Smith, Joan, 1911-1989

Date: 1900 - 1969

By: Brown, Laurence Binet, 1927-2011; Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-1900/1969

Description: Includes: Best wishes [purple flowers]. From Rachel Mary Barton, Hawera, 30 Dec 1913 Cynicus Publishing Company, Tayport, Fife. Rebecca at the well. Posted to Nr G Davis, C/- Brown Barrett, Auckland, on 28 August 1906. Good wishes. (Embossed card with raised plastic image of a sailboat). Printed in England Joan Smith card. Pied shag. With best wishes; nga whaka mihi. 1967 Kindly thoughts; kia ora. The drop scene, Wanganui River, North Island. "Singing birds and babbling waters / Divinity in lovely bush / No scenic artist ever painted / With half the skill of Nature's brush". Dawson Printing Co Ltd Auckland [1930s?] Kismet Series, London, no. 207. "Sitting side by side / My heart was in a whirl; / My mouth was full of hair / and my arms were full of girl". Handwritten message reads: "Dear Gerald, how are you. better late than never. it is blowing here something awful. I am very pleased with my lot down here have very good times. how does this P.C. strike you. this is you + I on the Ponsonby wharf. I don't think. I see by the papers your brother has escaped again. no offence. kind regards Win" River Yarra, Melbourne. W.B.T. series, printed in England [1920s?] Three blank cards with borders printed by Hornblow, early 1900s. Arthur Cleave & Company Ltd. Memorial cards [Advertising flier for the printing of memorial cards. ca 1910-1930] Quantity: 1 folder(s) 12 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print and lithographs on cards, sizes varying around 80 x 110 mm.

Date: 1967

By: Smith, Joan, 1911-1989

Reference: E-279-q-042/044

Description: Pataka rangi (derived from Heaphy's watercolour; Provision house... (A-146-009); Double canoe, Tahiti; [Maori] canoe (derived from Angas?) Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, 90 x 218 mm and 180 x 125 mm

Date: 1967 - 1968

By: Smith, Joan, 1911-1989

Reference: Eph-B-MAORI-1968-01

Description: Card showing a strip of a rafter pattern, and an illustration of the inside of a Maori meeting house to show the placement of such rafters. Figures sit around a fire within the whare. Text states that the rafter design was based on a fern motif. Dated from the dates of other material received from the same source, and by analogy with the material housed at Eph-A-MAORI-1967-Smith. Price of card is in $, suggesting a date after July 1967. Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Physical Description: Relief print on sheet 260 x 218 mm.

Date: 1967 - 1969

By: Smith, Joan, 1911-1989; Eglinton, Graham Edward, 1923-2005

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1967-Smith

Description: Cards include: 4. Gateway. Nga whaka mihi; with best wishes (1 copy) 26. Carving [tools] (cord drill, adze, mallet, obsidian finishing tools, gauges and chisels). Nga whaka mihi; with best wishes(2 copies) 30. Marakihau. Nga whaka mihi; with best wishes (2 copies) Envelope show a poupou (carved post) (2 copies) Card prices are in decimal currency, indication a date of 1967 or later. Numbering of cards suggests that at least 30 designs were made. Quantity: 4 Other printed ephemera item(s) plus duplicates of 3. Physical Description: Offset prints sizes varying up to 240 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ray Eglinton, Wellington, 2016, from the collection of his father Graham Eglinton.

Date: 1967 - 1968

By: Smith, Joan, 1911-1989

Reference: Eph-D-MAORI-1968-01

Description: Wrapping paper sheet shows repetitive pattern of carved Maori figures, geometric pattersn and kowhaiwhai. Dated from the dates of other material received from the same source, and by comparison with other work by Joan Smith. Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Physical Description: Relief print on sheet 745 x 497 mm.