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Vicki Joy Fissenden - Success or defeat? An immigrant's account
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-052
Description: The essay traces the Fissenden family of Birling, Kent, to New Zealand and documents their lifestyles subsequent to their arrival. Beginning in 1875 the Fissendens and their descendants built a new life in New Zealand buying land, opening businesses and raising their families. From Marlborough the descendants of the first nine Fissendens spread to a large part of the upper South Island, later moving to Hawke's Bay and Auckland. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 45 pages. Finding Aids: Published inventory available.
Embroidery relating to Te Ropu Wahine Maori Toko
Date: ca 1951
From: Turakina Maori Girls' College: Records
Reference: Objects-0610-1
Description: Textile embroidery created by Mairatea Tahiwi circa 1951. Made up of a circular embroidery showing a Māori whare, with peripheral circle containing the words: "Te Ropu Wahine Maori Toko I Te Ora [Maori Women's Welfare League]. Tatau Tatau". Possibly made from cotton fibre. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 object(s). Physical Description: Circular embroidery on cloth, 2 x 180 x 180mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A92-051. Processing information: Description edited as part of Curios and Objects survey, 2022. Previous reference: Curios-029-024-01. Previous title: Tahiwi, Mairatea, 1908- :Te Ropu Wahine Maori Toko i te Ora. Tatau Tatua. 1951.
Hosing down a car body at General Motors, Petone - Photograph taken by Merv Griffiths
Date: 29 December 1987
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1987/7098-F
Description: General Motors worker, Papa Koloi, hosing down a car body with white spirit, one of the messiest jobs in the Petone plant. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths 29 December 1987. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacitate film negative, 35mm
Anti abortion march, ca 1970s
Date: ca 1973
From: Police Picture Sets , Bright Lights :Thirty-five bromides showing disasters, demonstrations and crime scenes
Reference: PAColl-3122-01
Description: An anti abortion march (place nor identified). Shows mainly women carrying SPUC banners and banners carrying anti abortion slogans, down the street of a town or city. New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).
Two women rowing on Lake Tarawera
From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand
Reference: 1/4-091431-F
Description: Two women, identified as Zeila and Rene in a row boat on Lake Tarawera. Photographed by Robert E Wells. Date unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.5 x 4.5 inches
Photograph of Post Mistress Levenia Shine, Whangamomona Post Office
Date: 21 January 1988
From: Clark, Fiona :Post Office Documentary Project photographs
Reference: PAColl-1302-09
Description: Levenia Shine, Post Mistress at Whangamomona Post Office. Photographed 21 January 1988 by Fiona Clark. Exhibited in 'Within Memory' Exhibition at the National Library Galley, 6 April - 16 July 2006. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cibachrome colour print
Address book and diary
Date: 1921, [1930-1950]
From: North, Esther Mary, 1892-1968 : Papers
Reference: MSX-6015-6016
Description: Address book kept by North. Also diary for 1921 kept by her while teaching at Pahiatua District High School and in London and Kentish Town at the beginning of her grant of one of the University Passages to Europe. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (two pieces in case folder).
Folders in L R Wishart's shirt factory, Levin - Photograph taken by Ray Pigney
Date: 9 March 1994
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1994/0681-F
Description: Folders Jenny sargent (left) and Xhou Jie Xia, working at the end of the production line at L R Wishart's shirt factory in Levin. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ray Pigney 9 March 1994. Source of descriptive information - notes on negative envelope Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Delegates attending the conference of the New Zealand Federated Builders and Contractor...
Date: February 1931
From: Registered Master Builders Federation (New Zealand) :Photographs
Reference: PA6-692
Description: Group photograph of delegates and their wives attending the 31st annual conference of the New Zealand Federated Builders and Contractors Industrial Association of Employers taken in Tuatapere Domain. Photographed by an unknown photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 81 x 18 cm, in mount, 90 x 27.5 cm
Newspapers - Miscellaneous Maori topics
Date: 1934-1940
From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0062-60
Description: Includes Native Land Court documents of the Wellington region; newspaper cuttings dealing with major and minor issues of the period including the Report of the Native Affairs Commission and Apirana Ngata; tributes and obituaries, horse racing, comic caption competitions, Maori land settlements of the time, articles on brothels, concerts, Maori history, New Zealand flora and fauna Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter
Miss Kate Brind - Governess
Date: 1873-1989
From: Chisholm, Jocelyn Bell, 1928-2010 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-4205
Description: The booklet contains a brief biography of Brind, compiled by Jocelyn Chisholm and dated 1989 together with copies of Brind's outward correspondence to Miss Lewin of the Female Middle Class Emigration Society written between 1873 and 1875. Includes reproduction of photo of Kate Brind. Source of title - Transcribed from cover Relationship complexity - MS-Papers-4209 (Chisholm, J : Maori Land Court - Opito Claim) Brind was born in New Zealand in 1850 and returned to England with her family the same year following the death of her father. In 1872 she applied to the Female Middle Class Emigration Society for assistance to return to New Zealand as a governess. She arrived in Wellington on the `Glenlora' in 1873 and took a position in Nelson. She later married William Chisholm of Nelson. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)
Patricia Braybrooks' photograph album
Date: [ca 1925-1945]
From: Barker, Margaret, 1924-2013: Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-1742
Description: Photograph album belonging to Patricia Braybrooks. Includes - Photographs of Patricia as a baby, a child and a young women, her friends, horses and pet dogs. 14 photographs dating from 1944 relate to Patricia Braybrooks as a trainee teacher at the Wellington Training College in Kelburn. These photographs show groups on a picnic at Days Bay, in the Wellington Botanic Garden, outside what is probably the training college, and at the final training college ball ca 1944. Group photograph of the first class taught by Patricia Braybrooks when she was 20 in about 1945. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1946 : Barker, Margaret, fl 2011 : Papers relating to Patricia Braybrooks..
Papers on unemployment and unemployment movements
Date: 1926-1931
From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera
Reference: 94-106-68/01
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Diaries
Date: 1930, 1932
From: North, Esther Mary, 1892-1968 : Papers
Reference: MSX-6021-6022
Description: Diaries kept by North (1) in 1930 with addresses in Nelson and Silverstream; mostly notes and a record of inward and outward letters; (2) in 1932 when she was first assistant, Palmerston North Girls' High School and senior French mistress, Wellington eAst Girls' College; this diary is also fairly brief Quantity: 1 volume(s) (two pieces in case folder).
Notes and clippings - Tailors and tailoresses
Date: 1928-1988
From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera
Reference: 94-106-46/03
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Notes and clippings - Tailors and tailoresses
Date: 1873-1913
From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera
Reference: 94-106-46/02
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Working the reel at the Wellington Surf Life Saving Championships, Paekakariki, New Zea...
Date: 9 February 1976
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1976/0541-F
Description: Member of the Wellington Ladies Surf Life Saving Club works the reel at the Wellington Surf Life Saving Championships, Paekakariki, New Zealand. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 9 February 1976. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Diary
Date: Jan-Oct 1941
From: Albiston, Isobel Shirley, 1921-1995 : Diaries and autograph book
Reference: MSX-6392
Description: Diary kept by Albiston following her and her mother's move to Christchurch where she left the civil service and moved into employment in Texaco, a private company activities, books read, church afficiliations, the effect of the war on New Zealand, the world and Jews, etc Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Photograph taken at National Federation of University Women's Conference, 1986
Date: 1986
From: Lewis, Marjory, fl 2006: Photographs
Reference: PAColl-9503
Description: Group portrait taken at National Federation of University Women's Conference in Christchurch. Photograph taken in 1986 by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Provenance: This item is from the Marjory Lewis's aunt's estate. Transfers: Collection taken as a whole in Photographic Archive and transfers made from there. - To Book Collections - International Federation of University Women; Report of the 22nd Conference, the 70th and 71st Councils Christchurch, New Zealand, August and September 1986 and of the 69th Council Geneva, Switzerland, July 1985..
William and Francis Hunt among nikau Palms, Chatham Islands
Date: [ca1880-ca1895]
From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands
Reference: PA1-o-1333-23
Description: William Hunt of the Bluff, Pitt Island, his two mastifs, wife Frances, daughter Frances Mary, and sons Frederick William and Herbert Alexander. They are standing and seated among nikau palms. (Information from George Hough and Bill Carter). According to George Hough and Bill Carter this a Karl Gerstenkorn photograph taken in 1891. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm