Actresses

Date: 1983

By: McCracken, Joan Mary, 1954-

Reference: Eph-C-WOMEN-1983-02

Description: Poster advertising a performance by a group of women shows a photograph of five women in action. The handwritten felt pen date and times may be written by Joan McCracken. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy on blue poster, 420 x 300 mm. Provenance: Donated by Joan McCracken, Wellington, in 2013.

Date: 1937-1940

By: Goldsbrough, Diana Evelyn Gibson, 1915-2012

Reference: MS-Group-2228

Description: Collection comprises 51 travel notebooks written by Doris Goldsbrough (nee Craig) to send home to her family while living in London during her OE in 1939-1940. They contain an account of her sea voyage to England and of her activities in London and her vists to various parts of the country. Also British Actors' Equity Association card, photographic print of a page from her passport of 1937 and printouts of scanned portrait photographs provided by family in 2013. Source of title - Supplied by Library New Zealand actress. Went to England in 1938 to study drama. Member of the British Actors' Equity Association. Quantity: 52 folder(s). 0.52 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Goldsbrough family, Wellington, Jul 2013

Date: 2002

Reference: Eph-G-TAKI-RUA-2002-01

Description: Poster advertising a tour of the play "Woman far walking", shows a black and white photograph of the actors Riria and Kahu Hotere as the young woman and old woman with a walking stick. The dates when the play will be playing at each venue are listed: Christchurch Court Theatre 22 March - 6 April; Dunedin Fortune Theatre 12-20 April; Hamilton WEL Energy Trust Academy of Performing Arts 21-24 August; Palmerston North Centrepoint Theatre 31 August - 21 September. The poster also mentions Manchester (UK) as part of the production tour. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 1175 x 840 mm; laminated Provenance: Donated by Taki Rua Productions in 2014.

Date: 1993

From: [Posters for drama productions in Great Britain featuring New Zealand performers and producers. 1990-1999]

Reference: Eph-C-DRAMA-GB-1993-01

Description: Poster advertising a stage drama featuring New Zealand actress Pam Ferris, sows a photograph of Ferris with co-star Connie Booth. Both are smiling. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 510 x 247 mm.

Date: 1970-1997 - 2020-2022

By: Glory Box (Musical group)

Reference: ATL-Group-00794

Description: Collection relating to the musical comedy duo Glory Box performers Therese O'Connell and Pinky Agnew. Comprises predominantly papers, photographs, sound recordings, and digital files produced by Glory Box. Includes material written by the the duo, diaries of engagements, documentation of specific events, media coverage, and the Wellington milieu that Glory Box was part of, including through sharing office space in Taranaki Street with Peace Movement Aotearoa and political cartoonist Trace Hodgson. The collection also contains some material about Agnew and O'Connell's collaborative work that predates and postdates Glory Box. O'Connell and Agnew have extensively annotated the folders and photographs and provided timelines and biographies. Also includes digital video files of television news items and an art gallery performance which feature Glory Box, and text files containing autobiographical information and curriculum vitae for both performers. Title supplied by Library. Therese O'Connell and Pinky Agnew performed as Glory Box from 1990 to 1992, including at events for trade unions and other organisations; at political protests; at theatre shows and festivals; as entertainers on train and bus journeys; and for private functions, including as Rent-A-Fan. Quantity: 19 folder(s). 114 colour original photographic print(s). 1 colour copy photographic print(s). 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). 6 colour original transparency/ies. 4 C60 cassette(s). 5 C90 cassette(s). 1 C45 cassette(s). 3 digital video disc(s) unpublished. 6 Electronic document(s). 3 digital video recording(s) digitised copies of home videotape recordings. Transfers: Two published videocassettes were transferred to the Library published collection: ‘Dicing with Debt’ (produced by Wellington Community Law Centre, 1991) and ‘High Noon at Silver Spoon’ (produced by Vanguard Films and Peace Movement Aotearoa, 1992). DVD copies of these are included with this unpublished collection at Library reference MSDVD-0340 and MSDVD-0341. - Two stickers attached to the shoebox of audiovisual mataerial are at Library reference fMS-Papers-12815.. Processing information: Printed material arrived at the Library in annotated manila folders and envelopes. The cassettes and DVDs arrived in a shoebox with a homemade Glory Box sticker. The material was removed from the folders and shoebox for conservation reasons. Photocopies of the annotations on the folders and envelopes have been kept with the material in acid free folders. The shoebox, envelopes and folders were not kept.

Date: 1959

From: Fox, Sylvia, fl 1986 :Photographs of plays and actors from the Estate of Dame Ngaio Marsh

By: Barriball, Martin Sydney, 1929-

Reference: PAColl-D-0084

Description: Annette Facer as Cleopatra in the Shakespearian play produced and directed by Ngaio Marsh in 1959 for University of Canterbury Drama Society at the Civic Theatre, Christchurch. Photograph taken by Martin Barriball Inscriptions: Backing board verso - top left - Title Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print mounted on card, 550 x 430 mm

Date: 2004

By: Maule, L, active 2004

Reference: A-465-012

Description: A frontal head-and-shoulders portrait of an unidentified woman, thought likely to be the New Zealand actress Darien Tackle. She wears a beret and her hair is in plaits. Her expression is neutral, almost solemn. Behind her are rows of chairs set out theatre-style Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - L Maule 2004 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 197 x 162 mm Provenance: Donation: Downstage Theatre, Wellington, 2013 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1624 - Collection as whole taken into Manuscripts; other transfers made to Ephemera and Photo Archive collections.

Date: 1998

Reference: Eph-D-DRAMA-1998-02

Description: Poster advertising a production of Hone Kouka's play shows a half-face frontal photograph of actress Nancy Brunning, and quotes a British review of a 1997 production of the play, from "The Star", Brighton, 12 June 1997. Date confirmed in Theatre Aotearoa, online at http://tadb.otago.ac.nz Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 590 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated by Taki Rua Productions in 2014.

Date: 1885 - 1887

From: Hodgkins family :Scrapbook [1860s-1920s]

By: Field, Isabel Jane, 1867-1950

Reference: E-316-q-039

Description: A young woman from an earlier era, possibly late eighteenth century. She holds a cane or crook over her shoulders. May show an actress Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - S. Hodgkins [in pen and ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, on card 228 x 154 mm, loose between album pages

Date: 1885

From: Hodgkins family :Scrapbook [1860s-1920s]

By: Field, Isabel Jane, 1867-1950; Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-316-q-047

Description: A view towards hills across a river valley with a tree in the left foreground. Possibly a copy by young Isabel Hodgkins of a work by her father, William Mathew Hodgkins Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - S. H. 1885 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash drawing, on wove paper, 122 x 198 mm glued to album page

Date: 1981

From: Ephemera of quarto size relating to women, women's rights, status

By: Alston, Sharon Kathleen, 1948-1995

Reference: Eph-B-WOMEN-1981-01

Description: Double-sided flyer publicising a film starring Deborah Hunt and Sally Rodwell, cameraman James Bartle and Ib Heller; written by Deborah Hunt, Kathryn de Nave, Melanie Read and Sally Rodwell. Women's Gallery supplied information about the identity of the designer of this flyer. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on both sides of flier 297 x 212 mm.

Date: 2016

Reference: Eph-G-BATS-2016-01

Description: Poster advertising a production at BATS Theatre Wellnigton shows a photograph of three women actors seated on and in front of a velvet covered sofa. There is a stuffed peacock at the left. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 1180 x 835 mm. Provenance: Donated by BATS Theatre in 2017.

Date: 1895 - 1905

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-1900s-01

Description: Shows a montage of black and white photographic portraits of popular British actress Marie Studholme, all arranged within the shape of the letter "S". Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Photograph on postcard, 129 x 79 mm.

Date: 1976 - 1912

By: McIntyre, Raymond Francis, 1879-1933

Reference: C-085-040-a

Description: A portrait of actress Phyllis Constance Cavendish, drawn in London in 1912 Reproduction of watercolour held by the Auckland City Art Gallery Same as C-085-040 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 345 x 274 mm on sheet 635 x 520 mm

Date: 2000 - 2001

From: [Calendars for the year 2001, of approximately A3 size. 2000-2001].

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-2001-05

Description: Calendar featuring New Zealand actress Lucy Lawless, as Xena Warrior Princess, on the television series of the same name. Also includes photographs of co-stars Renee O'Connor (Gabrielle), Hudson Leick (Callisto), Jennifer Ward-Lealand. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 calendar. Physical Description: Photolithographs on calendar, 305 x 305 mm (closed)

Date: 1880s - 1910s

From: Cox, Margaret Irene, 1887-1968: Portraits of theatrical personalities

Reference: PA1-q-237

Description: Photographs of actors, musicians and entertainers performing in New Zealand circa 1880s-1910s Other Titles - Portraits, theatricals etc., Volume 5 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cloth covers, red leather spine and corners, entitled "Portraits, theatricals etc., Volume 5"; 34 x 26 cm Finding Aids: Index in front of album. Index to entire collection on correspondence file TL6/1/46, with copy bound separately and filed on album shelves.

Date: [194-]

By: Steele Photography Ltd

Reference: PAColl-9710

Description: Comprises: Autographed studio portrait of actress Lily Moore, taken ca 1944 by Steele of Auckland Group portrait of the cast and crew of the J C Williamson All Star Comedy Company production of 'Arsenic and old lace', which was staged in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin during 1944. Photograph taken ca 1944 on a train platform by an unidentified photographer. Includes Ruth Montgomerie, Leslie King, and Alan Rankin. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Accompanying material - Programme for 'Arsenic and Old Lace', 1944, which identifies many of the people in the group portrait Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Provenance: No donor or provenance information available Transfers: From Ephemera Collection - Eph-A-DRAMA-1944.

Date: 1880s - 1910s

From: Cox, Margaret Irene, 1887-1968: Portraits of theatrical personalities

Reference: PA1-q-242

Description: Photographs of actors, musicians and entertainers who performed in New Zealand circa the 1870s to 1920s. Photographs (Nos. 496 and 497) are unidentified. 'House that Jack Built' a J.C. Williamson pantomime production performed in New Zealand in 1917. Script written by George Slater and Frank Dix, music by Victor Champion. Performers included New Zealanders and new artists from London theatres; produced by Chas. A Wenman. Performers include Hilda Guiver, Gretchen Yates, Constance Cayley, Harry Roxbury, Frederick Hearne, Ernest Langford and William Fullbrook. See photograph of the cast (individual performers not identified) in Theatrical Album 10 (PA1-q-242, No. 471). 'Rose of Riviera' musical comedy produced by George Stephenson's English Musical Comedy Company circa 1904-1905. See photographs in Theatrical Album 10 (PA1-q-242, Nos. 484 to 492). 'Strange adventures of Miss Brown' a comedy play produced in New Zealand in 1898 by the Thornton Comedy Company. See photograph of some of the cast in Theatrical Album 10 (PA1-q-242, No. 493). 'Struck Oil' a comedy play performed by J.C. Williamson's theatrical company in New Zealand in 1881. See photograph of the cast "Williamson's Struck Oil Company" in Theatrical Album 10 (PA1-q-242, No. 479). Other Titles - Portraits, theatricals, etc., Volume 10 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cloth covers, red leather spine and corners, entitled "Portraits, theatricals, etc., Volume 10"; 34 x 25 cm Finding Aids: Index in front of album. Index to entire collection on correspondence file TL6/1/46, with copy bound separately and filed on album shelves.

Date: 1880s - 1910s

From: Cox, Margaret Irene, 1887-1968: Portraits of theatrical personalities

Reference: PA1-q-233

Description: Photographs of actors, musicians and entertainers who performed in New Zealand circa 1870s to 1900s. Other Titles - Portraits, theatricals etc. Volume 1 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cloth cover, red leather corners and spine, entitled "Portraits, theatricals etc. Volume 1" on spine; 34 x 26 cm Finding Aids: Index in front of album. Index to entire collection on correspondence file TL6/1/46, with copy bound separately and filed on album shelves.

Date: 1864-1880

From: Simpson, Adrienne Marie, 1943-2010: Papers and recordings

Reference: MS-Papers-10782-136

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph, typescript, printed matter (some photocopies)