Cleaning

Date: 1984

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-336-117

Description: Shows a man returning home from work to find his wife sitting in an armchair with a glass of wine and a cigarette. Refers to the Cleaner's Union pay dispute which had expanded to include workers in Auckland. Negatives at PA Collection 5371 Bromhead Collection Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 190 x 185mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-651-001/023

Description: 23 cartoons on political and social subjects published in the Otago Daily Times. Europeans clean-up after the Americans' bloody their hands with oil deals Rural NZ angry following power price increases. Michael Cullen and Winston Peters play the sweet tune of "superannuation" leading the public to their demise. Swiss Government permit their army to carry guns when peacekeeping for the first time. Room for only one dairy industry trader in NZ's global outreach. A choice must be made between the NZ Dairy Group and Kiwi William Hague loses the British election to Tony Blair. Michael Cullen reassures the public the political parties can reach a concensus over superannuation. Public confidence is low over Air NZ's ability to make good management decisions following their purchase of Ansett. Winston Peters climbs back into the picture of superannuation ready to kick it around as a political football. The Labour Party woo Winston Peters over their new super scheme. Air NZ's purchase of Ansett seen as the white elephant that will end up grounding the Air NZ fleet. Publicans question the significance of second hand smoke in bars compared with second hand beer. Public cynicism of Michael Cullen's proposed Superannuation scheme. Laila Harre places the issue of paid parental leave at the Prime Minister's doorstep demanding it be dealt with now. The Public Health system is reeling from ongoing restructuring and unable to deal their basic functions. Public opinion that the lowering of the drinking age leads to a lack of sober youth to fight for the country. A new ever demanding creature has been given birth by the government - venture capital. Michael Cullen hails the budget as 'prosperity in our time'. Michael Cullen disparagingly hopes that the Prime Minister is not playing fast and loose with the country's money. Airline accidents impact on New Zealanders. Local council members seek for youth to be represented on council. Could this be Jim Anderton's next big idea, the people's airforce with armed troops flying hang gliders? NZ taxpayers show their displeasure with funding the Prime Minister's settlement for defamation in the Yelash case. Restuaranteer's reactions to the proposed 50% smoke free legislation. Helen Clark tries to make the Green Party seem more palatable to Alliance leader, Jim Anderton. Quantity: 23 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size

Date: 2002

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-674-027/046

Description: Cartoons on political and social issues. National Party leader, Jenny Shipley expresses hurt over the medias reporting of her retirement announcement. Comment on the New Zealand Cricket team getting into the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) through the backdoor. Shows a tertiary student weighed down by a huge student debt. Helen Clark walks with Titewhai Harawira on Waitangi Marae unrecognised by local Maori. Shows Finance Minister, Michael Cullen at the controls of Air New Zealand trying to reassure the flying public. Shows big banks slashing interest rates as a response to the fledgling Kiwi Bank. Comment on the Greens response to environmental disasters as long as there is a media presence. Helen Clark and Bill English outline their versions of closing-the-gaps strategies. Shows film director, Peter Jackson as Lord of the Oscars for Lord of the Ring's 13 nominations Australian Prime Minister, John Howard receives a box of bleeding heart chocolates from Helen Clark. Shows Ian Fraser about to assume his new position as head of TVNZ. Obituary to actor Kevin Smith with a Shakespearean quote. Comment on the Privacy Law that exposes a Judge for viewing pornography yet won't reveal if your flatmate is a homicidal maniac with a history of mental illness. Comment on the Alliance Party dealing with dissension in its ranks. A soldier is about to shoot his own foot. Two young men wonder where it all went wrong when women can talk openly about their vaginas yet a male judge can't look at vagina's in private. Shows Nandor Tanczos with his new Maori Sovereignty flay, a cross between a dope plant and unfurling koru. Comment on the poor season the Wellington Super 12 team, the Hurricanes have had. Michael Cullen and the Listeners, Gordon Campbell receive the award for getting something so wrong. They predicted that Lord of the Rings would be a huge drain on the NZ taxpayer. Bill English brings Helen Clark his own head on a plate as Labour surges in the polls. Obituary to Goon and poet, Spike Milligan along with a piece of poetry. Quantity: 20 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1884-1950s

From: Ormsby family : Papers

Reference: MSY-5008

Description: Contains a variety of materials on; an 1884 meeting in Alexandra (Pirongia) on the establishment of a Maori committee to handle issues affecting the locals such as land issues of the time; minutes of a further meeting held in Te Kopua in 1885; also contains printed matter on medical health and care, food and preparation; garden hints; home and hygiene; recipes; a change of address form; newspaper cuttings of roses; articles on how to play poker and one feature article on the creation of a Nicobarese dictionary Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter

Date: 1950 - 1969

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-388-014

Description: Shows a woman on her hands and knees, scrubbing her kitchen floor. Her son has just arrived home from rugby practice and is covered in mud. He is leaving muddy footprints on the floor Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and white corrector on card, 205 x 255 mm

Date: 1973

From: Various cartoonists :Cartoons from the New Zealand News, 1970s

Reference: A-297-210

Description: A night scene in pouring rain. A man walking in the street with an umbrella looks up to a neighbouring roof, where another man is kneeling, calling out. The man on the roof holds a broom and is dressed only in underpants or swimming trunks. He appears to have been clearing out his gutters or sweeping the roof. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 151 x 191 mm

Date: 1955

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-386-031

Description: Shows a husband, wife and three young children in their kitchen. The wife snaps at her husband as she goes to pick up the youngest child who is dirty after leaning on the oven door. A newspaper lies on the floor with the headline 'Fires caused by dirty ovens' The words '"Ovens" cartoon, No 110, 26th July '55' are written in blue coloured pencil on the back of the cartoon The title appears in faint or rubbed out pencil underneath the cartoon Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and white corrector on card, 253 x 278 mm

Date: 1977

From: New Zealand. Department of Health: [Posters and ephemera around A3 size. 1970-1989]

By: E C Keating (Firm); New Zealand. Department of Health

Reference: Eph-C-HEALTH-NZDH-1977-02

Description: Poster is an arrangment of text with 16 suggestions about fresh air, floor and furniture cleaning, cleaning of wash-basins, ledges, windows, attachments; maintenance of heating and fires; emptying of waste paper baskets, dusting of desks, maintenance of playgrounds, shelter sheds, sanitary facilities, swimming baths. Children should be instructed in personal hygiene and action should be taken when communicable diseases occur. Inscriptions: 98304E-5,000/7/77 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph, 419 x 285 mm.

Date: 1938

By: New Zealand. Department of Health. Division of School Hygiene

Reference: Eph-C-HEALTH-1938-01

Description: Broadsheet listing the duties and processes to be followed by cleaning staff at schools. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 440 x 285 mm.

Date: 2017

By: Keep New Zealand Beautiful Society

Reference: Eph-C-WASTE-2017-01

Description: Poster announcing an event shows the logo of the organisation at top left, and listing the necessary equipment that will be provided by the organisation for the clean-up. It shows three photographs of people involved in clean-up activities, and a map shape of New Zealand at the right, filled with green leaves. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 420 x 297 mm.

Date: 1963

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

Reference: B-133-121

Description: Shows two men having a drink in a bar. The bartender is filling up a glass for them 'on the house'. The next scene shows a man talking to his wife and children who are sitting on a couch. The third scene shows a man leaning against a wall as a woman scrubs the floor nearby. She has a surprised expression on her face. The last scene shows a woman calling out to her husband, who is working in the garden, that it's time he stopped working and went for a drink. Refers to life in 1963. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, 245 x 345mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1992

From: Copies of cartoons published in Broadsheet between 1990 and 1997.

Reference: H-709-008

Description: Shows a woman about to kick her male partner in the bum as he kneels down looking behind the television and tells her how dirty it is behind there. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies.

Date: 1980 - 1989

From: Courtney, Helen Kathleen, 1952- :[One hundred and fifty seven cartoons on social, feminist and political issues in New Zealand, ca. 1975-1990.]

By: Broadsheet (Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: A-368-005/029

Description: Cartoons on social, feminist and political issues in New Zealand by Helen Kathleen Courtney. Quantity: 25 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink drawings, and one magazine clipping, sizes vary.

Date: 1950

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Large works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Reference: C-127-265

Description: Women leaning out of windows spring cleaning a house. One of the women is holding a cage with birds inside it and below her is a cat on a window ledge. In the lower half of the image, there a two areas which have hinged flaps which lift up to reveal other images. It is likely that this is a study for the tapestry "Women at Work" Page 117 of Margaret Taylor's listing of the collection Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil paper, 455 x 339 mm

Date: 1955 - 1969

By: A C Nottingham & Son Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-CLEANING-1960s-01

Description: Booklet containing an alphabetically arranged list of cleaning hints, under headings such as Acid stains, Babies' napkins, Bath, Bites, Blankets ... The introduction says it is a booklet designed for the young housewife and issued by the Housewives' Aid Department of A C Nottingham & Sons. The cover shows a beautifully clean tidy sitting room with curved sofa, two upright armed chairs, and a coffee table holding a glass sphere containing a rose. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 18 pages, 148 x 123 mm. Provenance: One copy donated by Shirley Barclay, for the McLaughlin family, in 2010. One copy purchased 2016.

Date: 1900 - 1909

From: Low, David 1891-1963 :Caricatures and cartoons [ca 1905-1916]

Reference: B-025-010

Description: A cleaning woman with a bucket and scrubbing brush, speaking to her large and imperious mistress, a middle-aged woman with a book in her hand. Refers to the mistress's complaints that the cleaning woman is interrupting her reading, and the impossibility of silencing a scrubbing brush Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink 200 x 255 mm

Date: 1968 - 1975

From: [Ephemera advertising cleaning products, cleansers, bleaches, laundry powders, chemical compounds, brushes, mops. 1900-1989]

By: Homcare (Firm, 1970s)

Reference: Eph-A-CLEANING-1970s-01

Description: Booklet explaining the benefits and uses of Swipe bio-degradable detergent. Also recommends HLD (home laundry detergent) and Somethin' Else (detergent concentrate). Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, each 177 x 125 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 2005.

Date: 1974

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 boxes of cartoons drawn for the "Dominion", 1970-1980s?].

By: Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: C-133-018

Description: The cartoon shows a line of cars coming off a ship waiting to be steam cleaned. At the front of the line is a Rolls Royce that has a sign on it reading, for foot & mouth clean up. Refers to a port hold up as cars are steam cleaned. Extended Title - Port hold up as 400 used cars queue up for steam clean at an estimated rate of about 3 an hour. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 640 x 500mm.

Date: 2007

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0008127

Description: A couple are talking to each other in the dark. The man asks his partner to talk dirty. She talks about cleaning the house. Refers to the practice of sex talk in a sexual relationship. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DX-002-156

Description: Shows a woman doing the vacuming. He reads a newspaper and lifts his legs so she can vacumn under then. He keeps his legs up even after she has finished vacuming by him due the sensitive nature of the article he is reading. Extended Title - 'A nip in the air?' Quantity: 1 digital image(s).