Sketcher (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Date: 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

By: Rayner, Frederick Richard, active 1893-1908

Reference: A-225-033

Description: Shows Prime Minister Richard Seddon as a puppet master at a side show. He hands out a puppet to an "intelligent Port [Chalmers] elector", who rejects it because it represents Barclay, a supporter of Seddon in the matter of the Port Chalmers dock. Alfred Richard Barclay was the successful electoral candidate for Dunedin North in 1905. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on newsprint, 285 x 230 mm. Transfers: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002..

Date: 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

By: Rayner, Frederick Richard, active 1893-1908

Reference: A-225-027/028

Description: See child records for content. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on newsprint, 280 x 237 mm. Processing information: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002.

Date: 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

By: Rayner, Frederick Richard, active 1893-1908

Reference: A-225-026

Description: Shows Prime Minister Richard Seddon setting a gin trap for rabbits in the moonlight. Politician Joseph Ward is seen on all fours behind a tree in the background. Verses beneath the image describe the unimaginative and dependent behaviour of political candidates allied to Seddon. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on newsprint, 273 x 240 mm. Transfers: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002..

Date: 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

By: Rayner, Frederick Richard, active 1893-1908

Reference: A-225-034/036

Description: See child records for content. Quantity: 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on newsprint, 280 x 237 mm. Transfers: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002..

Date: 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

By: Rayner, Frederick Richard, active 1893-1908

Reference: A-225-029

Description: Shows Prime Minister Richard Seddon holding aloft a bag of money representing the government's surplus funds of £761,800. However, behind him is a bag of bonds worth £57,522,215. Text below the image reads: "In no instance in no year has a surlpus(?) reduced our debt or diminished our taxation. The surplus(?) has invariably been followed by a huge loan four times the amount of the surplus". It's time we found out where the money goes to!!! Other Titles - Bank of England Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on newsprint, 280 x 232 mm. Transfers: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002..

Date: 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

By: Rayner, Frederick Richard, active 1893-1908

Reference: A-225-031

Description: Shows a man labelled P.R.L. (Political Reform League) using a sieve of Public Opinion to sift Seddon, who is broken down into a pile of Vanity, Arrogance, Heroics, Ignorance, Magniloquence, Bounce, Flapdoodle, Dramatic Piffle, Bombast, Bunkum, Tyranny and Tammany. Tammany refers to the fraudulent election practices, the graft, the corruption and other abuses that often characterised the Tammany administrations in the USA in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on newsprint, 274 x 191 mm. Processing information: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002.

Date: 1902 - 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

By: Rayner, Frederick Richard, active 1893-1908

Reference: A-225-025

Description: Shows political candidate Barclay, who was beaten in the polls by Bedford, 4682 to 2940. In fact, although Barclay was defeated by Bedford, Millar and Arnold in the 1902 general election, he gained the Dunedin North seat in 1905, when he defeated Bedford. It is possible this clipping is from a 1902 issue of the Sketcher, rather than 1905, the date pencilled on it. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on newsprint, 260 x 200 mm. Transfers: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002..

Date: 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

By: Rayner, Frederick Richard, active 1893-1908

Reference: A-225-037/039

Description: See child records for content. Quantity: 3 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on newsprint, 280 x 247 mm. (folded) Transfers: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002..

Date: 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

By: Rayner, Frederick Richard, active 1893-1908

Reference: A-225-040/041

Description: See child records for content. Quantity: 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on newsprint, 280 x 237 mm. Transfers: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002..

Date: 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

By: Rayner, Frederick Richard, active 1893-1908

Reference: A-225-032

Description: Shows Prime Minister Richard Seddon seated amongst crying babies at St Helen's Maternity Hospital. The caption indicates that Seddon is not interested in Child culture, but in Vote culture. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on newsprint, 275 x 227 mm. Processing information: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002.

Date: 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

By: Rayner, Frederick Richard, active 1893-1908

Reference: A-225-028

Description: Shows Prime Minister Richard Seddon standing with his back to a crawling man with a ring through his nose. This relates to a proclamation which is reproduced at top right, showing ten requirements for all candidates who wish to stand with R J Seddon in the 1905 general election. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on newsprint, 280 x 237 mm. Transfers: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002..

Date: 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

By: Rayner, Frederick Richard, active 1893-1908

Reference: A-225-030

Description: Shows Prime Minister Richard Seddon sitting on a pile of money bags, and clutching the portfolios of: Minister of Public Trust, Colonial Treasurer, Minister of Labour, Minister of Defence, Minister of Education. The money bags contain funds for a jubilee trip, salary, premier's conference and Member Realisation Board. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on newsprint, 280 x 233 mm.