Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-

Date: [ca 1970s-1985]

From: New Zealand Council of Trade Unions :Photographs

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-; Preston, Gaylene Mary, 1947-

Reference: PAColl-10045-3

Description: Photographs (single prints and contact sheets) relating to the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, particularly the Cleaners' Union, ca 1975-1985. Identified photographers include Bob Kerr, Hazel Armstrong, Gaylene Preston, and the Evening Post newspaper. Identified figures include: Gavin Cummings, Alex Weir, Hilary Brown, Verna Sutherland, Joy Molnar, Jim Anderton, Pat Kelly, Peter Cranney, Don Swan, Danny Wikiera, Cliff Medland, Gaylene Preston, Hazel Armstrong, Victor Batista, Kathleen Kerr, Gwenda Jenkins, Bob Laycock, Des Clarke, Ian [Hoggets?], and Margaret Wilson. Events, disputes, campaigns, and protests covered include: British Petroleum and Crothalls and Company industrial action, Rutherford House dispute, Waiouru Military Camp picket, Kindergarten Cleaners' dispute, images relating to the dispute around the sacking of Spotswood College caretaker Doug Mumm, Wanganui Boys College equal pay protest, Central Institute of Technology Cleaners dispute (including 1979 march on Parliament), the `Reinstate Tina' protest, and cleaners stopwork meeting at Trades Hall (1978) as well as an Annual General Meeting and a conference in Auckland. Miscellaneous images include cleaners and caretakers in their workplaces, including employees at Dunlops Tyres, British Petroleum House, and a number of schools (Woodhalten School (Wainuiomata), and Porirua College). Also a cutting of Pat Kelly speaking to anti-Vietnam War protest at Parliament. Quantity: 48 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - 2008-119 : New Zealand Council of Trade Unions: Further records.

Date: [ca 1975-1985]

From: New Zealand Council of Trade Unions :Photographs

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-; Preston, Gaylene Mary, 1947-

Reference: PAColl-10045-4

Description: Photographs relating to the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, ca 1980-2008. Identified photographers include Bob Kerr, Gaylene Preston, and the Evening Post newspaper. - Contains contact sheets relating to the New Zealand Labour Party Conference in 1983. Identified figures include: Stan Rodger, Michael Bassett, Helen Clark, Margaret Wilson, Helene Ritchie, David Caygill, David Lange, Geoffrey Palmer, Richard Northy, Trevor de Cleene, Eddie Isbey, Frank O'Flynn, Dover Samuels, Jim Knox, Roger Douglas, Margaret Sheilds, Margaret Austin, and [Mike Williams?]. The series also features: Lange and Palmer speaking at the Federation of Labour conference in 1984; Ormond Wilson, photographed in his home on Hill Street ca 1983; and Fran Wilde and Jim Kebbell in a yacht protesting the visit of the USS Truxtun to Wellington as well as portraits of Tala [Clerens?]. One contact sheet also includes an image of baby Kathleen Kerr, daughter of union photographer Bob Kerr. - Includes prints of the Cleaners' Union dispute with Crothall and Company and British Petroleum. These feature the union picket at B P House, Wellington, with makeshift sleeping arrangements, placards, cooking, and protestors. Also contains a contact sheet with portraits of an unidentified man, B P House, and information sheets being handed out by protestors. - Youth pay rate campaign images feature: young protestors, some in school uniform, at Parliament with placards and costumes as well as an unidentified young speaker and Pat Kelly addressing the crowd; teenage Woolworth's workers photographed at their place of work; and a youth picket outside McDonalds. Also contains a contact sheet with some of the images detailed above, but also further portraits. - Contains series of images of caretaker Ernie Abbott's funeral. These feature: the Holden Kingswood hearse and pallbearers (including Pat Kelly and Ken Douglas) leading the funeral cortege through the streets of Wellington between Trades Hall and the Town Hall; and the funeral ceremony at the Town Hall, including mourners, pallbearers, and eulogies being delivered. Also contains a contact sheet of portraits of Abbott (and others of an unidentified woman) taken for the Cleaners' Union in the early eighties, and images of Trades Hall after the bombing that killed Abbott. Quantity: 51 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - 2008-119 : New Zealand Council of Trade Unions: Further records - To Ephemera Collection - four negative cases for printing orders (one glacine, three paper) at Eph-A-PHOTO-1970s.

Date: 1990 - 1997

By: Broadsheet (Auckland, N.Z.); Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Nisbet, Alastair, 1958-; Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-; Alston, Sharon Kathleen, 1948-1995; Lowry, Vanya, 1943-; Preston, Gaylene Mary, 1947-; Courtney, Helen Kathleen, 1952-2020; McLeod, Rosemary Margaret, 1949-

Reference: H-707-001/034

Description: Variety of cartoons commenting on the political and social issues of the time from a feminist perspective. Sexual harassment in the work place; a time-line across history of the political, religious and sexual treatment of women; man gets blown-up into a balloon; running the home like a business; women are the stronger sex?; woman fights an armoured knight on a horse; Michelangelo sculpts a naked man with an exaggerated penis; Women's Liberation; persecution against homosexuals likened to that perpetrated by the Nazi regime and the medieval church; Lesbian Nation; media interviewer, Brian Edwards leads a TV programme on the Women's Movement; Muldoon drinks a glass of wine bottled to commemorate Women's Suffrage Day, Sept. 19; while the men discuss world revolution, a woman pour them tea; the double violation of rape victims by their attacker and then by the justice system; the female anatomy exposed to a room full of male doctors; church women protest against feminism challenging the family and traditional roles of women; justice for some, but not for women; the feminist backlash; pay equity; perhaps god is a man after all - three wishes; May I have my rights, please? apologetic feminism; justice not weighted equally for all; issues around sexual reproduction and the Royal Commission Report; women unite to resist the intrusion of the SIS (Special Intelligence Service); Muldoon's legacy to New Zealand women; sex roles reversed in the shearing shed; abortions; National Party tramples on New Zealand women; position of women in Iran; genital mutilation; the 1979 budget - what's in it for women; SPUC anti-abortion rally likened to a Ku Klux Klan rally with hoods and burning torches; the marriage trap; psychology and the oppression of women. Quantity: 34 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies in various sizes

Date: 1990 - 1997

By: Broadsheet (Auckland, N.Z.); Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Nisbet, Alastair, 1958-; Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-; Alston, Sharon Kathleen, 1948-1995; Walker, Susan, active 1990s; Fowlie, Karen, 1990s; Quillin, Viv, active 1980s-1990s; Chanwai-Earle, Lynda, 1965-; Seule, Juliet, active 1990s; Sorzano, Rigel, active 1990s; Rhonda, active 1990s; Chadwick, Rona, active 1990s; Hollander, Nicole, active 1990s; Fleming, Jacky, active 1990s; Horacek, active 1990s; Jackson, Cath, active 1990s; Vania, Rustam, active 1990s; Peterson, Nancy, active 1980-1990s; Lowry, Vanya, 1943-

Reference: H-709-001/033

Description: Variety of cartoons commenting on the political and social issues of the time from a feminist perspective. National Women's Cervical Cancer inquiry, the value of women's experience in the work field when dealing with employers who are predominantly worried about a woman's period being heavy; questioning the relevance of Aids education information for lesbians; family discussion about orgasms; sexual harassment in the work place and the Employment Contracts Act; what are the options for a home-maker if her husband leaves her for another woman; ACC claims; men, women and housework; the stress of being too busy with activities and commitments; verbal abuse; siblings argue about being lesbian; 1993 - what women have to celebrate in Suffrage Year with Jenny Shipley and Ruth Richardson at the political helm; women can vote but thewy still remain disadvantaged in many areas; growing older; women respond to the Bobbitt Case (where a women cut off her partners penis); how lesbians can often feel inadequate when reading lesbian erotica books; being an independent, aggressive, adventurous girl doesn't win you many friends; men express themselves as women did in the 70's, but they're still slow to share their goodies with women; feminist collectives; never give up; 12 week campaign for maternity leave; seeking to silence her biological clock; pay equity; women and girls' self defence; beauty contests; the tree of life is a woman; wife slavery; a spell of warts for rich people; Women's Liberation targets your mother, sister and girl friend; Maori Women's Welfare League Conference poster, 1982; women lifting wieghts; dealing to a wolf whistler. Quantity: 33 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies in various sizes

Date: 1991

From: [Posters concerning the environment and environmental protection. 1990s]

By: Dominion (Newspaper); Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-; Pringle, Michael James, 1962-

Reference: Eph-C-ENVIRONMENT-1990-02

Description: A series of 8 sheets, each showing a bird's eye view of the Hutt Valley. Each sheet covers a different period, and has notes about the environmental conditions at each date: 1. 1840 2. The land the people first saw 3. 1855 4. 1885 5. 1910 6. 1936 7. 1964 8. Present day [ie 1990] The final sheet asks school pupils for their ideas about what the landscape will be like in the future, including ideas for the best valley landscape in the year 2040. Quantity: 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopies on eight sheets, each 297 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated by Michael Pringle, Wellington, in 2016.

Date: 2012

By: Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-

Reference: ArtEph-2012-K-02

Description: List of 30 works, oils on board, including quotations from Waiheathens - voices from a mining town by Mark Derby and Bob Kerr, the book accompanying the exhibition. Photographs of the artist and author on back cover. Prices with each work Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Offset print on paper, [4] p, stapled

Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]

From: New Zealand Council of Trade Unions :Photographs

By: Armstrong, Hazel, 1952-; Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-; Paper Clip (Newspaper)

Reference: PAColl-10045-2

Description: Photographs relating to the Clerical Workers Union and the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, ca 1970-1985. Identified photographers include Bob Kerr, Hazel Armstrong, Joe Hughes, Don & Beatrice Peat, Dominion and New Zealand Times, and Vecuz Manila Hotel Studio. Identified personalities include: Syd Jackson, Les Hewett, Quentin Mines, Connie Perdue, Graeme Kelly, Paul Garside, Pat Basham, Margaret Flanagan, E E Nellie, Therese O'Connell, Peter Palmer, Bill Thomas, Brian Brooks, Tony [Nealy?], Alan Simm, John Young, Ted Keating, Bid Bolding (G M Petone), J Inglis-Wright, Peter Michael Butler, Desmond `Des' Nolan, John Slater, Gerard Hill, David Lange, Mrs E Timms, Mary Batchelor, Marilyn Marshall, Dave and Petty Jacobs, Peter Gordon, and Graeme Lowie. Meetings, events, disputes, campaigns, and protests covered include: the New Zealand Clerical Award (1972), Auckland Union Social Club, Clerical News, field trips for `Paper Clip' magazine (Hawkes Bay, Masterton, Martinborough, and Palmerston North), the Cleaners' Union strike at Waiouru Military Base (1979), FIET meeting dinner, negotiations in the early 60s and 70s, departure of an aid ship to Ethiopia (organised by the Seamen's Union), opening of the Clerical Union Holiday Home in Rotorua, and Desmond Nolan at the first meeting of the International Technical Federation of Commercial Clerical and Technical employees in Manila. Miscellaneous images and events covered include: portrait of low paid workers, newspaper clipping relating to the death of Desmond Nolan, aerial view of Sydney and Harbour Bridge, and a cartoon of pilot shaking hands with office worker in skyscraper. Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints and newspaper clippings Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - 2008-119 : New Zealand Council of Trade Unions: Further records.

By: Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-

Reference: ArtEph-2010-K-03

Description: Reproductions in colour of 10 paintings, with text and titles, forming a complete view of the Gallipoli Peninsula from the sea. Selected entries from the diary of soldier Alfred Cameron, a farmer from North Canterbury, about his experiences at Gallipoli. On the back, 'A Turkish perspective', the story of Ismail Hakki by Bulent Atalay Quantity: 1 brochure. Physical Description: Colour offset printing on folded card brochure, folded size 250 x 228 mm

Date: [ca 1998]

By: Kerr, Winifred Ellen, 1913-2007

Reference: MS-Papers-6473

Description: Title continues:`...during the first half of the 20th century', edited and produced by Robert E Kerr. Under headings, `My first memories', gramophones and crystal sets, washing day, groceries and milk billies, getting about, the city, the world and the world-wide depression, tennis, entertainment, holidays, one quoit short, my pre-war Australian trip, dressmaking, street photographers, my short-lived war effort, coupons, children and the chief engineer, Kerr describes her family background, living in Wellington, holidays at Plimmerton and elsewhere in New Zealand including Tongariro National Park, school days, work and her marriage to Robert (Bob) Kerr, a marine engineer, in 1948. She writes of her own family and the birth of their children, their moves to New Plymouth and Tokoroa and briefly of her life after Bob's death in 1975. Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Letter from donor providing further infomation about the production of this item Quantity: 1 folder(s) (22 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with inset photographs Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs W Kerr, Hataitai, Wellington, Feb 1999 Laser copies of family photographs throughout the text

Date: 3 Dec 1999

From: Trade union oral history project

By: Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-

Reference: OHInt-0478/06

Description: Bob Kerr was born in Wellington in 1951. Describes attending Elam Fine Arts School at Auckland University. Recalls involvement in Vietnam war protests. Describes being offered a job at the `Listener' by Ian Cross and working to close deadlines. Recalls working with Burton Silver on the comic strip `Bill and Rob' (Bill Rowling and Rob Muldoon). Talks about getting involved in the union movement through his partner Hazel Armstrong who worked on the Clerical Workers Union newspaper. Recalls listening to the stories of unionists at the Panama Hotel. Describes the cartoon `Sam and Pete' for the Combined Motor Workers Union and another cartoon `Pam and Val'. Comments on the effectiveness of comics. Talks about his publication `Terry and the gunrunners'. Discusses union propaganda. Describes working for the Musicians Union and Actors Equity. Notes that the Musicians Union included NZ Symphony Orchestra, other orchestra members and working musicians in cabarets and dance bands. Mentions Graeme Whimp and Cath and Pat Kelly. Explains leaving the union movement and becoming secretary of the NZ Writers Guild. Discusses the Artists and Illustrators Guild. Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan Accompanying material - Comic strips `Sam and Pete' and `Pam and Val' reproduced in an unidentified publication Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007223 - OHA-007224 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1799.

Date: 1980

By: New Zealand. School Publications Branch; Turner, Rosemary, active 1980s

Reference: Eph-D-EDUCATION-RR-1980

Description: Includes: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Traditional rhyme illustrated by Rosemary Turner. Ready to Read. School Publications Branch, Department of Education, Wellington (2 copies) Mary had a little lamb. Traditional rhyme illustrated by Deirdre Gardiner. Ready to Read. School Publications Branch, Department of Education, Wellington (2 copies) One two, buckle my shoe. Traditional rhyme illustrated by Rod Ellis. Ready to Read. School Publications Branch, Department of Education, Wellington (2 copies) One two three four five, once I caught a fish alive. Traditional rhyme illustrated by Bob Kerr. Ready to Read. School Publications Branch, Department of Education, Wellington (2 copies) Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, on light card, 597 x 420 mm. Provenance: Some copies donated in 1982.

Date: [ca 1976]-1991

From: New Zealand Council of Trade Unions :Photographs

By: Dominion (Newspaper); Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-

Reference: PAColl-10045-1

Description: Photographs relating to the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, ca 1960-1991. Identified photographers include Bob Kerr and the Evening Post newspaper. Identified figures include Peter Gordon, Pat Kelly, Ken Douglas, Sonia Davies, Victoria Kessing, Sharon Hawke, Barry Tucker, David Thorp, Stuart McCaffey, Joe [Fefania?], Bill Rowling, Noel Harris, Alex Weir, Russ Petersen, Henry [Tetau?], Penny Bright, Tony Allen, Archie Grant, Peter Butler, Peter Dunne, Graeme Clarke, and others. Identified organisations, groups, and companies include the Federation of Labour Women's Sub-Committee, Clerical Union, New Zealand Drivers' Federation, Shop Employees Union, Cleaning Union, the Wairarapa Trades Council, Upper Hutt City Council, Coach Workers' Union, Crothall and Company, Todd & Company and their staff soccer team, Ford New Zealand, and the New Zealand Labour Party. Strikes, disputes, demonstrations, and campaigns covered include: Hotel Workers strike, `Stop the Cuts' march, security officers' dispute, Saturday Shopping campaign, closure of the Johnsonville Tip-Top ice cream factory, New Zealand Samoan's citizen rights demonstration, and a Christchurch rally against Merv Wellington and the Ministry of Education. Miscellaneous images feature unemployed men in Porirua, grafitti regarding job cuts [Seaview, Petone?], the Patea Freezing Works, the Labour Party's election campaign (Wairarapa), and group portraits from the 40 year commemoration of the return to work after the 1951 waterfront lockout (including workers and their wives). There is also some manuscript material relating to this last image, which includes a cover letter, a typescript of the poem `Ban the Bomb' by R J Morris, and a list of waterfront workers' names. Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints, printed matter Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - 2008-119 : New Zealand Council of Trade Unions: Further records.

Date: 1975

By: Silver, Burton Frederick Roux, 1945-; Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-

Reference: A-297-348

Description: Three-part cartoon: Bill Rowling holding paintbrush and can, studies National Party capital "N" sign just painted on a fence by Rob Muldoon; he makes some additions; as he walks away the sign can be seen now as a traffic signal warning of "Deceptive bend". ATL has original of this cartoon at B-129-002. Inscriptions: Unsigned and undated. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy of ink drawing, 88 x 350 mm., on sheet 203 x 360 mm.

Date: 1970 - 2000

By: Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-

Reference: KERR

Description: Sets of preparatory sketches in pencil and/or ink and final original coloured illustrations for some 12 children's books illustrated by Bob Kerr, ca 1970s to 2000. Some are written by him. Some also include photographs used for drawings, cover illustrations, or text outlines. Includes artwork for "After the War"; "Day of the Snow", with photographs used for illustrations, Joy Cowley's typescript text, and her comments beneath draft illustrations, and designer's rough; "Day of the Rain", with photographs used for illustrations; "Mechanical Harry"; "Mechanical Harry and the Flying Bicycle"; "Paper War", "Optimist"; "Terry and the Last Moa"; "Terry and the Yodelling Bulls"; "Terry and the Gunrunners", with each page of draft illustrations by Kerr in Wellington accompanied by Stephen Ballantyne's text written in Auckland; "Lucy's Big Plan"; "Lucy Loops the Loop". Bob Kerr stopped writing children's books ca 2000, to paint fulltime. Quantity: 10 container(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and watercolour, sizes varying Transfers: Photographic negatives have been transferred to Photographic Archive PA-Group-00049.. Processing information: The development of text and illustrations for some titles is very closely connected; as are the photographs and matching illustrations. Therefore these have been housed together, rather than being separated by format.

Date: 2000

By: Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-

Reference: ArtEph-2000-K-01

Date: 1975

By: Silver, Burton Frederick Roux, 1945-; Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-; Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: E-560

Description: Cartoons concern the lead-up to the 1975 general election, with the two party leaders, Robert Muldoon (National Party) and Wallace ("Bill") Rowling, (Labour Party). Also includes cutting about the series from the "Southland times" 26 November 1975, page 4; and two from an unnamed paper, possibly the "Press" in November 1975. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Exercise book used as scrapbook ("Linwood Intermediate School"), 16 leaves, 229 x 178 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs J R Wilson in 1995.

Date: 1985 - 1988

By: Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Wellington Media Collective

Reference: Eph-D-LABOUR-UFS-1986-01

Description: Shows two illustrations of streets of a town. On the left side, before the state sector is demolished, a Kohanga Reo, a Post Office, a Bank of New Zealand, and a coal mine are operating. In the right hand picture these operations are defunct. Laminated. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 420 x 515 mm. Provenance: Acquired from an unknown donor in 2004.

Date: 2001-2002

From: New Zealand Book Council :Photographs of Words on Wheels tours

Reference: PAColl-8174-3

Description: Comprises: Photographs of the 2001 Words on Wheels tour to Northland, featuring Gavin Bishop, Kate Camp, Eirlys Hunter, Carl Nixon, Tina Shaw, and Damien Wilkins. Photographs of the 2002 Words on Wheels tour to the Waikato, showing Bob Kerr talking to school pupils and drawing a pupil at Southwell School, Hamilton. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). 76 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler prints

Date: 1975

By: Silver, Burton Frederick Roux, 1945-; Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-

Reference: B-129-002

Description: Three-part cartoon: Bill Rowling holding paintbrush and can, studies National Party capital "N" sign just painted on a fence by Rob Muldoon; he makes some additions; as he walks away the sign can be seen now as a traffic signal warning of "Deceptive bend". ATL has photocopy of same cartoon at A-297-348. Similar cartoon illustrated in Ian Grant's "The unauthorised version". 2d ed. p. 208-209. Inscriptions: Unsigned and undated. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 130 x 448 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane auction, 9 April 1995, lot 375.

Date: 1972 - 2000

By: Metzger, David Leslie, 1928-2000; Clark, Laurence, 1949-; Kirby, Darryl, active 1970s; Silver, Burton Frederick Roux, 1945-; Listener (Periodical); 8 o'clock (Newspaper); Auckland star (Newspaper); New Zealand herald (Newspaper); New Zealand International Review (Periodical); Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-

Reference: E-650-q

Description: Newsclippings of cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Newsclippings, sizes vary, approximately A5.