Kissing

Date: 2000 - 2009

Reference: Eph-C-LESBIAN-2000/2009

Description: Includes: 2002: It's Kiss-Mass! Featuring!! Pussygirl as Elvis! Drag shows! & Kissing Competition! [Lesbians] only dance, Sat 23 Nov, Bluenote Bar, 9 pm ($5 door) [2002] (2 copies) 2004: The Return of the Drag Kings. 12-14 August @ the Big Kumara, Dixon St (formerly Barney's). Comedy cabaret for anyone who is a man or a woman or thinking of becoming one. R18 some content designed to offend. [Printed by Lithoprint Limited, 2004]. Wellington Lesbian Ball 2004. 8 pm, Saturday 25 September, james Cook Hotel. In one era and out the other [2004] See the subject location GAY for related material. Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs and photocopies on posters, sizes varying around 420 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated from various sources Processing information: Subject headings updated in March 2024 as part of reparative description work.

Date: 1853 - 1856

By: O'Neil, Henry Nelson, 1817-1880; Southgate, William David (Sir), 1941-

Reference: C-115-013

Description: Shows women & children beside a ship in England, farewelling soldiers embarking for India in 1857 to quell the Indian Mutiny. Engraved after an original painting by Henry Nelson O'Neil, with a companion painting entitled "Home Again". The oil painting, 'Eastward Ho! August 1857' was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1858 and is now in a private collection. For the engraving of the latter view see C-115-014. Other Titles - O'Neill Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted steel engraving 570 x 435 mm (sight) Provenance: Purchased by uncle and aunt of donor in 1900; given to donor 1988

Date: 1910

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to the tourism industry, travel agents and agencies. 1900-1949]

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Wellington-1910-01

Description: Postcard shows an illustration of silhouettes of a couple embracing in the back window of a motorcar, under a moon smiling over a city street. The "boot" of the car opens to reveal a strip of photographs of Wellington: Newtown Park, Lambton Quay, wharves, Town Hall, Karori [reservoir], Cuba Street, Lyall Bay, Willis Street, Orinetal Bay, and the Gardens. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on card 141 x 90 mm, with attached photo strip 245 x 41 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, in May 2015.

Date: 1916

From: [Christmas cards sent during the First World War, from and to soldiers and other service personnel. 1914-1916].

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-Christmas-WWI-1916-02

Description: Postcard consisting of a gauze "envelope" embroidered with violets and mimosa. Inside the envelope is place a smaller card showing the greeting: A kiss from France and an embossed illustration of daisies. The verso shows a handwritten message: "To Mr & Mrs Mills, Wishing you the compliments of the season, Xmas 1916 [and an indecipherable signature]" Quantity: 1 embroidered card. Physical Description: Embroidery mounted in card, 90 x 140 mm., and containing loose embossed card 45 x 72 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs J M Standen, Auckland, 2014 Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at PAColl-10252..

Date: 1980

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

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-620

Description: There are three vignettes in this cartoon. In the top right a nearly toothless man is asking his girlfriend for 'a kith'. In the lower left two women are discussing their husbands/boyfriends. One says to the other that "he looks like a Greek god until he opens his mouth, then he looks like the Waitomo Caves!". In the lower right one man is telling another that he's not supposed to kiss with his mouthguard in. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 450 x 320 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-182

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1939-1953 A.N.A. Dance (group of men from United Services), undated; Otago Patriotic Council committee at a social and dance at the Town Hall (includes Mayor of Dunedin, A H Allen & Mrs Allen and others, all named on verso), Aug 1940; Lord Montgomery accompanied by Dr J Kennedy Elliot, examines work being done by W Greenbank at Returned Servicemen's Training Centre, Wellington; Patriotic Fund drive for funds at Hamilton, 1940 (parade), and Dunedin, Oct 1940 (archery competition); playhouse built and furnished by an Invercargill firm to be raffled to raise funds for London victims of air-raids, 1940; send-off for Hastings soldiers; fond farewell at Timaru station, Oct 1939; Timaru soldiers led by Municipal Band marching down the main street, Oct 1939; volunteers enlisting at Auckland, Sep 1939; crowd at Wellington Railway Station waving goodbye from the platform, Oct 1939. Special force in training at Trentham; members of Marlborough branch of National Reserve on guard duty at a military depot; civic farewell for Marlborough soldiers at Blenheim, Oct 1939. Dunedin recruits departing from railway station for training for the Special Force; New Plymouth volunteer at railway station before Special Force left town; Canterbury men for Special Force marching; funeral of Lance-Corporal James Thomas Nelson held at Invercargill includes members of the Special Force, Dec 1939. Napier volunteer nurses who won the Collins Cup V.A.D. competition, and Wellington team who were runners-up; Red Cross nurses at Burnham Military Camp, Dec 1939; training of members of Auckland Calliope Sea Scouts Troop which reformed in Oct 1939; painting a merchant ship `battleship-grey' as a war precaution, Sep 1939 Army Stage Recruiting Rally in Featherston Street, Wellington; Mayor of New Plymouth with waste material collection, Sep 1940; washing-up at Camp; wet canteen; outdoor wet canteen at Burnham, Dec 1939; dental tent, Nov 1939. Patriotic Fund related photographs: Boys' war effort at Westport, 1940 - Collecting pine cones, collecting beer bottles, fretwork, chopping firewood; children's `shop' at Terrace end, Palmerston North, 1940; decorated bicycle at Levin, 1940; horse and cart in main road of Gisborne during petrol restrictions, 1939; stock sale at Waipukerau to raise funds, Dec 1940; Home Guard display at Hastings Watty Nelson (singer) photographed at Otaki with brothers Jack and `Hec' Merrylees (formerly of Dannevirke) of third Echelon, Aug 1940 Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1895-1915]

Reference: PAColl-6904

Description: A large collection of miscellaneous original and copy negatives mostly of Christchurch and the surrounding area. Some are studio portraits of family groups. The rest of the collection includes: a street scene in front of the old railway station; a cycling race; men rowing and canoeing; children playing in a swing park; a brass band playing on board a steamer; various beach scenes including donkey rides; train pulling into Kaiapoi station; a small bach; two girls next to a waterfall; trams and a cyclist going past the Jubliee Clock Tower; the front facade of St Paul's Presbyterian Church; three views of the old Public Hospital next to Hagley Park; the Chamber of Commerce building on the corner of Oxford Terrace and Worcester Street; a copy negative of a carte de visite of a couple kissing; a monument incorporating a tiki on a tall pole and other maori carvings (location unknown); a man at the doorway of his shed with an array of gardening implements; two men pulling a covering back from a hangi pit; the cathedral with a number of trams in front; a tram advertising Ballantynes; a kitchen interior showing a range with kettles on top and a cupboard and dresser with crockery; six Maori on horseback possibly in a procession; a porter bringing a cart of luggage up to a train; five men giving friends piggy backs on the beach; sheep being driven past stock yards; the Avon River; a crowd outside the Avon Rowing Club; Wilson the maltman's horse and cart crossing a bridge; and two images of a harvest festival in a hall with a painted back drop and sheaves of corn arranged in front of it. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-045133 to 045196 and 045802 to 045816 Quantity: 76 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives Processing information: These were originally part of a sequence of unidentified negatives. They were assumed to form a collection due to the similarity in date and location. At the time of entry 1/4-045190 was missing.

Date: 1923 - 1924

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-CINEMA-1923-01

Description: Pamphlet advertising the screening of a film at the Artcraft Theatre, shows illustrations of scenes form the film, in green and red colouring, on back, front and inside spread. The film was directed by Rupert Julian. Other cast members are listed: George Hackathorne, Dale Fuller, Maude George, Cesare Gravina, George Siegmann, Dorothy Wallace, Spottiswoode Aitken, Edith Yorke, Lillian Sylvester, Sidney Bracey. The front cover shows the heads of these actors in a whirling circle, with a couple embracing in the centre. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Brochure, folded, 212 x 135 mm (folded)

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-388-030

Description: Shows a man and a woman in their car, returning from the Wigram Airfield Circuit. The man is leaning over to kiss the woman, which is causing the car to swerve. The woman looks annoyed and the car is being followed by a traffic officer on a motorbike Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and white corrector on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: 2012

By: Powershop (Firm)

Reference: Eph-H-ELECTRICITY-2012-01

Description: Poster advertising an electric power provider shows a photograph of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher holding up a sprig of mistletoe above her head, and puckering her lips ready for a kiss. She stands outside the 10 Downing Street door which is flanked by two policemen. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 1385 x 1000 mm. Provenance: Donated by Phantom Billstickers Wellington, in 2012.

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-387-109

Description: Shows three frames illustrating unrelated topics. The first frame reads: 'Possibility of oil in Canterbury. We could be like Alberta. Have social credit and money galore!' It shows a man pouring oil into a 'Money making machine.' A sign reads, 'No owin' with Owen, he has the dinkum oil'. The next frame is titled 'In the Spring a middle-aged man's fancy heavily turns to thoughts of shove' and it shows a man struggling to mow long grass with a push mower. The final frame shows a man leaning in to kiss a woman while the pair are outside stargazing. Text reads, 'Dave said that, that blankey star passing behind the moon messed up things when he was out cuddling and kissing Jennifer. Which, of course, simply means that the occultation of Jupiter interrupted the osculation of Jennifer.' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on card, 245 x 280 mm

Date: 1915 - 1917

From: Lloyd, May Carte, 1890?-1974 :[Twelve humorous postcards on Australian themes. 1915-1917].

Reference: A-385-010

Description: Postcard shows a young boy and girl in a close embrace. The boy has patched shorts, and the girl's shoelaces are untied. The title presumably means "I'm so much in love that I've left my senses". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Maisie Carte Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 140 x 90 mm.

Date: 1993

From: Slane, Chris, 1957- :Cartoons entered in the 1993 Qantas Media Awards

Reference: A-299-083

Description: Shows a man and a woman greeting each other and waving their arms about in the air. In the next scene, they are hugging and smooching with exaggerated lip movements. In the final scene, more people have joined in and are kissing with protruding lips. Refers to Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies.

Date: 1972

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; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-134-220

Description: A staff party has invaded the general manager's office. One man in overalls is putting with a golf club, two are drinking alcohol and a fourth is seated in the manager's chair kissing a woman worker. Two managers are standing in the doorway and one is complaining to the other with the words that form the title of the cartoon, which refers to workers' participation in management. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone, newspaper clipping and crayon, 310 x 342 mm Provenance: Donation: .

Date: 1960

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :[Cartoons from the Free Lance Collection 1950s, by Nevile Lodge and Winton Bristow]

By: Burt, Ronald Albert, 1928-2007

Reference: B-074-091

Description: Possibly an illustration for a story published in the New Zealand Free Lance. Shows a young Maori woman in sleeveless dress standing with a glass in one hand (the contents emptying onto the floor) and the other hand raised to cover her eyes. In the background a couple are embracing on a sofa. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 420 x 340 mm (with tracing paper overlay)

Date: 1983

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

By: Rowberry, Tim, active 1990s

Reference: Eph-B-CINEMA-1983-01

Description: Shows a heart-shaped inset photograph of a man and woman about to kiss. The text details are on the back in English, French, German, and Italian. Two copies held. Dated from online Gaylene Preston filmography. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on sheet 333 x 221 mm.

Date: 1975

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; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-134-800

Description: This cartoon shows prize giving at a boys' school. The teachers are on the stage and a young woman is giving out the prizes and kissing the boys. The Headmaster is looking on disapprovingly. The boys are all smiling Label on recto dated Wed 10/12/75 Other Titles - Honour Thru' Effort Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone, 320 x 375 mm

Date: 1980 - 1990

By: Wesney, Robert Arnold, 1914-1998

Reference: A-341-071/082

Description: Includes cartoons on various subjects by the man who featured in the television advertisements for Mainland Cheese in the 1980-1990s. Includes: I declare the "Passing of Wind" ceremony open. (David Lange and Geoffrey Palmer outside the Beehive. 1980s). (Accompanied by a poem "It's an ill wind that nobody blows good") On the open road. (A holidaying family drive wedged between two trucks on a dusty fumey road. 1980s?) (Title from accompanying poem). Surely it can't be all dark in the lightness. (A couple embraces, the man wondering if kissing causes cancer - title and interpretation from accompanying poem). Wellington Hospital halving its facilities. "Now for our next trick we will cut the patient in half and thus, eventually, halve the number of patients" / Wes. "Good question, eh!" - "Spot on mate - just repeat - a little louder please" (An oyster talks and an oystercatcher replies - may relate to Kiwis travelling abroad - see accompanying poem "The world is our oyster" typed under "Wynchushudup" and housed with A-341-075) "Wynchushudup, I'm doin' momework". (A schoolboy works at a hand-held calculator, while listening to the radio and watching television - the accompanying poem comments on the bad diction of children). The drummer in a Salvation Army band parade breaks his drum through overzealous drumming. (Accompanied by poem "Me thinks the man protesthe"). The powers that WOT! (A cleaning lady mops the floor around a conference table). [The not so Rarebit]. "Tell him we were only playing leapfrog" (Accompanied by poem "The not so rarebit" concerning the rabbit population problem. A farmer with a gun surprises rabbits "being overly conjugal"). "I've cleaned a lot of windows in my time ... the bloke who brings in Lotto must be blotto!" / Roy Wes. [ca 1987]. (plus photocopy of same) [Sketch of elderly people socialising, including a self-portrait]. Just a word from The Olde Man, Thanks [Roy Wesney as the character from the Mainland Cheese advertisement. 1980s?] Quantity: 12 original cartoon(s) plus photocopy of one of them. Physical Description: Ink and crayon on sheets, sizes varying. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Noelene Wesney in 1999.

Date: 2001

By: Young Women's Christian Association of Aotearoa-New Zealand; Kelly, Deborah, active 2001; Fiveash, Tina, active 2001

Reference: Eph-C-YWCA-2001-01

Description: Poster shows a photograph of a kiss between a man and a woman on a crowded footpath. Both have tattoos on their arms, the woman's being the word "Dad" inside a heart. The logos of Wellington City Council and YWCA are at lower right. One of six posters on the same theme, produced by these two artists. From website at http://tinafiveash.com.au/hey_hetero.html: "Hey Hetero! appeared in Sydney, Adelaide and Wellington, NZ, in 2001, and was invited to Berlin and Melbourne in 2002. Hey Hetero! won the major arts award of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival 2001. Hey Hetero! returns the gaze at heterosexuality: the privileged sexuality which makes gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender movements both possible and necessary. In the form of simulated mainstream 'advertisements', the artwork invites heterosexuality into public discourse." Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 420 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated by YWCA Wellington in 2008. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1684 - Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts (MS-Group-1684). Transfers made from there.

Date: 1960

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Lyons, Bernard Lewis, 1924-1994

Reference: A-352-039

Description: Shows a suited electioneering candidate ("Trumble"), embracing a housewife, while her husband, emptying lawn clippings, explains the situation to his curious neighbour. Dated from the date on a newsclipping of same cartoon, donated at the same time, but not retained. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on sheet 278 x 255 mm. Provenance: The cartoon was given to donor's stepfather Bernard Lewis Lyons (a former political candidate for the Island Bay electorate) by his friend Sir Keith Holyoake.