Flight attendants - Uniforms

Date: 1970

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-5034

Description: Photographs taken by John Bailey showing aerial views of Christchurch, Te Motu Kairangi / Miramar Peninsula, and the Hutt Valley. Also included are two images of unidentified New Zealand National Airways Corporation flight attendant. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Delivered in a slide case titled "Sydney-Wgtn May 1970 R63(Z)". Quantity: 7 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: Feb 1949-Nov 1951

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-140

Description: Photographs published in NZ Free Lance between Feb 1949 and Nov 1951 Includes: F Le Breton & F W Horner at annual conference of Scout Commisioners held at Paraparaumu, 1949; two photos of activities at Naenae Community Playground - demonstration volley ball game between officers of Physical Welfare Branch of Internal Affairs Dept & Physical Education Branch of Education Dept, and school children playing a ball game, 1949; opening of the King George V Memorial Health Camp at Pigeon Bay, Pakuranga, Auckland, Dec 1949. Aerial view of Long Bay camping grounds on North Shore (Whites Aviation No 26207), Jan 1951; American ski instructor at Coronet Peak, 1951; Epstein's `Lazarus' in London gallery; Mr & Mrs Duncan Rae and daughter Rosamund (Auckland); Dunedin artist D L T Larnach; Mrs Derrick Mess of Dunedin and 2 year old son Julian; Sam Medhurst and Jim Polkinghorne (Wellington-Auckland express); Dr Falla on visit to Okarito bird sanctuary, 1949. Crew of yacht `Nancy' during Wellington Provincial yachting trials - J Grover, Pat Millar, J McKay, Peter Tanner, Dec 1949; W E Sticking, owner of horse that won Ashburton Cup, 1950; S Holland at opening of National Party campaign at Civic Theatre, Christchurch, Nov 1949; Stanley Oliver conducting the Wellington Choral Union's performance of `The apostles', Nov 1949; two photos of heavyweight lifting champion Harold Cleghorn; Sir Patrick & Lady Duff, 1950. John Galloway, competitor at NZ Golf Championships at Auckland, Oct 1951; C J Wilson, J L Blair, H R Blair & D W Russell at NZ Open Golf Championship at Christchurch, Oct 1950; Christ's College, Christchurch centennial, 1950 - E C R Anderson (pupil from 1905 to 1911) & Mrs Anderson with W Harman (pupil from 1880 to 1888). Photos taken during British Isles rugby tour of New Zealand, 1950, and Australian rugby tour of New Zealand, Aug 1949; personality shots taken during annual meeting of NZ Racing Conference held in Wellington, 1949 - W Greive (President of Southland Racing Club), D M Tweedie (President of Riverton Racing Club), George Whittingham of Gore (Southland Racing Club); F E Nolan (President of Poverty Bay Turf Club), J P Somers (President of Te Aroha Jockey Club); G Tremlett (Taranaki Jockey Club), G Fraser (President of Taranaki Jockey Club); A N R Smith (steward of Dunedin Jockey Club), J A R MacRae (Masterton Jockey Club); J R L Stanford (President of Marton Jockey Club); F F Newman (Vice-President of Wanganui Jockey Club), S C Glenn (former President of Wanganui Jockey Club). Sir Leonard and Lady Isitt with debutantes at Palmerston North (Patricia Doogan and Anne Powell of Palmerston North, Kathleen Shearman of Eketahuna, and June Walker of Woodville). Several photographs taken during pilot's reunion held at Ohakea (all named on back) - published in NZ Free Lance, 14 Sep 1949, p 28. Unpublished photographs of animals in Auckland Zoo; Colin Ramage (astronomer); Mrs H J Read of Ngatapa, 1951; Joseph and George Smith (former pupils of Mount Cook School, Wellington); Prime Minister Sidney Holland with Te Aute College head prefect, P Tawhai of Ruatoria; Pareora Hack Steeplechase Washdyke, May 1949. Photograph taken during the evacuation of Crete. Published in NZ Free Lance, 9 Feb 1949 to accompany story by Sir Howard Kippenberger. Officers of 2NZEF who attended special refresher course for new territorial force held at Linton Military Camp, May 1949 - Lt Col D MacIntyre (Porangahau), Lt Col H A Robinson (Waipukurau), Lt Col C N Armstrong (Wanganui). Air crew - A Barnard, Miss J Crump, Miss M Foord, B Freeth (1949) See also PAColl-0785-1-148 for further photographs relating to Wellington-Auckland express and Sam Medhurst and Jim Polkinghorne. Quantity: 70 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 16 June 2009 - 16 Jun 2009

From: MOTAT: Aviation memories oral history project

By: Best, Mary Patricia, 1929-

Reference: OHInt-0767-20

Description: Interview with Mary Best (nee Clifton), born in Herne Bay in 1929. Outlines her family background, growing up at St Heliers Bay, schooling during World War II, and attending a business college to learn typing, shorthand and book keeping. Refers to working for a public relations company, a legal office, a grain importer and in other offices. Mentions crewing on a schooner and buying a sailing dinghy. Discusses going to work for TEAL (Tasman Empire Airways Ltd) as an air stewardess when she was 21. Comments on her training before beginning flights as sole air stewardess, later being given emergency training, and the Pacific routes flown by the Solent flying boats. Talks about the second steward worked in the galley where meals were cooked, and tables being set with starched cloths. Mentions stop-overs in Samoa, the Cook Islands and Tahiti, hotels where the flight crew stayed, and bringing back flowers, vanilla beans and plant cuttings, and French perfume from Tahiti. Refers to wearing starched whte uniform dresses until after takeoff, then changing into a dress, and later being issued with a Christian Dior-designed uniform. Comments that many passengers were flying for the first time, and passengers wore their best clothes. Mentions children travelling unaccompanied. Refers to a woman dying during a flight, and a mercy flight to the Chatham Islands to pick up a baby (but not the mother). Mentions leaving TEAL, living in Sydney for a period where she married, and later working at Auckland Museum for eight years as an antiquities officer. Reflects on her feelings about her flying days. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001698, OHA-7509. Search dates: 1929 - 2009

Date: 1947 - 1952

By: New Zealand National Airways Corporation

Reference: Eph-E-AVIATION-NAC-1949-01

Description: Poster advertising NAC's flights shows a central inset photograph of a white-jacketed male airline steward at the bottom of a metal handrail, assisting a well-dressed elderly woman passenger who wears a fox fur over one shoulder and carries a fur coat. She is also wearing a hat, pearls, brooch and carries a handbag. At the top of the poster is an illustration of a Lockheed Lodestar aircraft. Linen-backed before purchase. Poster probably dated late 1940s. The Lockheed Lodestar was in use by NAC from around 1947. One Lodestar crashed in 1949, and it may be unlikely that the airline would use an illustration of the plane any later than that date. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph and screenprint, 738 x 492 mm.

Date: 4 July 1966

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1966/2761-F

Description: National Airways Corporation hostesses modeling new uniforms. The hostess on the right is wearing the old black uniform. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 4th of July 1966. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 6 x 6 cm

Date: Aug 1946

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-03093-F

Description: The first six flight stewardesses appointed to Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL). From left Betty Morton, Val Beckett, Launa Magnus, Judy Everand, Joyce Paterson, Pat Woolley. Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Names of stewardesses identified from Auckland Museum site: Keith, Michael. High-flying fashion. Retrieved 9 May 2017. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, ¼ plate

Date: 2010

From: Ekers, Paul, 1961-:[Digital cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald and other publications]

Reference: DCDL-0029324

Description: Black and white cartoon shows the three main puppets from the 1960s British science fiction television series, The Thunderbirds, who are wearing only their underwear. Brains says, 'G-g-great n-news guys, we're g-getting our uniforms back", and they all raise their hands to celebrate the news. Text at the top of the cartoon reads, 'New Air NZ uniforms'. Cartoon references new ground and cabin crew uniforms for Air New Zealand designed by Trelise Cooper. The new design is set to replace uniforms designed by Zambesi in 2005 that critics said looked similar to the Thunderbirds's costumes. (TV One news, 30 December 2011). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).