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Coalition for Homosexual Law Reform poster

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

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

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.

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.