Prisons - Design and construction

Date: 1839 - 1841

By: Austin, John Gardner, -1905

Reference: A-099-010

Description: A plan for Darlinghurst Gaol, Sydney with wings for various offenders around a central round tower. The wings include areas for debtors, condemned cells, capital felonies, misdemeanours, boys, females. The plan is signed by Captain George Barney, and Colonel Mortimer William Lewis Extended Title - Issued by: The Colonist, Sydney Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 242 x 165 mm

Date: 18 Nov 1998, 24 Jun 1999 - 18 Nov 1998 - 24 Jun 1999

From: `Back to the drawing board' - Hamilton architects oral history project

By: Penfold, Shirley Anne, 1934-; Attwood, Athol, active 1999

Reference: OHInt-0483-13

Description: Shirley Penfold was born in Hamilton in 1934. Describes joining the Ministry of Works as a draughting cadet and studying architecture extramurally through the University of Auckland. Discusses the difficulties of studying long term extramurally and eventually taking the Public Service draughting exam. Describes projects worked on including the Waikeria Prison Farm, Paremoremo and Ruakura. Talks about work throughout the country beautifying before the Royal Tour in 1953-1954. Recalls marrying Peter Penfold, having her first child in 1962 and doing some work from home for Errol Care-Cottrell and Dick Mercer. Describes returning to the work force doing mainly domestic architecture for Errol Care-Cottrell before working for the Ministry of Housing. Mentions restructuring in 1984, working for the Ministry of Works on University of Waikato projects and restructuring at the Ministry of Works. Discusses Ministry of Works District Architect Andy Anderson, his encouragement of staff and involvement in the Operatic Society. Comments on the boom time for architecture after World War II. Mentions working for Richard Mercer. Comments on the architect-client relationship. Describes how as a draughtsman she is unable to supervise buildings but can take projects to the building consent stage. Mentions her fee structure compared with architects. Discusses changes in designing since the 1950s, particularly the trend towards outdoor living. Talks about being the only woman in the architects' division of the Ministry of Works in 1953. Discusses attitudes to her as a woman and the pressure to do a better job. Describes being sent back to the draughting pool after her marriage. Discusses being a PSA delegate, fighting for equal pay and the effect of this. Describes being supervisor of draughting services at the Ministry of Housing. Describes the difficulty of moving from Hamilton to Auckland to complete her architectural study and her desire to have done so. Interviewer(s) - Athol Attwood Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3104.

Date: 28 Jul 1999

From: `Back to the drawing board' - Hamilton architects oral history project

By: MacDonald, Alan Donald, 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0483-10

Description: Alan MacDonald was born in Christchurch in 1932. Describes part of his education at the Friends'(Quaker) School in Wanganui. Mentions an interest in both drawing and housing from childhood. Describes working as a draughtsman at the Ministry of Works Head Office in Wellington. Mentions working for Frank Anderson both in Wellington and in Hamilton. Describes working for White, Leigh, de Lisle and Fraser, and for Gillman, Garry, Clapp and Sayers before becoming a partner with White, White and MacDonald, later White and Macdonald until the death of partner Alan White. Mentions that he now operates as Alan MacDonald Architect, in Auckland and Hamilton. Discusses how his partnership with Alan White worked. Talks about Harold White who was a partner in the firm earlier. Describes architectural work in prisons, the mental health sector and hospitals. Discusses involvement in church design, including the Hamilton Catholic Church, partly through his involvement with the Auckland Catholic diocese. Describes also being involved in the Salvation Army, Crippled Childrens' Society, Rotary and Hamilton Club. Talks about work improving access into the Crippled Children Society's homes. Discusses lawyer Joe Ward and the beginnings of the integration of women into the Hamilton Club. Mentions architects George Leigh and Doug Angus. Discusses the architect-client relationship in detail. Talks about changes in local government regulations, the Building Act and builders using plans as their own for other buildings. Interviewer(s) - Fiona Corcoran Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3101.

Date: 1843-1847, 1958, 1980, 1986

From: Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8897-08

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, manuscripts, typescripts, printed matter

Date: 2014

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0027063

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. Shows the Minister telling his advisor to find where the "people who are demanding longer prison sentences" live. He wants to know so that the new prisons can be built next to them. Refers to the ongoing issues the New Zealand government has with finding the land to build new prisons on due to a lack of space in prisons. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0014183

Description: A young man phones his mother from his prison cell and suggests that she save gran distress by telling her that he is in a Confinement Module Profit Centre. Refers to the government's decision to contract out to private organisations the building and running of new prisons. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0012892

Description: An official shows to Minister of Corrections Judith Collins a list of applicants for 'private prison tenders' jobs; they include the 'Head Hunters', 'Black Power' and the 'Mongrel Mob'. Refers to the news that Corrections Minister Judith Collins has told officials to draw up law changes that would allow private companies to tender for jail management contracts, with legislation expected later this year. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: between 1882 and 1931

From: McInnes, R :Negatives of the waterslide and the dam behind it at Days Bay, and Mount Cook prison

Reference: 1/2-066816-G

Description: Scene in Mount Cook, Wellington, taken between 1882 and 1931 from Tasman Street, showing Mount Cook Prison/Alexandra Barracks (top, to left). Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 2010

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014114

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strips, commenting on the foibles of politicians and political issues in New Zealand and published in the Dominion Post. These cartoons tend to reflect the current events of the day without dealing directly with them. Records for the cartoons in this collection have not been enhanced by a full 'scope and contents' as they are essentially self-explanatory and can be searched by key word. They do have subject headings. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0000639

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The Minister tells reporters that there has been an under-estimation in the cost of new prisons. One reporter comments to another that it's no wonder the Minister is called Minister of Corrections as that is all he makes. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: [1880s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-079-16

Description: H M Prison, Dunedin, in the 1880s. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - H M Gaol Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).