Zoos - Employees
Keepers working on new monkey cage, Wellington Zoo, New Zealand
Date: 8 January 1979
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1979/0074-F
Description: Wellington Zoo keepers Paul McAlister (left) and Cliff Oaten photographed while working on a new monkey cage. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 8th of January 1979. The cage was built to house three African Diana monkeys purchased by the Zoo the previous year (1978). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Deer killed by dogs, Wellington Zoo, New Zealand
Date: 5 June 1973
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1973/2473-F
Description: Manager of Wellington Zoo, Koenraad Kuiper, with three female fallow deer killed by marauding dogs. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 5th of June 1973. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Tour guides, Wellington Zoo, New Zealand
Date: 2 February 1968
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1968/0502-F
Description: Wellington Zoo's specially trained tour guides (from left) Misses B Witchell, C Pearce, and M Edwards. They are wearing their distinctive zebra uniforms. Photographed by an evening Post staff photographer on the 2 February 1968. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative
School children at Wellington Zoo, New Zealand
Date: 1 April 1977
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1977/1157-F
Description: Wellington Zoo keeper, Martin Vuusteen, introducing children from Cashmere School, Khandallah, to Barney the Chimpanzee. They are outside Wellington Zoo' new lecture block. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 1st of April 1977. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Marc Kidd chops meat for the tigers, Wellington Zoo, New Zealand - Photograph taken by ...
Date: 18 February 1989
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s
Reference: EP/1989/0642-F
Description: Wellington Zoo keeper Marc Kidd chopping up beef for the tigers. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin on the 18th of February 1989. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Wellington Zoo Centenary oral history project
Date: 14 Jul 2005 to 16 Jan 2006 - 14 Jul 2005 - 16 Jan 2006
By: Wellington Zoo Trust; Fowke, Susan, 1944-2017
Reference: OHColl-0803
Description: The project was commissioned by the Wellington Zoo Trust in recognition of the zoo's centenary and the importance it holds as part of Wellington's ongoing social experience. The interviews are full life-history interviews and include a wide range of zoo experiences dating from the 1930s to 2005 from zoo employees and members of the general public. The interviewees are: Barbara Blanchard, Mary Brown, Maureen and Mervyn Castle, Frank Coles, Ron Gourdswaard, Kathy Halmshaw, Dick Hornabrook, Konrad Kuiper, Alison Lash, Russell McKeen, Murray Roberts, Bernice Taft, Jo Turton and Bob Waters. Abstracted by - Susan Fowke Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014660 to OHC-014696 Quantity: 37 C60 cassette(s). 14 printed abstract(s). 14 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Stray dogs caught in Wellington Zoo, New Zealand
Date: 5 June 1973
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1973/2474-F
Description: Wellington Zoo keeper Vaughan Wiles holding two dogs caught in the fallow deer enclosure. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 5th of June 1973. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
New uniform for Wellington Zoo employees
Date: 28 December 1968
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1968/5672-F
Description: The new uniform for Wellington Zoo's staff has no buttons for animals to pull off. Mr T Gorton models the light green with a zip jacket. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 28th of December 1968 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative
Whistles for keepers, Wellington Zoo, New Zealand
Date: 18 February 1970
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1970/0717-F
Description: Wellington Zoo keeper, Murray Roberts, holding 50 odd ex-police whistles. Photographed by and Evening Post staff photographer on the 18th of February 1970. The whistles were obtained so that they could be issued to keepers and used to signal emergencies. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 6 x 6 cm