Outdoor recreation for women
Photograph album relating to Edith Constance Lockett
Date: [ca 1913, 1915-1922]
From: Lockett family: Collection
Reference: PA1-o-1861
Description: Photograph album relating to Edith Constance Lockett of Lower Hutt, Wellington, illustrating her family life and her brother Kenneth Ewart Lockett's military service. Images taken by E C Lockett and unidentified photographer(s) ca 1915-1920s. Album inscribed 'Edith C Lockett, Lower Hutt, Feb 10th 1917' on inside front cover, and likely compiled by Edith Lockett. The album contains images of the Lockett family, particularly Edith Lockett and her siblings, Kenneth Ewart, Winifred Maud, and Edward William Lockett. The album also contains group portraits with Edith Lockett's parents, Ada Florence (nee Harrowby) and Henry George Lockett, and members of their extended family and friends, chiefly taken at the family home at 14 Stevens Grove, Lower Hutt. The album also has photographs from Kenneth Ewart Lockett's military service in World War One from November 1916 onward, and shows Kenneth and other soldiers at their camp, and includes images of army tents at an unknown location. The album also includes images of recreation activities primarily by women, such as women swimming and both men and women at the beach. Some photographs show women playing croquet and tennis, and with horses. There are also photographs in the album of bicycles and automobiles. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - Edith C Lockett Lower Hutt Febry 10th 1917 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Small maroon leather album, measuring 18 x 15.5 cm
Photographs from the 1980s and 1990s
Date: 1980-1999
From: Young Women's Christian Association of Wellington & Hutt Valley :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-7688-06
Description: Photographs of the YMCA creche, self defence classes, gentle and new mothers exercise class, piano class, motor workshop, holiday programme, preschool gym classes, young women's triathlon, preschool music classes, mothers alone group, the Vivian Street building, women's outdoor recreation trip, and Christmas party of 1989, taken during the 1980s and 1990s. Quantity: 81 b&w original photographic print(s). 367 colour original photographic print(s). Finding Aids: Detailed list available.
Interview with David Dyett
Date: 24 August 2000
From: Tararua Tramping Club oral history project
By: Dyett, David Lloyd, 1921-2008
Reference: OHInt-0501-02
Description: David Lloyd Dyett born Wellington 1921. Recalls working as a draughting cadet with Lands and Survey Department and accident in 1938 and how loss of left hand effected future life and work. Gives details of projects, such as Town Planning and Military mapping. Refers to Jack Lyons. Recalls joining the Tararua Tramping Club in 1939. Mentions John Turnbull and Dave Woodcock. Discusses reasons for involvement with club including getting to know people. Talks about size of membership; conflict within club; tramping culture; humour and club activities which included work parties on tracks and huts. Recalls building, sheathing and painting of Dobson's Hut in the Southern Tararuas. Mentions different tramping clubs - Hutt Valley Tramping Club and Catholic Tramping Club. Recalls predominant ethnicity of members, with reference to European immigrants. Refers to Wolfgang Rosenberg. Recalls women in leadership roles in the early days. Mentions Gwen Stubley. Explains attitudes between genders, general attitudes towards those in leadership roles and democratic nature of club leadership. Recalls transport used and the singing between members at all stages of trips. Mentions songs written by Tony Nolan and feels changes in transport and lack of music have effected the change in climate / attitudes within the club. Talks about various club positions held and describes activities associated with being a Gear Custodian. Mentions favourite club activities. Other club members mentioned include: Mavis Davidson, Joan Singleton, Derek Freeman and Bill Bridge. Recalls sad memory of club, with reference to Stan Alloway and ?Dixon who were killed on Tragedy Col in Otago, New Years Eve 1947. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Melanie Martin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009590-009591 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3108. Photocopy of one b&w photograph: Dave Dyett ca 1943 - Top of Mt Ruapehu Search dates: 2000
Interview with Margaret Fitzgerald
Date: 30 Aug 2000
From: Tararua Tramping Club oral history project
By: Fitzgerald, Margaret Constance, 1917-2003
Reference: OHInt-0501-03
Description: Margaret Constance Fitzgerald born in Kent, England, explains why she came to New Zealand. Recalls joining the Tararua Tramping Club in 1941 at the age of 23 years. Talks about feelings of acceptance by the Club and contrasts with her experiences in Australia. Mentions Joe Gibbs. Recalls the working parties and describes some similarities and values shared with other members. Discusses relationships between genders within the Club and notes there were no distinctions. Gives reasons why the Social Committee was mainly female. Mentions Ruth Mason. Recalls attitudes towards those in leadership positions. Refers to function of the Weekly Committee Meetings. Describes impact of marriage to Frank Fitzgerald and how they met and married in 1943. Describes differences between tramping clubs and sports clubs, explaining how tramping requires time and complete involvement and how it can incorporate other interests such as Botany and Geology. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Melanie Martin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009594-009595; OHLC-004857-004858 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3110. Photocopies of two b&w and one col photograph: (i) Betty Fitzgerald ca 1950; (ii) Betty Fitzgerald with Dale, Catchpole, Rimutaka Forest Park, 1947; (iii) Betty and Frank Fitzgerald 50th wedding anniversary 1993.
Interview with Joyce Royle
Date: 23 Jun 2000
From: Tararua Tramping Club oral history project
By: Royle, Greig Gordon, 1913-2005; Royle, Joyce Marie, 1913-2015
Reference: OHInt-0501-05
Description: Joyce Royle was born South Africa in 1913. Gives reasons for coming to New Zealand and settling in Wellington with husband, Greg Royle. Describes seasonal work apple thinning in Tasman for three to four months after coming to New Zealand and talks about accommodation. Gives reasons for setting up photography business. Recalls joining tramping club in 1949 and starting the alpine instruction course. Mentions Alex Galletly and Bert Hines. Talks about being a foreigner in the club, being well-received but also notes a degree of `anti-pom' feeling amongst members. Discusses fundraising activities for paying off debt for Tararua Hut. Talks about shared values with other members such as love of the outdoors, concern for the environment and tolerance towards varying abilities and temperaments. Recalls differences in attitude between genders within club. Refers to Jenny Foggo who was first woman president and mentions reactions to a woman in this position. Mentions Mavis Davidson as an icon for women. Talks about the community aspect of the tramping club; the requirement to be involved in working parties on huts and carrying construction materials to the site; the effect of weekend shopping and working on members' availability for voluntary work. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Melanie Martin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009598-009599 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3112. Photocopies of one b&w photograph and two coloured: (i) Alpine Instruction 1949 - Summit of Egmont; (ii) Joyce and Greig Royle February 2000 and (iii) Joyce and Greig Royle outside Tararua Hut 1, 1951.
Interview with Beryl Wood
Date: 18 Aug 2000
From: Tararua Tramping Club oral history project
By: Wood, Beryl Doreen, 1927-
Reference: OHInt-0501-06
Description: Beryl Doreen Wood born Palmerston North. Recalls joining the Tararua Tramping Club (TTC) in 1948. Refers to sisters, (Peggy) Marguerite Matthews, Betty Matthews and Shirley Evelyn Matthews who joined TTC at the same time. Mentions Bert Hines, club president at the time. Discusses: shared values; occupations of other members; predominant ethnicity and relationship between genders - men and women sleeping in segregated rooms in Tararua Hut on Mt Ruapehu. Recalls women being mainly on Social Committee and chief guide always being a man. Recalls a male member being asked to leave the club because of his homosexuality. Mentions feelings towards those in leadership positions. Talks about the requirement to be involved in working parties in the Tararua Mountains. Mentions Alpha Hut, Cone Hut and Totara Hut. Mentions club members who died in the Tangiwai Disaster and how supportive club members were to each other. Mentions how tramping relieves stress and worry. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Melanie Martin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009600; OHLC-004861 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3113. Photocopies of one b&w photograph of Peggy, Beryl, Shirley, Betty (Matthews) 1952 and one coloured of Betty, Peggy, Mavis Davidson and Beryl 1944 - Club's 75th anniversary
Outdoor activities
Date: [Circa 1960s or 1970s]
From: Taylor, Heather Marie, active 1991-2014: Girls' Brigade New Zealand collection
Reference: PA12-3831
Description: Transparencies taken by unidentified photographers circa 1960s showing people taking part in outdoor activities including tramping, abseiling, and doing a rope or obstacle course in unidentified location/s. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Originally in cardboard slide box. Transferred to transparency sleeve in same order as in box. Quantity: 13 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour film transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.
Five women at the seaside
Date: [1920s]
From: Creator unknown: Photographs relating to life in the Wellington Region
Reference: 1/2-238903-G
Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer circa 1920s showing five women smiling for the camera with their heads rested on their arms, while lying in a row on a grass bank next to a beach [probably after a swim]. A pier stretches away behind them. Two women are wearing headscarves, two women wear bathing caps, one woman has a towel across her shoulders. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Half inch dry plate glass negative
Correspondence, discussion papers, reports and articles relating to women's issues
Date: 1980
From: Waring, Marilyn Joy, 1952- : Collection
Reference: 84-131-48/08
Description: Includes discussion papers entitled `Fit to Play' prepared for the National Conference on Women, Sport and Physical Recreation by Dr Ann Hall, held in Sydney, Jan 1980 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Hillary Commission - Funding applications, reports and correspondence (AD35-02-4 v2)
Date: 1989-1995
From: Maori Women's Welfare League : Records
Reference: 95-232-4/1
Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Women Climbing Inc : Summits for Suffrage records
Date: 1992-1993
By: Women Climbing Incorporated
Reference: MS-Papers-4940
Description: Contains correspondence, press releases, faxes, notes, pamphlets and other organisational papers for Summits for Suffrage. Also contains reports back from the various events held around New Zealand on Feb 13 and 14 and copies of magazines, newspaper clippings and articles covering the event. Source of title - supplied title Women Climbing Inc organised a nationwide Summits for Suffrage event held on 13 Feb 1993. Women in various places around the country climbed local peaks to mark the beginning of Suffrage year. Quantity: 7 folder(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 1 box of slides and loose photographs of various of the summit climbs.
Unidentified women with bicycles, probably in the Taranaki Region
Date: [ca 1905]
From: McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district
Reference: 1/1-012665-G
Description: Unidentified women with bicycles, circa 1905, probably in the Taranaki Region. The right hand cycle is a Massey-Harris, made in Canada, circa 1898-1899. Photograph taken by James McAllister. M2063 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Women playing croquet
Date: ca 1900s
Reference: 1/1-004551-G
Description: Women playing croquet. Taken circa 1900. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Women in the bush, Days Bay, Eastbourne
From: Taylor, J N fl 1900s :Photographs of Wellington
Reference: 1/2-104775-F
Description: Women on a walking track in the bush, Days Bay, Eastbourne. Taken by J N Taylor circa 1900. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Alison Barraud, Ursula Elder and Eileen, swimming with horses, Waikanae River
Date: ca 1903
From: Elder, N L :Photographs relating to Waimohoe Station
Reference: PAColl-0464-01
Description: Three young women swimming in the Waikanae River with horses. They are, from left to right, Anson Barraud (Rochfort) and Eileen, both on horseback, and Ursula Elder. Taken circa 1903. Inscriptions: Verso - Alison [or possibly Anson?] Barraud (Rochfort), Eileen, Ursula Elder Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Alexander Darrow, Mary Elizabeth Darrow and George Darrow with bicycles, Thames
Date: ca 1895
From: Bassett, Judith :Photographs and negatives relating to the Petrie, Darrow and Clarke families
Reference: 1/2-152835-F
Description: Alexander Darrow, Mary Elizabeth Darrow and George Darrow with bicycles. Taken in Thames circa 1895. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Three women trampers/walkers
Date: 1920s?
From: Crompton-Smith Collection : Views of New Zealand
Reference: PAColl-4288-01
Description: Three women trampers/walkers with sticks, and child, circa 1920s. The woman on the left is Anne Coghill and on the right is Flora Coghill, with their friend Kathleen Paterson in the middle, possibly on Flagstaff Hill, Dunedin. Photographer unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 12.7 x 7.3 cm Processing information: Names of women and location provided by daughter of one of the women.
Two women with tennis rackets, Wanganui
From: Tesla Studios :Negatives of Wanganui and district taken by Alfred Martin, Frank Denton and Mark Lampe (Tesla Studios)
Reference: 1/1-016173-G
Description: Two women, dressed in hats and long dresses, holding tennis rackets. Taken in Wanganui. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Unidentified women on a bicycle made for two
Date: [ca 1910]
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 6
Reference: PAColl-5932-01
Description: Unidentified women on a bicycle made for two to sit side-by-side (rather than behind each other), circa 1910. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Group of women at a campsite
Date: 1937
From: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946 :Prints and negatives of New Zealand wildlife and scenery
Reference: 1/2-009335-F
Description: Group of women at a campsite, with the photographer's Armstrong-Siddeley car parked alongside. Photograph taken by Thelma Kent in 1937. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).