Olympic Games (24th : 1988 : Seoul, Korea)

Date: 1988 - 1989

Reference: Eph-A-ATHLETICS-1988/1989

Description: Includes: 1988: XIVth Commonwealth Games Auckland. Help NZ win gold in 1990 ... [Pamphlet] Visa to Seoul; win one of two trips for two to the Olympics in Seoul plus accommodation and $2,000 worth of Visa Travellers' cheques. Visa, official sponsor 1988 New Zealand Olympic team. Pamphlet 1989: Mobil guide to New Zealand Track & Field 1989. Complied by P N Heidenstrom. Published by Exemplar Athletics for Mobil Oil New Zealand Limited. Mita Copiers One-hour Decathlon. Monday 30 January 1989. East Coast Bays Stadium, mairangi Bay Auckland. Official programme Mobil New Zealand Track and Field Championships 1989. Mt Smart Stadium Auckland, March 11, 12 [1989]. Programme Mobil National Athletic league 1989/90. Programme Quantity: 4 album(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Fliers and booklets, sizes varying under 250 mm. Provenance: Some items donated by Athletics New Zealand in 2013.

Date: 1988

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

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

Reference: B-136-854

Description: A man and woman sit in easy chairs watching a show jumping event at the Olympic Games. The woman finds the jumping nail-bitingly exciting which causes the man to remark crossly that maybe she will understand his interest in horse events when he goes to the TAB. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone on paper, 320 x 485 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1983-1984

From: New Zealand Olympic Committee: Records

Reference: 2014-103-177

Description: Correspondence, papers re selection of team members, team lists and reports on the Games by New Zealand officials, including the Chef de Mission Quantity: 1 box(es).

Date: 1988

From: New Zealand Olympic Committee: Records

Reference: 2014-103-178

Description: Nominations arranged under sporting code and papers re Bruce Ullrich Quantity: 1 box(es).

Date: 1988

From: Winter, Mark :[Editorial cartoons, 1988-1992. Signed Chicane].

Reference: A-295-028

Description: The five-ring Olympic games symbol, made up of drugs and syringes Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy of ink drawing

Date: 1990

From: Clark, Laurence [Klarc] :[Editorial cartoons] 1990-1992

Reference: A-295-064

Description: A weight-lifter with huge weights bouncing in the air and exclaiming at his mistake in showing how easy it is to lift the weights. Refers to the Olympic Games and the use of steroids Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on paper, sizes vary Provenance: Donation: Mr Lawrence Clark, Auckland, 20 January 1994

Date: 1988

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

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

Reference: B-136-853

Description: A woman watches her favourite programme on television and gets irritated with her husband who is using binoculars to watch diving at the Olympics through the window of the next-door neighbour's house. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone on paper, 320 x 485 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1988 - 2000

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-

Reference: H-614-001/012

Description: 12 cartoons on Olympic Games related themes concerning the 1988 and 2000 Olympics and the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Quantity: 12 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: A4 photocopies.

Date: 1988

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

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

Reference: B-136-867

Description: A man looks glum as he reads a newspaper report that says that the 1992 Olympics will be all professional. In another cameo two tennis players are furious that they are playing in the Olympics instead of making thousands on the professional circuit and in a third cameo an official if the NZRFU (New Zealand Rugby Football Federation) bars an All Black from rugby for life because he is taking royalties from a book he has written about the 1988 tour. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone on paper, 320 x 485 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1988

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :[One folder of original cartoons concerning sport (excluding rugby). Published in the Auckland Star, 1977 - 1988].

Reference: A-333-120

Description: The cartoon shows a man throwing disc shaped pills into his mouth. The pills are labeled, steroids. Refers to the high number of people caught taking performance enhancing drugs during the 1988 Olympic Games. Exhibited in 'Fun & Games - New Zealand Cartoon Perspectives on the Olympics 1952-2000 (Exhibition)' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 265 x 185mm. Transfers: Negatives at PA Collection 5371 Bromhead Collection.

Date: 1988

From: Tremain, Garrick, fl 1970s-2000s:12 photocopies of cartoons on Olympic themes published in the Otago Daily Times and the Sunday Star Times, 1988-2000.

Reference: H-614-003

Description: Beside the pearly gates of Heaven, an angel asks another about this 'new commandment' required to enter heaven - a drugs test. Dope-testing of Olympic athletes had been introduced at the 1968 Olympics. At the 24th Games in Seoul in 1988 for the first time a winning athlete, Ben Johnson, who had won the 100 metres sprint, was stripped of his medal when he tested positive for drugs. Exhibited in 'Fun & Games - New Zealand Cartoon Perspectives on the Olympics 1952-2000 (Exhibition)' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: A4 photocopy.

Date: 1988

From: Tremain, Garrick, fl 1970s-2000s:12 photocopies of cartoons on Olympic themes published in the Otago Daily Times and the Sunday Star Times, 1988-2000.

Reference: H-614-001

Description: The five rings of the Olympic symbol are the traction wheels of an armoured vehicle which is rolling over the name 'Seoul'. Internal and external political tensions gave Seoul, the host city for the 24th Olympiad, the feeling of an armed camp. Yet these Games, although they were boycotted by North Korea which had wanted to co-host them, saw the largest participation yet, with teams sent by 159 National Olympic Committees. Exhibited in 'Fun & Games - New Zealand Cartoon Perspectives on the Olympics 1952-2000 (Exhibition)' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: A4 photocopy.

Date: 1988

From: Tremain, Garrick, fl 1970s-2000s:12 photocopies of cartoons on Olympic themes published in the Otago Daily Times and the Sunday Star Times, 1988-2000.

Reference: H-614-002

Description: A doctor diagnoses the condition of a man, being held up by his wife, who is slumped in a prone position, goggle-eyed and holding a beer can. The doctor goes on to recommend "Kept warm and fed he should begin to function again in a week or so!". With increasingly spectacular, round-the-clock TV coverage, the Olympics had become compulsive viewing. Exhibited in 'Fun & Games - New Zealand Cartoon Perspectives on the Olympics 1952-2000 (Exhibition)' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: A4 photocopy.