Ceramic tableware
The Crown Lynn story an oral history project
Date: 24 May 2005 to 23 Aug 2006 - 24 May 2005 - 23 Aug 2006
By: Donald, Mary, active 1992-2020; Monk, Valerie Ringer, active 2006; Waitakere Library and Information Services
Reference: OHColl-0833
Description: Oral history interviews of fifteen employees, from upper management, designers to the workshop floor, covering their experiences, history and products of the Crown Lynn pottery factory which was in business from 1948 to 1989. Interviewees are Bebe Cowdery, Jo Crawford, Naomi Davy, Chris Harvey, John Heap, Tom Hodgson, Larry Moore, Merle Phelps, Maureen Plummer, Heather Shingle, Mierk Smisek, Guthrie Stewart, Mary Stewart, Alan Topgham, and two joint interviews, one with Mark Cleverley and Alan Toplam, the second with Colin Leitch, Chris Harvey, John Heap and Alan Topham. Publication - Material from some of the interviews were used for Crown Lynn: a New Zealand icon. Valerie Ringer Monk; photography, Studio La Gonda. Auckland: Penguin, 2006. Abstracted by - Mary Donald Interviewer(s) - Mary Donald Interviewer(s) - Val Monk Accompanying material - Inventory of interviewees, research material accessed and material donated to the Waitakerie Library or with Val Monk's personal archives held in Crown Lynn backfile.. Arrangement: Digital abstracts arranged as OHDL-000041 to OHDL-000057 Quantity: 28 C60 cassette(s). 16 Electronic document(s) abstracts. 16 printed abstract(s). 16 interview(s). 51 Electronic document(s) (word docs). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners :James Smith Ltd, Cuba Street. [First floor fittings p...
Date: 1950 - 1952
From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].
By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)
Reference: Plans-2002-058-010-052/076
Description: Includes floor plans, elevations and perspective drawings of the area and its fittings. Some plans call it the China and Crystal Section. There is also a ceiling and lighting plan, details of Showcase type D, and detailed elevations and perspective drawings of the small display tables. Quantity: 25 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings, on wax paper and tissue paper, sizes varying up to around 600 x 800 mm.
Spectrum Collection : Photograph of a woman painting ceramics
Date: ca 1960s
Reference: PAColl-4667
Description: A woman painting a stripe round the edge of a plate. There is a display of other tableware behind her including a jug and a coffee pot. Photographer unidentified. The attribution to Spectrum is uncertain but the photograph may be associated with one of the documentaries. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s).
Crown Lynn Potteries, Auckland
Date: 1963
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0522-F
Description: Images show interior factory scenes at Crown Lynn Potteries, Auckland, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show Crown Lynn workers stacking plates and women applying designs to pieces of tableware. Another worker takes a tea break. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film
Crown Lynn Potteries, Auckland
Date: 1963
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0521-F
Description: Images show interior factory scenes at Crown Lynn Potteries, Auckland, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show factory workers undertaking various tasks to produce Crown Lynn pots and tableware. Other workers take a tea break with stacks of crockery in the background. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film
Fletcher, Nolan Thomas, 1921-1991 : Sketch book of pottery designs for Crown Lynn
Date: 1962 and 1965
By: Fletcher, Nolan Thomas, 1921-1991
Reference: MS-Papers-11979
Description: Comprises a sketchbook of pottery designs by Nolan Thomas Fletcher submitted to Crown Lynn Potteries Ltd. The designs are "an effort to adapt Maori rafter designs for borders for pottery". Accompanied by a rejection letter to Fletcher by A R Topham, Sales Manager of Crown Lynn (1962) and a newspaper cutting about Jocelyn Harrison-Smith winning the top prize in a Crown Lynn contest for her design "inspired by Maori carvings". The newspaper cutting is dated 1965. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Processing information: Archivists notes - Two pages that were taped together were separated by Conservation staff
Williams, Samuel Marsh, 1908-1976: Exhibition. British rural handicrafts. Admission fre...
Date: 1948
From: Williams, Samuel Marsh, 1908-1976: [Six posters. 1940s]
Reference: Eph-D-WILLIAMS-05
Description: Poster advertising an exhibition shows at the top an illustration of three ceramic objects: an urn, a plate and a jug. At the lower edge is an illustration of a wooden hand-held scoop. Newspapers indicate that this exhibition was in the South Island in February 1948, for example see 'Otago Daily Times', 26 February 1948, page 6 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print, 765 x 500 mm.