Women - New Zealand - Southland Region
Delegates attending the conference of the New Zealand Federated Builders and Contractor...
Date: February 1931
From: Registered Master Builders Federation (New Zealand) :Photographs
Reference: PA6-692
Description: Group photograph of delegates and their wives attending the 31st annual conference of the New Zealand Federated Builders and Contractors Industrial Association of Employers taken in Tuatapere Domain. Photographed by an unknown photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 81 x 18 cm, in mount, 90 x 27.5 cm
Gillian Perkins - Should old acquaintance be forgot
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-024
Description: John McLeay's arrival in New Zealand in 1858 was the beginning of an exodus of his immediate, and more distant, relatives from Scotland. This essay provides a background into their Scottish lives, traces through family stories and research, and gives an account of their movements and life in New Zealand. The story deals chiefly with three families: John McLeay's, Alexander McLennan's and John Souter's, but gives brief accounts of other family immigrants between 1870-1884, records details of the first generation born in New Zealand and looks at the life of one grandchild growing up in Southland. Includes family trees Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published inventory available. Family photographs
Interview with Betty McCammon
Date: 1 Feb 2002 - 01 Feb 2002
From: The stitch of history oral history project
By: McCammon, Betty, active 1952-2001
Reference: OHInt-0727/07
Description: Betty McCammon recalls childhood memories of embroidery at the age of four or five years. Refers to grandmother, Millicent Jack. Recalls living in those days at Hampden, North Otago. Describes daily routine of morning housework and embroidery in the afternoon. Recalls access to English magazines. Comments that mother was head milliner at Herbert Hines, a firm in Dunedin. Remembers in detail going to train as a nurse, starting at a maternity home in Dunedin. Mentions marriage to William Farrell McCammon and going to live on Blackstone Hill Sheep Station in Becks for six years before shifting to Balclutha. Talks about Kay Du Toit and the formation of the South Otago Embroiderers' Guild. Also talks about her experience as a potter. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Janice Wilson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011764 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4085.
Interviews with pioneer women
Date: 1991-1993
By: Ruddenklau, Edith Irene, -2016; Joseph, Jamelee, 1904-1997
Reference: OHColl-1576
Description: Interviews with Ivy May Dickson, Jameline Joseph and Charlotte Petrie about their lives in Southland and Otago. Ivy May Dickson born 1894. Charlotte Petrie born 1894. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 3 printed abstract(s). 3 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract(s) Available - awaiting processing.. Search dates: 1991 - 1993
John and Glen Viner and their Honda motorbike and sidecar - Photograph taken by Ian Mac...
Date: 8 February 1986
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1986/0631-F
Description: John and Glen Viner and their Honda motorcycle and sidecar. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley on the 8th of February 1986. John and Glen were touring on their motorbike. They lived in Invercargill and had already travelled the West Coast of the South Island before reaching Wellington. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising three images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Interview with Nan Smith
Date: 22 Mar 2002
From: The stitch of history oral history project
By: Smith, Charlotte Annie Lindsey, 1914-2014
Reference: OHInt-0727/04
Description: Charlotte Annie Lindsey (Nan) Smith born in Star Bush, near Invercargill ca 1915, moving to Winton after marriage in 1953. Recalls first introduction to embroidery while in primary school. Refers to Kay du Toit. Recalls learning techniques of embroidery from Miss Mabel White. Mentions first attempts at cut work and handanger. Recalls being a member of the London Guild and receiving the journal `Embroidery Magazine', first volume being published in 1932. Discusses the usefulness of the older embroidery magazine for reading and research. Talks about the inaugural meeting of the Southland Guild. Mentions Miss Olive Murgatroyds at Culverton (North Canterbury), an early lace maker. Talks about Val Davidson who trained as a nurse with her and who died in France at the beginning of the war {WWII}. Mentions influence of Ann Dyer, an english author on the subject. Concludes interview with discussion on eyesight. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Janice Wilson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011760 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4082.
Interview with Phyllis Aspinall
Date: 19 Mar 2002
From: The stitch of history oral history project
By: Aspinall, Phyllis May, 1922-
Reference: OHInt-0727/10
Description: Phyllis Aspinall recalls learning embroidery at the age of eight years from her grandmother. Mentions saving to buy embroidery book by Mary Thomas also mentions Weldon's magazines. Describes learning to evaluate design. Talks about Miss Helen Moran and Kay du Toit. Recalls year at Art School and talks about content of programme. Refers to teaching satchels from London and to Needlework development scheme. Describes living at Mount Aspiring Station and the problems of trying to cross the river. Describes relationship with Correspondence School, having four children studying through correspondence. Recalls own course on Embroidery Design studied from Correspondence School Adult Education. Outlines commencement of Wanaka Embroiderers' Guild and Wanaka Embroidery School. Describes ecclesiastical embroidery undertaken. Discusses other interests which included the Herb Society. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Janice Wilson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011767 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4088.
Interview with Nancy Strang
Date: 14 Dec 2001
From: The stitch of history oral history project
By: Strang, Nancy, active 1950s-2001
Reference: OHInt-0727/08
Description: Nancy Strang recalls visiting grandmother in Nelson, travelling by train to Lyttelton, then by boat to Wellington, spending a day in Wellington before getting boat to Nelson. Recalls being taught embroidery at South Otago High School and also learning from Miss Moran at Dunedin School of Art. Talks about husband's involvement with the Clutha Leader and comments on its recent sale. Discusses formation of the South Otago [Embroiderers] Guild. Refers to University Extension. Mentions Kay du Toit who taught courses. Recalls being editor of The Web, the Quarterly Journal of the New Zealand Spinning, Weaving and Wool-Crafts Society Inc and gives the history of the Society. Describes present accommodation at Catlins Community Home in Owaka where she has resided for the past two months. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Janice Wilson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011765 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4086.
Interview with Jean Young
Date: 14 Dec 2001
From: The stitch of history oral history project
By: Young, Jean Millar, active 1955-2001
Reference: OHInt-0727/05
Description: Jean Millar Young recalls how the first embroiderers' group started. Describes Kay du Toit who taught for the Otago University Extension Adult Education Department and who was instigative in the founding of the New Zealand Embroiderers Guild, the first being the Southland Guild founded in 1959. Talks about the influence that the University Extension had on the life of the Southland Region. Refers to David Hall. Mentions the formation of The Association of New Zealand Embroiderers Guilds (ANZEG). Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Janice Wilson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011761 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4083.
Women vote at their first election, Tahakopa
Date: 1893
From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō
Reference: PA1-o-550-34-1
Description: Original caption reads: "Women vote at their first election, Tahakopa". Shows a horse drawn carriage, and an unidentified group of men and women standing by the entrance to a building. Taken in 1893, by an unidentified photographer. Note on back of file print reads: "Bruce Herald, No 24, 1893 published Polling Places for Electoral District of Clutha. No 6: Dabinett and Young's store, Tauhuokupu. [sic]." Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Women vote at their first election at Takakopa Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 11.2 x 15.2 cm, on album page 24.2 x 17.5 cm
Christine Kelly and family
Date: ca 1880-1885
From: Natusch, Sheila Ellen, 1926-2017: Photographs of Southland families and carte de visite albums
Reference: 1/2-066202-F
Description: Christine Kelly (far right) with daughter Christina (standing) and daughter-in-law Mrs Lithgow, circa 1880-1885, probably photographed in the Southland region. Photographer unidentified. Published in "On the Edge of the Bush" by Sheila Natusch, 1976, see photoon plates between 80-81. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Christina and Agnes Niven
Date: ca 1870s
From: Natusch, Sheila Ellen, 1926-2017: Photographs of Southland families and carte de visite albums
Reference: 1/2-066185-F
Description: Christina (left?) and Agnes Niven, circa 1870s, probably in the Southland region. Photographer unidentified. Published in "On the Edge of the Bush" by Sheilia Natusch, 1976, see photo on plates between 80-81, with the caption "Two young ladies (Niven family)". Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Mount Tutoko seen from the Hollyford River
Date: [1930s]
From: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946 :Prints and negatives of New Zealand wildlife and scenery
Reference: PAColl-3052-02-05
Description: Snow capped Mount Tutoko seen from the Hollyford River. In the foreground a woman holding a horse stands at the edge of the river which vanishes into native forest beyond her. Photographed by Thelma Kent sometime in the 1930s. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom left - Mt Tutoko, from the lower Hollyford River, Southland Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 30.3 x 25.6 cm
Mrs S Burke placing bark around kelp/flax bags of salted mutton birds, at Solomon Island
Date: [ca 1920s]
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 7
Reference: PAColl-6001-58
Description: Mrs S Burke placing bark around kelp/flax bags of salted muttonbirds, on Solomon Island, circa 1920s. Photographer unidentified. Note on back of file print reads 'Similar to photo published in Wilson, Eva "Titi heritage: the story of the Muttonbird Islands" (Invercargil, 1979), opp. p 49. (ATL 993.1 WIL).(Photo in book from Mrs U L Behsam's scrapbook 1921-27) "Mrs S Burke placing bark around kelp bags after being filled with [salted] birds. The bags are then tied up as shown on the right." Other photos including Mrs Burke were taken on Solomon's Island' Inscriptions: Verso - finishing packing mutton birding S.I. NZ Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).