Access is provided in the Katherine Mansfield Reading Room

Date

1964

By

New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch; New Zealand. Department of Health; R E Owen (Firm)

Reference

Eph-C-DENTAL-1964-01

Description

Poster shows a boy in the spacesuit walking across a lunar landscape with a various anthropomorphised foodstuffs: egg, orange, apple, banana, cqrrot, milk bottle, tomato,cheese, bread, cutlet and silverbeet. With the group walks a toothbrush. Behind the group is a spacecraft labelled Moonbase Airlines Corp[oration], and a roadsign indicates that the group is walking towards Moonbase, and a fluoridated water supply. In the sky hangs Earth with the North and South American continents facing.

Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Physical Description: Photolithograph, 500 x 370 mm.

Provenance: Previously pinned up at Taupo Primary School.

Additional description

Small tear below feet of boy; on arrival in Library

Access restrictions

Partly restricted - Digital content available only in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room

Format

1 colour photo-mechanical print(s), Ephemera, Posters, Photolithographs, Photolithograph, 500 x 370 mm., Orientation: Vertical image