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Cartoonist unknown :Very awkward for the cow. New Zealand Graphic and Ladies Home Journal, 25 August 1894 p. 177.
- Date
- 1894
- By
- New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal
- Reference
- A-313-5-003
- Description
A train labelled 'Divorce Amendment Act' driven by the New Zealand premier Richard Seddon, is powering down a railway track labelled commonsense. The primate of the New Zealand Anglican church is standing in protest on the line with a cow labelled 'church opposition'.
Extended Title - In a very well known story of George Stephenson, the father of the locomotive, it is related that on one occasion he was asked by a noble lord, 'What, Mr Stephenson, would happen to your locomotives if a cow got on the line?' ...with a twinkle in his eye, 'Well, ma lord, it wud be vara awkward for the cow.'
Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies.
Physical Description: Photocopy 420mm x 240mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Various artists :Collection of newspaper clippings, photocopies and bromides of cartoons by Fox (A-313-2), T Ellis - ie Thomas Ellis Glover (A-313-3), J. C. Blomfield (A-313-4) and John McNamara (A-313-11). Also folders of cartoons by various artists published in New Zealand Free Lance (A-313-6), in The Guardian (A-313-7), in Xrays (A-313-8), in the New Zealand Observer (A-313-9), in The Standard (A-313-12) and in various publications (A-313-1). / Various cartoonists :Photocopies of cartoons published in the New Zealand Graphic and Ladies Home Journal between 1893 and 1894.
- Format
- 1 photocopy/ies, Works of art, Ink drawings, Cartoons (Commentary), Photocopy 420mm x 240mm.
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New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal. Cartoonist unknown :Very awkward for the cow. New Zealand Graphic and Ladies Home Journal, 25 August 1894 p. 177.. Various artists :Collection of newspaper clippings, photocopies and bromides of cartoons by Fox (A-313-2), T Ellis - ie Thomas Ellis Glover (A-313-3), J. C. Blomfield (A-313-4) and John McNamara (A-313-11). Also folders of cartoons by various artists published in New Zealand Free Lance (A-313-6), in The Guardian (A-313-7), in Xrays (A-313-8), in the New Zealand Observer (A-313-9), in The Standard (A-313-12) and in various publications (A-313-1).. Ref: A-313-5-003. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23110824More information can be found in our terms of use.