Foster, Susan E, 1946-

Date: 1981

By: Foster, Susan E, 1946-

Reference: PA6-653

Description: Photographs relating to an exhibition Foster curated, `The Fall and high rise of Lambton Quay', for the City Gallery, Wellington, in 1981. The photographs are of buildings situated on Lambton Quay. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 card with 44 b&w photographic prints. Physical Description: Photographs mounted on cardboard 20.2 x 64.3 cm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - 2003-064 : Foster, Susan, 1946- : Papers.

Date: 1984-1995

From: National Library of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5801-4

Description: Quantity: 123 b&w original photographic print(s). 6 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: ca1984-ca1995

From: National Library of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5801-1

Description: Mainly records of National Library events which include gifts of books from Poland and Yugoslavia, a delegation of Librarians from China, the official opening of the National Library, the New Vacuum Freeze Dryer for Conservation, the powhiri for Dick Grace the first Maori Manager, celebration for Women's Suffrage Day, Princess Anne visiting, the presentation of the Missoula Peace Quilt, National Library Children's Days, 25th anniversary of setting up the library by act of parliament, and the initiation of the talking book service. Most of the rest of the images record the construction of the National Library building, people and occassions connected with this, the building's interiors, and services provided. Quantity: 101 b&w original photographic print(s). 76 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1860s-1981

By: Foster, Susan E, 1946-

Reference: PAColl-7927

Description: Photographs relating to an exhibition Susan Foster curated, `The Fall and high rise of Lambton Quay' for the City Gallery, Wellington, in 1981. The collection comprises original photographs and copies of photographs, drawings and maps showing Lambton Quay from the 1860s to 1981. Also shown are the ptemises of W J Lankshear, Ferguson & Osborn, Pastoral House, Gresham Hotel, State Insurance Building, Barton Silks Ltd, Midland Hotel, Collie Billman Ltd, Union Bank and Stewart Dawsons. Some photographs were taken by Shona Watson, and one was provided by the Evening Post. A number of images were provided by the Alexander Turnbull Library. Susan Foster was curator of the ATL Cartoon Archive for several years during the 1990s Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s). 9 colour original photographic print(s). Transfers: Transfer from 2003-064. Susan Foster papers.

Date: 2 Nov 1998 - 5 Nov 1998

By: Foster, Susan E, 1946-; Webb, Margaret, 1914-2001

Reference: OHColl-0552-1

Description: Margaret Webb was born in Christchurch in 1914, the daughter of photographer Steffano Webb and Beatrice Webb (nee Buss). Describes her mother as very musical. Talks about her father's photographic studio and the nature of his photography which included portraits, wedding, debutante and school photos. Describes his huge camera. Recalls attending St. Margaret's College and Rangi Ruru. Describes social events where she was usually chaperoned. Talks about her decision to become a nurse, her desire to travel and her nursing training. Recalls going to Sydney on the `Wanganella' in May 1939 and then on to London on the `Ormond'. Notes that she travelled with her architect friend Margaret Munro. Describes her impressions of London and first nursing job at Kensington. Recalls concerns about the likelihood of war, its outbreak and the change in London. Describes signing up for Queen Alexandra's nursing service, being called up immediately, going to Aldershot and then France. Describes her feelings about this, loneliness, discomfort and fever from injections. Recalls being lectured on running a ward, setting it up and nursing for some months before action. Describes air raid warnings and being shifted to a tented hospital just before their station and hospital ship were bombed. Talks about refugees everywhere, going to another hospital, wearing tin hats and gas masks and tracer bullets while going down to the wharf and leaving France. Mentions arriving in Liverpool and some brief leave before being called up again and going on the troopship `Empress of Canada' which carried Scottish soldiers. Describes sailing to Egypt and going to the Sudan. Discusses wearing a white uniform and topee in incredible heat and going across the desert in army trucks. Notes that this was the Eritrean campaign and her hospital was the 32nd General Hospital. Recalls the hero of the campaign was Brigadier Slim who became a patient. Describes the social life in Khartoum including dancing on the banks of the Nile. Recalls British ships coming up the Nile carrying tanks and the arrival of General Montgomery. Describes being posted to Palestine, Gaza and then the hospital ship `Oranje' to South Africa. Talks about being posted to No. 1 General Hospital on the Nile, returning to England as a theatre nurse in Dorset, and being en route to a new posting in Lahore on VE Day. Notes that she had become a Captain. Recalls being posted to Assam and then Gauhati for the rest of the war and treating emaciated soldiers from the Burma Road. Comments on leave while nursing and lifelong friends made as a result of the war. Recalls returning to New Zealand in 1946 and the difficulties of settling down. Describes working in the plastics unit at Burwood. Mentions Dr. Manchester. Talks about studying maternity nursing and going to Gisborne before doing Plunket training in Dunedin and nursing in Ashburton and Christchurch. Interviewer(s) - Susan Foster Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2492.

Date: [ca 1890-1900]

By: Foster, Susan E, 1946-; Beckett, Ethel Mary, active 1890s; Beckett, Amy Middleton, -1964; Beckett, Thomas Wrench Naylor, 1839-1906; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6244

Description: Photographs, mostly of the South Island, from the collection of the Beckett family. Most were taken by Ethel Mary Beckett, with some being the work of Amy Middleton Beckett. The work of Wheeler & Son, of Christchurch, and Albert E Winzenberg of Masterton is also represented. A photograph of Palmerston Atoll, in the Cook Islands, is included in the collection. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-181858-G to 1/2-181894-G Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s). 37 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1996 - 1998

By: Garland, Nicholas, 1935-; Foster, Susan E, 1946-

Reference: A-294-024/033

Description: Includes self-portrait caricatures on letters and faxes written relating to his visit to New Zealand in 1997. Dates of the letters/faxes are: 17 October 1996, 22 May 1997, 5 October 1997, 14 October 1997, 3 December 1997, 4 December 1997, 25 January 1998, 5 March 1998. Quantity: 9 drawing(s). 4 photocopy/ies (faxed copies). Physical Description: Ink drawings and text, or faxes/photocopies, on paper 302 x 210 mm.

Date: 1967

By: New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd.; Foster, Susan E, 1946-

Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-Rangitane-1967

Description: Includes menus issued during a voyage on the New Zealand Shipping Company vessel, M.V. "Rangitane", from New Zealand to England in July 1967, under Captain K Barnett. Also includes "Welcome aboard" funnel-shaped pamphlet, passenger list, plans of passenger accommodation (one dated May 1963 and one dated February 1966), Notes for passengers, Ports of call and shore excursions, two copies of a postcard of the ship, and a pamphlet about the Panama Canal. The menus have covers featuring different British scenes and buildings, and two feature Bermuda and Miami themes. The historic buildings featured on the menu covers include: Norwich Cathedral, The Tower of London, Big Ben, Mount St Michael, Peterborough Cathedral, Windsor Castle, Middle Temple Lane, St Bride's from Bride Lane, Edinburgh Castle. Quantity: 20 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying below 250 mm. Provenance: Donated by Susan Foster in 2003. Transfers: Other material - Research notes for art exhibitions transferred to Drawings & Prints..

Date: 1967

From: [Ephemera, programmes and booklets relating to rugby union football played by New Zealanders or in New Zealand. 1967].

By: Foster, Susan E, 1946-

Reference: Eph-A-RUGBY-1967-01

Description: A ticket for a rugby match in Twickenham, attended by Susan Foster who assembled this collage in 1967, and drew a small sketch of a rugby match on the paper, with NEW ZEALAND WON in large letters beneath the ticket. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on card.. Physical Description: Letterpress on card 78 x 92 mm, stuck to ink drawing on sheet 229 x 180 mm. Provenance: Donated by Susan Foster in 2002.

Date: 1 Mar 2010

By: Gorbey, Ken, 1942-; Foster, Susan E, 1946-

Reference: OHColl-1000-1

Description: Interviewer(s) - Susan Foster Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001676 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 1 interview(s).

By: Foster, Richard H B, active 1973-2017; Foster, Susan E, 1946-

Reference: OHColl-1001-1

Description: Interviewer(s) - Susan Foster Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001677, OHDL-001678 Quantity: 2 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). Physical Description: Sound files - wave files

Date: 10 August 2005

From: National Dance Archive of New Zealand Oral History Project

By: Kerr, Russell Ian, 1930-2022; Foster, Susan E, 1946-

Reference: OHInt-0208-07

Description: Quantity: 13 Electronic document(s). 7 audiocassette(s). 1 Interview(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Search dates: 2005

Date: [1979-1992]

By: Foster, Susan E, 1946-

Reference: 2003-064

Description: Comprises minutes and related papers of the New Zealand Art Gallery Directors' Council, of which Foster was executive director and research notes and background material relating to an exhibition Foster curated, `The Fall and high rise of Lambton Quay' for the City Gallery, Wellington, in 1981 Source of title - Supplied Arrangement: The papers have been kept in the order in which they were received Susan Foster was executive director of the New Zealand Art Gallery Director's Council from 1981 to 1991 Quantity: 18 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms Foster, Wellington, Feb 2003 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transferred to the Photographic Archive - To Photographic Archive - 1 card with 44 black and white photographic prints (PA6-653).

Date: [1988-1997]

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8099-1

Description: Correspondents entered in the Name field; includes three sample pen nibs Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1999 - 2001

By: Brockie, Robert Ellison (Dr), 1932-; Ball, Murray Hone, 1939-2017; Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Clark, Laurence, 1949-; Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945-; Greenall, Frank, 1948-; Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-; Hodgson, Trace, 1958-; Hubbard, James, 1949-; Nisbet, Alastair, 1958-; Paynter, William, 1949-; Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Slane, Christopher, 1957-; Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Webb, Murray, 1947-; Winter, Mark, 1958-; Walker, Malcolm, 1950-

Reference: C-133-058

Description: Susan Foster, Curator/Manager of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive from 1992 to end 1999, is shown as a cabaret artist on stage, watched admiringly by the seventeen cartoonists who surround her. Susan Foster left the Archive to live in Berlin for two years. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, 420 x 592 mm

Date: 1996 - 1998

By: Garland, Nicholas, 1935-; Foster, Susan E, 1946-

Reference: A-294-037

Description: Page 2 of an undated letter to Susan Foster (page 1 missing and might include date). Includes a caricature self-portrait sitting at his desk with a hot drink, below which is a potted autobiography. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) as part of letter. Physical Description: Ink drawing and holograph on laid letterhead paper, 297 x 210 mm

Date: 2004-2013

By: Foster, Susan E, 1946-; Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: OHColl-0989

Description: An oral history project conducted by Susan Foster which explores the work of cartoonists and the role of cartoons in the New Zealand media industry. Comprises twenty-five interviews with Alan Moir, Garrick Tremain, Tom Scott, Bill Paynter, Trace Hodgson, Jim Hubbard, Murray Webb, Gavin Ellis, Ian F. Grant, Mark Winter, Laurence Clark, Bob Brockie, Malcolm Walker, Murray Ball, Malcolm Evans, Guy Body, Frank Greenall, Peter Bromhead, Anthony Ellison, Rod Emmerson, Al Nisbet, Chris Slane, Richard Foster, Tim Pankhurst, and Barbara Foster. Title taken from item. Quantity: 25 Interview(s). 24 digital sound recording(s). 10 Electronic document(s) digital abstracts. 1 printed abstract(s). 102 C60 cassette(s). Search dates: 2004 - 2013

Date: 10, 16 and 23 November 1993

From: New Zealand Cartoon Archive: Oral history recordings

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-; Foster, Susan E, 1946-

Reference: OHInt-0454/3

Description: Oral history interview with cartoonist Eric Heath conducted by interviewer Susan Foster. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) transcript. Search dates: 1993-11-10 - 1993-11-23

Date: 10 September and 21 October 1994

From: New Zealand Cartoon Archive: Oral history recordings

By: Wrathall, William George Picton, 1931-1995; Foster, Susan E, 1946-

Reference: OHInt-0454/2

Description: Oral history interview with cartoonist Bill Wrathall conducted by interviewer Susan Foster. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) agreement form and transcript. Search dates: 1994-09-10 - 1994-10-21

Date: 1992-1994

By: Alexander Turnbull Library. New Zealand Cartoon Archive; Sullivan, James, 1946-; Foster, Susan E, 1946-

Reference: OHColl-0454

Description: Oral history interviews with Sid Scales, Eric Heath, and Bill Wrathall. Quantity: 3 printed abstract(s). 3 interview(s). 17 C60 cassette(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Search dates: 1992 - 1994 Processing information: This record was updated on 13 August 2018 as the recordings of the Cartoonists Convention held 21-22 June 2001 at the National Library are now held at Library reference OHColl-0384.