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Interview with Jean Ngan
- Date
- 23 Jun, 16 Aug 2010 - 23 Jun 2010 - 16 Aug 2010
- By
- Ngan, Jeanette, 1933-
- Reference
- OHInt-0984-13
- Description
Interview with Jean (Jeanette) Ngan (nee Wong), born in Taihape in 1933. Interviewer's summary:
Talks about being one of 5 children of New Zealand Chinese parents who ran the General Store at Utiku near Taihape and were actively involved in the local community. When Jean's older brother drowned the family moved away to the Hutt Valley and established a new business in which Jean worked until she was released by her father to pursue her ambition to become a nurse. Discusses her marriage to Guy Ngan, then an architect but for the greater part of their married life a self employed artist and sculptor, the couple moving to Stokes Valley where over a period of years Guy built their home. Talks about raising 2 children there and, during her years at home with the children, doing a considerable amount of weaving, exhibiting and selling her work, and was a member of Port Nicholson Weavers. Discusses in detail domestic life, housekeeping and food in her parents' and her own home. Describes family photographs.
Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001497
Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 digital photograph(s). 25 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s) over 2 days. 4 Hours Duration.
Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg, Tiff
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001469, OHA-7393.
Colour photographs of: Jean Ngan (June 2010); recipe book and recipes. Scanned B&W photographs of: Chinese names; Wong children (ca.1940); montages of Wong family photographs; Jean aged about 11; Wong family shop; other photographs of Jean; nurse trainees; wedding photographs (June 1959); Nicholas Ngan; home in Raukawa Street; Jean and Guy in kitchen; Jean and children; weaving made by Jean; Ting Chin garden (OHDL-001470)
Search dates: 1933 - 2010
- Additional description
Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.
Alternative form available: Both printed and digital versions of the abstract are available
- Use/Reproduction
- Public use requires the permission of the copyright holder Copyright: Copyright is held by Mrs Schmacher's Gems Project Collective
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material
- Part of
- Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s
- Format
- 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s), 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract), 1 printed abstract(s), 3 digital photograph(s), 25 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s), 1 interview(s) over 2 days, 4 Hours Duration, Oral histories, Electronic records (Digital records), Electronic documents, Digital photographs, Digital images, Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg, Tiff, Illustration: Colour photographs of: Jean Ngan (June 2010); recipe book and recipes. Scanned B&W photographs of: Chinese names; Wong children (ca.1940); montages of Wong family photographs; Jean aged about 11; Wong family shop; other photographs of Jean; nurse trainees; wedding photographs (June 1959); Nicholas Ngan; home in Raukawa Street; Jean and Guy in kitchen; Jean and children; weaving made by Jean; Ting Chin garden (OHDL-001470)
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Interview with Jean Ngan, printed abstract
Date: 23 Jun, 16 Aug 2010
From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s
Reference: OHA-7393
Description: Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s).
Photographs of Jean Ngan
From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s
Reference: OHDL-001470
Description: Colour photographs of: Jean Ngan (June 2010); recipe book and recipes. Scanned B&W photographs of: Chinese names; Wong children (ca.1940); montages of Wong family photographs; Jean aged about 11; Wong family shop; other photographs of Jean; nurse trainees; wedding photographs (June 1959); Nicholas Ngan; home in Raukawa Street; Jean and Guy in kitchen; Jean and children; weaving made by Jean; Ting Chin garden. Quantity: 3 digital photograph(s). 25 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s).
Interview with Jean Ngan, digital abstract
Date: 23 Jun, 16 Aug 2010
From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s
Reference: OHDL-001469
Description: Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s).