Working Men's Educational Union :[Missionary wall pictures]. - London ; Working Men's Educational Union, [1850s?]

Date: 1850 - 1862 - 1859 - 1863

From: Working Men's Educational Union :[Missionary wall pictures]. - London ; Working Men's Educational Union, [1850s?]

By: Working Men's Educational Union

Reference: D-010-004

Description: A double-hulled canoe at a palm-fringed seashore, with men carrying another man ashore on a litter, others carrying men on their shoulders or goods on their heads. A European sailing ship is standing off in the middle distance. Probably used as an illustration for lecture tours. See description in: Working Men's Educational Union. "New Zealand and New Zealanders ..." (London, F. Baron, 1868, pages 20-22). Probably taken from a book illustration Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Printed calico (hand-col.), 897 x 1196 mm

Date: 1862 - 1863

From: Working Men's Educational Union :[Missionary wall pictures]. - London ; Working Men's Educational Union, [1850s?]

By: Working Men's Educational Union

Reference: D-010-007

Description: A dark-skinned man and two women at the entrance to a small shelter, with fishing nets draped on the roof. Curved sticks, or possibly elephant tusks, protrude from the ground in the distance Probably used as an illustration for lecture tours. The people may be African, rather than Pacific Islanders, especially if the curved objects are elephant tusks Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Printed calico (hand-col.), 895 x 1185 mm

Date: 1860 - 1863

From: Working Men's Educational Union :[Missionary wall pictures]. - London ; Working Men's Educational Union, [1850s?]

By: Working Men's Educational Union

Reference: D-010-009

Description: A scene in New Zealand bush with tree ferns and supplejack. Four Maori are assisting a Pakeha man with his luggage, while he stands and watches. The luggage is being lifted up a low cliff face. In the background is a mountain and part of a lake or the sea. Possibly intended to represent Lake Taupo, with Tongariro in the background Probably used as an illustration for lecture tours. The title comes from a description of an illustration of this same scene in 'New Zealand and New Zealanders' (London, F. Baron, 1868) written by the Working Men's Educational Union 'Illustrates the difficulties of travelling in the absence of roads, from the hilly character of many parts of the country' Inscriptions: bottom right - stamp of the Union and the number 44 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Printed calico (hand-col.) 895 x 1187 mm

Date: 1862 - 1863

From: Working Men's Educational Union :[Missionary wall pictures]. - London ; Working Men's Educational Union, [1850s?]

By: Working Men's Educational Union

Reference: D-010-008

Description: A farm compound probably in South Africa. A mountain similar to Table Mountain is in the background. There is a European-style house and a thatched native-stye barn, and a fenced area to the right. Two men are dragging sheep towards a pond and there are cows, pigs and chickens. Probably used as an illustration for lecture tours. Likely to have been copied from a book illustration of the period Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Printed calico (hand-col.), 902 x 1190 mm

Date: 1850 - 1862 - 1859 - 1863

From: Working Men's Educational Union :[Missionary wall pictures]. - London ; Working Men's Educational Union, [1850s?]

By: Working Men's Educational Union

Reference: D-010-005

Description: A Christian chief, probably of Tahiti 'assuring weeping friends and relatives of his certainty through divine grace of admission to heaven'. His head-dress suggests a Tahitian location - compare the head-dress of the chief standing in William Hodges' 1777 engraving 'A toupapow with a corpse on it, attended by the Chief Mourner in his habit of ceremony'. Two raised marae are in the background, of a type recorded by missionaries around 1800. Probably used as an illustration for lecture tours. See description in: Working Men's Educational Union. "New Zealand and New Zealanders ..." (London, F. Baron, 1868, pages 20-22). Probably taken from a book illustration Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Printed calico (hand-col.), 902 x 1188 mm

Date: 1862 - 1863

From: Working Men's Educational Union :[Missionary wall pictures]. - London ; Working Men's Educational Union, [1850s?]

By: Working Men's Educational Union

Reference: D-010-014

Description: A hut on the left, in a tropical setting with palm trees and the sea in the distance. A preacher stands in front of a low table, possibly giving communion - he is raising something above his head. Around him is seated a large circle of European and local people, beyond a circle of bowls of burning oil. A group of local people in European dress is seated on a mat within the circle. The scene may be somewhere in Africa, rather than in Hawaii. Probably used as an illustration for lecture tours. Likely to have been copied from a book illustration of the period Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Printed calico 905 x 1190 mm

Date: 1862 - 1863

From: Working Men's Educational Union :[Missionary wall pictures]. - London ; Working Men's Educational Union, [1850s?]

By: Working Men's Educational Union

Reference: D-010-011

Description: A family around a fire outside two shelters. The man on the left has striped garments draped about him and a cloth head-dress, as well as a bone or stick through his nose. He holds a spear and shield. The woman, kneeling in the centre, has a child strapped to her back, and is offering two dogs a bowl. Another man stands in the rear. The scene may be in South Africa Probably used as an illustration for lecture tours. Likely to have been copied from a book illustration of the period Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Printed calico, 886 x 1182 mm

Date: 1862 - 1863

From: Working Men's Educational Union :[Missionary wall pictures]. - London ; Working Men's Educational Union, [1850s?]

By: Working Men's Educational Union

Reference: D-010-013

Description: A camp site, possibly in South Africa, with a preacher standing above a group of European men, a Bible on the desk in front of him. One man in the centre foreground is smoking a churchwarden pipe and several are wearing unusual hats. The men may be goldminers and the scene could be in Australia, or America rather than South Africa. Probably used as an illustration for lecture tours. Likely to have been copied from a book illustration of the period Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Printed calico, 902 x 1180 mm

Date: 1842 - 1850 - 1860

From: Working Men's Educational Union :[Missionary wall pictures]. - London ; Working Men's Educational Union, [1850s?]

By: Working Men's Educational Union

Reference: F-029

Description: Shows the distribution in 1842 of New Testaments donated by the British and Foreign Bible Society. A group of Maori and one European are in the foreground, a pa at back left, and Mt Taranaki in the distance. There is a basket of food, possibly kumara, in the right foreground. See description in Working Men's Educational Union "New Zealand and New Zealanders..." London, F. Baron, 1868, pages 29-30. Supplied title Each picture stamped with Union's name and address, and serial number, and has eyelet holes in 4 corners This view was formerly D-010-003 in the Library's group of 14 such views Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - (Stamp): Working Men's Educational Union 45 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on calico.. Physical Description: Lithograph on calico, hand-coloured, ca 900 x 1200 mm

Date: 1852 - 1860

From: Working Men's Educational Union :[Missionary wall pictures]. - London ; Working Men's Educational Union, [1850s?]

By: Working Men's Educational Union

Reference: D-010-010

Description: Four gold miners, one panning in a stream, two carrying rocks and nuggets away on a trestle, a third working a cradle and directing a flow of water back into the stream. One of the men has a pistol at his waist. Dated on the basis of another copy in a private collection of the same print which has a variant Working Men's Educational Union stamp at the base, complete with a date of 1852. This suggests that the scene is likely to be of the American gold fields, not New Zealand, since gold was discovered in both Australia and New Zealand after 1852. The variant stamp also suggests that multiple copies of the same images were printed at different times. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - stamp of the Working Men's Educational Union above the number 45 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Printed calico (hand-col.) 850 x 1190 mm