-023

Description: Shows Hitler and Mussolini saluting each other, over swastika on pavement, and in front of car carrying swastika flag. They are saying: "Grazie, Nazi.", and "Prego, Dago". Car label says, "To my good friend - Buona notte, Mussolini. On the first anniversary of his deliverance from the Italian people. - Adolf." Cut out from Evening post newspaper, Wellington, 1940s. Language - Mostly in English, but some in Italian. Extended Title - From: Evening post, 1944. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - NEVILLE COLVIN Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 130 x 166 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1946

From: Tennent, R, fl 1940s? :[Album of World War II cartoons. 1940s?]

Reference: E-570-q-015

Description: Shows Winston Churchill, with spade in hand and cigar in mouth, standing over the body of [Mussolini] who is lying in a tomb. Beside them is a head on top of a plaque with words Julius Caesar written on it. Inscriptions: Recto - left of image - RT; Recto - top left - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash drawings, 280 x 215 mm (page size)