IMAGE
Cartoon of commissioner James Mackay addressing gold miners at Thames
- Date
- 1868
- By
- Auckland punch (Periodical)
- Reference
- MNZ-0427-1/4-F
- Description
Undated and unsigned cartoon published in an unidentified edition of 'Punch or the Auckland Charivari' dated 1868. Depicts commissioner James Mackay, also known as "The Thames Autocrat" addressing gold miners at Thames from a small stage: "Proceed good people with your buildings and improvments; continue to behave yourselves, and at the end of seven years I will raise everybody's rent."
Published in 'Making New Zealand' Vol 1, No 8, page 21
Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).
Physical Description: Film negative
Provenance: Item from an issue of 'Punch or the Auckland Charivari', 1868, lent to the Department of Internal Affairs for publication in 'Making New Zealand' in 1939.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection
- Format
- 1 b&w copy negative(s), Negatives, Cartoons (Commentary), Film negative, Orientation: Horizontal image
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