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Pictorial style: Leonard Mitchell

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Pictorial style: Leonard Mitchell

Leonard Mitchell is pictured behind his drawing board in 1970. He had spent his career at the government publicity department, designing posters, booklet covers, coins and over 90 New Zealand stamps.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP-NZ Obits-MB to MI-01

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Hamish Thompson, Graphic design – Victorian design to modernism, 1890s to 1940s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/43801/pictorial-style-leonard-mitchell (accessed 16 June 2026).

Story by Hamish Thompson, published 13 December 2013.