Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand

Postcard, 'Samoa Yielded without a Struggle.'

Object | Part of History collection

item details

NamePostcard, 'Samoa Yielded without a Struggle.'
ProductionThe New Zealand Observer; publisher; 1914; New Zealand
William Blomfield; cartoonist; 1914; New Zealand
ClassificationVisual and Verbal Communication, postcards, cartoons
Materialspaper, printing ink
DimensionsOverall: 139mm (width), 88mm (height)
Registration NumberGH023110
Credit linePurchased 2011

Overview

A humourous depiction of New Zealand's bloodless annexation of the German colony of Samoa at the start of WWI.