Personality
W H Beck (Napier) :Your character revealed as you wear out the soles of your shoes. Cop...
Date: 1920 - 1935
From: [New Zealand ephemera of octavo size concerning clothing, costume, fashion and dress. 1920-1929]
By: W H Beck (Firm)
Reference: Eph-A-COSTUME-1920s-01
Description: Recto shows six different types of wear on the soles of shoes. These are said to indicate the following character types: economical, quiet and retiring, shallow and unreliable, music humorous and witty, attentive and thoughtful, and very affectionate. At the top is a picture of four feet in action on the floor. The verso is an advertisement for the pharmacy of W H Beck. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on card, 160 x 90 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 2005.
NORTH KOREA WELCOMES WINSTON PETERS! "So... How's YOUR personality cult nowadays?"
Date: 11 November 2007
From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011
Reference: A-453-108
Description: Shows Kim Jung-il shaking hands with Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters. Kim Jung-il asks Peters about his personality cult. In the background is a building with a welcome sign and the North Korea flag flying. On another building in the distance is another building with the portrait of King Jung-il on it. Refers to Winston Peters' visit to North Korea. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - MONDAY CARTOON : 12 nov A? cartoon [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 300 x 420mm
Your little loud shirt. I'm too ... to wear a loud shirt [Sticker. ca 2008]
Date: 2008
Reference: Eph-A-COSTUME-2008-02
Description: Sticker on backing sheet. The main image is a shirt to be peeled off and worn on Loud Shirt Day (normally a designated day at one's place of work). At the right is a selection of adjectives one can choose to peel off and fill the gap in the sentence: "I'm too ... to wear a loud shirt" (words are: absent-minded, ambitious, brand conscious, colour blind, dodgy, emotional, hung over, misinformed, mission critical, suburban, naked, near retirement, polite, upwardly mobile, postmodern, needy, sexy, repressed, sober, unhinged, new-to-the-job, well-bred) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on adhesive sticker sheet, 82 x 158 mm. Provenance: Donated by Denise Roughan, Wellington, in 2017
Types of personalities
Date: 1953
From: New Zealand Council for Educational Research : Papers of Frank Livingstone Combs
Reference: 88-178-19
Description: Notebooks containing notes on types of personalities; letter from NZ Broadcasting Service, May 1953 listing the talks they have recorded; rejection letter from Penguin Books Ltd, Dec 1953; stories by young children, Allan and Oliver Lane (ca 1950s). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript
Types of personalities
Date: 1953
From: New Zealand Council for Educational Research : Papers of Frank Livingstone Combs
Reference: 88-178-17
Description: Radio talks on personality types entitled: Introduction and The constructive type; The playboy; The vain glorious type; The sadistic type; The curious type; Genius; The self assertive type; The positive type; The material type; the Virile type; The combative type; The sympathetic type; The unstable types; The solitary type; The literal minded type; The self-abusing or self-effacing type; The gregarious type (on the friendly level); The gregarious type (on the herd level); The isogentric; The repulsive type; The uranic type; The managing type. Includes letter from New Zealand Broadcasting Service relating to the broadcast of the series of talks on `Types of Personality'. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript
Types of personalities
Date: 1952-1954
From: New Zealand Council for Educational Research : Papers of Frank Livingstone Combs
Reference: 88-178-20
Description: Notebooks containing notes on personality types: Tough-minded; Slaves of appetite; The Byronic type; The Managing type; Leaders; The oxypheric; Superior people; Bullies; Pedants; Will to power; Baggages; Isogenic; Mean type. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 notebooks). Physical Description: Mss
Types of personalities
Date: 1952-1954
From: New Zealand Council for Educational Research : Papers of Frank Livingstone Combs
Reference: 88-178-18
Description: Talks on personality types entitled: The Byronic type; The oxypheric type; The dogmatic type; The managing type; Leaders; The passionate type; The philosophic type; The optimistic type; The Uranic type; The intellectual type; The acquistive type; The unstable type; Proud types; The snob type; The scoundrel type; The humbug type; The pessimist; The constructive type. Also letter from M H Holcroft (Editor, NZ Listener), 15 May 1952, returning scripts entitled The Optimistic type, and The Unstable type saying they were unsuitable for The Listener and suggesting they were better suited to radio. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript
Fletcher, David, 1952- :"The opposition are fighting the election by trying to attack m...
Date: 2005
From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DX-105-269
Description: "The politician" cartoon strip. The politician is aghast as he reads something in the newspaper that appears to be an attack on his personality by the opposition. His colleague comments that he should consider himself lucky that he doesn't have a personality. Other Titles - "Lucky for you you don't have one." Quantity: 224 kilobyte(s) (1 digital cartoon).
"What's your reaction to being called a 'personality party'?" "It's ridiculous, he does...
Date: 2007
From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0002868
Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The Minister has been called a 'personality party'. A critic thinks this is ridiculous as in his view the the Minister doesn't have a personality. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
NORTH KOREA WELCOMES WINSTON PETERS! "So... How's YOUR personality cult nowadays?" 11 N...
Date: 2007
From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald
Reference: DCDL-0013197
Description: Shows Kim Jung-il shaking hands with Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters. Kim Jung-il asks Peters about his personality cult. In the background is a building with a welcome sign and the North Korea flag flying. On another building in the distance is another building with the portriat of King Jung-il on it. Refers to Winston Peters' visit to North Korea. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"EUREKA! WEVE LOCATED THE ANXIETY GENE!" 2 April, 2004
Date: 2004
From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0004854
Description: Shows a smoking and stressed crocodile-like creature with 4 hands and 2 feet. Cartoon refers to the discovery of the anxiety gene by scientists at deCode, a gene-mining company based in Iceland. The anxiety genes may cause fearful or anxious personalities, contrary to the common belief that personality traits are based on upbringing and experience. Published in The Press, 2 April 2004 Arrangement: This cartoon file was originally delivered to the library within a sub-folder called "archive2004". Quantity: 1 digital image(s). Processing information: This cartoon file was donated to the library with no file extension. On recommendation of the Digital Archivist and with the consent of the donor, a ".jpg" file extension was added to this file in order to ensure it was readable and accessible.
"You're in danger of turning us into a personality based party!" "That's unfair. He doe...
Date: 2010
From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0014026
Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strips, commenting on the foibles of politicians and political issues in New Zealand and published in the Dominion Post. These cartoons tend to reflect the current events of the day without dealing directly with them. Records for the cartoons in this collection have not been enhanced by a full 'scope and contents' as they are essentially self-explanatory and can be searched by key word. They do have subject headings. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"Bad news - the next election could be fought on policy versus personality." "Why is th...
Date: 2003
From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0001278
Description: 'The politician' cartoon strip. The Minister's adviser tells him that since he has neither policy or personality the fact that the next election will be fought on those things will be bad news for him. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"You can always tell a man's character by what he eats!" "Waiter. Cancel my rhubarb foo...
Date: 2003
From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0001458
Description: "The Politician" cartoon strip. The Minister cancels his rhubarb fool when his companion comments that you can tell a man's character by what he eats. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :I read your note myself Dr Brash!.. It definately said "charis...
Date: 2005
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DX-022-146
Description: Father Christmas is in the process of getting a horse down National Party leader Dr Brash's chimney. Brash stands down below, annoyed at the misunderstanding over the present he is getting. An elf at the bottom of the image relays Christmas greetings to the viewer. Extended Title - Merry Christmas Quantity: 1 digital image(s) ..