Los Angeles

Date: [ca 1910-1989]

By: Luxford, Nola, 1895-1994

Reference: MS-Group-0182

Description: The papers relate to Luxford's career as an actress, 1920s-1930s, and later as a print and radio journalist, 1930s-1950s, as well as material on the ANZAC Club, the ANZAC Memorial Garden in New York, ANZAC Hour broadcasts, ANZAC Day commemorations and the British American Ambulance Corps, all of which she was involved with during WWII. Further material relates to Luxford's work with the fashion shows at Hotel Pierre, New York in the 1950s. There are also papers on her work with volunteer and charitable organisations from the 1940s, including certificates awarded to her. In 1996 Luxford's diaries and note books, and a collection of letters from the author Zane Grey, were added to the collection. In 1998, further diaries, newspaper cuttings and correspondence relating mainly to Nola's private and domestic life were donated by Ms Carole van Grondelle, who was using them as source material for her biography. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 83 volume(s). 52 folder(s). 57 box(es). 1 videotape(s). 16 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter and photographs Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Nola Luxford Dolberg, 1991 (A91-297, A91-346), 1992 (A92-250), 1993 (A93-275) and estate of Nola Luxford Dolberg 1995 (A95-052), 1996 (A96-272), and 1998 (A98-343). Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 8 boxes of albums and loose photographs - To Oral History Collection - Disc and tape recordings of broadcasts. - To New Zealand Film Archive - 6 reels of film - To New Zealand Film Archive - 2 film reels 16mm: `Maori Village - NZ Legation Washington', and `City of health - NZ legation Washington'. Also assorted sections of 16mm film reels in a film casing entitled `Native earth 77C'..

Date: 1984

From: Various artists:Five cartoons by Nevile Lodge and one by Eric Heath on the 1984 Olympic Games.

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-157-068

Description: Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, whiteout and letratone 303 x 351 mm.

Date: 1984

By: Clifford, John, active 1980s; New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association; Porter Galleries

Reference: C-117-062

Description: Shows part of the winning rowing fours team approaching the finish line in a race. Issued by New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association. Issued with a certificate of authority. Number 101 of 500 prints, signed and numbered by the artist. Also signed by Alan Thompson, Ian Ferguson, Paul, Macdonald and Grant Bramwell, the canoeing K4 1000 metres gold medal winners. Other Titles - 23rd Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, 545 x 670 mm Provenance: Deposited on legal deposit.

Date: 1992

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947-:Editorial cartoons; The Evening Post, 1 - 29 May 1992

Reference: H-008-004

Description: Shows a blindfolded woman with sword in one hand and scales in the other lying in a hospital bed, marked "U.S. Justice". Refers to the Los Angeles riots that followed police brutality against a black American Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph

Date: 1984-1987

From: Stead, Christian Karlson, 1932- : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-7312-06

Description: Notes, clippings, brochures etc relating to Stead's visit to Los Angeles and Hollywood and background material Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca 1988

From: Stead, Christian Karlson, 1932- : Collection

Reference: PA1-q-762

Description: Album of photographs taken in Hollywood and Los Angeles by C K Stead in the course of research for his novel 'Sister Hollywood', published in 1989. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1930 - 1940

Reference: A-428-034

Description: A head and shoulders portrait of Nola Luxford in a wide hat and broad ruffled collar. The portrait was probably made at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Crayon drawing, 355 x 282 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Jim Johnson, Coronado, California, in 1995.

Date: 1984

By: Barker, David John, 1941-; Porter Galleries

Reference: C-117-061

Description: Official issue of the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association. Shows Rex Sellers and Christopher Timms in their Tornado class gold medal winning race at the 23rd Olympic Games, Los Angeles, 1984. Number 101 of run of 500 (numbered at bottom right). Accompanied by certificate of authenticity. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (In pencil): D Barker; Recto - bottom right - D Barker '84; Recto - beneath image - (Signatures in pencil): Rex Sellers C Timmms Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, 460 x 610 mm, on sheet 555 x 670 mm.

Date: 1987

From: Stead, Christian Karlson, 1932- : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-7312-09

Description: Arrangement: Stead's revision chronology with MS-Papers-7312-08 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca1978

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-579

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1949-1965

From: Luxford, Nola, 1895-1994 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9548-17

Description: Beau Grauer, NBC commentator contributing to Nola Luxford's Easter Show from outside the Hotel Pierre, 1955. Art exhibitions held in the Pierre Hotel. Groups of people which include Nola Luxford. Nola with Fred Stieff at the Stieff home, Baltimore, Maryland. Nola modeling an elaborate evening dress. Presentation to Nola when she left the Hotel Pierre in 1958. Nola at work in her New York apartment. Group at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Nola with Sir Edmund and Lady Hillary and Mr Macrae. Nola with George Cressaty. The wedding of Nola Luxford and Glen Dolberg. Nola and Glenn in the New York apartment. Nola with New Zealand MP, Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan and New Zealand consul in Los Angeles, J Kenneth Cunningham. Photographs relating to Nola and Glenn, 1960s-1980s. Some photographs relate to Nola's involvement in the "Keep America Beautiful" movement. Colour photographs of Nola modeling smart new clothes, 1949-1950. Nola on holiday and with friends, late 1940s/early 1950s. Building "Ranchita Glenola", the house that Nola and Glenn built in La Canada, Los Angeles, in the mid 1960s. Quantity: 111 b&w original photographic print(s). 13 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1984-1988

From: Stead, Christian Karlson, 1932- : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-7312-07

Description: Includes holograph epigraph, and graded chapter reading/revision summary by Stead Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1988

From: Stead, Christian Karlson, 1932- : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-7312-10

Description: Revisions and discards of various pages and chapters Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1932 - 1984

By: International Olympic Committee

Reference: Eph-D-SPORT-1932-01

Description: 1932 poster has a blue background, and shows a blond male athlete holding a long string of laurel leaves. Exhibited in 'Come on, Jack! The Lovelock Olympic story' Exhibition, curated by David Colquhoun, at the National Library Gallery, 7 July - 12 November 2000. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, on sheet 700 x 500 mm. Provenance: Purchased from the Olympic Museum, Lausanne, in 2000, in connection with "Come on, Jack!", the exhibition on Jack Lovelock.

Date: 1915 - 1919

By: Sisarich, Warren, active 1980s-1990s

Reference: PA1-q-394

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1984

By: Clifford, John, active 1980s; New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association; Porter Galleries

Reference: C-117-062-a

Description: Shows part of the winning rowing fours team approaching the finish line in a race. Issued by New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association. Issued with a certificate of authority. Number 102 of 500 prints, signed and numbered by the artist. Also signed by Alan Thompson, Ian Ferguson, Paul, Macdonald and Grant Bramwell, the canoeing K4 1000 metres gold medal winners. Other Titles - 23rd Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, 545 x 670 mm Provenance: Deposited on legal deposit.

Date: 1987

From: Stead, Christian Karlson, 1932- : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-7312-08

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1993

From: Scott, Thomas 1947- :The Evening Post; Cartoons 1 - 30 April 1993

Reference: H-047-010

Description: Shows a woman at a supermarket checkout. Refers to the possibility of racial riots when the verdict on the police who beat up black American Rodney King is heard. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1988

From: Stead, Christian Karlson, 1932- : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-7312-11

Description: Revisions and discards of various pages and chapters Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1992

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947-:Editorial cartoons; The Evening Post, 1 - 29 May 1992

Reference: H-008-003

Description: Shows Jim Bolger. Refers to the Los Angeles riots that followed police brutality against a black American Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph