Germany - Foreign relations - Great Britain

Date: 1911

By: Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: C-047-021

Description: A set of vignettes concerning current political and social matters in Christchurch and beyond. 'Music hath charms' shows the Salvation Army band 'leading a mutiny against the City Council' while they play loudly outside the Christchurch City Council buildings. A drunk man, seen in Dunedin, carries a large sandwich board 'Prohibition a blunder'. A cricket player getting bowled relates to 'South African cricketers' against the Australians in their 5th test. A London professor snoozes under a tree, after stating that 'the sun could do all world's work'. Two small boys, one with an executioner's axe, his dead parents behind him, discuss the murder of the parents after his mother refused to give him a penny to buy lollies. Relates to a newspaper account of a boy in Dunedin reacting violently to strict parents, including his trying to hang himself. A self portrait shows Low sobbing into his handkerchief, while he draws Tommy Taylor, but regrets the ending of the political life of Joseph Ward and William Massey for caricature purposes. Councillor Thacker pulling up a tree from Cathedral Square in the process of transplanting it rather that cutting it down. A confrontation between Britain and Kaiser Bill is about importing goods between the two countries. Four elderly men in a punch-up, holding a placard 'Peace perfect peace' refers to Dowieites in Zion City rioting Other Titles - soothe Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - David Low recit [sic] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink 522 x 358 mm

Date: 1911

By: Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: C-047-004

Description: A series of vignettes making comic suggestions about a range of current topics, starting with the implications of an Anglo-German friendship league and an Anglo-American arbitration treaty. The figures depicted include George V shaking hands with Kaiser Bill, 'The new John Bull' dressed in top hat and the Stars and Stripes, references to William Massey, Herries 'Sir Wilfrid' and Sir Joseph Ward, references to penny postage in Australia and to the growing population of the North Island vs the South Island and their respective electoral representation Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink 530 x 403 mm

Date: 1792 - 1794

From: Various artists :[Assorted almanacs and newspaper offprints, mainly British. 1790s-1854].

By: Barber, J, active 1794

Reference: D-013-019

Description: Shows a map of northern France, the Austrian and the French Netherlands, stretching North-South from Ostend to Versailles, and from West-East Abbeville to Charleroi. Bapaume and Cambray are in the centre. The text flanks this central map, and relates battles dating from 28 April 1792 to 26 June 1794. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving and letterpress on sheet 560 x 450 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1952

By: Wesney, Robert Arnold, 1914-1998

Reference: A-341-085/108

Description: Includes: A Nazi mixture - Mother Goebbels fancy cookery (Goebbels stirs the cauldron of German news rations. 1940?) Mein Gott! and I'm fully extended!! (Hitler flees from Father Time. ca 1940) Painful abstraction (Winston Churchill, dentist, extracts the German Navy from Hitler's mouth. ca 1940). Mein Gott, Churchill!! (Winston Churchill is introduced to Hitler as his "protection". ca 1940). Attack on British Isles. (The German Blitzkreig propaganda pushes the enthusiastic German public, which pushes Hitler. ca 1940) Southland fighter plane. (Southland fighter plane sends Hitler, Goebbels, Mussolini running. ca 1940). The March of Liberation. "Seize the world and liberate the peoples to a higher culture" - Mein Kampf. (Clipping from Southland Daily news, 1 June 1940). Naziculture. "Look Josef! There's still some French lilies in my new garden! (Hitler and Goebbels tend a garden almost full of swastika flowers. Southland daily news. 29 June 1940). "Are you sure you chaps won't take a hand!" - "No thanks, we've given up gambling!!" (Hitler plays cards with Chamberlain, and tries to get Stalin and Mussolini to join in. ca 1940) "Who 'bones' the cat?" (Goering, Hitler and Mussolini have managed to get the bone of Trondheim off the Norway dog, but the Lion of the Allies guards a larger bone, which they need. Southland daily news. 10 May 1940). Just like Popeye. Italian Navy spinach [and] Nazi Navy spinach - "We thrive on it!" (Sailor of HMS Faith tucks into a meal of tinned spinach. Southland daily news. 6 July 1940). The water jump (The jockey Hitler stands dejected, stopped by the barrier of the British Navy, from jumping the English Channel. ca 1940). [Use of the trams for multifarious purposes to save petrol: mail services, milk deliveries, furniture removal, kindergarten, drinking bar]. Southland daily news, 24 August 1940. News item - a number of well known cricketers have joined the Air Force. (A German bowler bowls to an R.A.F. batsman. ca 1940). Up - or down? (New Zealand helps Britain to scale the War effort peak, and stop it slipping into the Nazi depths). Southland daily news. [ca 1940]. Outclassed. (As Hitler walks between Denmark and Norway on the earth above him, the Devil considers that he himself is outclassed and will have to resign. ca 1940). Monkey business. (Hitler plays the Italian organ while Mussolini dances monkey-like. Southland daily news. 15 June 1940). ...[Open?] season. They won't let me settle for long nowadays! (Hitler the goose flies over Norway fleeing the guns of the Allied assistance. ca 1940). "We go to bed to forget the strain and worries of the world in sleep!" (And promptly begin dreaming of capturinfg Hitler, ... Mr Nash taking more of our wages ... Postmaster general tampering with our letters ... petrol restriction nightmare. Southland daily news. 17 August 1940). "I tell you guys I'm definitely not playing in this game. You'll have to play on your own marits!! (The Fifth Column briefs the Nazis before their rugby match against Britain. ca 1940) "Let me assist you boys". (The Bluff Harbour bandwagon entertains. ca 1952). What MORE do you want? (Southland rugby player wins many rugby games against other provinces, but still cannot get the NZ Rugby selectors to take notice. 1952) "We'll slay 'em". NZ Boxing champs at Invercargill - Administration vs C C Gerrard; Organisation vs Pat Hughes. (ca 1952) Maybe they'll push if the going gets really tough ... (sportsmen on a cart to sports centre 50,000 miles away. ca 1952) Changing his spots - Mr Hyde [and] Dr Shekel. (Politican taxes alcohol but gives out trust disbursements for the public good. ca 1952). Quantity: 25 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Newsprint clippings stuck to lined paper, images approximately 115 x 162 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Noelene Wesney in 1999.

Date: 1914

From: [Ephemera up to quarto size relating to World War I. 1914-1919]

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper); Wilson & Horton (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-WAR-WI-1914-01

Description: Galley proof. An arrangement of text, including headlines and smaller explanatory text taken from announcements in London on 4 August and Wellington on 5 August. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on flyer, 330 x 143 mm.

Date: 1911 - 1914

By: Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: C-047-041

Description: A skeletal figure labelled 'Wanted' encountering a locked door, marked German. The lock, which the figure is unable to open, is labelled 'British agreements with neutrals'. May refer to events during or immediately before World War I Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink 550 x 322 mm

Date: 1915 - 1916

By: Wyman & Sons Ltd (Great Britain)

Reference: Eph-D-WAR-WI-Great-Britain-1915-02

Description: Shows flags grouped into three groups. each with ten or twelve flags in it. New Zealand is in the first group. The countries involved are: Group 1: Russia, Australia, France, South Africa, Belgium, New Zealand, Great Britain, Serbia, India, Montenegro, Canada, Japan. Group 2: Portugal, Siam, Italy, Liberia, Roumania, Greece, United States, China, Cuba, Panama, Brazil. Group 3: Bolivia, San Domingo, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Peru, Nicaragua, Uraguay [sic], Hayti [sic], Ecuador. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, on poster 575 x 447 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS Papers-1346-344.

Date: 1942

Reference: Eph-B-WAR-WII-Propaganda-1942-01

Description: Flier with text on one side and a picture of a kiwi on the other. The text side stresses the unfairness of Britain's asking New Zealanders to participate in a futile war which Britain is losing. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on both sides of sheet, 300 x 194 mm.

Date: 1914

From: [Ephemera relating to World War I. 1914. Folder 1]

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-1914-07

Description: Ticket with text and the British coat of arms, used as a patriotic badge in Britain. This relates to Germany's reaction to Britain's declaration of war, because of their obligations under their treaty with Belgium (the "scrap of paper"): "For a scrap of paper, Great Britain is going to make war?" asked German politician Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg. Lloyd George commented on this in his speech of 19 September 1914: "This doctrine of the scrap of paper, this doctrine ... that treaties only bind a nation as long as it is to its interest, goes to the root of public law. It is the straight road to barbarism, just as if you removed the magnetic pole whenever it was in the way of a German cruiser, the navigation of the seas would become dangerous, difficult, impossible, and the whole machinery of civilization will break down if this doctrine wins in this war" (Retrieved 19 April 2013 from http://www.gwpda.org/1914/lloydgeorge_honour_1914.html ). This particular ticket was probably given to a New Zealander living in Britain at the time of the First World War. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on paper, 90 x 54 mm, with red seal at lower right, hole at centre top through which is threaded a multicoloured ribbon showing the colours of Belgium and the United Kingdom side by side. Provenance: Donated by Dr Ross Galbreath, Tuakau, in 2013.