School children - New Zealand
Wellington district art and craft
Date: 1971-1977
From: Henderson, Carol, 1935- :Gordon Tovey Archive (photographs)/ Compiled by Carol Henderson and Luit Bieringa
Reference: PAColl-9189-13
Description: Wellington district art and craft. Many of the images record teacher training courses. There are also images of children in class making art. Children in class painting. Boys carving wood. Clay figures and tiles. Children emroidering. Children and teacher among grasses in a field. Children performing action songs, Wadestown School, 1977. School camp, Gladstone/Castlepoint, Wairarapa, 1973. Intermediate teachers course, 1973. Stick games, flax weaving, making tukutuku panels, and lino cutting, Wadestown School, 1977. Ceramic and pebble mural, Landsdown School, Masterton. Scout camp, Wainuiomata, 1976. Children making models from paper, Hampden Street School, Nelson, 1974. Children making models from paper, Victory School, Nelson, 1974. Stick games, and boys performing haka, Wadestown School, 1977. Clay tiles, Masterton Intermediate School, 1971. Children dressed in womble masks, 1976. Children working with paper, Hampden Street School, Nelson, and Pomare School, 1974. Teen aged students painting in large studio, 1973. Children drawing outside. Dominion children's art exhibition, Masterton, 1973. Boy with Greek temple modled in clay, Mount Cook School, 1973. Children making patterns based on Maori conventions. Intermediate teachers course, 1973. Otaki teachers course, 1973. Unidentified teachers course, 1972. Clay tiles. Blenheim Maori art course for teachers, 1974. Lower Hutt Maori art course for teachers, 1974. Integrated arts course for teachers, Hutt Valley, 1973 and 1974. Intermediate art course for teachers, 1974. Blenheim teachers course, 1972. Art by Belgian children, Landsdowne School, Masterton, 1973. Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s) Proof sheets.
Art activities at Ahipara, Paparore, Ngataki, Mount Albert, and Tangoio schools
Date: [1950s]
From: Henderson, Carol, 1935- :Gordon Tovey Archive (photographs)/ Compiled by Carol Henderson and Luit Bieringa
Reference: PAColl-9189-11
Description: Art activities at Ahipara, Paparore, Ngataki, Mount Albert, and Tangoio schools. Cildren drawing, plaiting flax, stilt walking, working with clay, and preparing a kiln for firing ceramics. These photographs came from the same folder as the photographs in PAColl-9189-10. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s) Proof sheets.
Art activities at Ahipara and Paparore schools
Date: [1960s]
From: Henderson, Carol, 1935- :Gordon Tovey Archive (photographs)/ Compiled by Carol Henderson and Luit Bieringa
Reference: PAColl-9189-09
Description: Children in class and outside. Art activities include graphic designs by Cliff Whiting for wood carvings. An event involving dances and a hangi. Woodcarvings (many in Maori style). A ceramic kiln. Designing patterns based on Maori conventions. Making tukutuku panels. Baskets and other objects woven from flax. Boys performing on drums decorated with Maori patterns. Children's paintings. Children playing musical instruments. Children making and trying out a custom made telephone. Adults weaving flax. Posters. Possibly a course for teachers. A woman demonstrating hand positions for action songs. Also a letter from Cliff Whiting to Gordan Tovey. Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s) Proof sheets.
Wellington district art and craft
Date: 1971-1977
From: Henderson, Carol, 1935- :Gordon Tovey Archive (photographs)/ Compiled by Carol Henderson and Luit Bieringa
Reference: PAColl-9189-12
Description: Wellington district art and craft. Many of the images record teacher training courses. There are also images of children in class making art. Sculptures in paper. Integrated courses for teachers at Tawa (1972), Blenheim (1972), and Hutt Valley (1973). Art work associated with events sponsored by the National and ANZ banks, 1973. Graphic art produced during teachers intermediate training course, 1972. Teachers and art work at a one day course, 1972. Teachers course, Kohitere, December 1972. Boys carving wood, Maori style. Children painting in class, Cashmere Avenue, 1975. Pages of a book `Crafts for All,' showing musical instruments. Unidentified teachers course. Teachers intermediate course, 1977. Kiln for firing ceramics. Children and teacher in class painting, making music, and using blocks. Children swimming in pool, Frankley School, New Plymouth. Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s) Proof sheets.
Interview with Mary (Molly) Harkness
Date: 8 December 1993
From: Interviews with Mary (Molly) Harkness and Samuel Hales
By: Van Gorkom, Jeanne, 1930-2006; Harkness, Mary, active 1982
Reference: OHInt-1467-02
Description: Interview with Mary (Molly) Harkness on 8 December 1993. Discusses her childhood in Matatā and her mother's role as postmistress. Location - Taranaki Interviewer(s) - Jeanne van Gorkom Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Interview(s). Search dates: 08/12/1993
Wellington Settlement Restaurant
Date: [ca 1980]
From: Haas, Anthony Roger David, 1944-2019: Photographs and recordings
Reference: PA12-8388
Description: Includes - Views of the Wellington Settlement Restaurant, Willis Street, including a group at a table in the courtyard. Children in a classroom with mural art on Maori themes. Children on play equipment with a mural made of Maori patterns in the background. Tital supplied by the Library Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies 120 negative strips comprising 16 images. Provenance: Donated by Mr Anthony Haas, Wellington, 2007
Art activities at Ahipara, Paparore, Ngataki, Mount Albert, and Tangoio schools
Date: [1950s]
From: Henderson, Carol, 1935- :Gordon Tovey Archive (photographs)/ Compiled by Carol Henderson and Luit Bieringa
Reference: PAColl-9189-10
Description: Art activities at Ahipara, Paparore, Ngataki, Mount Albert, and Tangoio schools. Activites include:- Working with clay. Children playing musical instruments. Children's paintings, Ngataki School, 1954. Children playing or performing outside. Children painting in class. Preparation of flax for weaving. Art work on classroom walls, Mount Albert School. Children making a model of an African village, Mount Albert School. Children performing haka and action songs. Children performing on drums. Children performing on drums, Tangoio School, 1958. Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s) Proof sheets.
Gordon Tovey, art teacher specialists, and children making art
Date: 1949-1998
From: Henderson, Carol, 1935- :Gordon Tovey Archive (photographs)/ Compiled by Carol Henderson and Luit Bieringa
Reference: PAColl-10035-1
Description: Includes:- Photographs of Gordon Tovey - sketching in Rarotonga in 1949, with a camera in the 1950s, and with children in 1969. Seven photographs probably taken at Ngataki, Northland, 1954-1955. Show children working with clay, performing expressive movement, and playing guitars. One photograph includes art specialist Alan Simpson. Primary school children practicing drama and movement. Children making music on tambourines. Gordon Tovey's favourite picture. It shows two girls haveing a lot of fun modeling in clay. Marilyn Webb, Murray Gilbert, and Ralph Hotere in the Auckland Art and Craft office, 1960s. A social event, 1960s. Roger Hardie, Sandy Adsett, Muru Walters and Mere Kururangi at Manutuke Marae near Gisborne in 1962. Pine Tiapa in the library of Ngata College, ca 1963. Cliff Whiting speaking at the launch of Carol Henderson's biography of her father, Gordon Tovey, "a Blaze of Colour," Wellington 1998. Group of people gathered in Wellington in 1998. Those identified include - Bev Christopherson. Barbara Abbott. Jeanne Macaskill. Terry Bryant. Stan Jenkins. Carol Henderson. Bill Barrett. Jeanette Taylor. Jacquiline Burt. Lee Barrett. John Ritson. Some of these people had worked as Gordon Tovey's art specialists in the 1950s and 1960s. Cath Brown and Carol Henderson at the McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, 8 April 1998. Shona Mc Farlane and Terry Bryant, 1998. Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s).
'Voices'. Compilation recordings from the New Zealand Oral History Archive
Date: 1982
By: Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-; Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-
Reference: OHColl-1568
Description: Contains eight compilation tapes of extracts of interviews from the New Zealand Oral History Archive. Contain extracts from the Sunlight Centenarians oral history project and the Martinborough Project . Compilation tapes created for an exhibition. Interviewees are - Jamelee Joseph, Bessie [Turnbull?], Peg Reid, Jo Bing, Alma Boyd, Laurie Boyd, Joan Boyd, Reta Chapman, Tex Charteris, Ted Findlay, Mildred (Milly) Gray, Jack Harris and Millicent (Milly) Harris, Torquil Hudson, Elsie Johns, Ivan McLeod, Colin McLeod, Rita Moffitt, Bob Smith, Mita Carter, Harry Kershaw, Pain and Kershaw staff, Alan McCarthy, Fred Benjamin, [Cora?] Turnbull, Bill King, Bill Cameron, Father Black, Bella McGelliot, Maggie McKinlau, G McPherson, Edith Robeson, Charles Scott, Mark Haedie, William Swanssen, [Grace?] Foster and Sybil Surtees. Title supplied by Library. Related to the New Zealand Oral History Archive's Sunlight Centenarians oral history project (OHColl-00040 and the Martinborough Project (OHColl-0005). Quantity: 8 digital sound recording(s) digital audio tape(s). Search dates: 1982
Primary students in a school library
Date: [1980s]
From: Sheffield House Publications Collection
Reference: PA12-10943
Description: Primary students in a school library Quantity: 6 colour original transparency/ies 35mm strips comprising 33 images.
Craft work by Doreen Blumhardt, school children, and trainee teachers
Date: [ca 1948-1951]
From: Blumhardt, Doreen (Dame), 1914-2009 :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-9916-1
Description: Includes - Work by correspondence students at an art workshop, Otaki, February 1949. Craft work by training college and school students. Much of this is made up of examples of three dimentional pictures with buildings, trees, and painted backdrops in the manner of young children's paintings. There is some flat pattern, and abstract constructions. Children's craft work and demonstrations by Doreen Blumhardt. Includes spinning and weaving. A group of photographs of Doreen demonstrating constructing with clay - beads, pots, figures, tiles, and a box. Two photographs show her carving clay. Group of children's art workes based on scribble patterns. Photographs of pottery probably by Doreen Blumhardt. Recipient of Order of NZ, New Year's Honours 2007 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).
New Zealand. Department of Health: Good housekeeping in schools; suggestions to school ...
Date: 1977
From: New Zealand. Department of Health: [Posters and ephemera around A3 size. 1970-1989]
By: E C Keating (Firm); New Zealand. Department of Health
Reference: Eph-C-HEALTH-NZDH-1977-02
Description: Poster is an arrangment of text with 16 suggestions about fresh air, floor and furniture cleaning, cleaning of wash-basins, ledges, windows, attachments; maintenance of heating and fires; emptying of waste paper baskets, dusting of desks, maintenance of playgrounds, shelter sheds, sanitary facilities, swimming baths. Children should be instructed in personal hygiene and action should be taken when communicable diseases occur. Inscriptions: 98304E-5,000/7/77 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph, 419 x 285 mm.
Art work by primary and secondary school students
Date: 1957-[ca1970]
From: Henderson, Carol, 1935- :Gordon Tovey Archive (photographs)/ Compiled by Carol Henderson and Luit Bieringa
Reference: PA12-8880
Description: Primary and secondary school art work in embroidery, weaving, painting, woodcarving, collage, drama and movement all based on Maori ledgends, 1957-1962. Portrait of Gordon Tovey, ca1970. Quantity: 16 colour original transparency/ies.
Portrait of Gordon Tovey and art specialists reunion
Date: [ca1950-2000]
From: Henderson, Carol, 1935- :Gordon Tovey Archive (photographs)/ Compiled by Carol Henderson and Luit Bieringa
Reference: PAColl-10035-2
Description: Includes:- Portrait of Gordon Tovey, ca 1950. 1/20 proof sheet showing two high school boys using a printing press during an art period in an unidentified school, ca 1960s. Group photograph taken during a reunion of art specialists in Lower Hutt on the occasion of Stan Jenkin's 80th birthday. Those present include - Don Aimer. Brian Carmody. Grant Tilly. Ruth jefferies. John Drawbridge. Tanya Ashton. Neil Henderson. Dorothy Carmody. John Ritson. Olaf Johns. Carol Henderson. Jeanne MacCaskill. ca2000. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).
Photographs for Gordon Tovey's book on clay, and teachers courses
Date: [1960s]
From: Henderson, Carol, 1935- :Gordon Tovey Archive (photographs)/ Compiled by Carol Henderson and Luit Bieringa
Reference: PAColl-9189-19
Description: Photographs of school children's art work in clay selected as illustrations for Tovey's book on clay. Photographs of unidentified teachers courses, and an exhibition od children's art. Quantity: 98 b&w original photographic print(s) Proof sheets.
Students and staff
Date: [ca 1950-ca 1980]
From: Correspondence School (Wellington) :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-9421-5
Description: Correspondence school students. Groups of staff from the 1950s. All of the mounts support collages of many student portraits, some in black and white and some in colour. All of these individual snapshots have not been counted. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s).
Children's art activities
Date: 1960-1969
From: Henderson, Carol, 1935- :Gordon Tovey Archive (photographs)/ Compiled by Carol Henderson and Luit Bieringa
Reference: PAColl-9189-08
Description: Shows children in class engaged in various activities relating to the arts and craft curriculum. There are also many images of the art works produced. Also a UNESCO sponored exhibition of Polish children's art (1964). Activities and art include - painting and drawing. Outdoor activities (expressive movement?). Woodcarving (much of it based on Maori conventions). Demonstration of use of woodcarving tools. Clay figures, bowls and tiles. Pattern design based on Maori conventions. Embroidered and woven designs based on Maori conventions. Woven cane baskets. Action songs. Schools and areas represented include - Ruatoki North School. Kapiti School. Mount Cook School Wellington. Vogletown School New Plymouth. Karori West Normal School, Wellington. Quantity: 31 b&w original photographic print(s) Proof sheets.
How to build a kiln
Date: [1960s]
From: Henderson, Carol, 1935- :Gordon Tovey Archive (photographs)/ Compiled by Carol Henderson and Luit Bieringa
Reference: PAColl-9189-16
Description: Photographs showing the process of building a kiln for firing ceramics. Meeting house interior. Structures made from waste materials. Building a kiln. Clay heads. Memorial sculpture commemorating Rewi Alley, China. Quantity: 25 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).
Childrens art and craft
Date: 1964-1977
From: Henderson, Carol, 1935- :Gordon Tovey Archive (photographs)/ Compiled by Carol Henderson and Luit Bieringa
Reference: PAColl-9189-14
Description: Children and teachers engaged in making art. Included are:- students at National Bank workshop, 1972. Children modeling in paper, and clay work, Gisborne, 1969. Aerial views of pastoral countryside. Children performing, modeling with paper, and weaving flax, Wadestown School, 1977. Clay figures. Stick games, action songs, and woodcarving, Wadestown and Porirua schools, 1977. Claywork, Tauranga. Children displaying paintings and drawings. Teachers course, Nelson, 1965. Children outside making art from leaves and branches of native plants. Children using papier mache. Paintings and linocuts from Southland, Christchurch, Otago, Nelson, and clay work from Tauranga. Children painting in class. Clay figures. Children working pumice and clay. Sculpture made from blocks of wood. Integrated arts teachers course, Tawa, 1972. Boys carving wood based on Maori conventions. Children making art, Mount Albert School. Children making art, Te Kao District High School. Exhibition of children's art. Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s) Proof sheets.
Students and native forest
Date: 1953-1981
From: Correspondence School (Wellington) :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-9421-4
Description: Correspondence School students. Interiors of a building with the contents packed, 1981. Forest Service photographs of native forest and landscapes by John Johns, 1953-1970. Quantity: 61 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 colour original photographic print(s).