Fraser, Janet, 1883-1945

Date: 1940-1950

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-8752-274

Description: Telegrams and letters of condolence on Fraser's death, newspaper report of death of Savage, and memorial booklet; memorandum from External Affairs re Pacific Islands Federation and status of the Cook Islands; correspondence re censorship of Edith Moore's `No friend of democracy' with J A Lee (1942) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1943-1949, 1994

By: Morgan, Patricia Tobin, active 1944-1995

Reference: MS-Papers-5233

Description: Reminiscences recorded by Mrs Morgan of her work as USO officer at Rockefeller Center, New York, during World War II, her contact with New Zealand servicemen, and her impressions of Peter and Janet Fraser, for whom she acted as a guide in New York; includes programme for Anzac Day service, held at the Collegiate Church of St Nicholas, New York in 1945, photocopy of testimonial from Peter Fraser, and past and present photographs of donor Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (10 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript, printed matter, photograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Mrs P T Morgan, Missouri, 1995 Past and present photographs of author

Date: 1943-1944

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PA1-q-299

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Middle East and Italy during World War 2, 1943-1944, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified are listed above, but while many others are identified in group portraits they are not named above. This album changes between the Middle East and Italy, with the bulk of the Middle Eastern images between pages 1 and 71, and the Italian scenes on pages 49-52, and from 72 onwards, with a few Middle Eastern items interspersed. Recreation for soldiers with sporting activities including athletics, cricket, swimming, tennis and softball, some of which are in competition with personnel from other groups including South African Division Artillerymen. New Zealand engineers building a pontoon bridge across the Suez Canal with the help of Belgian Congo troops; NZ reinforcements arriving in the Middle East; troops voluntarily donating blood; parades and inspections by Freyberg and Inglis, and decorations presented by them (p 9-13, 23, 33, 36, 62). Hitchhiking from Maadi into Cairo; street tailors altering uniforms while the soldiers wait (p 15-16); camp cinema. A large number of reunions of personnel from various New Zealand districts held at different restaurants in Cairo, including Rotorua & district; Levin & district; Arrowtown, Queenstown Lakes District; Wairarapa; and Temuka. Occupational therapy for convalescent troops including embroidery and leather-work toys (p 20-22); a leave camp for forces on the Palestinian coast, run by British Army staff assisted by ATS, and Italian Prisoners of War and European women assistants. NZEF in Italy: Members of the PoW Sub-Commission in Taranto; members of the 2nd NZ Division Advance party in Taranto; released prisoners of war; embarkation on troopships from Alexandria for Italy. Funeral at cemetery at El Ballah of 3 nurses and a corporal in a motor accident between Ismailia and Port Said (Private (Miss) P A Morrissey (from Port Ahuriri); Private (Miss) M O McNulty (from Eketahuna); Private (Miss) M Innes (from Masterton); and Corporal S R W Bomford (from Takapuna), all members of the No 2 NZ General Hospital). NZEF Middle East: Award winners of the NZ Division Field Ambulance; personnel with a NZ Air Transport Squadron; members of the NZ Port Detachment; weddings in Egypt; Xmas dinner at the Maori Training Depot, Maadi. George Formby, seen with his wife/manager entertaining troops at El Djem Theatre, Maadi; Mobile Cinema Van donated by NZ Film Exhibitors' Association through the YMCA. Group of 10 men repatriated after time in German prison camps who had been taken in the Grecian Campaign; 4 brothers from the Duncan family from Wellington reunited at Maadi (S/Sgt A T Duncan, Capt R J Duncan, Pte H G Duncan and Cpl G J Duncan); photo of brothers A J and S R Halkett who arrived back in Canterbury after having been together in the firing line, in a shipwreck, in a prison camp and in a successful escape.t NZEF in Italy: men of transports from Alexandria to Bari; troops in Bari; artillery duels on the Sangro River Front; party of Russian military observers visiting the 8th Army (p 82-83); road construction, mud, road deviations constructed after demolition of bridge; water carts being filled at Sangro River, and filling canvas water tanks for filtering and storage; repair of tents and canvas items by NZ soldier A A Patmore on a sewing machine behind the lines; small arms repair; bootmaker; visit of senior officials from the British Army to HQ 2NZ Division in Italy; destruction of the village of Gessopalena by the Germans. Arrival of Patriotic parcels in Italy, Xmas 1943; Xmas dinner; snow on New Year's Eve; NZ Forces Club in Bari (p 109-110), with NZ sisiters and members of VAD at the club, and soldiers in the writing room of the club; inspection and awards by freyberg in the Volturno Valley; soldiers washing vehicles, and Italian women washing clothes in a stream near Alife in the Volturno valley. Two scenes with Peter Fraser one at Pearl Harbour with Admiral Chester W Nimitz, and Robert L Ghormly (p 116); and his arrival at National Airport, Washington in April 1944, with Walter Nash, Mrs Nash and Mrs Fraser (p 116). NZEF in Italy: Bivvies and dugouts to cope with the cold; the No 2 NZ General Hospital (p 121-123); the Monte Cassino area (p 124-136), with bombing, destruction, villagers living in caves after homes demolished by Germans; Airmen serving with the RAF in the Cassino area recording messages to be broadcast in NZ; preparation for transport of supplies over the Inferno Track, only possible at night. New Zealand Infantry Brigade Band in Italy; malaria control (p 138-140); Malaria School established by the NZ Field Hygiene Section; preventative spraying; routine taking of anti-malarial tablets; examination of Italian children for signs of malaria. Airmen in italy; men on leave at "200 Rest Home" giving free amenities to troops on 4 day's leave from the front line; sorting of winter clothing after summer clothing had been issued; Registrar's office and staff at the No 1 General Hospital, Molfetta. Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 2556-3002. Follows sequence established in PA1-q-294. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22 cm

Date: 1938

From: National Library of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-0521

Description: Copy of a photograph of the inauguration of the Country Library Serivce taken on the steps of the Parliamentary Library with the Prime Minster Michael Savage, the Minister of Finance Walter Nash etc. Key to the photograph is included. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: 1902-1990

By: Fraser, Alice Janet Kemp, 1934-2004; Blackstone Studios; Photo News Ltd; Sport and General Press Agency; Selkirk, John, active 1968-2005; S P Andrew Ltd; New Zealand free lance (Newspaper)

Reference: PAColl-10316

Description: Photographs relating to the Fraser family, particularly to Peter Fraser when he was Prime Minister of New Zealand, his wife Janet, and his step-granddaughter Alice Janet Kemp Fraser. Includes images taken by a range of largely unidentified photographers, between 1902 and 1990, including images dated circa 1902, 1930s-1940s, 1972, and 1980s-1990. - Loose disbound pages from photo album with mounted photographic prints and ephemera items, inscribed, 'To the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Mr Peter Fraser, we express our deep and most sincere gratitude for your generous help to Polish children during the most tragic time in our history - On behalf of the Polish members of the Australasian-Polish Society - London, 28th June 1944' - signed by the president, S. Jahorski, secretary L. Kneblewski, and secretary of the executive committee M. Treister. - Album pages and related loose prints include portrayals of Peter Fraser in his political and diplomatic roles as Prime Minister of New Zealand and representative to the United Nations General Assembly, meeting with various dignitaries and colleagues, on some occasions together with his wife Janet. - Includes a 1951 copy-print of a photograph taken circa 1902 showing Peter Fraser at the age of about 18 in the uniform of the Scottish Seaforth Highlanders Volunteer Corps. - Features group portrait of Peter Fraser together with Winston Churchill and other Prime Ministers hosted by King George VI, captioned 'His Majesty the King entertains Dominion Premiers to Dinner at Buckingham Palace', this is accompanied by a typescript letter on Buckingham Palace letterhead. - Includes images showing Peter Fraser with military personnel in uniform, inspecting aerial bombing damage at St Paul's Cathedral in London, on a speaker's podium, seated at his desk, arriving in a motor vehicle, at the controls of an aircraft, and at the head of a conference table chairing a meeting. Also New Zealand snapshots of Peter Fraser on election night and another captioned by his wife as 'Dad explains things to Mr [Arthur] Richards M.P. for Roskill Auckland.' - Contains images of children, including portraits of Alice Fraser as a young girl. - Family photographs include those of Alice Fraser with Peter Fraser attending the funeral of Janet Fraser in 1945. - Features mounted studio portrait of Alice Armstrong, nee Fox, the wife of Hubert Thomas (Tim) Armstrong 1875-1942, New Zealand Minister of Public Works. - Other notable items include press photographs of Eleanor Roosevelt during her visit to New Zealand (28 Aug - 3 Sep 1943), and Vivien Leigh, known as Lady Olivier, at the Parliamentary reception in Wellington 1948. - Includes images of plaques commemorating the house where Peter Fraser was born, and the school where he was educated, some with Alice Fraser shown in the photograph visiting these sites. - Laser copy montage of three photographs shows Alice Fraser at New Zealand House in London together with others, including Anthony Stones, the artist who created the bronze statue of Peter Fraser in 1989. - Small number of duplicate prints noted in collection. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Alice was the step-granddaughter of Peter Fraser. Quantity: 13 loose album pages, with 27 b&w original prints, 3 items of ephemera. 20 b&w original photographic print(s) including 3 mounted. 6 colour original photographic print(s). 1 colour laser sheet with a montage of three colour copy images. Physical Description: Photographic prints, album pages Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2346: Fraser, Alice Janet Kemp, 1934-2004: Family Papers.

Date: 1945

From: [Funeral notices and memorial services of quarto size, for individuals deceased 1900-1999]

By: E.V. Paul (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-FUNERAL-1945-01

Description: Funeral service for the wife of Prime Minister Peter Fraser. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 252 x 160 mm.

Date: [ca 1930s-1940s]

From: Jeffery, Cecil Albert, 1888-1970 : Collection

By: Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Coster, Howard, active 1930s; Digby, Spencer Harry Gilbee, 1901-1995; Lafayette Ltd; Rawood Ltd; Swaine, F A, active 1919-1938; Topical Press Agency Ltd; W H Grove & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4431

Description: Personal and political photographs comprising: Michael Savage and Frederick Jones with an unidentified woman in a garden; three of formal dinners held in London attended by George Forbes, one of which was for Dominion Prime Ministers at Claridges Hotel in May 1935; three of Reginald Aitken, one taken on board the Queen Mary; Forbes and a delegation visiting a fruit market with apples on sale; Forbes and senior officers inspecting American troops; Forbes and others photographed in Santa Monica, the photograph insribed on the reverse with "compliments of William H Carter, mayor City of Santa Monica"; studio portrait of Emma Serena Forbes; studio portrait of Mark Fagan taken in August 1939; three of Michael Savage, one a photograph of a painting; studio portrait of Janet Fraser; studio portrait of Peter Fraser; and the shop of F Jeffery in Roxburgh, a booksellers, chemists, stationers and newsagents and an agent for HMV gramophones and records and Kodak supplies, with a car outside it; portrait of Michael Joseph Savage reading a booklet; three images of public works camps at Kopuawhara, Hawke's Bay, taken before and after the February 1938 floods that killed 21 people. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-1014 : Jeffery, Cecil Albert, 1888-1970 : Papers.

Date: [1916-1976]

From: O'Shea, Alexander Paterson, 1902-1990 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7728-01

Description: Inward and outward correspondence on various matters, mostly from file labelled 1947; identified persons entered under Name below. Also includes letter about a student at Massey called Aburn who was not having a very good time there; copy of a letter written by Tom O'Shea to his brother while serving in France in World War One.; and two cards, one from Randolph, the other from friends in Devon. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1929-1960]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-110

Description: Mainly portraits, with some other photographs included, published (or considered for publication) in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1930s-1950s. All have names recorded on the back and most have date/dates of publication. Names of most of the women entered in Name field. Includes photograph of the home of Mr & Mrs T H Lowry at Okawa; published in NZ Free Lance, 13 Mar 1935 & 19 Nov 1952 Quantity: 114 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1938-1950

From: Heenan, Joseph William Allan (Sir), 1888-1951 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1132-315

Description: Includes memorandum on Coates Memorial Church, Matakohe, 5 Sep 1949 See folder 50 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1926-1963

From: Woodhead, Jean Constance, 1901-1978:Photographs relating to Plunket Society and Karitane nursing

By: Ginders, C A, active 1940s; McCusker, Gordon John, 1892-1966; Otago daily times (Newspaper); Valerie Studios (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-1862

Description: Black photograph album relating to the nursing career of Jean Constance Woodhead as nurse, matron and nursing advisor in Karitane and Plunket hospitals in Dunedin, Wellington and Featherston. Photographic prints are taken by Otago Daily Times, Valerie Studios, Wellington, G McCusker, Blenheim, Ginders, Wellington, and other unidentified photographer(s) between 1934 and 1956. Some views are captioned; probably by Jean Constance Woodhead. Album contains loose prints, and newspaper clippings dated between 1926 and 1963. - Prints chiefly show Jean Constance Woodhead with other nurses, babies and children at Karitane-Harris Hospital in Dunedin, Karitane Hospital and Truby King house in Melrose, Wellington, and at Rototawai homestead, Featherston. -Views taken at Karitane-Harris Hospital, Dunedin, show nurses on the steps and in grounds of the hospital between 1940 and 1941; including Christmas Day 1939. -Views taken at Truby King House and the Karitane Hospital, Melrose, Wellington, chiefly show nurses in the grounds and views of Kilbirnie and Lyall Bay between 1940 and 1945. Also includes Jean Constance with officials on a visit to Truby King House in 1941 by Prime Minister Peter Fraser, Mrs Janet Fraser, Minister of Health Arnold Henry Nordmeyer, Lady Olive Tennyson Newall, Mrs Begg, Governor-General Sir Cyril Newall, Vida Jowett, President of the Plunket Society and others. Also includes scenes of a visit by Dutch nurses of the hospital ship 'Oranje'; a Christmas dinner in 1942; and a party in May 1945. -Views taken at Rototawai homestead, Featherston, circa 1940 to 1945 show views of Jean Constance and other nurses with babies and small children, nurses picnicing at a river, and a local lake. Also includes images of babies and children who were born with medical conditions or born prematurely; including Billy Myles, Diane and Elizabeth. -Loose prints include views of Rototawai homestead circa 1943, Jean Constance, fellow nurses, children including Rogan John Maxwell and Eddie. Also includes a group of Plunket Society head office staff with Muriel Helen Deem. Also includes views of a visit to the Helen Deem Memorial Centre kindergarten on 9 February 1956 by Lady Patricia Norrie, President Dunedin Kindergarten Association Mrs McCrostie, Dunedin Mayoress Cecil Mary Wright, Director Dunedin Kindergartens Miss Hamilton, Plunket Society official Mrs Ewing, and Margaret (?), Director of the Helen Deem Memorial Centre. -Loose newspaper clippings relate to Dunedin Hospital in 1926 and the opening of the new nurses home at 'Lady King Hospital', Melrose, Wellington, in 1963. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Small black album with gold lettering 'Photographs' on cover, 23.5 x 20cm

Date: 1940 - 1943

From: Janet Fraser oral history project

Reference: OHInt-0316/2

Description: Janet Fraser speaking at a welcome to Eleanor Roosevelt in 1943 also a talk on the work of the Plunket Society 1940. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011605 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 24 May 1996

From: Janet Fraser oral history project

By: Fraser, Alice Janet Kemp, 1934-2004; Stace, Hilary Janet, 1954-

Reference: OHInt-0316/1

Description: Alice Janet Fraser gives her own birth details and explains her relationship to Peter Fraser. Gives impression of Janet and Peter's relationship. Talks about her maternal grandparents, Alice and Tim Armstrong. Describes Peter Fraser's religious beliefs and his kindness to her; life in Parliament as a child; secondary schooling and academic abilities at school. Talks about Tim Armstrong the politician and contrasts him with Peter Fraser. Explains why her mother was official hostess. Recalls memories of Janet Fraser as a grandmother and compares her to Alice Armstrong. Refers to Janet Fraser's TB (tuberculosis) and talks about her death and funeral. Gives her opinion on socialism and on Janet and Peter Fraser as socialists. Describes 1949 election. Describes imprisonment of Tim Armstrong and Peter Fraser in World War One and what that meant for Janet Fraser and Alice Armstrong. Talks about the Labour Government's role in World War II. Sums up her childhood, and what she thinks motivated politicians at the time. Interviewer(s) - Hilary Stace Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011606 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4003.

Date: 1919-1999?

By: Fraser, Alice Janet Kemp, 1934-2004

Reference: MS-Group-2346

Description: Papers relating to the Fraser family, including Peter and Janet Fraser. Also to the Armstrong family, including Tim Armstrong. Source of title - Supplied by Library Alice Fraser was the daughter of Harold John McLean Kemp, granddaughter of Tim Armstrong and the step grandaughter of Peter Fraser. Quantity: 18 folder(s). 3 volume(s). 0.21 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: Collecton as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Transfers made from there. - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Original cartoon featuring David Lange, by Tom Scott given by Scott to Harold Kemp - To Photographic Archive - Family photographs, including photographs of Peter Fraser.

Date: 1996

From: Bassett, Michael Edward Rainton (Dr), 1938- : Further papers

Reference: 2012-028-77

Description: Includes typescript draft of part of the book and papers relating to Fraser's wife, Janet Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed material

Date: 1943

From: Ramsden, George Eric Oakes, 1898-1962 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0196-183

Description: Consists of literary, business and personal correspondence Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [1962]

By: Greig, Mabel Lyndall, 1910-

Reference: qMS-0888

Description: Indexed under names Source of title - Transcribed Edited by Mabel Lyndall Greig Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm, green linen)

From: Scholefield, Guy Hardy, 1877-1963 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0212-08

Description: Clippings of events and funerals; some family details. Obituary to Fraser in Listener Quantity: 1 folder(s).

From: Bridget Williams Books : Papers relating to Book of New Zealand Women/Ko Kui Ma Te Kaupapa

Reference: 92-130-11

Description: Contains information on various women who were not, in the end, included in the book. Names entered in name field Quantity: 1 box(es).

Date: 1937

By: Fraser, Janet, 1883-1945

Reference: qMS-0811

Description: Personal biographical account of Henry Holland, with anecdotes and poems written by Holland Broadcast from 2YA Wellington, Thursday 22 April 1937 Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (8 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (35 cm, grey cloth)