School children - New Zealand - Otago Region

Date: ca 1880s

Reference: 1/2-005354-F

Description: The staff and pupils of Arthur Street School standing on the grass bank outside the school and photographed from the other side of the street ca 1880s. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1898

By: Yerex, John Henry, active 1895-1918

Reference: PAColl-0532

Description: A group of seventy-six children outside Waipori school with their male teacher at the back. The school is behind them and the school bell can be seen on the left. The photographer was Yerex. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Copy print of an original Provenance: Print donated by D Still in September 1968.

Date: [1903-1920]

By: Grant, F J, active 1980s; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-0362

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of New Zealand made by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Many of the images are of military inspections and displays by school children. There are also displays of Maori dancing and singing, the sailors of the HMS Renown, on which the prince had travelled , prior to their soccer match in Dunedin, the prince addressing the crowds etc. A number of the images are in two-part panoramas. Also included are four scenic photographs by the New Zealand Tourist Department which may have been taken in 1903. The photographer for the tour photographs was Guy. Other - Similar images at 1/2-032642, 045102 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 6, 7 July 1995 - 06 Jul 1995 - 07 Jul 1995

By: Owen, Alwyn, 1926-; Jackson-Thomas, Fiametta Cecilia, 1903-2003

Reference: OHColl-0312/1

Description: Fiametta Cecily Jackson-Thomas born Roslyn, Dunedin. Gives parents background and talks about father's life as a Punch and Judy expert, trapeze artist and snake handler until the age of 35 when he became a cabinet maker. Describes own school days, clothing worn, discipline in school, cadet uniform, chanting of tables, pole drill, description of games played, explaining how boys and girls played games differently. Recalls outbreak of World War I, its effects on women, friends receiving telegrams and comforting each other, white feather incident and attitutes to conscientious objectors. Talks about brother's involvement in World War II. Refers to 6 o'clock closing as a war measure. Recalls being only family in street not contacting flu during epidemic. Refers to garlic as used in Corsica. Describes work experience, working in art department of photographic firm and going to School of Art 1/2 day per week. Talks about Ngaio Marsh who was in class. Refers to Ronald McKenzie, also in class. Recalls learning cabinetmaking which was considered radical for the period - 3rd woman in New Zealand to do so. Talks about social hierarchy of Christchurch. Mentions visit of Prince of Wales. Backgrounds meeting and marrying husband, Arthur, and his brief involvement with the Communist Party. Describes helping watersiders during 1951 Waterfront Dispute and at end of dispute Arthur being made honorary Life Member of Seamen's Union. Talks about Walter Nash. Also refers to Bastion Point occupation and reads poem about Maori sweeper. Gives background to poem. Mentions husband's position of manager of Auckland's Progressive Book shop and invitation to publishing house in China to help Chinese writers in English. Describes time in China, cultural revolution and immense relief on leaving China. Describes her poetry writing and refers to poem `Idle time'. Interviewer(s) - Alwyn Owen Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011607-011609 Quantity: 2 C70 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4004.

Date: 17 March 1927

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2116-F

Description: Panoramic view of the reception to the Duke of York at Logan Park, Dunedin, taken on 17 March 1927 by Robert Percy Moore, of Wellington. The view shows a crowded grandstand across the image on the right. Members of a brass band, holding their instruments, are standing in front of the grandstand in the centre of the iamge. Boy Scouts and school children are lined up on the left, all facing towards a building at the far end of the park. Bush clad hill on the left. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Children's reception to H.R.H. Duke of York, Logan Park, Dunedin, New Zealand. 18.3.1927. No. 2 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.8 x 132.3 cm

Date: ca 1890-1935

Reference: PAColl-7225

Description: Collection of photographs used by Dewar in his book Chaslands, a number of which include extensive notes. The photographs are of: Harry Croft's hut on Wallace Beach; Heathfield Dairy Factory with six wagons loaded with urns outside (the notes name all the men in the photograph); Waikawa sawmill tramline with timber truck; Arthur and Fred Croft outside their house at Chaslands; Chaslands School (the notes name all the teachers 1895-1950); MacLennan Railway Station showing the cleared hillsides around it; a car at the far end of the bridge near Chaslands; the boys and girls of Ratanui School with their teacher George Dewar ca 1935; the Chaslands rugby football team with Fred Croft, Donald Little, Bandy Kini, George Dewar, Kangaroo Bill Wells and Herb Ottenshaw (others not known); the junction of McLennan and Tahakopa Rivers showing the ford from Owaka to Chaslands (with notes); the first passenger train on the Catlins extension line at MacLennan Station; Tautuku Bay from the top of MacLennan's Hill; two of men in Cathedral Caves; bush scenes around Chaslands; Houipapa Valley from Gibb's Hill with Catlins Lake in the distance; white pines near Owaka; the buried forest north of Poimawea; a car on the road at Smillies Quarry; Curio Bay at Waikawa; and Mount Samson with the bridge over the Chaslands River in the foreground. Arrangement: Copy negatives housed at 1/2-002484 to 002506 Quantity: 23 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: 1903-1968

From: White, Dorothy Neal, 1915-1995 :Photographs

By: Chance, George, 1885-1963; Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966

Reference: PAColl-7953-2

Description: Collection comprises four photographs of the exterior, and two of the interior of Newbolds Bookshop, Dunedin; a photograph of horses in a field during haymaking, taken ca 1930s by George Chance of Dunedin; fourteen photographs relate to to school libraries and reading; one photograph of a group of students at Albany Street School Dunedin is attached to a merit certificate dated December 16th, 1903; one photograph of a Library School class dated 1965; one photograph of a chef holding up a pie. Quantity: 25 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Ms V Feltham, Wellington, March 2004.

Date: 11 July and 30 August 2003

Reference: OHColl-1494

Description: Interviews with sisters Margaret Gosling and Anastastia Del'Monte, recounting their childhood experiences in New Zealand during World War Two. Speak about travelling from England to Dunedin to stay with extended family, 1940-1945. Recount travelling with their mother and governess to Dunedin and later to Queenstown before returning to England. Interviews conducted by Shalom Del'Monte-Aberhart who produced a book 'London to London Street' drawing from these interviews. Shalom Del'Monte-Aberhart is the daughter of Anastasia Del'Monte. Title supplied by Library. Interviewer - Shalom Del'Monte-Aberhart. Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 2 Interview(s). 2 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract(s) available - awaiting description.. Search dates: 2003

Date: 1920

From: Grant, F J (Mr), fl 1981 :Photographs of the tour of the Prince of Wales in 1920 and New Zealand scenic photographs

Reference: PAColl-0362-17

Description: Edward Prince of Wales reviewing school children, Dunedin, New Zealand. Photograph taken by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department, 1920. Inscriptions: Verso - Children's demonstration, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20 x 15 cm

Date: 19 May 1920

From: Dudley Ward, Freda, 1894-1983 :Photographs of Edward, Prince of Wales, during a visit to New Zealand and Fiji

Reference: PAColl-9111-17

Description: Edward Prince of Wales talking to girls at the school children's parade, Dunedin, New Zealand. Photographed by an unknown photographer 19 May 1920. Inscriptions: Verso - School children's parade. Dunedin. NZ. 19.5.20 (There's nothing to be thulky about!!) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15 x 10.4 cm