Eccentrics and eccentricities

Date: [1986-1992]

From: Women Against Pornography : Records

Reference: 2004-249-015

Description: Inward and outward correspondence with people labelled `cranks' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1988-2000

From: Boyden, Ian Hamilton William, 1915-2001 : Reminiscences and family histories

Reference: MS-Papers-7091

Description: Reminiscences of Boyden describing the pioneering community of Ruaroa, a settlement near Dannevirke, in which he lived for 58 years. He was given information on earlier times by senior members of his family and the story begins with an historical summary of the area's development. Subjects covered include his father's arrival arrival at Ruaroa and his development of land won in a ballot, bringing bush into pasture, hunting, transport, the back country, school, pioneer women, local industry, roads, weather, Hunter's Mill, Nellie Evelyn White, Graham's Mill, the 1914-1918 war and livestock. He goes on to describe the first milking machines and the dairy industry, the Spanish flu, mail and delivery services, firewood and logging, characters and itinerants in the district, entertainment (including tin canning), the Country Women's Institute, radio, telephone, power, the car, health, the visit of Lord Bledisloe, storms, disasters and wind and the Second World War From 1945 he writes of changes in farming, utilities, dogs, education, local events and activities, sport, local celebrities and has reproductions of 27 labelled photographs Accompanying material - Funeral service leaflet for Boyden Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2007

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

Reference: DCDL-0003055

Description: The cartoon shows two images of Dr Bob Moodie, alias Miss Alice, a well-known Wellington lawyer known as an eccentric. In the first he is dressed as Alice in Wonderland, the way he often dresses in public. The second image shows him as the Mad Hatter from 'Alice in Wonderland'. The captions suggest that the first image is the way Bob Moodie sees himself and the second is the way others see him. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2004

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009090

Description: "Just Practising" cartoon strip. Doctor Dolly apologising to a patient whom she mistook for Johnny Depp and screamed at. She tells the patient that she usually doesn't go mad when patients walk in so he should think of her as being flaky as she is usually a doctor. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: ca 1905

Reference: 1/2-038594-F

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Alexander William Bickerton, circa 1905. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative