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[Posters collected by Ron and Carmen Smith, issued by peace movements and groups, against war and military agression. 1980-1986]
- Date
- 1980 - 1986
- Reference
- Eph-C-SMITH-Peace-1980/1986
- Description
Includes:
1980s:
New Zealand Foundation for Peace Studies. "It will be a great day when schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to run a cake stall to buy a new bomber"
Project X. What's big violent and grey? and eats 3.5 million bucks a day? The New Zealand military! (2 copies)
1982:
Pacific Peacemaker sails on a rising tide - to halt Trident. The Pacific is our home. Peacemaker is sponsored in Aotearoa, by Home Base Pacific Pilgrimage.
1983:
Join a peace group. Published by the NZ Quaker Peace Committee
1984:
Beyond ANZUS Conference; a three day conference for all people interested in understanding ANZUS and alternatives to it. Wellington Town Hall, June 16, 17, 18 [1984] (2 copies)
Triad '84. US Air Force. Keep New Zealand out of this warmaking (2 copies)
Independence and peace for the Pacific. March Saturday Aug 4, Civic Sq [to] Parliament, 11.30 am. Published by the NZUSA [Green poster] (2 copies)
Independence and peace for the Pacific. March Saturday Aug 4, Civic Sq [to] Parliament, 11.30 am. Published by the NZUSA [Blue poster] (2 copies)
Independence and peace for the Pacific. March Saturday 4th Aug from Civic Sq. Published by the NZUSA [Pink poster]
Picket ANZUS Coucil, Monday July 16 12.30 to 1.30. Bring your lunch. Meet Foreign Affairs, 38 Terrace (2 copies)
Wellington - Auckland Peace-Trek. Protest against nuclear sub Queenfish. Fri 23 - Sun 25 March ... Guide Owen Wilkes [1984] (2 copies)
1985:
Greenpeace. 'Rainbow Warrior' Pacific Peace voyage 1985. "When the earth is sick, and the animals disappear ...". Design L Boult.
Merchant Adventurers of Narnia. Narnia wholeheartedly supports Pacific Peace Vigil, 6, 7, 8 Aug., 40th anniversary Hiroshima. [Day evening and night events]. Michael Fowler Centre [1985] (2 copies)
1986:
United Nations International Year of Peace. Conference on peace & personal power, 29-31 August 1986, Nelson College. Made in Nuke-Freeland
Tangimoana Peace Picnic. Saturday January 25, 1986. North Taranaki Peace Group
Wairarapa Peace-Line '86. Free family peace festival. Sun 23 Feb, 10 am - 5 pm, Tauherenikau Racecourse Featherton [1986]
Quantity: 5 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 11 colour photo-mechanical print(s).
Physical Description: Screenprints, offset prints and photocopies, sizes varying up to 420 x 297 mm.
Provenance: Donated as part of the estate of Ron and Carmen Smith, Wellington, in 2011.
Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-2031, Photographic Archive, Oral History Archive..
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- Part of
- Smith, Ronald Joseph, 1921-1995 : Papers / Smith family (collectors) :[Ephemera and posters relating to peace, nuclear-free movements, women's rights, the environment, and international affairs. 1970-1990s]
- Format
- 5 b&w photo-mechanical print(s), 11 colour photo-mechanical print(s), Ephemera, Screen prints, Offset photomechanical prints, Photocopies, Protest posters, Posters, Screenprints, offset prints and photocopies, sizes varying up to 420 x 297 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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Foundation for Peace Studies Aotearoa/New Zealand :It will be a great day when schools ...
Date: 1979 - 1985
From: Smith, Ronald Joseph, 1921-1995 : Papers
Reference: Eph-C-SMITH-Peace-1980s-01
Description: Poster shows an arrangement of text, with the silhouette of a flying plane at lower centre. The colouring of the text words is gradated through several colours. A message with the same wording was published in 1979 in the issue of "Craccum" for 16 July 1979. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print, 427 x 320 mm.
North Taranaki Peace Group :Tangimoana Peace Picnic. Saturday January 25, 1986. North T...
Date: 1986
From: Smith, Ronald Joseph, 1921-1995 : Papers
Reference: Eph-C-SMITH-Peace-1986-01
Description: Poster shows a sketched landscape, of flat ground, deserted, with four high poles standing in a row and a low structure beside one of them. The sky shading, dark at the zenith and pale at the horizon, is composed of wavy lines. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, 420 x 297 mm.
[Home Base Pacific Pilgrimage] :Pacific Peacemaker. Pacific Peacemaker sails on a risin...
Date: 1982
From: Smith, Ronald Joseph, 1921-1995 : Papers
Reference: Eph-C-SMITH-Peace-1982-01
Description: Front of poster shows a photograph of Lorraine and Bill Ethell ("both ex Royal Navy"), and their children Nina, Lee, Kate and Scott, on board the sailing boat 'Pacific Peacemaker', with its "Ban the Bomb" sign on the sail. Along the top of the poster is a geometric Pacific design border in black and white. The verso explains the mission of the boat (to stop Trident Super-Submarines, the Pacific Trident Nuclear War System, other nuclear weapons and Soviet weapon systems), the crew, the voyage and the supporters. The words of Chief Lawrence Ngirturong of Ngaremlengui of Belau are quoted, since Belau is threatened with being strategically located in the combat of super nuclear powers. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 415 x 297 mm.