MacFarlane, Tui Laird, 1911-1998

Date: [ca 1920-1938]

By: Clark, W R, active 1930s-1981; K H Shea (Firm); Esquilant, William Charles, 1866-1952

Reference: PAColl-0318

Description: Photographs of acrobatics performed by members of Northey's School of Physical Culture, both indoors and outdoors, and interior photographs of the school itself. The interiors include the dressing room, the bathroom and equipment such as dumbells, boxing gloves, fencing foils and masks, indian clubs, vaulting horse, mats etc. Men are shown using fixed medicine balls for boxing practice. On the walls of the school are inspirational slogans and pictures of strong men such as Sandow. The other photographs are: J P Northey holding a rifle on the Otago Peninsula; W R Clark outside Otago University; and a group of people at De Beche Hut in Mount Cook National Park including a man called Smith who later died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. A lot of the photographs are captioned on the reverse. The only identified photographers are K H Shea and Esquilant. Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Loose photographic prints, one mounted.

Date: 1944

From: [Theatre ephemera and programmes for music-hall, comedy and variety productions in New Zealand, in 1944].

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1944-01

Description: Programme for a revue conceived produced and stage by Norman MacLean, with musical director James Clark. Performers included Edna Lungley, Jim Haleis, Tui Northey, George Stevens, Fay Heasley, Joyce Smith, Bill Tait, Earle Dunne, Ivan Hanna, Ted Heaney, Roy McDougall, Sybil Baker, Athol Wise, Geoffrey de Lautour, Aubrey Clarke, Bill Tait, Freda Elmes. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Programme booklet of 8 pages each 225 x 147 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2007.