Gordon, Peter, active 1978

Date: 1945 - 1947

By: Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964; C M Banks Ltd; Gordon, Peter, active 1978

Reference: Eph-C-SAFETY-Road-03

Description: Shows five rabbits wearing school bags, and causing havoc by walking too close to oncoming truck, on a rural road. Ernest Mervyn Taylor was art editor and illustrator for the School Publications Branch of the Department of Education from 1944 to 1946. The annual report of the Transport Department for 1947 (Appendices to the journals of the House of Representatives 1947, H40) states that "in order to help to impress the smaller children of the primary schools with the need for care in crossing the road, appropriate posters [some] depicting animals were distributed to the schools and used as a basis of instruction by the teachers". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - emt Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph, 255 x 377 mm.

Date: 1945 - 1947

By: Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964; C M Banks Ltd; Gordon, Peter, active 1978

Reference: Eph-C-SAFETY-Road-05

Description: Shows six school children at right foreground, waiting to cross country road, after New Zealand Education Department school bus exits stage left. Ernest Mervyn Taylor was art editor and illustrator for the School Publications Branch of the Department of Education from 1944 to 1946. The annual report of the Transport Department for 1947 (Appendices to the journals of the House of Representatives 1947, H40) states that "in order to help to impress the smaller children of the primary schools with the need for care in crossing the road, appropriate posters [some] depicting animals were distributed to the schools and used as a basis of instruction by the teachers". Other Titles - Poster Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - emt Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Print, 255 x 377 mm.

Date: 1945 - 1947

By: Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964; C M Banks Ltd; Gordon, Peter, active 1978

Reference: Eph-C-SAFETY-Road-07

Description: Shows children obeying this dictum. Ernest Mervyn Taylor was art editor and illustrator for the School Publications Branch of the Department of Education from 1944 to 1946. The annual report of the Transport Department for 1947 (Appendices to the journals of the House of Representatives 1947, H40) states that "in order to help to impress the smaller children of the primary schools with the need for care in crossing the road, appropriate posters [some] depicting animals were distributed to the schools and used as a basis of instruction by the teachers". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - emt Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph, 255 x 377 mm.

Date: 1945 - 1960

By: New Zealand Forest Service; New Zealand Forest Service and Soil Conservation Council; Gordon, Peter, active 1978

Reference: Eph-D-FOREST-SERVICE-1940/1950s

Description: Includes the following posters: New Zealand Forest Service. The ABC of forest fire prevention. Always be careful / State Forest Service. Soil Conservationl Council. [1940-50s] New Zealand Forest Service. Crush it, break it drown it, use it. Keep New Zealand green. Prevent forest fires! New Zealand Forest Service. Soil Conservation Council. Don't leave that to us! Keep New Zealand green. [1950s?] New Zealand Forest Service. Soil Conservation Council. Keep New Zealand green. Prevent forest and rural fires / design by Carlton-Carruthers Display Ltd. [ca 1946] New Zealand Forest Service. Soil Conservation Council. No trees, no homes. Prevent forest fires. [1950s?] Quantity: 5 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters.. Physical Description: Photolithographs, on posters sizes varying around 760 x 460 mm.

Date: 1945 - 1947

By: Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964; C M Banks Ltd; Gordon, Peter, active 1978

Reference: Eph-C-SAFETY-Road-04

Description: Shows rabbit wearing school bag, hurriedly crossing busy road outside school, to the consternation of passerby. Ernest Mervyn Taylor was art editor and illustrator for the School Publications Branch of the Department of Education from 1944 to 1946. The annual report of the Transport Department for 1947 (Appendices to the journals of the House of Representatives 1947, H40) states that "in order to help to impress the smaller children of the primary schools with the need for care in crossing the road, appropriate posters [some] depicting animals were distributed to the schools and used as a basis of instruction by teachers". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - emt Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Print, 255 x 377 mm.

Date: 1978

From: New Zealand National Party: Political pamphlets, fliers, and election propaganda

By: New Zealand National Party

Reference: Eph-A-NZ-NATIONAL-1978

Description: Political pamphlets, and election pamphlets for the General election 1978, including pamphlets for the following candidates: Ah Chee (Otahuhu) Ken Comber (Wellington Central) Colleen Dewe (Lyttelton) John Elliott (Whangarei) John Falloon (Pahiatua) Tony Friedlander George Gair (North Shore) Les Gandar (Rangitikei) Frank Gill (East Coast Bays) Peter Gordon (Lower Hutt) Eric Holland (Fendalton) Barrie Hutchinson (Onehunga) Doug Kidd (Marlborough) Graeme Laing (St Kilda) Edward Latter (Marlborough) Colin McLachlan (Selwyn) Ian McLean (Tarawera) Aussie Malcolm (Eden) Rob (or Bob) Muldoon (Tamaki) Brett Newell (Pencarrow) Peter O'Brien (Manurewa) Neil Russell (St Albans) Frank Ryan (Mt Albert) Peter Saunders (Mangere) Ian Shearer (Hamilton East) Hugh Templeton (Karori) Bruce Townshend (Kaimai) Richard Walls (Dunedin North) John Ward (Heretaunga) David Watson (Yaldhurst) Merv Wellington (Papakura) Bill Young (Miramar) Quantity: 3 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1971-1975

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7261-20

Description: Notes, references and other papers relating to Dennis's termination of employment with THC; includes correspondence and background material Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1941

By: New Zealand. Department of Health; Gordon, Peter, active 1978

Reference: Eph-D-HEALTH-1941-01

Description: Shows a profile photograph of a man sneezing, releasing water droplets into the air. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 635 x 508 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: New Zealand. Department of Health; Gordon, Peter, active 1978; Davidson, F S, active 1950s?

Reference: Eph-D-DENTAL-1940s-03

Description: Shows a double head and shoulders portrait of a teenaged boy and girl smiling. Two copies held, of differing provenance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 745 x 489 mm. Provenance: Previously the property of F S Davidson.

Date: 1941 - 1949

From: New Zealand Forest Service :[Posters. ca 1945-1959].

By: New Zealand. State Forest Service; Gordon, Peter, active 1978

Reference: Eph-D-FOREST-SERVICE-1940s-01

Description: Shows a pukeko on a teacher's mortar board, using a pointer and a blackboard to teach the message of care to prevent forest fires. Its pupils are a kiwi in checked shorts, a kingfisher and a rabbit, while a tui and a fantail watch from above. The setting is a native forest with kowhai flowers and ferns. The blackboard is propped on a easel carved with Maori motifs. The State Forest Service was issuing various warnings to trampers and cigarette smokers during the 1940s, particularly in newspapers for 1948. The State Forest Service was renamed the New Zealand Forest Service in December 1949, so this poster predates the change. It is unlikely to have been made before 1940 although the State Forest Service was operating in the 1920s. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Chromolithograph on poster, 540 x 408 mm.

Date: 1945 - 1955

By: New Zealand. Department of Health; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd; Gordon, Peter, active 1978

Reference: Eph-D-SAFETY-1950-01

Description: Circular inset in upper half shows crawling child, pulling the cord on a boiling electric jug, which is about to fall off the table on to the child. Lower half shows text. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Offset by Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph, 752 x 486 mm. Provenance: At some time owned by F.S. Davidson.

Date: 1945 - 1947

By: Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964; C M Banks Ltd; Gordon, Peter, active 1978

Reference: Eph-C-SAFETY-Road-08

Description: Shows six children getting off the New Zealand Education Department school bus on a country road. Ernest Mervyn Taylor was art editor and illustrator for the School Publications Branch of the Department of Education from 1944 to 1946. The annual report of the Transport Department for 1947 (Appendices to the journals of the House of Representatives 1947, H40) states that "in order to help to impress the smaller children of the primary schools with the need for care in crossing the road, appropriate posters [some] depicting animals were distributed to the schools and used as a basis of instruction by the teachers". Other Titles - poster Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - emt Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph, 255 x 377 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: New Zealand. Department of Health; Gordon, Peter, active 1978

Reference: Eph-D-DENTAL-1940s-01

Description: Shows a calf drinking milk out of a bucket, in a green field. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 533 x 402 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: New Zealand. Department of Health; Gordon, Peter, active 1978; Davidson, F S, active 1950s?

Reference: Eph-D-DENTAL-1940s-02

Description: Shows a cocker spaniel with a large bone in its mouth, sitting beside a feeding bowl labelled "Keith". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 533 x 402 mm. Provenance: Previously the property of F S Davidson.

Date: 1945 - 1947

By: Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964; C M Banks Ltd; Gordon, Peter, active 1978

Reference: Eph-C-SAFETY-Road-06

Description: Shows the gruesome consequences of being a school rabbit who doesn't walk on the footpath. His four companions react in various ways, when he gets run over by a truck. Ernest Mervyn Taylor was art editor and illustrator for the School Publications Branch of the Department of Education from 1944 to 1946. The annual report of the Transport Department for 1947 (Appendices to the journals of the House of Representatives 1947, H40) states that "in order to help to impress the smaller children of the primary schools with the need for care in crossing the road, appropriate posters [some] depicting animals were distributed to the schools and used as a basis of instruction by the teachers". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph, 255 x 377 mm.