Cole was Chief Librarian, Alexander Turnbull Library, 1963-1965. He was Deputy Chief Librarian between 1953 and 1963. He served as both Secretary and President of PEN. Cole wrote on Library matters and aspects of New Zealand literature. In 1948 a collection of his short stories, `It was so late' was published, and in 1957 'Pompallier, the house and the mission'. For a brief account of his working life until his premature retirement, after a car accident, see Turnbull Library Record, Vol. 1, no. 1, March 1967, p. 34.
Cole, John Reece, 1916-1989
Newspaper clippings - New Zealand Listener
Date: Aug, Sep 1964
From: Wright, Wynona Hope 1913-1964 : Film scripts and newspaper clipping of articles and letters written at the time of her death
Reference: MS-Papers-0234-14
Description: Includes letters from Daniel Yu-Tang Lew (Chinese Ambassador, Wellington) and G L Haley, AFC (Takapuna). Also photocopy of New Zealand Listener article about Noni Wright, written at the time of her death by John Reece Cole. See next folder - MS-Papers-0234-15 for photocopy duplicates of the above. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence
Date: [1938-1973]
From: Glover, Denis James Matthews, 1912-1980 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0418-038
Description: Identified persons entered under Name; includes poetry sent in by hopeful poets and professional poets; critical piece on Glover by Lauris Edmond, probably for Alister Taylor; letter from John of the `Critic', Otago University Students' Union; copy of letter from Glover to Crisp; copy of circular letter by Chris Catley to the Dronke, Pascoe, Vogt, Glover, Johnson and Baxter families from Indonesia (1956); piece by Glover for `The Register', called `Pillar of salt' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: See inventory for full description of the contents of this folder.
Howard-Hill, Trevor Howard, 1933-2011 : Letters
Date: 1963-1968
By: Howard-Hill, Trevor Howard, 1933-2011
Reference: MS-Papers-8724
Description: Letters to Trevor Howard-Hill while he was in London in the 1960's from a number of other ex-patriate New Zealanders, mainly in the library profession or in academia, including Fleur Adcock. Also, some letters from New Zealand, giving news and prospects of employment. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts
Photographs of parents, sister, relations, childhood, Africa, New Zealand, Norway, and ...
Date: [ca 1924-1958]
From: Vogt, Herlof Anton Herlofsen, 1914-1984:Photographs and postcards
By: Vogt, Herlof Anton Herlofsen, 1914-1984; Vogt, Birgette Marie, active 1950s-1990s
Reference: PA1-o-748
Description: Anton Vogt was conceived in 1914 just before his parents returned to Norway from Argentina. His father, Volrath Vogt, had gone to Argentina as a young man of 20 in 1905. There, among other things, he worked as gaucho, herding cattle on the Pampas. In 1912 he married Margot Herlofsen, another Norwegian in Argentina, and in 1913 they had their first child, Sito, Anton's sister. Anton was born in Norway where his parents lived during World War I. His father worked as a business man supplying chemical products to the British Government. After the war the family moved to London where Volrath established what was at first a successful business in the boom of the immediate post war years. When the business failed he moved with his family to the Waterberg district, 200 miles north of Johannesburg in what is today Botswana. There during the early 1920s he managed a 200,000 acre cattle ranch on the edge of the Kalahari desert for a Norwegian consortium When this venture came to an end in 1926 the family came to New Zealand and ran a small shop at Bucklands Beach, Auckland. Anton and his sister worked at various jobs during their late teenage years and largely supported the family financially. In 1931 Anton got a job with the Western Electric Company and they sent him to Hamilton where he Lived for most of the 1930s. He then went to Wellington in the late 1930s still in the employment of Western Electric. In late 1938 Anton married his first wife, Rosalind Lees, and in 1939 entered training college. He Worked in broadcasting during the 1940s. Anton and Rosalind had six children Photographs in this album cover the period from childhood in Norway during the First World War to young parenthood in the late 1940s. It is rich in Norwegian relatives, African cattle ranches and family, friends and colleagues in New Zealand. There is also an interesting personal record of Erling Tambs, a Norwegian yachtsman who sailed from Oslo to Auckland in the "Teddy" ca 1931 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970 :Photographs of Northland
Date: [1950s-1960s]
By: Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970; Cole, John Reece, 1916-1989
Reference: PA-Group-00295
Description: Photographs taken by Tudor Collins of Warkworth. Collection comprises: Three children (two boys and a girl) standing with their pet calves. Tudor Collins in front of a cross section of the trunk of a felled kauri. Kauri tree in a field with a tractor and people at its foot. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by J R Cole on 4th January 1966.
Cole, John Reece :Photographs of Rawene and the Far North
Date: 1954
By: Cole, John Reece, 1916-1989
Reference: PAColl-4064
Description: Photographs by John Reece Cole. Arrangement: Negatives catalogued at 1/2-007735 to 007797; 1/4-018602 Quantity: 63 b&w original negative(s). 8 b&w original photographic print(s).
Cole, John Reece :Photographs of Frank Sargeson
Date: ca1947
By: Cole, John Reece, 1916-1989
Reference: PAColl-4063
Description: Arrangement: Negatives catalogued at 1/2-003138 to 003141 Quantity: 4 b&w copy negative(s).
Artist unknown :[Balinese dancers. 1900-1950?]
Date: 1900 - 1950
By: Cole, John Reece, 1916-1989
Reference: A-194-002
Description: Shows dancers, gamelan players, buildings, in a stylised montage. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Gouache, 263 x 180 mm.
Cole, John Reece :Negatives and prints mostly relating to New Zealand literary personal...
Date: 1970s
By: Cole, John Reece, 1916-1989
Reference: PAColl-3143
Description: Photographs taken by John Reece Cole. Includes images of Dan & Win Davin at Dorchester, Marilyn Duckworth, Phillip Wilson, Ian Cross, Sam Hunt, Alex Fry, May Sim, Ray Grover, Denis Glover, Noel Hilliard, Witi Ihimaera etc Arrangement: Negatives accessioned at 1/4-27768-F to 1/4-27779-F, 286 to 314 35mm, K94 to K96 Quantity: 12 b&w original negative(s) 1/4 plate. 29 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strips. 6 b&w original photographic print(s) and. 14 colour original photographic print(s). 3 colour original negative(s) 35mm strips.
Cole, John Reece 1916-1989: Photographs of Pompallier House, Russell and Mayhew House, ...
Date: 1956-1957
By: Cole, John Reece, 1916-1989
Reference: PAColl-6504
Description: 7 photographs of the restored Pompallier House, Russell, Bay of Islands and 2 of the house owned at one time by Captain Mayhew, the first American Consul for New Zealand, at Orongo Bay, Bay of Islands. The photographs were taken 1956-1957. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Cole, John Reece, 1916-1989 :Photographs of Frank Sargeson
Date: July 1964
By: Cole, John Reece, 1916-1989
Reference: PAColl-4065
Description: Arrangement: Negatives catalogued at 1/2-022683 to 022685 Quantity: 2 b&w copy negative(s).
Williams, Bridget :Photographs used in Port Nicholson Press biography of James K Baxter
Date: 1927-1972
By: Williams, Bridget Rosamund, 1948-; Westra, Ans, 1936-2023; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Dominion Sunday times (Newspaper); New Zealand herald (Newspaper); Blackman, Gary, 1929-
Reference: PAColl-2146
Description: Includes photos of James K Baxter, family members and friends; Jerusalem commune; Brighton, Dunedin; Baxter farm at Kuri Bush; Baxter's funeral. Some photos in this collection are copied from holdings in the Auckland Institute and Museum, Canterbury Museum and the Hocken Library. Quantity: 109 b&w original photographic print(s) in two folders.
Correspondence - C-D
Date: 1976-1992
From: Gee, Maurice Gough, 1931- : Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4678-178
Description: Correspondence from Deidre Carkeek, Ray Copland, Kirsty Cochrane, Phillippa Campbell, Anne Commire, D G Conly, Nancy Coory, Peter Coster, Anne Cato, Mike Capper, M F Courtney, Valerie Crouch, Travis Coates, Simon Cauchi, John Caselberg, Beth Chilcott, F W Castle, Peter Crisp, Mary Collins, S Crevoisier, M A Calder, Phillippa Christmas, Margaret Clarke, Sandra Coggio, S Cooper, John Cranna, Robert Cross, C C Catley, Alain Dubuy, Tessa Duder, Bruce Davis writing about Oscar Garden, David Dowling, Austin Davies, Michael Day, D M Davin, Mike Doyle, Rose Dunn, Barbara Duggan, Ruth Dudding, Mark Dunstan, Yvonne Du Fresne, Bob (Robin) Dudding, Ken Catran, John Reece Cole (funeral service), Emily Davies, and two anonymous letters, one from a Nelson person, praising 'Games of choice', the other criticizing Gee for being opposed to a flat in London being purchased for writers by the Government (1991). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss
Cole, John Reece, 1916-1989 : Photographs of Wellington Library School, Wairoa Library ...
Date: 1964-1965
By: Cole, John Reece, 1916-1989
Reference: PAColl-7259
Description: Photographs of the interior and exterior of the Wairoa Centennial Library, the interior image showing one of the library staff; a train going down the middle of the main street in Kawakawa with a Bank of New Zealand on the street corner; Junction Hotel, Kawakawa in the process of demolition; Bream Head; and the front of the Hukerenui Hotel. Photographs probably taken by Cole. Quantity: 13 colour original photographic print(s).
Cole, John Reece, 1916-1989 : Photographs of Frank Sargeson
Date: 1962
By: Cole, John Reece, 1916-1989
Reference: PAColl-7280
Description: Two photographs of Frank Sargeson: in the garden at 14 Esmond Road, Takapuna and with Ian Hamilton's wife in Hamilton's market garden at Kiora Road, North Shore, Auckland. Photographer was John Reece Cole. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-031252, 031255 and 031256 Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).
Cole, John Reece, 1916-1989 :Photographs of New Zealand literary personalities
Date: 1949 - 1970s
By: Cole, John Reece, 1916-1989
Reference: PAColl-0319
Description: Includes photographs of Anton Vogt, James K Baxter, Frank Sargeson, Louis Johnson, John Reece Cole, Priscilla Taylor, Maurice Duggan, Ian Cross, Noel Hoggard, Marilyn Duckworth, Joy Cowley, and the Grand Hotel Palmerston North. Some images photographed by John Reece Cole. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-019114 to 019119 Copy negatives made - 1/4-15457-F, 1/2-20928-F, 1/2-65721-F to 1/2-65725-F, 1/2-65727-F, 1/2-65728-F, 1/2-65730-F, 1/2-65740-F, 1/2-65743-F Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope. 6 b&w original negative(s).
The Dominion :Photograph and negative of Malaysian MPs visit to the Alexander Turnbull ...
Date: 8 Oct 1964
Reference: PAColl-2308
Description: One b&w photograph of Malaysian Members of Parliament on their visit to the Alexander Turnbull Library on 8 October 1964 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Series 1 Papers relating to John Reece Cole
Date: [ca 1920s], 1942, 1952-1992
From: Reed, Delys Mary, 1936- :Papers
Reference: Series-5912
Description: Comprises correspondence, medical records, notes and other papers relating to John Reece Cole Quantity: 11 folder(s).
Correspondence - C
Date: 1964-1992
From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5292-010
Description: Includes drafts of outward letters Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
Correspondence relating to Frank Sargeson issue of Islands
Date: Dec 1977-Mar 1978
From: Dudding, Robin Nelson, 1935-2008 : Literary papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8988-117
Description: Correspondence and other papers relating to issue 21 of `Islands' which commemorated the 75th birthday of Frank Sargeson Quantity: 1 folder(s).