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Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-013

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by various photographers including the Burton Brothers, Tyree Brothers, James Ring, Josiah Martin, and Henry Thomas Lock. Includes images of flooding in Blenheim, and a wire cable tram across the Taramakau River (West Coast). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red cloth bound folio album, 415 x 300 mm

Date: 1847

From: Great Britain. Colonial Office :Maps and plans. Series 1. New Zealand. CO 700/New Zealand

By: National Archives (Great Britain)

Reference: MapColl-834.52gbbd/1847/Acc.46977-84

Description: Copy of a manuscript map which covers the coastal area from Taiaroa Head, Otago Peninsula to Nugget Point and including Dunedin, Mosgiel, Milton, Balclutha areas. Shows unnumbered land blocks and basic topography. Has stamp of New Zealand Company with date 11 Mar 1848 Relationship complexity - The Alexander Turnbull Library has a New Zealand Company lithographed map that is likely to have been based on this map. Reference - MapColl 834.52a/1847/Acc.474, National Library Catalogue Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) in 8 parts. Physical Description: Photographic print, black and white, scale [1:63 360], 90 x 190 cm. Provenance: From Colonial Office papers, England. Colonial Office material now held by National Archives, Kew, United Kingdom.

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1901]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-296

Description: Photographs, probably taken by G W Barltrop. Scenes in the first part of the album are of the South Island, mostly around the Dunedin area, and further south, in Invercargill and Bluff. There are two panoramas, one of Port Chalmers and one of Lumsden. Most are landscapes, but a few show groups of people, including five young girls in the Dunedin Botanical Gardens, and a man driving a horse and buggy at Manuka Creek, with two young women sitting beside him, and a third woman standing by the horse's head. A graveyard scene is a close-up view of two headstones, one for Catherine Louisa Schaw (widow of John S Schaw), who died in 1874 aged 71. North Island scenes show a church at Levin; and views of the countryside, a bullock pulling a laden cart, and at the Rimutaka Summit all taken on a train journey. Group portraits include one of a large family group, with two young boys in the foreground with a cricket bat and cricket pads; and two large groups of men and women associated with the Missions to Seamen. One image show a plaque erected `In memory of twelve officers and seamen who were drowned or died from exposure, by the wreck of the Barque Lizzie Bell near the Oeo River, July 24 1901, erected by members and friends of the Missions to seamen, Wellington, New Zealand'. There is also a photograph of the wreck of the ship Antiocco Accame, which was stranded at Katiki Beach, Otago, on 31 October 1901. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: [Circa 1880s]

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903; Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA1-f-076

Description: Album of photographs taken by various photographers circa 1880s, including the Burton brothers, George Valentine, and W T L Travers. Photographs of Tenerife, Cape Town (and probably the views of Hobart) were taken from the ship "Doric" in 1885, possibly by Alexander Turnbull on one of his return trips from Europe. Other Titles - New Zealand, Tasmania [and] Ships Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled in gold lettering on spine "New Zealand, Tasmania, Ships, A H Turnbull"; 31.5 x 43.0 cm

Date: 22 Aug 1986 - 27 Aug to 9 Dec 1986 - 16 Aug 1987 - 16 Apr 1987

From: Presbyterian Support Otago Community History Programme oral history collection

By: Turnbull, Bessie, 1885-1988; Korner, Aggie, active 1980-1988

Reference: OHInt-0952-01

Description: Interviews with Bessie Turnbull, born in Mosgiel in 1885, the youngest of eleven children. Talks about her parents emigrating from Scotland in 1863 or 1864, and owning bakeries at Mosgiel Junction and Mosgiel township. Comments on the family living between the town and Mosgiel Junction, and the children helping in the shop. Refers to her mother having a hard life and her father being "the Laird" of the family. Discusses bread making, their living conditions, the domestic routine and having help in the home. Comments on birthdays, holidays, Christmas, leisure, weddings, funerals, shopping, Sundays and attending East Tairei Presbyterian Church. Mentions religious tensions in the community, and compares English, Scottish, Irish and Dutch settlers. Talks about social classes in Mosgiel. Refers to horse and cart transport, the family's cows and family pets. Comments on health and home remedies, epidemics including the 1918 flu epidemic, cleanliness and poor sanitation. Comments on low wages and poverty in Mosgiel, and her mother taking in sewing during hard times. Mentions swaggers including "The Shiner". Discusses attending East Taieri School from age six until she was 14. Talks about the school day, lessons, using slates and discipline. Refers to wanting to be a school teacher but not being able to because of family circumstances and working as a domestic for a year for 3/- per week. Discusses getting work in the Mosgiel Woollen Mill where she was paid 24/- a fortnight. Describes at length working conditions and the working day at the mill, staff picnics and other entertainments. Talks about living with her mother until she died, and going together by train to Dunedin on Saturdays for shopping. Comments on changing living conditions and the impact of electricity. Mentions leisure activities including going to the pictures. Discusses shopping, clothing, relationships, and feeling it was her duty to care for her mother though she did not mind being unmarried. Mentions the impact of her mother's death and moving to a house she had had built, which had electricity but no washing machine or telephone (by choice). Recalls the Boer War and longer hours being worked at the mill to make socks and clothing. Remembers shops being draped in black when Queen Victoria died. Comments that she has never been to see any of the royal family and gives her opinion of them. Mentions that none of her brothers fought in World War I but they sent letters and food parcels to local men serving overseas. Refers to women being employed in men's jobs during the war, and the mill working overtime. Talks about food rationing. Discusses men returning from the war finding jobs hard to get, and not talking about their experiences. Reflects on the 1930s Depression, it's impact in Mosgiel, and only working half time. Recalls World War II, hearing about it on the radio, attitudes to Hitler, and longer hours and more jobs for women at the mill. Mentions hearing Vera Lynn sing at the Dunedin Town Hall. Refers to war as "a hell's disease". Talks about adjusting readily to retirement after working for 57 years at the mill. Comments on a flight in an aeroplane, never having had television, and keeping chooks and a garden until she was 100. Reflects on her life and the position of women today (1980s). A preliminary interview (OHC-018655) and a joint interview with Aggie Korner on 16 Apr 1987 (OHC-018656) are not abstracted Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - card from the exhibition "Bessie Turnbull - her story" Accompanying material - folder OHA-6469-2: information about the Bessie Turnbull Exhibition and interviewing Bessie; photocopy of a paper about the exhibition delivered to the 1988 Oral History Seminar by Helen Frizzell; a partial transcript (some handwritten); research notes for the interviews (some handwritten) Accompanying material - folder OHA-6469-3: text from the exhibition "Bessie Turnbull - her story" Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHA-018657 - OHA-018669 - tapes 1-13 Tape numbers - OHA-018655 - preliminary interview Tape numbers - OHA-018656 - joint interview with Aggie Korner Quantity: 15 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 folder(s). 14 interview(s). 14 Hours Duration. 1 C20 cassette(s). 1 5" reel(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6469. B&W photographs of Bessie Turnbull with Aggie Korner at the opening of the exhibition, and of Helen Frizzell in front of a display of photographs of the young and old Bessie Turnbull.. B&W photograph clipped from newspaper of Bessie Turnbull on her 103rd birthday.. Colour photograph of Aggie Korner aged 96 years Search dates: 1885 - 1986