Collectors and collecting

Date: [ca 1930s-1950s]

From: Ephemera donated to and collected by the Alexander Turnbull Library from 2020

By: Cadbury Fry Hudson Ltd; C L Innes & Company Ltd; Sanitarium Health Food Company; Cereal Foods NZ Ltd; Timaru Milling Company Ltd; Williams & Kettle Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-JUNE-JULY-2020/7

Description: Comprises; Four circular newsletters signed "Your friend Peter the Pilot", published by Timaru Milling Co. Ltd. and advertising Diamond O-Tis breakfast cereal. The letters relate to the "Famous Planes and Seacraft" albums 1937-1939 series. One Peter the Pilot envelope One Williams & Kettle Ltd. business card Nine Eastern Bottling Co. Ltd. soft drink labels One D J Barry Ltd. soft drink label Four C. L. Innes & Co. Ltd. soft drink labels Three Sanitarium collectable picture cards "468 A crash", "18-Haley's Comet in 1066", and "Man with wings". One Cereal Foods NZ Ltd. collectable picture card with a picture of the satellite Sputnik. One Life Savers (NZ) Ltd album advertisement One Cadbury-Fry-Hudson Ltd album advertisement on a collectable picture stamp enclosure. Title supplied by Library. Famous planes and seacraft, by Peter the Pilot album held at Eph-B-PICTURE-CARDS-Timaru Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 26 pieces of ephemera.

Date: 11 Nov 2002

From: Oral history of cycling in New Zealand

By: McLeod, Keith Gordon, 1950-

Reference: OHInt-0783-08

Description: Interview with Keith McLeod born 1950 in Christchurch. Talks about early childhood experiences with cycling. Describes becoming interested in mountain biking and building his own bike from parts in 1983. Discusses his obsession with mountain bikes, and how he would interrogate other mountain bikers he saw. Recalls various races in which he entered on his mountain bike, including the Karapoti Classic (1986 and 1989), also organising various mountain bike racing events in the Christchurch area. Discusses his experience of racing in the United States in 1988 at the World Championships. Discusses becoming involved in the bicycle trade industry in 1989. Initially working at Sam's Bike Shop in Christchurch and later opening his own bike stores in Christchurch including Chain Gang (March 1990), Bicycle Business, Catus Cycling and his current shop, Opawa Cycles (June 1997). Describes learning to become a bike mechanic and becoming a collector and restorer of old bikes. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4155. Colour photograph of Keith McLeod Search dates: 1950 - 2002

Date: 18 Nov 2002

From: Oral history of cycling in New Zealand

By: Cheyne, Richard Thomas Charles, 1924-2007

Reference: OHInt-0783-02

Description: Interview with Dick Cheyne born 1924 in Oamaru. Describes shifting around the South Island as he grew up, and leaving school at the age of 13 to work as a messenger boy. Recalls working as a delivery boy for Tanner's Fruit Shop (Proprietor Alec Tanner) in Christchurch and riding a tricycle. Mentions customers Wally Atack and Lady Wigram. Describes his career at New Zealand Railways in detail and his progression through the company. Talks about cycling being the main mode of transport for railway workers until the 1960s. Describes the changing technology of bicycles including gearing and suspension. Discusses cycle commuting and bike shops in Christchurch. Mentions various bicycle manufacturers including Bulters, Gammages and Jones. Mentions the Austral Star and Melvern Star bicycles. Describes the history of bicycle racing in New Zealand in particular the Canterbury region. Mentions various races including the Austral Wheel Race, Timaru to Christchurch, Round the Gorges and Tour de France. Mentions various Canterbury racing tracks including Lancaster Park and English Park. Mentions riders such as Charles Forbes (NZ Winner of the 1900 Austral), Jack and Dick Arnst, Billy Webb, George and Harold Sutherland, Major Taylor (World cycling champion from America), "Plugger" Bill Martin (scratch winner of the 1901 Austral), Reg Harris, Phil O'Shea, Jack Fitzgerald, Hubert Opperman, Harry Watson, Tino Tabak, and Arie van Vliet. Describes his interest in collecting old bicycles and mentions another collector Leon Levin. Mentions various bicycles in his collection. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4149. Colour photograph of Dick Cheyne taken 11 Jan 2003 Search dates: 1924 - 2002

Date: 11 Nov 2002

From: Oral history of cycling in New Zealand

By: Nevin, Leon Augustine, 1934-

Reference: OHInt-0783-10

Description: Interview with Leon Nevin born 1934 in Auckland. Recalls shifting to Christchurch as a child. Discusses leaving school at 15 years old and buying his first bicycle. Mentions joining the Air Force and working for the Railways. Describes how owning a bike changed his outlook on life. Talks about his passion for collecting and restoring old bicycles when he retired from the Railways. Mentions other collectors including Keith Guthrie and Paul Farren. Describes learning to restore old bicyles. Mentions other restorers including Robin William and Gavin Bain. Gives a history and development of bicycles in New Zealand. Discusses this in relation to particular bicycles in his own collection, including velocipedes and penny farthings, safety bicycles, roadster bicycles, sports bicycles, and 10-speed bicyles. Mentions particular bicycles in his collection previously owned by famous New Zealand cyclists, including Dick Cheyne. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4158. Colour photograph of Leon Nevin Search dates: 1934 - 2002

Date: 1955 - 1956

From: Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976]

Reference: Eph-C-CABOT-Carnival-1955-02

Description: Double-sided poster announces all the features of ther Petone Carnival. It shows four photographs of the "Queens" representing particular areas: Alma Coulson (Hutt Valley Softball Association), Mrs Annette Taylor (Hutt Soccer cricket Club), Miss Kay Williams (Petone RSA), and Rosina Clouston (Hutt Valley Indoor Basketball Association). Carnival events included a Juvenile Beauty parade, a decorated vehicle parade, free spot prizes. The brief carnival programme is shown at the lower left corner. The verso shows a grid of 30 detachable squares for a "Swap Sheet" contest. Each square advertised a product and contestants were encouraged to save the most of any one square. There is a prize list and entry form for this competition at the lower edge. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on both sides of sheet 505 x 375 mm.

Date: 18 Jan 1983

From: Masterton South Rotary Club Oral History Project.

By: Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983

Reference: OHInt-0015-08

Description: Russell Smith outlines his family background: Great grandfather, Captain Smith; grandfather, Wallace Smith; his father's early life (Sidney Wardsworth Smith); the family silver; Russell Smith's work as family historian; the Greytown house where his aunts lived; the family home; home help; cars; Landsdowne Dam; meals, parties and games; his mother and a spiritual medium; 'The Masterton Club' and its membership system; going to Wanganui Collegiate; his views on boarding schools; Tanglewood; balls; Homewood; religion; parents politics; Russell Smith's work in politics, the Farmers Union, Bert Cooksley - National member for the Wairarapa; Russell Smith's work with Forestry Committee and Catchment Board. Describes sex education; meeting his wife, Edith Thrittle; buying Te Hau; local characters: Karl Haas, Jack Reagan, Jee Eely; swaggers (tramps) during the Depression; packmen; first plane in Masterton; his going to the World Forestry Conference in Madrid in 1966; his 1973 trip to China; his hobby collecting silver; raising money for the Laura Fergusson Trust; his views on the standard of antiques in New Zealand. Discusses the main families in the Wairarapa: Wardell, Beetham, Riddiford; people: Doctor Archer Hosking, Mr Drummond; teachers, Mr Drummond, Mrs Gleghorn; mayors, Tommy Jordon and Norman Tankersley. Mentions prohibition; spiritualism, Pearl Judd - medium; the effect of World War II; childhood impressions of Masterton. Venue - Masterton Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - 41 Renall Street, Masterton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004425 - OHC-004429 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 5 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 889. Search dates: 1913 - 1983

Date: 11 Mar 1995 - 6 Apr 1995 - 27 Nov 1996

From: Hawkes Bay oral history project

By: Hayes, John, 1940-

Reference: OHInt-0438-07

Description: John Hayes was born in Hastings in 1940. He spent his early years in Wellington returning to Hawkes Bay at the age of seven. Comments that he did not know his father who was overseas during World War II and then separated from his mother. Recalls living with his grandmother in Lower Hutt while his mother was matron at Wellesley College, Eastbourne. Recalls his mother remarrying in 1950. Describes being a boarder at Napier Boys High School and leaving school at the age of sixteen to go shepherding. Recalls that his parents drew a farm block in the Waikato. Describes working on a station milking cows and making butter. Talks about his marriage in 1966 and becoming manager of a farm inland from Wairoa. Describes working on another property near Wairoa and comments on relationships amongst staff. Mentions violence. Describes managing a property between Gisborne and Wairoa. Recalls Maori shearing gangs and a thriving rural infrastructure. Talks about hunting in the Ureweras, buying an old home and developing the land, an increase in land values and buying a smaller property at Tongoio. Mentions his wife's death from cancer. Recalls working with Elders Pastoral as goat co-ordinator, moving to Waipukurau as general agent and the devastation of Cyclone Bola. Recalls returning to Tongoio, community spirit, tennis matches and meeting his new partner. Describes moving to Havelock North and working for Mobil. Describes overseas travel and his family's activities. Discusses new developments in farming including the farming of ostriches, emus and llamas and reafforestation. Recalls the speed with which farming changed as a result of the removal of farm subsidies and deregulation. Discusses parochialism and the issue of the location of Hawkes Bay hospital. Discusses Maori protestors. Talks about collecting things, garage sales, car boot sales and auctions. Discusses his stable where he keeps his collection of hill country machinery. Talks about tourism and the nationalities of tourists. Mentions his partner's Dutch origins and returning to Holland with her. Discusses clothing including the Swandri. Talks about buying and selling totara posts and batons. Recalls being part of the Hawkes Bay Hunt which hunts the hare. Comments on MMP. Mentions a son who has returned from his OE (overseas experience) and relationships as a result of the OE. Comments on the cost of tertiary education. Interviewer(s) - Robert Paton Interviewer(s) - Joyce Paton Accompanying material - Newspaper cutting about his business Totata Antique Posts which he runs from Totara Stables. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-7924,7925,7926,7927; OHLC-4031,4032,4033,4034. Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2138. Photograph of John Hayes in accompanying newspaper cutting Search dates: 1940 - 1996

Date: 1956, 1969

By: Kohorn, Baron Ralph Steven von, 1919-2011

Reference: ATL-Group-00072

Description: Comprises an inscribed copy of a privately printed publication of "Cigarettes of the World: Collection of Robert E. Kaufman" and two inscribed photographs of Kaufman, of New York City, in front of part of his cigarette collection. Title supplied by Library. Ralph von Kohorn lived in New York City or New York State from the 1940s until 1963. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: One bound volume and two silver gelatin photographic prints. Provenance: Donated by Arty Bee's Bookshop, July 2016.

Date: 8 Feb 1998

From: Huggard, Dennis, 1928-2017 : The Dennis Huggard Jazz Archive

Reference: MSCD-2512

Description: Radio programme with jazz collector Dennis Huggard recorded for Newstalk ZB by Jim Sutton. Disc 1 of 2. Other - For the continuation of this radio programme see MSCD-2513 Label: Verbatim Quantity: 1 compact disc(s).

Date: 8 Feb 1998

From: Huggard, Dennis, 1928-2017 : The Dennis Huggard Jazz Archive

Reference: MSCD-2513

Description: Radio programme with jazz collector Dennis Huggard recorded for Newstalk ZB by Jim Sutton. Disc 2 of 2. Other - For the preceding recording of this radio programme see MSCD-2512 Label: Verbatim Quantity: 1 compact disc(s) DataLifePlus CD-R.

Date: 1942-[1973]

From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 : Further papers

Reference: 80-063-045

Description: File with correspondence; the `Beltane book bulletin' (n1,v1, ns, Sep 1947-v3 n9 Sep-Oct 1953); list of Lawlor's books for sale; notes by Lawlor on the history of the bureau; address label by Gordon McIntyre; poem by Lawlor, `My little vellum vol;' for bureau Christmas card; bureau lists of recommended books; notes on Bethune's book auctions; list of books, booklets and pamphletes of Lawlor (May 1948) Other Titles - Beltane book bulletin Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1930]-1977

From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 : Further papers

Reference: 86-105-033

Description: Includes list of books, booklets and pamphlets of New Zealand verse in Lawlor's library (Jun 1951); diary extracts and profiles of two John Barrs, clippings relating to aspects of collecting; `The "Lawlor collection" of the Imitation of Christ' by D K Bonisch; `Catalogue of my collection of NZ verse'; `Bibliography of my collection of the editions of "The Imitation of Christ"' given to Greenmeadows Seminar Library in 1966; `Supplementary list of rare books in my library; some sold or donated to various libraries, and some also given to my daughter Margaret Bartlett', `Catalogue of books concerning wine and now offered for sale by Pat Lawlor' and sold to McWilliams Wines Dec 1973 Also includes large file of correspondence between Lawlor and various libraries; photograph of group which wrwote `Murder by eleven' (or twelve) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1969

By: Buhler, Robert, 1916-1989; Nan Kivell, Rex de Charembac (Sir), 1898-1977

Reference: G-824-4

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of a New Zealander who amassed a large collection of New Zealand and Australasian paintings, drawings, prints, books, manuscripts, maps. The collection was sold to the National Library of Australia. Other portraits by Buhler of Nan Kivell are held by the National Library of Australia and by Te Papa. The portrait at Te Papa, also a pastel, shows Nan Kivell wearing a trilby hat. It was purchased in 1990, and at the time of purchase in London, the artist (who died in 1989) had four portraits of Nan Kivell in his studio. He had done a series of pastel portraits of artists and dealers in London in the late 1960s Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pastel on paper 515 x 400 mm

Date: 19 Oct 1929

By: Priday, Herbert Ernest Lewis, 1897-1969

Reference: MS-Papers-2836

Description: Apparently list of documents collected by Andreas Reischek Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 leaf). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: [1938-1972]

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-6/10

Description: Article, possibly a radio script relating to pounamu and taonga Maori `On starting a museum'. Mentions Fowler's role as an honorary museum director and his passion for pounamu. Includes information about a pounamu pekapeka given to him by his 'Maori foster-father' Nepia Pomare. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1973-1989

From: Henderson, James Herbert, 1918-2005: Collection

Reference: 89-028

Description: Comprises letters from Adrian Hayter, David McGill, Joyce and Lloyd Shepherd and others; file on proposed log cabin at Mt Arthur; correspondence and clippings re radio and television, and peace; papers and newsletters relating to war-amputees, photographs of cigarettte tins Quantity: 1 box(es). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available.

Date: [ca 11 August 1990]

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

By: Reid, Philip John, 1954-

Reference: EP/1990/2752-F

Description: Photographs of Colin Speirs sitting in the living room of his Porirua East house, surrounded by part of his collection of cameras, radios, and other items, taken ca 11 August 1990 by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1941

By: Rule, Percival Watts, 1889-1953

Reference: MSX-8813

Description: List of items in the Newton collection Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (9 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27cm, grey cloth)

Date: [1940-1950]

From: Pruden, Larry Carrol, 1925-1982 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6664-24

Description: Pruden's early record of MATRIX numbers for his collections of music Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1935, n d

By: Graham, David Henry, 1885-1965

Reference: MS-Papers-4400

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (11 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, typescripts and printed matter