Taylor, Nancy Margaret, 1919-1999

Date: Jan-Feb 1996 - 29 Jan 1996 - 14 Feb 1996

By: New Zealand. Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage; Styles, Jennifer, active 1995; Burnett, Robert Ian McKenzie, 1915-2002; Paul, Janet Elaine (Dame), 1919-2004; Porter, Frances Ann, 1925-2022; Taylor, Nancy Margaret, 1919-1999

Reference: OHColl-0750

Description: Oral history project by interviewer Jennifer Styles recorded to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs. The four interviews cover the experiences of those who worked in the very early days of the Historical Branch. The interviewees are Robert (Bob) Burnett, Janet Paul, Frances Porter and Nancy Taylor. Topics discussed include publications such as the 1940 centennial surveys, 'Meet New Zealand' and the first historical atlas, as well as people such as Joe Heenan, John Beaglehole, John Pascoe, and Guy Scholefield. Accompanying material - Copy of paper by Rachel Barrowman about the 1940 Centennial and the historical publications produced; copy of paper by Janet Paul about John Beaglehole and the design of the Centennial publications Interviewer(s) - Jennifer Styles Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-017038 - 017043 Abstracts: OHA-6113 - OHA-6116 Quantity: 6 C60 cassette(s). 4 printed abstract(s). 4 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Search dates: 1940 - 1950 Processing information: Interviews not yet described.

Date: 1957 - 1992

By: Paul, Janet Elaine (Dame), 1919-2004

Reference: E-558

Description: Photographs are of Janet Paul's own works: Maroota. Dancing ground of the women 1990; Waikato landscape. 1957; Journey around my garden II. 1989; Piero's palace. Maroota. 1986; Little Cattai Creek. 1988; Maroota forest patterns. V. 1988; Be joyful, O Earth [n.d.]; Nan Taylor. 1973; Figure. 1980; Eve Page looking. 1982; Eve Page 1984; In a conservatory. 1988; Daughters. 1969-90; Takaka nativity III. 1992; Figures on blue paper [n.d.]; Figures in wilderness. Maroota. 1989; Figures by a waterfall. 1991-92; Bathers. Boat harbour. 1985; Figures by water. 1991; McKinnon family, Hatton Street, Karori. Dec. 1992. Loose are: Figures by a waterfall III 1993; [Couple sitting at table outside (label 215 on frame)]; [Three young women seated outside]; [Female nude]; [Invitation to launch of Barbara Anderson's "I think we should go into the jungle" (1989) featuring Paul's "Remembering times past"]. Maroota is an Australian state forest, in New South Wales Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Colour photographs in sleeves of album 226 x 168 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Janet Paul in 1996. Transfers: Transfer from Manuscripts & Archives..

Date: 1976

From: Paul, Janet Elaine, 1919-2004 :[Thirty-one sketchbooks 1959-1997].

Reference: E-673

Description: Includes landscape sketches of Wangaehu near Wanganui, view from Beillis' house, Waikato, Dunedin airport after the Brasch festival, Wairarapa views (from weekend with Mary Beaven and Mary McNicol), plane tree at Barry's Bay, Mahia, Tolaga Bay, Pierced rock at Tolaga Bay, Solander's Island, Cape Runaway, Waihau Beach, church and churchyard at Raukokori, Whanarua Beach, shearing. Includes sketches of people, some named: Pat and Diana, dinner with Mary McNicol, Bob Burnett at dinner, Peter Beaven, Kath Shawcross, Peter O'Connor, Nan Taylor, Mary Paul, Mary Beaven, Alister Taylor, Imogen Harris, Joanna [Paul] feeding Imogen, Maggie [Harris] reading, Joanna playing the piano at Barry's Bay September 1976, Jeffrey and Joanna in the kitchen at Barry's Bay, Kevin [O'Connor] and Charlotte [Paul] having dinner with Mary McNicol, Murray Edmond with Kevin and Charlotte, Kevin and Charlotte. Diary notes, recording reminiscences of Fred Page and portraits of him [Several portrait sketches of Evelyn and Fred Page have been removed from the book before deposit with the library, leaving the edge of the page only]. More sketches: Bob Burnett, Murray Edmond, Douglas Lilburn, Jean [Jeanne] Renshaw (Katherine Mansfield's sister, 9 December 1976), heron in the garden at Barry's Bay, early morning of 14.12.76 - Imogen's funeral; Sheerah Francis, Margot Phillips (Hamilton 16.1.77), John Roberts. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black hardback book, 215 x 142 mm. Provenance: Estate of Janet Elaine Paul, 2005.

Date: 1989

From: Paul, Janet Elaine, 1919-2004 :[Thirty-one sketchbooks 1959-1997].

Reference: E-685

Description: Includes figure sketches: Michael cutting marmalade; a group at Wellington Botanical Gardens; scene in a restaurant; John Mansfield Thomson (JMT) and Jennifer Shennan; Gamelan Orchestra at the Botanical Gardens 23.1.1989; man sketching; David Garland; Deirdre Airey; protests the presence of mining rig; Clare Taylor; Nan Taylor on her 70th birthday, 13.4.1989; R.I.M. Burnett, Mary Beaven, Frances Porter, Party at Seb's; Jane and Susan; Hester and Susan 1989; Jacob (playing clarinet); Airini Taylor. Includes various landscape sketches; named ones include: Tararua mountain road, Bush at Otaki Forks, Ngarimu Bay, Rachel Garden's farm, Anne's garden at Kennedy's Bay; Valley in the Parapara; [Moeraki Boulders]. Also includes notes about artist or craftswoman Harmony Hammond; notes about Berthe Morisot, Blau Reiter, Massaccio, Fra Angelico, Munch, Lorenzetti; Musee des Monuments francaises, Paris; some of these notes have been taken from Emile Male's "Art and artists in the Middle Ages". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Softbound "Basic" sketch book, approximately 288 pages, each 137 x 218 mm. Provenance: Estate of Janet Elaine Paul, 2005.

Date: 1982

From: Paul, Janet Elaine, 1919-2004 :[Thirty-one sketchbooks 1959-1997].

Reference: E-681

Description: Includes figure sketches: A breastfeeding mother, a father playing on the floor with an infant; drawings of Bob [Burnett] and Mary McNicol at Nan's [Nan Taylor's], 30.12.1982; other unidentified portrait sketches Includes various landscape sketches, most unnamed. Named ones include: Opononi, Towards Kaitaia from Manganui, Ahipara. Housed in the same box as E-667 One unidentified portrait of a man in a knitted jersey may show Bob Burnett Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Spiral bound Olympic school sketch book, with brown front cover, 20 leaves each 140 x 207 mm. Provenance: Estate of Janet Elaine Paul, 2005.

Date: 1837

By: Best, Abel Dottin William, 1816-1845

Reference: MS-Papers-0400

Description: Journal covers voyage to and from residence in NSW, 1838, Norfolk Island, 1838-1840, and New Zealand, 1840-1843. Galley-proofs of journal as edited by Nancy Taylor, with introduction, appendices & notes; letter from Mr Glue, Historical Publications, appraising work; translations and notes of Maori passages in Best's journal Publication - The journal of Ensign Best / edited by Nancy M Taylor. Wellington: R E Owen, Government Printer, 1966 80th Regiment officer Quantity: 8 folder(s). Processing information: Not described to folder level.

Date: 25 Mar 1993

From: Women in World War II Part III

By: Taylor, Nancy Margaret, 1919-1999; Fowke, Susan, 1944-2017

Reference: OHInt-0072/01

Description: Nancy Taylor was born on 13 March 1919 near Taihape. Gives details of her parent's backgrounds. Recalls a number of shifts as a young child as a result of her father's work as a farm worker. Describes her parent's separation while she was still young. Talks about her mother's hard work and commitment to education. Describes being educated by the Aided (Correspondence ) School and later attending Levin Primary School when her mother moved to Levin. Recalls the circumstances which meant that she attended Nga Tawa School. Describes attending Wellington Teachers Training College and Victoria University of Wellington before becoming a teacher. Recalls the outbreak of World War II and working in the public service as part of essential work. Describes meeting future husband Nigel Taylor, marrying him in 1941 and his being called up and sent to New Caledonia to fight. Talks about her secondment to the Historical Branch of Internal Affairs. Comments that the war gave some women opportunites to do work that would normally be done by men. Talks about Historical Branch publications including the Historical Atlas. Recalls contemporaries at work including Janet Paul, Mary Boyd and Ian Wards. Mentions Professor John Beaglehole. Talks about the wartime expectation of women and sexuality. Comments on rationing, manpowering and the Japanese threat. Describes the relief at the end of the war, return of Nigel Taylor and essential industry he worked on before returning to law. Talks about some women losing their wartime jobs when men returned from the war. Describes having children and working part-time and editing for the Alexander Turnbull Library. Describes beginning writing Volumes 1 and 2 of the Official War Histories (The New Zealand people at war : the Home Front) in 1962. Notes that this became a twenty year project. Talks about projects subsequent to this and her children. Comments on ways in which the war changed women's lives. Venue - Wellington : 1993 Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Venue - Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005782-005784; OHLC-001691-001693 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1208. Photocopies of photographs on Nancy Taylor about 1940 and about 1990

Date: 1989

From: Paul, Janet Elaine (Dame), 1919-2004 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5640-098

Description: Letters to Janet Paul while in England in 1989 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and printed matter

Date: 1975-1992

From: Paul, Janet Elaine (Dame), 1919-2004 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5640-016

Description: Letters from friends and family, some to Janet Paul while in England in 1975 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescript

Date: 1948-1968

From: Paul, Janet Elaine (Dame), 1919-2004 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5640-032

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1989

From: Paul, Janet Elaine, 1919-2004 :[Thirty-one sketchbooks 1959-1997].

Reference: E-685-050

Description: Head and shoulders frontal portrait of Nan Taylor in a floral dress Inscriptions: Album page - title, bottom left Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink, 137 x 218 mm.

Date: 1900 - 1999

By: Wilson Funeral Home

Reference: Eph-B-FUNERAL-1900s

Description: Includes obituaries, and memorials for: 1906: Christchurch Cathedral. Burial of the late Right Hon R J Seddon (Premier). [Hymn sheet. 1906] 1920s: Rationalist burial service, by W W Collins [Words of service. ca 1950s?] 1938: Geo Dickinson, undertaker and embalmer. Invoice for the burial of Sarah Jane Hough. Invoice dated 5 September 1938 1945: In memoriam Norris Stephen Falla, CMG, DSO, VD. Died at sea 6 November 1945. Cathdral Church of St Paul Wellington, 26 November 1945. Order of service Janet Fraser. St John's Presbyterian Church Wellington, 10 March 1945. Order of service 1957: Lieutenant-Colonel E W Hayton. Military funeral, 21 November 1957. Order of service Joseph Huggan. Funeral arrangements. St Augustine Church, Britannia Street, Petone, 9 September 1957 1986: Funeral service for Anthony Audrey St. Clair Murray Murray-Oliver, MBE, MA, FMANZ, ANZLA, 1915-1986. Order of service (3 copies) 1991: A farewell to Jim Knox, 1919-1991. Old St Pauls, Mulgrave Street, 6 December 1991. Flier only 1997: Harbour City Funeral Home. Advertising flier ca 1997 The Wilson Funeral Home; a century of service and experience caring for people. Booklet. 1997 The Wilson Funeral Home; a century of service and experience caring for people. Pamphlet [ca 1997] 1998: Funeral Directors' Association of New Zealand (Inc). Family bereavement plan. Pre-paid funerals [Booklet. 1998] 1999: The Wilson Funeral Home. Invitation to view new funeral home at 375 Adelaide Road Newtown, 21 March 1999 (2 copies) Commemoration of the life and achievements of Emeritus Professor Don McKenzie. Old St Pauls, Mulgrave Street Wellington, 20 October [1999]. Flier only Nancy Margaret Taylor, 1919-1999. Memorial pamphlet with photographs Van Josephine (Daisy) Taylor, 1910-1999. Celebration of the life. Devonport Auckland, 5 May 1999. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets and fliers, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1962-1987

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5292-067

Description: Inward and outward letters Other Titles - Jane Mander Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1994-1999

From: Locke, Elsie Violet, 1912-2001 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7202-257

Description: Obituaries and newspaper tributes to recently deceased notable New Zealanders Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1946-1969

From: Paul, Janet Elaine (Dame), 1919-2004 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5640-018

Description: Includes typescript draft of J C Beaglehole's review of new Symphony Orchestra, 14 April 1947, prepared for the `NZ Listener' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter

Date: 1981-1998

From: Wards, Ian McLean, 1920-2003 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8181-142

Description: `Maori policing in 19th Century New Zealand', by Richard Hill; `Busting up of the great estates in Otago/Southland, 1893-1906', a working paper by Tom Brooking; `Land Office business : Crown lands acquisition and disposal in the Wellington Provincial District, 1840-1876', by [Brad Patterson]; `Human rights in World War II in New Zealand', by Nan Taylor and speech by John Yaldwyn to coincide with submission to the Museum of New Zealand the letters from Joseph Dalton Hooker to James Hector, transcribed by Juliet Hobbs Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1973 - 1975

By: Paul, Janet Elaine (Dame), 1919-2004

Reference: B-036-022

Description: Seated figure of Nan Taylor, with glasses and shawl, in armchair. Dated by consultation with artist/donor. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Charcoal, 340 x 275 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Janet Paul, Wellington, in 1995.

Date: 1964-1988

From: Paul, Janet Elaine (Dame), 1919-2004 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5640-091

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph, mss and typescript

Date: 1945-1965

From: Paul, Janet Elaine (Dame), 1919-2004 : Papers of and relating to David Blackwood Paul

Reference: MS-Papers-5523-33

Description: Includes letters from Blackwood Paul to Janet Paul and Charles Brasch Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph (some photocopies), mss, and typescript

Date: 1964-2002

By: Burnett, Robert Ian McKenzie, 1915-2002

Reference: MS-Group-0482

Description: The papers consist of correspondence with Ruth Ross, Ormond Wilson, A G Bagnall, John Stacpoole and others regarding activities of Historic Places Trust In addition to contemporary Historic Places Trust matters the papers contain discussion and information about people and places in New Zealand history that Burnett and his colleagues were interested in Also includes scrapbook compiled by Burnett and folder of material relating to Colonel Edward Arthur Williams Quantity: 13 folder(s). 1 volume(s). 0.23 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts (some carbon copies) and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr R I M Burnett, Wellington, 1995 (A95-093, A95-181), 1996 (A96-083); and donated by Ms C Burnett, Upper Hutt, Dec 2002 (A2002-382) Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transferred to the Photographic Archive - To Photographic Archive - 14 black and white photographs (PAColl-7761).