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Date: 1939

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Aickin, Neville d'Eresby, 1910-1983; Deste, Eileen, 1909-1986

Reference: 1/2-132303-F

Description: Construction workers at the site of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, Wellington, during a visit by Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage and his Cabinet Ministers. With them is the contractor James Fletcher. Shows people standing amongst scaffolding. Photograph taken by Eileen Deste or her employee Neville d'Eresby Aickin. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1950

By: New Zealand observer (Newspaper); Choate, Francis Desmond, 1916-2001

Reference: J-065-058

Description: New Zealand Prime Minister Sid Holland as a knight on horseback carrying the flag of PAYE (pay as you earn) from Wellington to Canterbury. At the top left of the cartoon is a stanza from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - 'A knight ther was and that a worthy man, that fro the tyme he first bigan To ryden out he loved chivalrye, Trouthe and honour, freedom and curteisye. In al his lyf, unto no manner wight he was a verray parfit gentil Knight' - followed by - 'May Chaucer's Knight now pave the waye, To help Sir Sidnye win the daye... We're al behynd you when you saye "Adopt the Aussye system P.A.Y.E."' Other Titles - The old pay day Extended Title - Mr Holland champions the Australian 'Pay as you earn' system of income tax - news. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy.

Date: 1982

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DX-003-086

Description: A kangaroo and a kiwi are sitting up in bed together under a blanket labelled CER, both puzzling over what to do. New Zealand prime minister Robert Muldoon peers through a keyhole at them and tells Australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser that 'I think they're getting the message'. Exhibition caption reads - Perhaps a marriage of convenience at the beginning, CER was to blossom into a long-standing, stable and mutually beneficial relationship. At the end of 1982, for New Zealand prime minister Muldoon particularly, CER was an economic lifeline at a time when the economy was performing badly and job-creating major new industries, promised during the 1981 election campaign, looked more and more unlikely. Exhibited in 'The Other Side of the Ditch' exhibition of cartoons on the New Zealand-Australian relationship curated by Ian F. Grant of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited in the National Library Gallery from 28 November 2001 to 24 February 2002 to mark the centenary of Australian Federation. Also exhibited at X Space Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland in mid-March 2002 and at Old Parliament House, Canberra, Australia from 26 March 2003 to 29 June 2003. Added to exhibition when sent to Australia in March 2003. Extended Title - CER. Newly married. I think they're getting the message. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 28 December 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/245/02-G

Description: Prime Minister Sidney Holland and Mrs Holland departing from Evans Bay by flying boat for London. Photographed 28 December 1950 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1901

From: Royal tour 1901

Reference: PA1-f-064-42

Description: A scene taken during the 1901 royal visit showing the Duchess of Cornwall and York leaving Whakawerawera. Richard John Seddon is on her left. Maggie Papakura is on her right. A horse is in the foreground. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Departing from Wakarewarewa, Rotorua Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1900

From: New Zealand free lance, 1901-

By: Hiscocks, Eceldowne Frederick, 1879-; New Zealand free lance (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0096-1900-11-17-007

Description: Shows Prime Minister Richard Seddon riding a toy hobby horse, while premiers of Australian states try to persuade him to take the seat labelled New Zealand, beside them on top of the elephant of "Federated Australia". Extended Title - N. S. Wales - You are a Federationist in heart and spirit, Mr Seddon, so you might just as well dismount from that hobby-horse, and take your seat behind me without any further nonsense. Besides, it is better to be a live ass than a dead lion. The Only Seddon - Not I, my lord. My mount may be a small one now, but he will grow apace, and, in the meantime, I prefer to be a ruler even in this modest way to taking the back seat you offer me. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of newspaper.. Physical Description: Lithograph

Date: [ca 7 November 1928]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-5469-054

Description: Joseph Gordon Coates speaking with the driver of locomotive Ab825 at Auckland Railway Station, possibly taken by Busson, circa 7 November 1928. This photograph was published in the New Zealand Free Lance on the 7th of November 1928. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - J G Coates improves his shining hour; Verso - top centre - [unreadable] improves the shining hour a [merry?] chat with the driver of his train Auckland Station; Verso - bottom right - Busson New Lynn Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1903

From: Various artists :Collection of newspaper clippings, photocopies and bromides of cartoons by Hiscocks (A-315-1), T. Lloyd (A-315-2), various artists from the "Ladies' Journal", "The Freelance", "New Zealand Graphic" and "Melbourne Punch" (A-315-3), Nisbet (A-315-4-001/012) and Malcolm Evans (A-315-5).

By: Hiscocks, Eceldowne Frederick, 1879-; New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal

Reference: A-315-1-004

Description: Two old men in a railway carriage, one wearing a hat labelled 'Auckland' and the other wearing one labelled 'Wellington'. Extended Title - Distinguished Auckland nonagenarian (somewhere about the year 1990) - "Yes, sir, I can remember way back in the year 1903 my poor father taking me to hear Hall-Jones promise to have the Main Trunk Railway completed in a year or so. And here we are celebrating the first run at last. Glorious and progressive country!" Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph, image size 200 x 162 mm.

Date: 1921

By: Glover, Thomas Ellis, 1891?-1938; New Zealand free lance (Newspaper)

Reference: J-044-003

Description: The Prime Minister throws a book on "How to Swim" to a New Zealand farmer drowning in a river of "Depression". The farmer's horse, representing "High Prices", has earlier thrown him in the water. Bromide made for book "The Unauthorized Version" held by Ian F. Grant. Published in 'Grant, Ian F. Public Lives - New Zealand's Premiers and Prime Ministers 1856-2003 (Book title)' 2003. Exhibited in the 'Line Up (Exhibition)'. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies from a bromide.. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy from a bromide.

Date: 1949

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-008

Description: The cartoon shows Prime Minister Sid Holland sawing an old cabinet in two. Above is an image of a smart modern one. Text reads 'A contemporary cabinet in seasoned Holyoake with McAlpine drawers is this week's job for the handyman around the house. Most of the material will come from an old cabinet, though some new pieces will have to be found..' Text in pencil below the cartoon reads 'A man and his hobby'. Refers to Sid Holland's major achievement, turning the newly formed National Party into an effective political organisation. The government also undertook constitutional change in 1950, by abolishing the Legislative Council, the upper house of Parliament, on the grounds that it was ineffectual. Pencilled note below the cartoon reads 'A take off on a very popular weekly feature in the "Post"'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone on paper 290 x 390 mm

Date: 1907

By: Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937

Reference: C-109-023

Description: Shows Sir Joseph Ward tying a peacock's feathers spelling "Dominion" to a kiwi's tail. Refers to the transformation of New Zealand from colonial status to a Dominion within the British Commonwealth and the reluctance of some New Zealanders to undergo this change, promoted by Premier Ward Ward gained agreement to Dominion status for New Zealand at the 1907 Imperial Conference Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and sepia 310 x 470 mm

Date: 1977

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 35mm-00223-C-F

Description: Prime Minister Robert Muldoon, and his wife Thea, in 1977, in the kitchen of their residence, Vogel House, Lower Hutt, Wellington. Shows them by the oven. Occasion unidentified. Photograph taken by an Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1931

From: Wall, John Reginald, 1870?-1944 :Photographs

Reference: 1/2-017794-G

Description: Prime Minister of New Zealand, George William Forbes, with cattle beast, 1931, at the New Plymouth show. Photograph taken by John Reginald Wall. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1987

From: Hodgson, Trace :Forty-three political cartoons published in the New Zealand listener in 1987.

Reference: H-509-001

Description: New Zealand politician Bill Rowling in running top and shorts that replicate the American flag. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size photocopy

Date: [ca 22 Jan 1906]

From: Ring album 2

Reference: PA1-o-436-20-1

Description: Premier Richard John Seddon arriving at the opening of the first section of the Hokitika-Ross railway, West Coast, circa 22 January 1906. Exact location unknown. Photograph taken by 'C R', possibly taken by James Ring's son James Claude Ring. Source of descriptive information - Photographers inscription. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Opening of 1st section Hokitika-Ross railway; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Arrival of Premier C R No 2038 Protected 22/1/06 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 10 x 14.4 cm

Date: ca 1903

From: Child, Edward George, 1860-1949 :Photographs of the Ohingaiti district

Reference: 1/4-016532-G

Description: Richard John Seddon and group, during a picnic at Bellevue Gardens, Lower Hutt, circa 1903. From left to right: Mrs H McArtney; Ada McDonald, Mervyn McArtney, Miss Bean, Mrs Bean, Mrs Seddon, Hugh McArtney, Mr Bothwick, Seddon, Mr Bocker, George Fisher, Mr Warren, Mrs Fuller. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1972

From: [Various cartoonists including Sir Gordon Minhinnick 1902-1992] :[Newspaper clippings of cartoons from New Zealand newspapers. 15 December 1948 to 5 September 1972.]

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: E-549-q-13-247

Description: Political cartoon about Prime Minister Robert Muldoon taking on all comers in the boxing ring. Refers to Muldoon's perceived aggressive style Extended Title - 'Socko! For the anti-tour boys!...-And one for Labour's race relations...This for political strikers!...Wham! Goes the Auckland City Council...One two! For the Master Builders!...Now who else can I think of?' Quantity: 1 newspaper clipping. Physical Description: newspaper clipping

Date: 1974

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-134-640

Description: This cartoon relates to the poor state of Wellington airport and shows Prime Minister Kirk arriving at Wellington airport. As he gets off the plane he starts to make a speech about aid for airport facilities before he realises he is in Wellington, not a developing country Exhibited in 'Lodge Laughs at Wellington: Celebrating the life and works of cartoonist Nevile Lodge' exhibition of cartoons By Nevile Lodge on Wellington topics over the period 1943-1988, curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive for the Wellington Museum of City and Sea, and exhibited at the Museum from 25 May to August 2004. Published in book 'Lodge Laughs at Wellington' by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive, 2004. Extended Title - Mr Kirk is expected to arrive at Wellington airport tonight Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 286 x 394 mm

Date: 11 Apr 1923

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: 1/4-023426-G

Description: Prime Minister W F Massey visiting Levin to open the War Memorial gate. Shows the Prime Minister (with a bowler hat and cane), and an unidentified group, by rows of boys lining a driveway. Houses and parked cars are visible in the street behind. Photograph taken 11 April 1923 by George Leslie Adkin. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - right of image - Apr 11 1923 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: August 1957

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 1/2-177289-F

Description: Lord and lady Norrie being farewelled by the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Sid Holland and his wife Florence, at Paraparaumu Airport prior to theier departure from New Zealand. Photograph taken in August 1957 by Morrie Hill. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).