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Coalition for Homosexual Law Reform poster

A British propaganda poster trumpets the Merchant Navy's role in maintaining that country's vital ocean lifeline.

The German raiders' strikes against shipping in the South Pacific fuelled fears that enemy spies were operating in local ports. Posters, like this, one warned the New Zealand public that 'loose lips might sink ships'.

The Waitomo Caves were reserved in 1906, and they remain a major and significant tourist attraction.

Poster advertising a sideshow exhibit, 'Mexican Rose the 54 stone fat girl' at the 1940 Centennial Exhibition

Much is known of the passengers who made the ill fated Flight TE901 on 28 November 1979

This pro-continuance poster, from the 1920s, shows refers to a claim by two British MPs that prohibition in the USA was not working.

This Independent Order of Rachebites poster-calendar from 1913 includes portraits of temperance leaders W. A. Platt and W. Johnson.

Pro-temperance poster urging Masterton citizens to keep pubs closed in the 1911 vote.

This pro-continuance poster from 1928 urges New Zealanders not to confine themselves to a life of alcohol prohibition.

This pro-continuance poster urges New Zealanders not to follow the United States in banning alcohol and claims prohibition causes more harm than good.

No Pasaran! poster recalling the attack on Madrid on 7 November 1936.

Poster advertising a memorial meeting to the New Zealanders who died fighting in Spanish Civil War.

Nurses Isobel Dodds, René Shadbolt and Millicent Sharples made up the only organised New Zealand contingent to serve in the Spanish Civil War.

Poster promoting the South Island train service

This National Party poster emphasises the perennial election themes of leadership and honesty

Despite this poster's smiling vision of universal prosperity, voters would turn their backs on Labour three years later.

This Labour Party poster from 1938 is notable for its use of bold colours, striking design and simple message.

This Reform Party poster from 1925 illustrates the influence of commercial advertising techniques.

The National opposition led by Sidney Holland came close to victory at the general election on 27 November 1946

The Liberal and Labour Federation is generally considered to have been New Zealand's first organised political party.

Poster appealing to the 'workingmen' to vote in Wellington's 1853 elections.

Liberal John Wallace's 1853 election poster

Mobilisation poster against the war in Vietnam, July 1966

This poster from the 1993 referendum campaign is in support of mixed member proportional representation (MMP).

The New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in Wellington attracted more than 2.6 million visitors, including tens of thousands of rail travellers from all over the country, during its six-month run from 1939 to 1940.

The luxury all-sleeper Silver Star service, introduced in 1971, revolutionised overnight travel on the North Island main trunk line.

Stylised ‘bathing belles’ and other images of women figured prominently in inter-war railway advertising.

This 1948 advertisement was one of hundreds of eye-catching posters, pamphlets and maps produced by the Railways Studios and publicity branch.

This 1923 New Zealand Railways poster offers a four-week Tourist Ticket for each island for £10 (around $810 in today’s money) or a seven-week nationwide pass for £16 5s (around $1,300 nowadays).

Much of the Railways Department’s advertising focussed on promoting family holidays.

Communist Party recruitment poster from the 1940s

New Zealand soldiers at Sling Camp, England, created this cover for a publication in 1916.

Zoom around Charles Haines' The Fun of the Fair poster for the Centennial Exhibition.

Kennedy's Bush was the first Summit Road reserve established by Henry Ell in 1906.
Ell was a promoter of the Port Hills Walkway and a campaigner for preservation of scenery and protection of native birds.