Research Catalog

Title

"Wish you were here" : the story of New Zealand postcards / William Main & Alan Jackson.

Author

Main, William.

Publication

Wakefield via Nelson, N.Z. : New Zealand Postcard Society, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jackson, Alan.
• New Zealand Postcard Society.

Description

126 p. : ill.; 17 x 22 cm.

Subject

Postcards > New Zealand

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 115) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction -- Early New Zealand postcards -- Collecting New Zealand postcards by theme (Advertising ; Antarctica ; Artists ; Aviation ; Bridges ; Cartoons ; Children ; Churches ; Comics ; Disasters ; Exhibitions ; Farming ; Flora & fauna ; Giveaways ; Glamour ; Greetings ; Maori ; Mining ; Modern ; Music ; Novelties ; Personalities ; Pets ; Post Offices ; Railway ; Road transport ; Royalty ; Schools ; Ships ; Shipwrecks ; Social history ; South Pacific ; Sporst ; Stage & screen ; Stewart & other offshore islands ; Timber industry ; Topographic ; Trams ; World War One ; World War Two ; X, Y and Z) -- Icons of postcard publishing in New Zealand (Beattie ; Muir & Moodie ; Pringle ; Radcliffe ; Smith ; Zachariah)
• Other significant publishers (Brett Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd. ; Coulls Somerville Wilkie ; Colourview Publications ; Frank Duncan & Co. ; Ferguson Taylor ; Graphic Series ; Harding & Billing ; Littlebury ; National Publicity Studios ; Hugh & G.K. Neill ; Overseas publishers of New Zealand postcards ; Pictorial Publications ; W.A. Price ; A.H & A.W. Reed ; Royal Series ; N.S. Seaward ; Smith & Anthony ; S.M. & Co. ; Tanner Bros. ; Whitcombe & Tombs) -- Important photographers (Aldersley ; Brusewitz ; Buckland ; Denton ; Deste ; De Tourret ; Earland ; Ellerbeck ; Ferrier ; Gaze ; Goodall ; Guy ; Iles ; Jenkinson ; Jones ; Mahan ; Martin ; McAllister ; McCusker ; Morris ; Nees ; Northwood ; Pattillo ; Peart ; Ring & Ingster ; Schmidt ; Sorrell ; Spencer ; Tibbutt ; Tomlinson ; Wilson ; Winkelmann ; Winzenberg)
• Postcard cameos (Harry Rountree ; Wreck of the Marguerite Mirabaud ; Staturs & memorials ; Pelorus Jack ; Fire brigade greeting cards ; Rimutaka incline ; The life and times of Postcard 3585) -- Appendices (Regional listing of New Zealand postcard publishers ; An alphabetical listing of names in the regional listing ; Some hints and guidelines on collecting New Zealand postcards: starting a collection ; The pricing of postcards ; Dealers in postcards ; Collecting organisations ; Institutions with postcard collections ; Further reading ; Glossary ; Notes on the printing of postcards ; Postmarks & postal regulations ; Epilogue)

ISBN

0476011132

LCCN

^^2005440394

OCLC

• 62097068
• SCSB-11230096

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library