Pottery industry

Date: 24 May 2005 to 23 Aug 2006 - 24 May 2005 - 23 Aug 2006

By: Donald, Mary, active 1992-2020; Monk, Valerie Ringer, active 2006; Waitakere Library and Information Services

Reference: OHColl-0833

Description: Oral history interviews of fifteen employees, from upper management, designers to the workshop floor, covering their experiences, history and products of the Crown Lynn pottery factory which was in business from 1948 to 1989. Interviewees are Bebe Cowdery, Jo Crawford, Naomi Davy, Chris Harvey, John Heap, Tom Hodgson, Larry Moore, Merle Phelps, Maureen Plummer, Heather Shingle, Mierk Smisek, Guthrie Stewart, Mary Stewart, Alan Topgham, and two joint interviews, one with Mark Cleverley and Alan Toplam, the second with Colin Leitch, Chris Harvey, John Heap and Alan Topham. Publication - Material from some of the interviews were used for Crown Lynn: a New Zealand icon. Valerie Ringer Monk; photography, Studio La Gonda. Auckland: Penguin, 2006. Abstracted by - Mary Donald Interviewer(s) - Mary Donald Interviewer(s) - Val Monk Accompanying material - Inventory of interviewees, research material accessed and material donated to the Waitakerie Library or with Val Monk's personal archives held in Crown Lynn backfile.. Arrangement: Digital abstracts arranged as OHDL-000041 to OHDL-000057 Quantity: 28 C60 cassette(s). 16 Electronic document(s) abstracts. 16 printed abstract(s). 16 interview(s). 51 Electronic document(s) (word docs). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: [ca 1890s-1970s]

From: Rogers, Charles Marsden, 1892-1964 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9542

Description: Photographs of tramping trips, houses in Karori, factories, Crown Lynn pottery, taken by Charles Marsden Rogers. Includes postcards of NAC airplanes and old postcards and photographs of sports spectators, wedding party, picnics and boating. Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 item(s) of photographic ephemera.

By: Reid, Alan G, active 1944-1951

Reference: PA6-452

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Three images forming one print, mounted on paper

Date: [1940-1976]

By: New Zealand Pottery and Ceramics Research Association

Reference: MS-Group-0578

Description: Contains the minutes of the Association and of the various committees of the Association, 1945-1984. Also contains Association's constitution, rules, membership list and application forms, director's progress reports and memoranda of the committees. Includes New Zealand Standards Institute Glazed Clay Sewer Pipes Committee, Clay Buildings Bricks & Blocks Committee, White Ware Committee, Ceramics Sectional Committee and Masonry Construction Committee files of reports, correspondence and research notes (1953-1967) [A97-136]. Source of title - supplied title Relationship complexity - A complete set of the annual reports of the Association are held in the Serials Collection. The Association was associated with DSIR but funded by private enterprise. Funding, and the Association, stopped in 1983. Quantity: 5 box(es). 1.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter Provenance: Files have been kept by the relevant part of DSIR, and its successor Industrial Research Ltd. The donor previously worked for the Association as an industrial researcher. Includes diagrams of procedures Processing information: Material in A97-136 was first delivered to the library in Apr 1996. As it was infested with silverfish it was placed in the freezer in Conservation where it stayed for a year.

Date: ca March 1948

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-5936-13

Description: Unidentified man applying mottled glazing to a fired Temuka pottery jug before returning it to the kiln for firing. Taken by an unidentified photographer for the 'New Zealand free lance' ca March 1948. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1926

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1725-1/2-G

Description: Interior view of McSkimming & Son pottery works at Benhar, Otago. Image shows shelves of mixing bowls and other household items, with handbasins on wheeled palettes in the foreground. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1926. Information from Godber's index held in Photographic Archives (under Box 14. 94. Pottery works (2). Benhar. 1926) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1906]

From: New Zealand. Department of Labour :Photograph albums for the International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-1907

Reference: PA1-o-370-20

Description: R O Clark's brick and pottery works, Hobsonville, taken from the main road ca 1906 by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - above image - R. O. Clark, Auckland; Album page - beneath image - R. O. Clark's pottery from the main road.; Album page - beneath image - Largest glazed sanitary drain pipe manufacturer in Australasia. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.4 x 20.9 cm, mounted on album page

Date: 2013

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm); Salient (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025101

Description: Three men are featured in this cartoon, the third character along begins by saying "Good news, comrades! - 119 workers burnt alive but all poultry flesh has been salvaged - ..." He is referring to the fatal fire at a chicken processing plant in Jilin, China on 3 June 2013, which killed at least 119 of its workers. Most of the exits were said to be blocked which led to many of the deaths. The character then goes on to put a positive spin on the accident by referring to imminent job vacancies in what he refers to as "an exciting growth sector of China's economy!". The first character [which may represent the factory owners] says "Phew! Lucky we didn't fowl it up by providing escape routes and smoke alarms for the workers". The middle man says "Time for a solid half-arsed inquiry" which may be a reference to New Zealand's Pike Mine disaster and subsequent inquiry. Accompanying note from cartoonist states 'Addresses the fatal fire at the chicken processing plant in Jilin, China, that resulted in the deaths of 119 workers. Just as at Pike River, NZ, insufficient warnings mechanisms were in place and no safe way for the workers to escape the blaze. After the chicken inferno in Jilin, you have to wonder where exactly people fit in the "People's Republic".' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1963

From: [Posters advertising work and exhibitions by potters and ceramic sculptors in New Zealand. 1960-1970s]

Reference: Eph-C-CERAMICS-1963-01

Description: Newsletter issued by Crown Lynn reports on the popularity in Melbourne of two dinner sets designed by New Zealanders Otway Josling and Don Mills. The inside spread features Harry Jones, a Crown Lynn chemist formerly employed at Royal Doulton; Mrs Ringi Ngakura a skilled worker; and Alan Topham, sales manager. The back page shows prime minister Keith Holyoake presenting prizes to designers Graham Percy and Robert Drake, and Tom Clark jnr presenting Mrs Holyoake with an ovenware set. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on pamphlet folded to 368 x 240 mm.

Date: May 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-37976-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: May 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-37977-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: May 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-37978-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 1 Apr 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-37665-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate