New Zealand. Department of Education. Visual Production Unit

Date: 1973-2000

By: Curriculum Oral History Project Committee

Reference: MS-Papers-11821

Description: Comprises material reflecting social bonds between staff of the Curriculum Development Unit and later the Curriculum Development Division and Visual Production Unit of the New Zealand Department of Education. Includes correspondence, ephemera, comic poem and song lyrics, plus sketches of staff with an accompanying list of names. Source of title - Supplied by Library Relationship complexity - See related oral history and photographic material at Library references OHColl-1119 and PA-Group-00948 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript Provenance: Donated by the Curriculum Oral History Project committee, 2014. Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Curriculum Oral History Project Committee, Lower, 2013. The committee did 10 oral history interviews and collected material from staff who worked in the unit. Transfers: From Photographic Archive - Curriculum Oral History Project Committee: Photographs relating to the Curriculum Development Unit/Division (PA-Group-00948).

Date: [nd], 29 Nov 1979

From: Curriculum Oral History Project Committee: Photographs relating to the Curriculum Development Unit/Division

Reference: PA12-11035

Description: Chiefly comprises scenes taken at an unidentified staff function showing speeches being made and people socialising over the food table. Photographer unidentified. One set of slides show scenes taken of staff at the Visual Production Unit party at Lopdell House on 29 November 1979. Identified people are Russell, Frank, Gordon, Jeni Horn, Mrs Reyudeveld [sic], and Peter Hilde. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: April 1963, [ca. 1963 - 1989]

From: Curriculum Oral History Project Committee: Photographs relating to the Curriculum Development Unit/Division

Reference: PAColl-10281-3

Description: Photographs of the Curriculum Development Unit staff, and the Visual Production Unit (VPU) staff. Chiefly shows interior views of staff in the office. Comprises proofs sheet and photographic prints. Taken in April 1963, and mainly between circa 1963 to 1989 by unidentified photographer(s). - Includes one view of two National Film Library staff preparing primary school filmstrips for dispatch. Taken April 1963. - Includes one view of three people presenting a 'Resource for Social Studies' kit to Phil Amos (Minister of Education 1972-1975). - Includes views of staff at social occasions, and two views of mascot toys. - Includes exterior views showing staff, including Jill Marion Goodwin, outside the VPU office above McGregor Wrights Gallery in Lambton Quay, Wellington, and furniture being moved from Rossmore House, January 1977. - Includes a view of His Excellency Sir Arthur Porritt, Lady Kathleen Porritt, and Prime Minister Keith Holyoake greeting Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, and Princess Anne on the wharf beside the gangplank of the HMY 'Britannia'. - Includes views of VPU work: standing display boards featuring 'Picture Packs' and 'Film strips', pupils and staff at an 'Education 1877-1977 - 100 Years of National Education System 1877-1977' event in a school hall, and VPU staff working on illustrations for 'Education 100'. - Some prints are mounted on card and some prints are illustrated for comic effect; probably used for display. Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s). 12 b&w proof sheets, containing 219 images. 4 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1960 - 1989], [ca 1990s - April 2000]

By: Curriculum Oral History Project Committee; Mahoney, Frank, active 1967-1968

Reference: PA-Group-00948

Description: Collection comprises albums, loose prints, negative strips, and proof sheets which chiefly relate to the staff and work of the Curriculum Development Unit/Division of the Department of Education. Collected by those who worked at the unit in Wellington. Photographs taken circa 1960s to circa 1989 by unidentified photographer(s). Some images taken circa 1990s and circa 2000 during Unit reunions. Some (possibly many) taken by Frank Mahoney who worked as a photographer for the Department of Education, and by former staff members. Some photographs have captions, many of which are comic annotations intended for display. Images are chiefly informal views of gatherings and parties, including farewells, held in the workplace or in private homes. Includes many (mostly unidentified) portraits of members of the Unit. Also includes images which were probably taken for publication or display as part of the work of the Curriculum Development Unit/Division, the Visual Production Unit, and the School Publications Branch. These are chiefly negatives and proof sheets. Images show classroom activities in music, Maori studies, science, reading, and art; pupils and teacher trainees at Kelburn Normal School circa early 1960s; and the Careers in the Public Service 1968-1969 recruitment campaign. Other negative format images show the Unit/Division staff practising waiata, an in-service training day for teachers, social gatherings, and a powhiri at Hamilton Teachers College. Further negatives show the work of the Visual Production Unit, in particular the 'Education 100 years 1877-1977' exhibition in a school hall to mark the centennial of the Education Act. Identified solo portraits show Dave Francis, [?] MacPherson, and Doug Gunn, taken circa 1973-1976; plus 'Unit mug shots' taken Christmas 1975. Accompanying material - paperwork relating to the New Zealand Curriculum Oral History Project is in the Photographic Archive backfile. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Relationship complexity - see material relating to to the Curriculum Development Unit at Library reference MS-Papers-11821, and OHColl-1119. Also see offical Department of Education records for the Unit held at Archives New Zealand. The Committee created 10 oral history interviews and collected the photographs from people who worked in the unit. Quantity: 1 album(s). 192 b&w original negative(s) strips with 647 images (includes 35mm and 120 strips). 3 b&w original negative(s). 1 b&w original negative(s) roll with 16 images. 57 colour original transparency/ies (35mm slides). 29 b&w original photographic print(s) proof/contact sheets with 444 images. 76 b&w original photographic print(s). 115 colour original photographic print(s). 7 colour original negative(s) strips with 25 images. 2 b&w original transparency/ies (positive prints, 10x8 cm). 3 item(s) of photographic ephemera (accompanying lists containing identification information). Physical Description: Photograph albums, photographic prints, proof sheets, negatives, slides, and transparencies Transfers: Collection as a whole accepted into Photographs and transfer made from there. - To Manuscripts & Archives - Papers relating to the Curriculum Development Unit/Division in the Department of Education (MS-Papers-11821).

Date: 1970

By: Hadfield, Gilbert Keith, active 2002; New Zealand. National Publicity Studios; New Zealand. School Publications Branch

Reference: Eph-C-HORTICULTURE-1970-01

Description: Set of photographs to accompany the Department of Education's School Publications Branch publication "The fruit farm" [1970], and the filmstrip "The commercial vegetable grower" [1970], issued by the Department's Visual Production Unit. Plates are: 1. Stone fruit orchard in the Clyde-Cromwell Gorge, Central Otago. Photograph Alistair Campbell 2. Spraying apple trees in a Nelson orchard. Photograph National Publicity Studios 3. Smudge pots burning in a Hawke's Bay orchard. Photograph National Publicity Studios 4. Aerial view of orchards near Hastings, Hawke's Bay. Photograph National Publicity Studios 5. Picking oranges in a citrus fruit orchard at Kerikeri, Northland. Photograph National Publicity Studios 6. Strawberry farm at Henderson, Auckland. Photograph National Publicity Studios 7. Irrigation system on a Canterbury market garden. Photograph G K Hadfield 8. Transplanting cabbage seedlings by machine. Photograph G K Hadfield 9. Sorting onions into sizes. Photograph G K Hadfield 10. Digging potatoes by machine. Photograph G K Hadfield 11. Harvesting peas by machine. Photograph G K Hadfield 12. Frozen peas being put into bags by machine. Photograph G K Hadfield Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and engravings on sheet folded to 378 x 250 mm.

Date: [1980-1995]

From: Edmond, Lauris Dorothy, 1924-2000 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7372-73

Description: Reviews and essays of and about Edmond's work Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1988-1989]

From: Kidman, Fiona Judith (Dame), 1940- : Papers

Reference: 91-300-24

Description: Inward and outward correspondence and other papers; letter from Bede, Victoria University of Wellington and papers relating ot the Moments of Invention photographic exhibition in Hamilton Other Titles - Moments of invention (exhibition and publication) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1979

By: New Zealand. Department of Education. Visual Production Unit

Reference: Micro-Art-026

Description: In 3 parts, comprising 120 examples of New Zealand art. Quantity: 3 microfilm reel(s). Physical Description: 3 microfilm reels (each 40 frames) ; all col. ill. + notes ([20] p.) 210 x 300 mm Finding Aids: Descriptive notes list artist, title, date, size, medium and location, with index to artists and locations (shelved with Micro Art shelf list)..

Date: 1948-1980

By: New Zealand. Department of Education. Visual Production Unit

Reference: PA-Group-00389

Description: Prints, negatives, information kits and film strips produced by the Visual Production Unit of the Department of Education between the late 1940s and the 1970s. They were produced for use in schools and cover a wide range of topics. The collection comprises material produced by the unit's own photographers and cinematographers, as well as material acquired from other sources. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-093354 to 093464, 094570 to 094732; 1/2-187189 to 187416 Quantity: 33 container(s) prints, negatives and film strips.

Date: 1988

From: Edmond, Lauris Dorothy, 1924-2000 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5146-45

Description: Contains correspondence received by Edmond from various friends and relating to publication of her work. Includes programme for `Poetry in June' series of talks and readings, ACAG, Kevin of Deakin University, telegram from Martin (possibly Edmond), a letter from Louis Johnson on his arrival in Menton as the KM fellow, in which he describes the family's car being broken into, letters from Sister M Leonie, St Mary's Convent, Christchurch, comment on Edmond's work by Dr Joseph Swann, Wuppertal, letter from John of Brunswick West, Melbourne, comment by Edmond, `I know what I think' (NZ listener, 17 Apr 1953), invitation to an evening in memory of William McFonagall, letter from Stephen (possibly Stratford) and from Bruce of Highton, Victoria, while he was in Auckland. Quantity: 1 folder(s).