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DIE PFLANZE IN KUNST UND GEWERBE [aka THE PLANT IN ART AND INDUSTRY ]by Anton Seder. (Gerlach & Schenk, 1886) Color lithographs. 2 vols. 200 plates
Anton Johann Nepomuk Seder (11 January 1850, Munich – 1 December 1916, Strasbourg) was an Art Nouveau designer, art professor and Director of the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) in Strasbourg.
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The date of this unusual poster is unknown, but is estimated to be around the late 1930s to 1940. New Zealand and Australia were major exporters of meat to the UK in the first half of the 20th century. In the year 1938 New Zealand exported around 9 million lamb carcasses and 2 million sheep carcasses to Britain. Figures remained buoyant in the early years of the Second World War, and even in the early 2000s, the UK was still the largest export destination for sheep meat, taking half of the 360,000 tonnes of exports. In recent years China has become a significant export market for our meat.
New Zealand Meat Producers Board: New Zealand [Lamb and flag. ca 1940?]
Eph-D-TRADE-1940-01
Arthur Yates & Company was an Auckland horticultural firm established by Arthur Yates in 1883. Not long afterwards, Arthur moved to Sydney, leaving his brother Ernest in charge of the New Zealand part of the firm. The company has had a high profile in New Zealand, owing in part to its publication of many editions of ‘Yates’ garden guide’; the 79th edition came out in 2017.
Arthur Yates & Co. Ltd, Auckland :Yates' giant Perfection stocks; a collection of six separate colours ... [1931]
Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Yates-1931-01-back
The referendum held in New Zealand in 1949 about bar closing time resulted in a three to one majority in favour of continuing 6 o'clock closing (a measure that had been introduced during World War One). It was not until 1967 that another referendum resulted in bars remaining open until 10 pm. During our postwar baby boom, did the voters of 1949 see posters such as this one, as compelling arguments?
Vote 6 o'clock closing! It means fewer bad debts, more money for family comforts, happier home life. [1948-1949]
Eph-C-ALCOHOL-Hours-1948-03
A small calendar issued during World War Two. This front page includes the rather incongruous heraldic trumpeter with the Fijian coat of arms shown on the trumpet’s banner. The main picture shows an outrigger canoe with a furled sail, rather unusually coloured red and yellow. Other pages show scenes on the Sigatoka River, Cuva Lagoon, Navua River and Gau.
Fiji had become a British crown colony in 1874. In contrast to the peaceful scenes on this calendar, the war period saw changes to the landscape in Fiji, with the erection of fortifications, manned by New Zealand and, later, American forces.
Calendar Fiji 1944
Eph-A-FIJI-1944-01
This pamphlet cover is an example of an illustration by Leonard Cornwall Mitchell, who designed posters and illustrations for the Tourist and Publicity Department in the 1930s. The view here would have been seen from the Lake House (operating from before 1910 until at least the 1950s), and shows the "great cliff of Panekiri, rising almost perpendicularly from the water".
[New Zealand Government Tourist Department] :Lake Waikaremoana, New Zealand. "The sea of rippling waters" / Leonard Cornwall Mitchell. [ca 1930]
Eph-A-TOURISM-Waikaremoana-ca1930-02
