Vietnam War, 1961-1975

Date: 11 Jun 1998

By: Kelly, Catherine Vera, 1926-2017

Reference: OHColl-0653/1

Description: Interviews Cath Kelly about peace activist Freda Cook Interviewer(s) - Jenny Skinner Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available Agreement form only filed at OHA 4708.

Date: [2000]

By: Wake, Margaret, active 1960-2004

Reference: MS-Papers-8071

Description: Memories by Wake of her experiences when she was posted as a stenographer and general assistant in Saigon with the New Zealand Embassy, covering the period Jun 1966 to Dec 1967, during the Vietnam Conflict. She describes her arrival, working conditions, what it was like living in Vietnam, the social life, various expeditions, her meeting and marriage to Merv Wake and other experiences. Included are photographs showing the installation of the safe for the embassy. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with photographs

Date: [1981-1984]

From: McKinnon, Malcolm A, 1950- : Further papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7115-13

Description: Material collected by Christine Dann mostly relating to economic concerns. Includes fiche of New Zealand exports and re-exports to the rest of the world by country (June 1984); papers re trade and export, CAFCA and related topics Also includes `Indochina report' (n1, Jun 1972) Other Titles - Foreign control watchdog (n54 Nov 1986) Other Titles - Indochina report (n1 Jun 1972) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1972

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

By: High School Students Against the War

Reference: Eph-B-ROTH-Vietnam-1972-05

Description: A pamphlet encouraging a demonstration in Auckland against the continued presence of allied troops in Vietnam. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopies on both sides of folded pamphlet, 205 x 165 mm.

Date: 1972

By: Auckland Mobilisation Committee

Reference: Eph-C-VIETNAM-1972-01

Description: Shows a bomber releasing its bombs, and an arrangement of text. The Wellington-related text is stuck over the lower part of the poster, originally produced in Auckland. Dated from Bert Roth's list at Eph-A-ROTH-Posters. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph and collage, 385 x 277 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1982.

Date: 1973

From: Various cartoonists :Cartoons from the New Zealand News, 1970s

Reference: A-297-097

Description: A New Zealand soldier is telling a young boy who is possibly Vietnamese that he is too young, and to come back when he is sixteen. Extended Title - New Zealand. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, whiteout and pencil on watercolour paper, 264 x 266 mm

Date: 1 August 1967

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1967/3661-F

Description: Victoria University students arriving in Molesworth street after a march from the University to Parliament grounds, protesting against the visit of a two-man American Vietnam mission to New Zealand. Note the anti-communist banner at extreme left. Photographs taken on 1 August 1967 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: [2000]

By: Whyte, Colin David, 1932-

Reference: MSX-5935

Description: Reminiscences of Whyte describing his 21-year career in the army and later in the navy; he describes his time in school cadets (1946-1947), compulsory military training in the second intake (1950), his time in the medical corps of the Territorial Forces (1951-1953), in the Regular Force including ANZUK Hospital, Singapore, 2RNZIR Malaysia (1959-1961), 161 Battery RNZA in South Vietnam (1968) and most camps in New Zealand. He also writes of his four years at the RNZN hospital at Devonport. Source of title - Transcribed Other - Not to be published in its entirety during donor's lifetime Quantity: 1 volume(s) (91 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with reproduced photographs

Date: [1941-1991]

By: Slingsby, Harold G, active 1940-1991

Reference: MS-Group-0464

Description: Comprises Slingsby's inward and outward correspondence (copies of this); newsletters of various groups he was involved with including the NZ Peace Council, the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation of Australia and New Zealand; papers for 1964 conference on solidarity for Vietnam and Peace, Power and Politics Conference (Wellington), 1968; newsclippings, press releases and other papers. There are many letters to the editor. Some letters and notes are in shorthand. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 19 folder(s). 1 box(es) (hollinger box). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts (many carbon copies) and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms Bronwyn Harrison, Mt Victoria, Wellington, May 1996 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 15 photographs taken in Vietnam of industry, leisure etc - To Serials Collection - Several issues of `The People's voice' (1965-1966).

Date: 1970

By: Co-operative Print

Reference: Eph-A-VIETNAM-1970-01

Description: A pamphlet encouraging a demonstration in Auckland against the visit of United States Vice-President Spiro Agnew. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Offset print on folded pamphlet, 202 x 163 mm.

Date: 1966

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-406

Description: In two scenes labelled This week and Next week, Prime Minister Keith Holyoake is seen returning from peace talks in the Phillipines about Vietnam; he sniffs an olive branch and says 'Ah, peace!' He is next seen emerging at speed from his office saying, 'It's war!' shouldering a grenade launcher labelled election campaign, covered in ammunition and clutching the National manifesto. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone and pencil, 289 x 395 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1969 - 1972

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: Eph-B-ROTH-Vietnam-1970-02

Description: A protest about the continued sending of US and New Zealand troops to the war in Vietnam. Text in black on fluorescent pink sticker. Probably issued and used during protests at Albert Park, Auckland, from 1969-1974. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph on sticker 77 x 164 mm. Provenance: Part of the Roth acquisition, in about 1992.

Date: 1972

From: Various cartoonists :Cartoons from the New Zealand News, 1970s

Reference: A-297-050

Description: A large bomb is sitting on a trolley. On one tail fin is written 'Made in the U.S.A.'. On the side of the bomb the Christmas season legend 'Peace and goodwill towards all men' has been altered - 'peace' has been crossed out, and a 'no' inserted before 'goodwill towards all men'. In the bottom left of the cartoon American President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger are walking away from their handiwork. The U.S.A. was escalating its bombing campaign in Vietnam. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on watercolour paper 255 x 340 mm.

Date: 1969

By: United Action Committee for the Opening Day of Parliament (1969); Mercury Printing Company

Reference: Eph-A-VIETNAM-1969-01

Description: Flier encouraging the public to demonstrate opposition to food price increases, low wages, Harbour Bridge tolls, New Zealand's involvement in Vietnam, membership of SEATO and ANZUS war alliances, OMEGA bases being installed in our country, the proposed All Black tour of New Zealand, the "snooping activities" of the Secret Police, and the government's refusal of a New Zealand-owned shipping line. The United Action Committee comprised members of the Auckland Vietnam Committee, Amalgamated Society of Railway Workers (Otahuhu), Union of New Zealand Women, Auckland Branch of the NZ Peace Council, Otahuhu Railway Tradesmen's Association, New Zealand Irish Connolly Association, Progressive Youth Movement, Auckland University Socialist Society, New Zealand Medical Aid Committee, Takapuna Vietnam Group, Tamaki Vietnam Group, Henderson Vietnam Committee, South Auckland Vietnam Committee. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on flier. Physical Description: Offset print on flier, 228 x 145 mm.

Date: 1965

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-133-326

Description: A series of six frames depicting an interchange about weight loss between a doctor and an overweight man. Advice about drinking and eating will be ignored, suggests the doctor, so study of the international situation (Vietnam War) may make the patient thin. The doctor holds a headline about an Aucklander fasting in protest at the war. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, pencil, 384 x 575 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: June 1965

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 35mm-18191-F

Description: The Vietnam force training at Waiouru. Photographed by Morris James Hill in June 1965 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1964-1983

By: Carrad, David Brian, 1916-2003

Reference: MS-Papers-10620

Description: Includes general correspondence, 1966-1972; letters by D Carrad to newspapers, 1967-1983; articles and speeches by D Carrad; notes, 1964-1968 Quantity: 4 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescript (some cyclostyled)

Date: 1979

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :[One folder of original cartoons concerning world politics. Published in the Auckland Star, August 1977 - December 1979.]

Reference: A-331-071

Description: The cartoon shows a soldier, representing China, marching in the direction of a sign pointing to Vietnam. The soldier is well presented and marching with his head high. In the background two beaten up skeletons, representing the French and the Americans, are waving and saying, yoo-hoo. Refers to the Chinese army entering Vietnam following the heavy losses of the Americans and the French during the Vietnam war which ended in 1975. Negatives at PA Collection 5371 Bromhead Collection Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 270 x 195mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1972

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

By: Auckland Mobilisation Committee

Reference: Eph-B-ROTH-Vietnam-1972-04

Description: A pamphlet encouraging a demonstration in Auckland against the continued presence of allied troops in Vietnam. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopies on both sides of folded pamphlet, 205 x 165 mm.

Date: June 1965

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 35mm-18194-F

Description: The Vietnam force training at Waiouru. Photographed by Morris James Hill in June 1965 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm