Women automobile drivers

Date: 1923

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to motor drivers' licences, driving tests]

By: Christchurch (N.Z.). City Council

Reference: Eph-A-MOTOR-DRIVERS-LICENCE-1923-01

Description: Green buckram bound certificate with the words "Certificate under Christchurch Ciy By-Law no. 1" on front cover. This certificate could also be used for a motor cycle, but that option has been crossed out in this example. The certificate cost 10 shillings. Herbert Macintosh was Christchurch chief traffic inspector. Note that the wording on the certificate does not assume women as drivers: "... has satisfied me that he is able to handle a private motor car ...". Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset and holograph on folded card bound in dark green, 60 x 90 mm (folded)

Date: 01 Feb 2001

From: Upper Hutt Uniting Parish Millennium Project

By: Hargreaves, Susan Mary, 1955-

Reference: OHInt-0593/24

Description: Susan Hargreaves was born in Christchurch in 1955. Talks of her Methodist background and similarities in the Uniting Parish. Mentions her appreciation of the mothers' group, her lay preaching, attitude to prayer and the sense of community in the parish. Mentions miscarriage and stillbirth, post-natal depression. Talks of Youth for Christ, Sunday School, Bible Class and being part of the Certain Sounds singing group. Explains her decision to do university study, explains attitudes towards girls' learning to drive, their education and subjects taken at Otago Girls' High School. Recalls meeting her first female minister, being married by her in Old St. Paul's and mentions meeting her husband on a blind date. Describes the Upper Hutt church buildings. Interviewer(s) - Elaine Bolitho Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009268 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) transcript. 1 interview(s). 55 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2987, OHDL-000944. Portrait photograph taken at the time of the interview

Date: 1962 - 1971

From: [Ephemera and posters relating to automobiles and motor racing, donated by Dean Gray]

Reference: Eph-F-MOTOR-Gray-1960s-01

Description: Display card shows a montage of six photographs. The top one shows the steering wheel of a car, and a woman in a checked two-piece suit getting into the car. Other photographs show a bouquet of flowers on the bonnet, a woman in an orange coat beside her car, a car parked on the sand beside a woman and two children, and an orange-breasted parrot. The text suggests uses for the car for a shopping trip and outdoor activities with children. The various branches of The Dominion Motors are listed. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on heavy card, 557 x 398 mm, with folded stand on verso.

Date: 1961

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-382

Description: The scene is a back garden in the suburbs. A man chats over the fence with his neighbour. He says that his wife can drive all right and would enter the Road Safety Queen contest if it weren't for the front gate post. The car is in front of him with a very bent fender. The man's wife looks crossly out of the window. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letraset on card, 309 x 326mm

Date: 1991

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-NZ Obituaries-Lo to Lz-02

Description: Sybil Lupp standing in front of her Jaguar motor car. Photographed for TV3 by an unknown photographer in 1991 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 17 x 12 cms Finding Aids: Print in Turnbull Library Pictures Evening Post illustrations file at NZ Obits-Lo to LZ (Cabinet no 19, drawer 1)..

Date: [ca 23 Dec 1997]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Burford, Melanie Jayne, 1970-

Reference: EP/1997/4686-F

Description: Singer Bic Runga. Shows her driving a car. Location unidentified. Photograph taken circa 23 December 1997 by Evening Post staff photographer Melanie Burford. Runga's first album was called 'Drive'. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1960

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-067

Description: Woman driver who has caused a nose to tail car accident and a traffic jam around her happily tells her female passenger:"I think he likes my driving - I'm sure he said something about being particularly lovely" as a traffic officer storms away from her car. Caption at top left reads: "As far as the traffic authorities are concerned all good women drivers are beautiful", Mr Anderson, City Traffic Superintendent, on selection of Festival Road Safety Queen. The "lovely" refers to the mess. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil 280 x 255 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1957

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Cartoons from the Free Lance Collection 1957 to 1960]

Reference: C-076-259

Description: Four scenes depicting women drivers Published in New Zealand Free Lance, 26 Apr 1957, page 42 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 185 x 660 mm

Date: 12 December 1989

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: Dom/1989/1212/1-F

Description: Sybil Lupp, seated in her Jaguar E-Type, photographed by a staff photographer of The Dominion newspaper ca 12 December 1989. In some images she is holding an earlier portrait of herself. Quantity: 5 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strips with 15 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives

Date: 25 October 1990

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1990/3730-F

Description: Sybil Lupp in her E type V12 Jaguar motorcar. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 25th of October 1990 Sybil Lupp was a well known Wellington motor mechanic specialising in Jaguars. She bought the car depicted in 1972 and had decided to sell it because of her arthritis. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1942

By: Bowles, Cynthia Alexander, active 2002

Reference: PAColl-7667

Description: Photographs of women drivers who transported United States First Division Marines and their equipment between Wellington and their camps in Johnsonville, Paekakariki and Porirua, taken in 1942 by an unknown photographer. Includes photographs of Wellington wharves and various military vehicles. Accompanying material - photocopy of a newspaper article relating to US Marines in New Zealand during World War II including photograph Quantity: 6 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies of 6 photograph album pages, with 29 images

Date: [ca 1905]

Reference: PAColl-4433

Description: Women and car at Oruawharo, near Takapau, photographed circa 1905. Shows Mrs D H S Riddiford (front seat), Mrs Sydney Johnston (rear seat) and Miss T St Clair Inglis. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1913]

From: Tesla Studios :Negatives of Wanganui and district taken by Alfred Martin, Frank Denton and Mark Lampe (Tesla Studios)

Reference: 1/1-017348-G

Description: Unidentified woman in the driver's seat of an open-topped, 1913 Model T Ford Runabout. Photograph taken by Frank J Denton, probably in the Wanganui region. Other - Note on back of file print reads: "Made by Chavannes, Wanganui". However, as this is a standard 1913 Model T Runabout, and Chavannes are not known to have built car bodies, it is likely that they were the dealers, not the builders, of this vehicle. Source of information: Library client Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 2004

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0004871

Description: Shows the new fishing quotas for seafood. Includes a quota for old grandmothers driving at slow speeds. Published in The Press, 23 August 2004 Arrangement: This cartoon file was originally delivered to the library within a sub-folder called "archive2004" Quantity: 1 digital image(s). Processing information: This cartoon file was donated to the library with no file extension. On recommendation of the Digital Archivist and with the consent of the donor, a ".jpg" file extension was added to this file in order to ensure it was readable and accessible.

Date: 1958

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1958/1075-F

Description: Portrait of Ivy Stephenson sitting in her Buckler-Climax race car. Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1913

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-004176-G

Description: Group of men and women, on a road in an Ariel automobile, probably in the Christchurch region. A woman sits at the wheel. The group is likely to include Mr Storey. Photograph taken by Steffano Francis Webb in 1913. Source of descriptive information - Note on back of file print reads: "Mr Storey of Christchurch" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1994

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-NZ Obits-A-Archer, Sybil-2

Description: Sybil and Lionel Archer in their new house. The view through the Window looks north-east across central Wellington, the harbour to the Hutt Valley and the Tararua Range. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ray Pigney in 1994. The house was designed to support Sybil Archer who suffered from advanced rheumatoid arthritis. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler print, 24.2 x 16.7 cms

Date: 1969

From: Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976]

Reference: Eph-A-CABOT-Miss-NZ-1969-01-33

Description: An advertisement for a Fiat Bambina, in the 1969 Miss New Zealand contest programme. It shows a young woman standing in the driver's seat of a Bambina whose sunroof is open. Below is a smaller photograph of a Bambina with the words "I may be small but I'm smart". At lower left is a list of all the positive features of the car: easy parking, petrol economy, safety, deceptively large capacity, quality fittings, low price. At lower right is a coupon to send away for a "Propaganda kit for wives" to persuade their husbands to buy them a Fiat Bambina. Extended Title - From Miss New Zealand 1969. Programme. Printed by the Evening Star Co. Ltd, Dunedin, page [33 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 243 x 186 mm.

Date: 1902

From: Miller, W H : Photographs of Royal Mail biplanes, and Ashburton's first car

Reference: 1/2-038804-F

Description: Mrs E B Newton at the wheel of Ashburton's first car. Shows two women in the grounds of a garden, in an Oldsmobile. Photograph taken in 1902 by an unidentified photographer. This car was owned by Thomas Bullock. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [195-?]

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-030414-F

Description: Chevrolet being filled with petrol at Don Glengarry's service station, Petone, circa 1950. Mr Glengarry is at the pump. Photograph taken for the National Publicity Studios by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Don Glengarry identified from 1/2-030413. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.