Smith, Ian Douglas, 1919-2007

Date: 1977

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :[One folder of original cartoons concerning world politics. Published in the Auckland Star, August 1977 - December 1979.]

Reference: A-331-055

Description: The cartoon shows two men with a peace treaty. They are waiting for Rhodesian leader Ian Smith to come and sign it, wondering what is keeping him. Next to them is a well built Rhodesian man with an axe and a choppng block, a sign reads, put your head on the block here. Next to him is another Rhodesian, in military uniform, with a sign saying, hand your gun over here. Refers to the troubles in Rhodesia under the leader Ian Smith and to a possible paece treaty. Negatives at PA Collection 5371 Bromhead Collection Extended Title - I can't understand what's keeping that fellow. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 240 x 180mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1972

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

Reference: A-297-099

Description: Three Ethiopian athletes leave a race that is underway and run towards the exit. The other runner is Rhodesian, and possibly represents Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia at the time. Refers to Ethiopia's boycott of the Munich Olympics in protest at Rhodesia, 15 August 1972. Extended Title - Rhodesia. EXIT. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and whiteout on watercolour paper, 190 x 380 mm

Date: 1968

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

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-732

Description: In a single scene, Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia, is hammering in a nail to fix a poster to a fence. The poster says the executions have been carried out, signed Ian Smith. Sparks from the hammered nail fly towards the fuse of a large black bomb with an angry face, labelled Black Africa. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black and white ink, crayon, letratone and pencil, 290 x 395 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: [ca 1967-1970]

From: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]

By: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003; Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: A-454-369

Description: Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith is wearing a military shirt with the tags “Rhodesia” and “Smithy”. He is holding up a medicine bottle with the label “Smith’s Old U.D.I. Remedy – to be taken internally” and is saying “I’ll shake the bottle good and well this time”. Caption reads “The Rhodesian Witch Doctor”. Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink drawing, 245 x 210 mm

Date: 1973

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

Reference: A-297-070

Description: Ian Smith, Premier of Rhodesia, in a safari suit and cracking a whip, walks over the heads of a crowd of black Africans as two people watch from a jail window. The two people appear to be Nelson Mandela (South Africa) and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma), both imprisoned at the time for campaigning for democracy in their own countries. Extended Title - 'Life through Rhodes tinted glasses'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and Chinese white on watercolour paper, 350 x 293 mm

Date: 1971 - 1987

By: Gibbard, Leslie, 1945-2010

Reference: B-142-076/128

Description: Cartoons done by Gibbard while in England commenting on political issues of the day, both in England and overseas from 1971-1987. Quantity: 53 photocopy/ies of cartoons. Physical Description: Photocopies of ink drawings various sizes Provenance: Donation: Mr Les Gibbard, London 1993

Date: 1979

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :[One folder of original cartoons concerning world politics. Published in the Auckland Star, August 1977 - December 1979.]

Reference: A-331-079

Description: The cartoon shows Ian Mith sitting down to a drink with a British falg behind him. He is drinking from a glass that reads, Rhodesian agreement, whic is being filled from a bottle reading, 20,000 lives later. Refers to a peace agreement finally being sorted after so many had lost their lives. Negatives at PA Collection 5371 Bromhead Collection Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 275 x 205mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1977

From: Scales, Sydney Ernest, 1916-2003 :[Editorial cartoons drawn for the Otago daily times, 1976-1978]

Reference: A-289-009

Description: Shows a boat, `S.S. Soviet Aid', travelling up a river. There are large weapons and a Russian flag at the front of the ship. Waiting angrily on the river bank are three plump men (`Black', `Colonel' and `Blimps') standing in bath towels. Refers to black nationalists calling for a military solution to majority rule in Zimbabwe after Ian Smith's refusal to negotiate. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil, pastel Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service..

Date: 1973

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

Reference: A-297-039

Description: Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia, is operating a road block. His hair is in the shape of a map of Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe). Rhodesia took exception to what it saw as interference by other Commonwealth countries in its internal affairs. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on watercolour paper 255 x 160 mm.

Date: 1973

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

Reference: A-297-144

Description: The prime minister of Rhodesia, Ian Smith flies into Salisbury airport, in a Boeing 707, where a group of press reporters wait for him on the runway. He comments to his companion 'I suppose we'll have to tell them they fell off the back of a lorry...'. Santions had been imposed on Rhodesia after Smith declared it independent from the British Commonwealth in 1965. Salisbury was Ian Smith's official residence in Rhodesia. Extended Title - 707. Salisbury. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on watercolour paper, 265 x 343 mm

Date: [1978-1980?]

From: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]

Reference: A-456-154

Description: Cartoon by Ronald Edwin Kennedy depicts a black African boy talking to Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia who is dressed to resemble the Statue of Liberty in the United States. He is wearing a robe and carries a torch above his head in one hand and a tablet inscribed "Rhodesia" in the other. The cartoon is unfinished and a caption above the boy has been whited out. Pencil note outside the frame along the right side reads "Liberty is the only thing you cannot have, unless you are willing to give it to others". A verse in pencil noted on the reverse reads "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died land of the pilgrims pride, from every mountain-side let freedom ring.". Printed number bottom left reads "GE 656". Refers to moves by Ian Smith as Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 1978 to negotiate a settlement with black nationalist leaders as the country moved away from white minority rule towards becoming Zimbabwe. Verse noted on the back is the first verse of a patriotic American song "My country, "tis of thee" with lyrics written by Samuel Smith. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink drawing, white typex, within printed Ronken frame, 210 x 250mm. Notes in pencil along one side and on reverse.

Date: [ca 1967-1983]

From: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]

By: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003; Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: A-454-118

Description: Prime Minister of Rhodesia Ian Smith is standing on a barrel of gunpowder with a lit fuse about to reach the barrel. The words "Rhodesia UDI" (which stands for the Unilateral Declaration of Independence) is the source of the fuse. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink drawing, 200 x 290 mm

Date: 2008

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0006982

Description: Shows three men sitting on a park bench chatting. One of them has a newspaper with a headline reading 'Mugabe plunders on'. He comments that Ian Smith, former white Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) said that blacks didn't know how to behave. The reference is to Mugabe's reign of terror. One of the other men thinks he is talking about the All Blacks and the third says the comment can apply to them too. This reference is to the several incidents of bad drunken behaviour by All Blacks. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1976

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :[Original cartoons published in the Auckland star, 1976].

Reference: A-347-003

Description: Shows Ian Smith the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, in a cooking pot labelled Rhodesia. Smiling Rhodesians are adding wood to that already beneath the pot. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - BROMHEAD Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on sheet, 154 x 228 mm, stuck to board (title stuck to board separately)

Date: 1965

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

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-306

Description: Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, is portrayed as a rugby player in a game 'S. Rhodesia v. Commonwealth'. He is clutching a ball labelled 'Independence' and breaking away from the other players who are the Prime Ministers of the Commonwealth countries and who are calling out "Stop him!', 'Tackle him!', Illegal tactics!', 'Dump him1!', How about THAT, ref!' and 'Order him off!'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone and pencil 310 x 480 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.