Archivists

Date: 05 Apr 2001

From: Women's Studies Association feminist oral history project

By: Ellis, Ellen, 1944-; Women's Studies Association (N.Z.)

Reference: OHInt-0556-02

Description: Ellen Ellis was born in Westport in 1944. Describes family life, her father (a diplomat), and a family posting to Canada in 1949. Recalls returning to Wellington and secondary school. Talks about her mother's health and treatment. Mentions university study. Describes teacher training college, and work at Victoria University Library, Wellington. Discusses sexuality and relationships. Talks about working at Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand Library School, working for Alister Taylor, and the challenges of being a sole parent in full time work. Talks about co-ordinating music for Harry Seresin's The Settlement restaurant, Willis St, Wellington. Talks about the development of her feminist consciousness. Comments on her mother's life. Discusses encounter groups, Bert Potter and Centrepoint. Discusses housing and discriminatory attitudes towards women. Mentions the Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB). Describes Wilderland Commune, Coromandel, New Zealand. Talks about her involvement in the Hecate Women's Health Collective and alternative health groups in Wellington. Describes National Archives work, the feminist librarians' group, teaching on the Women's Studies course, involvement with Women's Studies Association, working as a research consultant, and researching Sandra Coney's book 'Standing in the sunshine'. Talks about TV documentary research on abortion, and various writing projects. Mentions researching Boer War concentration camps. Reflects on feminism in her life, in relationships, housework, emotional equity, and feminist gains. Mentions that child care is still a critical issue. Other - Note: Part of interview was lost. During the recording, a completed tape was reused to record the next part of the interview by mistake. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - CV, photo, biographical information form Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-8522 - OHC-8525 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2650, OHDL-000999.

Date: 1981

By: Crewdson, Gerard M, 1954-

Reference: A-320-012

Description: Shows a profile silhouette portrait of a man with beard and spectacles. Inscriptions: Verso - top right - [Inscription and identification by donor] This portrait was made at a street fair held to raise funds to save Inverlochy House. Quantity: 1 collage. Physical Description: Collage of black paper on white card, size 210 x 173 mm. Provenance: Donated by John Sullivan in 2002.

Date: 1995

From: Alexander Turnbull Library: Photographs

By: Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PAColl-7679

Description: The staff of the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, photographed 28 April 1995 by an unknown photographer This photograph was taken on Deputy Turnbull Librarian, Sharon Dell's last day before leaving to take up the post of Director of the Wanganui Regional Museum. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Colour digital photographic print

Date: 5 August 1996

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1996/2239-F

Description: Eamonn Bolger, archivist at The Museum of New Zealand, with the diary of Felton Mathew who saw the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. The diary was found in the museum archives. - Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid on the 5th of August 1996. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler film negative, 35mm

Date: 1936

By: Scholefield, Guy Hardy, 1877-1963

Reference: MSX-4925

Description: Personal notes of a tour from Mar 1935 to Jan 1936 by Scholefield, not intended for publication. Includes notes on libraries, librarians and archives in Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, Canada, the United States, South Africa, France, Switzerland, Ireland. Samples of materials used, bookplates, forms etc included. Photograph of Prince Edward Island book truck, samples of cataloguing styles and other matters. Index. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.40 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph corrections and printed matter

Date: 27 Nov 1985 - 27 Nov 1995

From: NZOHA Fletcher Challenge Ltd Oral History Project

By: Arkley, Robert Thirlwan, 1916-1990

Reference: OHInt-0001/02

Description: Bob Arkley born Newcastle-on-Tyne, England and came to New Zealand with family in 1925. Father worked with Shell Company New Zealand. Talks about World War II experiences, joining Navy under Scheme B, and training at HMS Ganges at Shotley, UK and at HMS King Alfred, Lancing College, Hove, England, before joining HMS Electra, a destroyer and later ML Flotilla. Describes in detail circumstances leading to sinking of ML Flotilla and capture - picked out of water by Japanese fishermen and became adjutant of his Prisoner of War Camp in Palembang, Indonesia, where he spent the next three and half years. Describes Bill Burke, a New Zealander who was also in camp. Describes career with Fletcher Challenge commencing in 1949 as branch accountant, progressing to Assistant Secretary of Fletcher Holdings and Secretary of the Fletcher Holdings Board of Management on retirement. In 1981 appointed Fletcher archivist and gives a detailed account of the origins of archives and what it holds. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Fletcher Challenge House, Penrose, Auckland Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 0134. An online copy of the abstract is also available to read in the Library's Reading Rooms.

Date: 1983-1991

Reference: PAColl-6364

Description: The Transparencies which record New Zealand Map Society conferences from 1983 to 1991, are part of a larger collection comprising correspondence of the society (1995-1997), correspondence relating to the 1999 conference, and a survey of viability of the society. Arrangement: Transparencies at PA12-1851 to PA12-1853 Quantity: 55 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1877-1970

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1196-12

Description: Working files on the WPHC Archives and the Central Archives of Fiji. Includes inventories of Samoan records dating back to 1877, shelf lists, inventories, despatches and official correspondence as well as superseded listings and working files on archives in the Pacific area as a whole. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1854

By: Watts, George Frederick, 1815-1904; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: C-035-008

Description: Portrait ofthe Keeper of Archives, Oxford University Griffiths was keeper of the archives at Oxford University Title from pencil inscription Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 360 x 255 mm on sheet 596 x 427 mm Provenance: Formerly collection of William Fox

Date: Oct 1947

Reference: 1/2-C-22399-F

Description: Guy Hardy Scholefield reading a book while standing by the Parliamentary Library bookshelves. Taken by an unknown photographer in October 1947. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1961-1965

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8179-55

Description: File relating to job applications, regrading of staff etc. Includes list of archivists with details of qualifications, daste of birth etc. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2011

By: Archives and Records Association of New Zealand; Bearsley, Amanda Blys, 1981-

Reference: EPHDL-0212

Description: Digital poster reproduces a photograph of an outdoor picnic table with people standing and eating around it. Poster designer was Amanda Bearsley. Records & Archives Week coordinator was Kirsty Cox. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s).

Date: 2012

By: Archives and Records Association of New Zealand; Bearsley, Amanda Blys, 1981-

Reference: EPHDL-0210

Description: Digital poster shows reproductions of three postcards of a loving couple embracing, with different captions at the top of each. The postcards had been produced in evidence in a Supreme Court case against a woman charged with theft from the person and keeping a bawdy house, Timaru, 1912. Captions on the cards are: Remember! Saturday next, darling! Meet me on Monday, dear - as arranged! I'm looking forward to Wednesday, dear! Poster designer was Amanda Bearsley. Records & Archives Week coordinator was Kirsty Cox. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s).

Date: 2010

By: Archives and Records Association of New Zealand; Bearsley, Amanda Blys, 1981-

Reference: EPHDL-0211

Description: Digital poster reproduces two photographs from the Hocken Library collections, showing New Zealanders at work: men in a factory with brick furnaces, and women seated at desks in an office or factory. Poster designer was Amanda Bearsley. Records & Archives Week ARANZ coordinator was Kirsty Cox. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s).

Date: 2012

By: Archives and Records Association of New Zealand

Reference: EPHDL-0209

Description: Digital programme and registration form introducing the topics of the conference and the participants: Ken Scadden, Honiana Love, Deirdre Wogan, Tamati Kruger, Julie Black, Vicki-Anne Heikell, Chris Szekely, Paul Diamond, Trish Beamsley, Ariana Tikao. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s).

Date: [1930-1972], 1972-1998

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: MS-Group-1328

Description: Comprises personal correspondence and files, correspondence with publishers, drafts of books, completed articles, scripts, novels, poems and songs and journals kept by this historian, mountaineer, photographer and archivist. Source of title - Supplied by Library Other - From Photographic Archive PAColl-8765, scrapbook and other papers Quantity: 275 folder(s). 15 volume(s). 1 3" reel(s). 1 7" reel(s). 1 audiocassette(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 microfilm reel(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: From Photographic Archive - Manuscript papers transferred from John Dobree Pascoe papers (PH-2004-276) - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Watercolour sketch by J T Thomson, provenance unknown - To Photographic Archive - Small box of negatives (originally with material in 75-241-03). Also 569451/2; 569751/2; 569451/2-569941/2; 569951/2. Details of additional negatives at Photographic Archive are recorded on individual files.. Processing information: Access requirement for permission of the Chief Librarian removed 12 April 2023.

Date: 1954

Reference: 1/4-002949-F

Description: Photograph of Standish (Senior Archivist of the Archives Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand) and Schellenberg (Director of National Archives of the United States of America) standing on the roadside with their car behind them. Standish had collected Schellenberg from Auckland and was taking him to Wellington. The photograph was taken in August 1954 by an unknown photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [195-?]

From: S P Andrew Ltd :Portrait negatives

Reference: 1/4-020080-F

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Dr Eric Hall McCormick, taken ca 1950s by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - above image - 229-1 McCormick file. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 18 Dec 1929]

From: S P Andrew Ltd :Portrait negatives

Reference: 1/1-018774-F

Description: Dr Guy Scholefield when he was Parliamentary Librarian and Dominion Archivist, photographed circa 18 December 1929 by S P Andrew Ltd. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - above image - 4232 A Scholefield G H Dr 1 FOL. PAR. 18.12.29 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1931

From: S P Andrew Ltd :Portrait negatives

Reference: 1/1-018445-F

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Eric Hall McCormick in 1931. Photograph taken by S P Andrew Ltd. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative