New Plymouth Girls' High School and Canterbury University College

Contains photographs relating to Christine Cole Catley's student years at New Plymouth Girls' High School (1946-1940) and Canterbury University College (1941-1944). Photographs taken by unknown and various commercial photographers (see names list) between 1936 and 1944, with one image possibly taken ca.1950.

Images relating to New Plymouth Girls' High School consist of group portraits of students, including three basketball teams with Catley

Canterbury University College images include portraits of Catley with friends and by herself. Also: informal socialising; a float of the `HMS Neverbudge - New Zealand's Last Hope', probably from a capping parade; movie billboard for `I married a witch' (1942) which has been altered to read `I married a bitch'; and formal portrait of the student executive of which Catley was a member.

Another set of photographs relate to the University's Drama Society, including images of cast onstage and backstage dressed in Victorian costume. One photograph shows the cast and crew of `Othello' (ca.1944), including Catley, producer Ngaio Marsh and composer Douglas Lilburn, with beer bottles and mugs. Another shows Marsh and the Canterbury Student Players, possibly about to depart on an Australian tour.

One image shows group of men including writer Anton Vogt, and possibly also James K Baxter and Paddy Costello taken ca.1950

Relationship complexity - A different version of `Othello' cast and crew image is located at PAColl-0285-1-072

Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s).

Physical Description: Photographic prints