Politicians' spouses

Date: [ca 1890-1950]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-059

Description: Photographs of men and women, including politicians and their wives, singers and clergy, circa 1880 to 1950, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: ca1895-1902

By: Main, William, 1934-2023

Reference: PAColl-5819

Description: Richard John Seddon and a Liberal Cabinet, with his family, at the residence of the Earle of Crew in 1897, and being presented with a silver trophy by New Zealand Colonists in London in 1902. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1993, 1941-1948

By: Eyre, Patricia Naomi, 1916-2006

Reference: MS-Papers-11851

Description: Transcript of a memoir by Patricia Eyre, wife of New Zealand politician, Dean Eyre, of their family's wartime experience in San Francisco following the bombing of Pearl Harbour. Describes how she and her husband came to be in Hawaii in late 1941 before being evacuated to California in 1942, her search for war work, and her training as a welder working on Liberty ships at the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California. Recounts details of her shift work at the shipyard and of her experience in welding. Also includes informal accounts of her husband's activities with the National Party and of meetings with Peter Fraser and Gordon Coates. Attached are photocopies of her certificates in welding, union membership certificates for the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of America, pay receipts, war savings bond application, and United States War Department Notification of Personnel Action. Source of title - Transcribed Dean Eyre, who later became a National Party figure, was working for an American firm in Hawaii in 1941 at the time of the Pearl Harbour attack. His family, comprising his wife, Patricia, and their son, were evacuated to California. Patricia Eyre wrote an account of their experiences. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript, Photocopied printed matter Provenance: Patricia Eyre gave Ms Judith Trotter this manuscript in Ottawa in 1993

Date: ca 15 Jun 1984

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1984/2786-F

Description: Prime minister Robert Muldoon and his wife Thea, during a press conference at the Beehive Theatrette, Wellington, prior to the 1984 general elections. Photograph taken circa 15 June 1984 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strips with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

Date: 26 June 1984

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1984/3057-F

Description: Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon and Lady Muldoon enter the Wellington Town Hall to a standing ovation from National Party supporters. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson 26 June 1984. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 27 Feb 1992

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s

Reference: EP/1992/0793-F

Description: Beverley Graham, wife of the then Justice Minister Douglas Graham, in the new cottage garden at Vogel House, 75 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt, Wellington. Photographs taken 27 February 1992 by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strips with 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm

Date: 26 Nov 1993

From: The Dames Oral History Project

By: Muldoon, Thea Dale (Dame), 1927-2015

Reference: OHInt-0046/04

Description: Thea Muldoon describes family background; childhood; education at Takapuna Grammar School, Auckland; jobs in accounts until marriage; night school at Seddon Memorial Technical College, Auckland in bookkeeping; meeting Rob Muldoon; courtship and marriage; the first ten years of marriage; the children; domestic chores; Plunket and Karitane. Recalls husband's political life; supportive role in Waitemata Electorate especially fund raising; reference Norman King; involvement in National Party women's committees; Robert Muldoon elected as Member of Parliament for Tamaki in 1960; electorate work especially telephone messages; support of parliamentarians' wives when Robert Muldoon elected Prime Minister; reference Miriam (Mirie) Mackay, Dame Catherine Tizard and Mrs Findlay; parliamentarians' wives' support groups; reference Diana Macintyre, Shirley Adams-Schneider; role as prime minister's wife; functions and visits. Discusses need for public speaking; difficulty of public criticism; strategies for coping with criticism; living in Vogel House; difficulties with staff management; effect of role on time, interests and friends; recreation; Robert Muldoon's personality; the Hatfield's Beach holiday home; overseas trips (state visits); private lunches with Queen Elizabeth; effect of women's movement. Talks about Robert Muldoon's retirement from political life; changes to life after his death; current interests and community involvement; contact with Maori gangs; invitations as guest speaker; involvement with Hospice Movement, Red Cross; reference to Stephen Marsh; receiving the CBE; satisfactions in life; childrens' careers. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Venue - 7 Homewood Place, Birkenhead, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005276 - OHC-005278 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1130.

Date: 18 May 1993

From: The Dames Oral History Project

By: Tizard, Catherine Anne (Hon Dame), 1931-2021

Reference: OHInt-0046/08

Description: Catherine Tizard talks about family background; childhood; family interest in politics; effect of sex education on life; views on treatment of Maori; Maori language; views on biculturalism; life at University of Auckland; meeting future husband, Bob Tizard; courtship and marriage; child rearing; effect of Bob Tizard losing seat in Tamaki in 1960; the decision to return to university to study zoology; difficulty of combining study and child rearing; growing independence; supporting husband as parliamentarian. Discusses reasons for entering local politics; attitudes of council and staff; work as part of panel of 'Beauty and the beast', reference to Selwyn Toogood; importance of this experience; involvement in 1975 (second) United Women's Convention; importance of being involved with women's movement; views on women's choice in having children; amount of work as Governor-General; pressures as mayor of Auckland; actions and reactions during Queen St riots; hostility over Aotea Centre; feelings on being offered the role of Governor-General; public support and opposition. Describes breakup of marriage to Bob Tizard; views on republicanism; course of life; risk taking; most satisfying aspects of life; the future; involvement with charitable and community organisations. Accompanying material - Copy of curriculum vitae Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Venue - Government House, Wellington Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1142. Search dates: 1993

Date: 1940 - 1943

From: Janet Fraser oral history project

Reference: OHInt-0316/2

Description: Janet Fraser speaking at a welcome to Eleanor Roosevelt in 1943 also a talk on the work of the Plunket Society 1940. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011605 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 24 May 1996

From: Janet Fraser oral history project

By: Fraser, Alice Janet Kemp, 1934-2004; Stace, Hilary Janet, 1954-

Reference: OHInt-0316/1

Description: Alice Janet Fraser gives her own birth details and explains her relationship to Peter Fraser. Gives impression of Janet and Peter's relationship. Talks about her maternal grandparents, Alice and Tim Armstrong. Describes Peter Fraser's religious beliefs and his kindness to her; life in Parliament as a child; secondary schooling and academic abilities at school. Talks about Tim Armstrong the politician and contrasts him with Peter Fraser. Explains why her mother was official hostess. Recalls memories of Janet Fraser as a grandmother and compares her to Alice Armstrong. Refers to Janet Fraser's TB (tuberculosis) and talks about her death and funeral. Gives her opinion on socialism and on Janet and Peter Fraser as socialists. Describes 1949 election. Describes imprisonment of Tim Armstrong and Peter Fraser in World War One and what that meant for Janet Fraser and Alice Armstrong. Talks about the Labour Government's role in World War II. Sums up her childhood, and what she thinks motivated politicians at the time. Interviewer(s) - Hilary Stace Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011606 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4003.

Date: [1912-1974]

Reference: ATL-Group-00213

Description: Collection comprises correspondence, postcards, booklets, financial advice, minute extract, newspapers and cuttings relating to Henry Edmund (Harry) Holland and the Holland family. Henry (Harry) Edmund Holland was a trade unionist, socialist, journalist and politician. With his wife Annie (née McLachlan), they had five sons and three daughters. Harry was the Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party (1911-1933) when he died suddenly at Huntly on 8 October 1933, while attending the burial of Te Rata Mahuta, the Māori King. Quantity: 4 folder(s). Physical Description: Manuscripts, clippings, pamphlets Provenance: Donor inherited papers from her late mother Mrs Ngaire Corbin (née Holland), daughter of Roy Holland, son of Harry Holland.

Date: 28 October 1954

From: The Dominion :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-144975-G

Date: [ca 1890-1910]

By: Bartlett & Andrew Ltd

Reference: PAColl-D-0834

Description: Full-length studio portrait. Possibly Louisa Jane Seddon Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 760 x 605 mm

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947

Reference: 1/2-010639-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca 11 February 1974

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1974/0685-F

Description: Sir Keith Holyoake on his 70th birthday, with his wife, Lady Holyoake, pinning a rose onto his lapel, photographed ca 11 February 1974 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1975

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :60 cartoon photocopies published 1975 - 1976 in Sunday News.

Reference: H-358-007

Description: Shows Mike Moore dancing naked in the Garden of Eden. Yve, (Eve or Yvonne Moore) is standing behind some bushes and watching him. Refers by means of several layers of puns to Mike Moore's wedding and to Labour's successful gaining of the Eden electorate. Extended Title - I can't promise Yve Paradise, but we've got Eden Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: Jun 1956

Reference: 1/2-C-22375-F

Description: Walter Nash and Lotty Nash on the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary. They are holding a tray which had been a present from Walter Nash's youngest sister, Emily, fifty years before. Taken by an unknown photographer in June 1956. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1890 - 1899

By: Cole, Philip Tennyson, 1862-1939

Reference: G-829-2

Description: A three-quarter length portrait of the wife of Prime Minister Richard John Seddon, seated on a roll-armed sofa, and holding a fan in her left hand. Probably painted in New Zealand Dated from the estimated date of the painting of Richard John Seddon at G-825-1, by the same artist. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 1200 x 990 mm (sight) Provenance: Purchased from the estate of Mary Seddon, 2001.

Date: 1984-1989

By: Lange, Naomi Joy, active 1950-1998

Reference: 89-232

Description: Comprises congratulations and condolences (outward) and inward and outward invitations; speaking engagements; correspondence; media papers; Medical Complaints Committee papers; expenses; papers as patroness; engagements; overseas diaries; itineraries; and biographical notes Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 box(es). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Partial listing available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs N Lange, Parliament Buildings, Wellington, per Mrs Maureen Davidson, Aug 1989

Date: [ca 1941]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Spencer Digby Studios

Reference: PAColl-5469-040

Description: Francis Nordmeyer, circa 1941. Photograph taken by Spencer Digby Studios. Published in the New Zealand Free Lance - 5 February 1941 Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Spencer Digby Photographer Prudential Building Wellington O1 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).