Christian Science

Date: 29 Sep 1992

From: Women in World War II Part III

By: Blumhardt, Doreen (Dame), 1914-2009; Fowke, Susan, 1944-2017

Reference: OHInt-0072/03

Description: Doreen Blumhardt was born in Whangarei on 7 March 1914. Describes how her grandfather, father and ten of her father's siblings came to New Zealand in 1895. Talks about how her father and brothers returned to Germany to find wives. Notes that her father quickly became a New Zealand citizen. Recalls the family's dairy farm in Kamo, milking animals, contact with relatives and music and reading as activities. Recalls speaking German until she started school. Recalls an anti-German primary school teacher and the difficult time her family had during World War I. Describes having to sell the family farm in the Depression. Talks about attending Whangarei High School. Notes that the closure of teachers colleges during the Depression prevented her attending. Recalls her aunty Eleonore Blumhardt, a Christchurch botanical artist, inviting her to Christchurch. Recalls her aunt helping her through the Canterbury Society of Arts and later attending Christchurch Teachers College. Describes becoming a member of the Christian Science Church. Discusses the traumatic effects of World War II on her family. Describes the internment of her father at Pahiatua and on Somes Island. Recalls being interviewed, with her brother, by a lawyer about their German connections. Notes that her brother was transferred from his job in telecommunications and joined the Army. Describes joining the Red Cross. Discusses moving to Wellington as a teacher. Recalls Wellington German friends including Ernest Plischke and Marie Vandewart. Describes a post war visit to Germany, closeness to her German relatives and feeling of being a New Zealander. Describes becoming Head of Art at Wellington Teachers Training College and living with a group of people including Brian Brake. Recalls Pat Macaskill and Tony Vogt. Describes the growth of her interest in pottery. Comments on being single and the development of her career. Talks about developing a Wellington property, her friend Freda Anderson, being the Vice President of the Academy of Fine Arts and receiving the CBE. Comments on the need to educate people against war. Accompanying material - Doreen Blumhardt's curriculum vitae is included in the abstract Venue - Wellington : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Venue - Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005787-005789; OHLC-007004-007006 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1204.

Date: 1957

By: Driver, Verta Eleanor, 1929-2013

Reference: MSZ-1747

Description: A visitor's scrapbook created by members of the Auckland Christian Science Forum in 1957 for Verta Driver, an American visitor at the Forum. Includes printed inserts, paper cut-outs, cigarette cards, drawings, stamps, plans, photographs, and samples of New Zealand plants. Includes messages and writings from other members at the Forum. Title supplied by Library Verta Driver, an overseas visitor, attended the Auckland Christian Scientist Monitor Youth Forum in 1957 as a "Forumite". Other participants at the Forum made her a scrapbook as a souvenir. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Manuscript, printed matter, photographs and plant specimens, loosely bound in photograph album.

Reference: Eph-A-RELIGION-CS

Description: See child records for details Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm.

Date: 1983?

From: National Library of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-2902

Description: Photographs of conservation staff (Tony Clarke and Gillian Andreae) working on a copper time capsule. Contents of the capsule was published material (seven books, six journals and one newspaper) associated with Christian Science. Includes 'Condition Report' and 'Treatment Report' detailing the condtion of the time capsule and the conservation treatment undertaken by staff. Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Accompanying film negatives at 1/2-238617-F and 1/2-238618-F.

Date: [19--]

From: Blumhardt, Doreen (Dame), 1914-2009: Papers

Reference: MSX-8565

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1950-2000

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

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-123

Description: Photographs relating to religion, arranged alphabetically from A to CH, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Contains images related to the Anglican Chinese Mission Church, and to church and charity fairs. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 14 Oct 1916, 26 Mar 1917

By: Tompkins, Arthur Lance, 1895-1977; Doyle, Judith, 1933-

Reference: MS-Papers-6476

Description: Two letters written by Helen Crabb to her nephew serving on the Western Front during World War One. The first informs him that she is about to depart for Paris in connection with her canteen work and expresses the desire they will be able to see each other. The second letter is concerned mainly with Helen's new found enthusiasm for Christian Science which she thinks can be used to protect other people from harm, including her brother at the front. The letters are accompanied by typed transcript copies. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescript Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project. Digitisation details - 9 digitised images