Luxford, Nola, 1895-1994

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: [1930s-1950s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-189

Description: Photographs sent from United States by foreign correspondents, or taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1930s-1950s New Zealand publicity photograph of Ramai Te Miha and Leo Pilcher who starred in Rudall Hayward's production `Rewi's last stand', 1940. English and American actors and actresses - Stewart Granger; Anthony Steel and Alec Guiness (Malta Story, 1953); Maureen Swanson & John Fraser (Choir Practice, 1953); David Niven & wife Hjordis, 1953; Noel Purcell, Kay Walsh & John Lawrie (Encore); Oscar winners - Lukas, Jennifer Jones, Paxinon, & James Coburn, 1941; Lana Turner, Deanna Durban, Maureen O'Hara, Kay Aldridge & others, Mar 1941; Janet Leigh & Tony Curtis, 1950; Michael Rennie; Anthony Steel; Finlay Currie in Sydney, 1950; Peter Lawford Smith in Sydney, 1950; Princess Fahmy Bey (1930s). Nora Laing, Hollywood correspondent for New Zealand Free Lance, 1950s; other foreign correspondents in Hollywood; mothers of Joan Crawford, Tony Breneman and Gary Cooper, 1945; Nola Luxford; `Doubles' of famous film stars at rehearsal at London Palladium, 1938. Columbia Studios - Garden & buildings; film editors and examiners at work; film cutter at work; Art Department; Wardrobe Department. Disney Studios. Quantity: 32 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: McIntyre, Peter, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-295

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Middle East and Egypt during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many of the personnel identified are listed above, but group portraits in which individuals are named, are not individually listed above. Images include a consignment of 3000 cases of apples arriving at the New Zealand Forces Club in Egypt; YMCA secretaries of the NZEF in Crete before the blitz; NZ pilots at advanced RAF training school in England; King George II of Greece inspecting troops in the Middle East, being entertained by members of the Maori Battalion, and presenting medals to the platoon acting as his bodyguard on the Greek royal family's evacuation from Crete to Egypt (p 6-11). American aid to the ANZACs, showing a function in New York celebrating the presentation of over 100 ambulances to the fighting forces in Egypt, with (on p 12-15) views in Egypt of the ambulances & mobile surgical unit; the General Hospital at Helwan, with views inside wards, and life of convalescents including a swimming carnival, picnics and yachting (p 16-20); nurses' life at the General Hospital (p 139-141). Arrival of a mobile canteen for the YMCA (p 20-21); NZ soldiers on leave in Cairo; NZ cricket team at the Gezira Sporting Club (p 23-24); Parades of NZ units reviewed by general Freyberg; A YMCA canteen service van in Crete; opening of the Lowry Hut (p 8, p 28-30, p 34-35); Rowing races between a NZ team and Cairo representative team at the Cairo River Club (p 30-31, p 67). PM Peter Fraser's tour of NZ activities in Britain; broadcasts to NZ through the BBC's New Zealand programme (p 32-33, 92-93, 124-125); the New Zealand Forces Club (p 35-39, 44); ENSA Concert Party (p 40-42); staff at NZ House in London sorting parcels from NZ for NZ personnel. Attack on Crete (p 44-53), views taken by a German photographer who was killed in Crete, including Junkers transport carriers, Axis destroyers and wrecked German planes at Maleme airport; transport ship Glengyle after the evacuation from Crete. HMS Leander (p 55-61, p 79, p 84-85), includes group of sailors & NZ officers, all identified. Maori Battalion training in the Middle East; incidents during route march; two views of the official Netherlands Indies Women's organisation in wartime who looked after NZ airmen passing through batavia (Djakarta) (P 66, 68); sports meeting at the Prince Farouk Stadium Cairo (p 68-73, 83); artillery callibrating guns (p 73-79); field ordnance worlshops; Mobile Surgical Unit; copies of paintings by war artist peter McIntyre (p 87-91); Bomber Command Operational Training Unit. Postal unit (p 94-101); wireless operator air gunners after training at the WAG course at Mountain View Air Station in Canada (all named, p 96-97); investiture conferring Greek decorations on NZ officers (p 101-102, 110-111); Kiwi Concert Party (p 103-110); manouevres in the desert; fire brigade at NZ Base Camp (p 118-122); 2nd Echelon Office keeping personal records (p 120, 122-123); camp laundry in Egypt (p 128-130); work of a Light Aid Detachment in the field; the original ANZAC Club, Singapore (p 144); training under active service conditions in desert (p 145-149); visit by NZ soldiers to a stable maintained by the Egyptian Government at Heliopolis raising Arab horses. Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 782-1226. Follows sequence established in PA1-q-294. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1942 - 1945

By: Luxford, Nola, 1895-1994

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WII-Luxford

Description: Includes: Occupational Force pass permit for Major John P Ilsley of the United States F.A. to travel from Linz to Vienna. Mentions Mrs Minola A Bauernschmidt [1945] Special Service office, 42nd Infantry Rainbow Division and USO Camp Shows Inc. presents at the Playhouse, Nov. 4-10 "Double door", by Elizabeth McFadden, featuring Hilda Vaughn. Directed by Harold Winston [Cast included Nola Luxford]. [Printed by] Anton Pustet, Salzburg [1944-1945] (2 copies) The Rainbow Division was in Salzburg in 1944-1945 Quantity: 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying Provenance: Donated by Dr Jim Johnson, Colorado, in 1995.

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: 1908 - 1910

By: Seaward, Dennis, 1876-; Wanganui Education Board; Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm)

Reference: Eph-C-EDUCATION-1908-01

Description: Certificate shows an illustration of a robed female figure with outstretched arms holding a ribbon-draped wreath in each hand. She stands between overarching fruit trees with scrolls encircling their trunks. The words on the scrolls read: First aid, Cookery, Needlwork. On the plinth beneath the figure is the motto "Labor omnia vincit" (Work conquers all). Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 416 x 210 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Jim Johnson, Colorado, in 1995.

Date: 1947-1957

From: Hunt, Arthur Leigh, 1876-1968 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0158-117

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1944

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to the Second World War, 1943-1946]

By: Anzac Club (New York, N.Y.); Szyk, Arthur, 1894-1951; Luxford, Nola, 1895-1994

Reference: Eph-B-WAR-WII-1944-02

Description: Each sticker shows a head and shoulder portrait of memebers of the armed forces from the three countries: Australia, America and New Zealand. The address of the ANZAC Club is printed below: 106 West 56th Street, New York, 19, N.Y., U.S.A. The signature of the artist appears at the centre right: Arthur Szyk, N.Y. 44. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Sheet of 25 stickers, each 49 x 43 mm.; total size 260 x 208 mm. Provenance: Most copies donated from the Nola Luxford papers, 1995.

Date: 1940 - 1969

Reference: Eph-A-INVITATIONS-Luxford

Description: Includes: "Le Nid", 42 Curran Street, Auckland 2 NZ; Our Lake home address "Moose Lodge", RD 4, Rotorua NZ. Christmas card from Noel and Doreen Cole, 1968-69. Invitations and Nola Luxford business card (at the Hotel Pierre New York), sticker for British American Ambulance Corps ca 1940. Invitations are from: Price and Princess Gourielli-Tchkonia; Sir Gerald Campbell in order to meet the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel 21 October 1941[?]; English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth, Auckland Branch, 19 July 1958 A flier for "A peep at the world below with Nola Luxford", FMC Bar-B-Q 1947. Quantity: 7 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on cards, sizes varying Provenance: Donated by Dr Jim Johnson, Colorado, in 1995.

Date: 1930 - 1939

By: Stuart, Hal, active 1930s?; Luxford, Nola, 1895-1994

Reference: A-428-027

Description: Shows at left a black-robed priest holding a cross up to a cross-centred sun at top right. At lower left a carved statue squats, and is approached from the right by an axe-wielding warrior in headdress and skirt. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print 250 x 204 mm.

Date: 1942-1948

By: Luxford, Nola, 1895-1994

Reference: MSX-4100

Description: Cotlow describes his adventures in Africa and South America between World War I and World War II. The book is inscribed, `To Nola, With high esteem and deep affection, Lewis 7/9/48', there is a dustjacket, a clipping from a US newspaper about Cotlow, and a copy of the photograph which appears on the dustjacket. Relationship complexity - Although this is not part of the Nola Luxford collection (MS-Group-182) it is an associated item through her ownership of Cotlow's book Quantity: 1 volume(s) (298 pages). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, printed matter and photograph (24cm, brown linen) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Mrs Bagnall, Mt Cook, Wellington, 1994 Photographs illustrating Cotlow's travels and copy of photograph of Cotlow on dustjacket

Date: 1960 - 1969

By: Luxford, Nola, 1895-1994; Air New Zealand Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-POLYNESIAN-1960s

Description: Includes: 1968: The sounds of Polynesia. Swing South Pacific with Air New Zealand. Polynesia extravaganza presented in the enchanting Tapa Room [Pah Road, Epsom], 5, 12, 19, 26 October 1968. Programme booklet including menu 1969: Polynesian Cultural Center, Hawaii. "Polynesia in a day", by David W Cummings. Published by the Polynesian Cultural Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Tenth printing 1969. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on brochures and pamphlets, sizes varying up to 300 mm. Provenance: Donated from various sources, including Nola Luxford, 1990s, and a purchase from Barney Brewster, 2005..

Date: 1940 - 1959

Reference: Eph-A-COSTUME-1940/1959

Description: Includes: Alexander Turnbull Library. Set of postcards from photographs by Gordon H Burt Studio, advertising clothing, pharmacies, radios, Jantzen swimwear, underwear. 1920-1940s 1940s: Academy pattern brochure (country of origin unknown) "Night and Day Undies", 8 Woodward Street, Wellington C.1. Mesdames Amy Humphries and Ngaire Jarvie wish to advise that they have opened a salon for ladies undies, children's clothes and babies woollies, at the above address. Pamphlet [1940s?] Peter Jackson Limited, tailors. Of interest to men. Valeting and pressing service. [1940s?]. Pamphlet 1949: Did you know? all the girls in Olsen Johnson's "Hellzapoppin'" are wearing Super-Tex chenille dressing robes. Flier (issued with "Hellzapoppin'" theatre programme 1949) 1950s: There's nothing corny about Wilcut Clothes as supplied by Jack Nelson, 175 Ponsonby Road. [Card. 1950s?] Peter Jackson's notebook [1950s?] Le Bow Lingerie: We are pleased to advise you that your garment is finished and ready for posting. [Card. 1950-1952] 1954: Morris Parkin Ltd, the shoe store for value. Oxford Street Levin. Invoice/receipt [1954] 1956: Wayne Wentworth. Mail order catalogue, Winter 1956. 1959: D.I.C. Passport to charm, [1959. Fashion parade compered by Nola Luxford]. Pamphlet D.I.C. Ltd Personally yours. Pamphlet [1959?] Milne & Choyce Ltd. Passport to charm, 2-3 April 1959. [Fashion parade compered by Nola Luxford]. Pamphlet 1950s? Australian: Ballet of the sea; mannequin parade of sea and sand fashions compered by Muriel Steinbeck. Snows [Department store. 1940-1950s?]. Pamphlet Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on booklets and pamphlets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1958

Reference: Eph-B-AVIATION-Luxford-1958-01

Description: Certificate shows an illustration of Jupiter Rex sitting on a cloud at the left, supporting a Pan American Clipper aeroplane in the skies. Various constellations of stars appear in the sky behind Jupiter's head. Full text reads: From the illimitable vastness of the hyperterrestrial firmament, the Empyrean realm of Jupiter Rex, King of the Heavens, Lord of the sun, moon, planets, stars and nebulae, Ruler of the winds and weather, Master of Lightning and thunder; Supreme Potentate of all things above the surface of the earth, know all ye by these presents that Nola Luxford on this 2nd day of April in the year of 1958 was borne on the wings of a Clipper of Pan American World Airways across the equator enroute from Honolulu to Canton Island, and therefore let it be known that said passenger has been accepted into the Empyrean Realm of His Exalted Majesty Jupiter Rex and shall receive the profound privileges and immunities of our aerial realm Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 275 x 342 mm.

Date: 1942

By: Partnership Productions Ltd

Reference: PAColl-7421

Description: Photograph of Nola Luxford with New Zealand airmen at a farewell dinner at the Hotel Picadilly, New York, February 1942. The airmen are named as Nelson, Fullerton, Browne, Howard, Scobie, Bridgeman, -----, Dixon, C'Malley, Barry, Price, Cantron, Fraser, Devlin, Hotson, -----, Boeson, Ormerod. Taken by an unknown photographer. Arrangement: Copy neg at 35mm, 43374 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w copy negative(s) consisting of two images. Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1963

By: Luxford, Nola, 1895-1994

Reference: Curios-029-035

Description: Silver bowl presented to Mrs Dolberg. Inscriptions: [Title] Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Silver bowl with base, diameter 203 mm, height 94 mm, inscribed on outside, otherwise plain.

Date: [ca 1929-1960]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-110

Description: Mainly portraits, with some other photographs included, published (or considered for publication) in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1930s-1950s. All have names recorded on the back and most have date/dates of publication. Names of most of the women entered in Name field. Includes photograph of the home of Mr & Mrs T H Lowry at Okawa; published in NZ Free Lance, 13 Mar 1935 & 19 Nov 1952 Quantity: 114 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1941 to 1942

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: McIntyre, Peter, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-297

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Middle East and England during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified in the album are listed above. Scenes include physical training at the School of Instruction, Maadi Camp; reproductions of paintings by war artist Peter McIntyre (p 1-2, 93); scenes with His Excellency the Governor-General of NZ, Sir Cyril Newall, visiting Samoa and Fiji in 1942 (p 2-7); New Zealand members of ski units including members of the Maori Battalion at the Ninth Army Ski School in Syria; NZEF and Red Cross distribution of flour to Syrian people; parade through Aleppo. Officers, nursing sisters and Lady Freyberg at Anzac Day service at Maadi Camp in 1942; the visit of the NZ High Commissioner to a "west coast port", William Jordan and officers of NZ ships; arrival of pilots and observers for the RAF; scenes with King George VI & Queen Elizabeth visiting RAF Bomber Command, and the King watching landing exercises in Scotland. New Zealanders after withdrawing from the Libyan engagement; engineers constructing roads, lines of communication and supply in Transjordan; working with Arabs, reconstructing ancient wells; NZers in Amman. Group of NZers at Rouen sent back to Germany when arrangement with German authorities for mutual repatriation of prisoners broke down; NZ medical personnel repatriated from Italy to the Middle East under the Geneva Convention (many named); the Duke of Gloucester visiting the NZ camp at Maadi; locomotives being unlaoded on lighters and NZ engineers in their living quarters on the lighters at a Syrian port. The Pacific War Council in the Cabinet Room at the White House. Entertainment and sport for NZ troops in the Middle East included cricket, racing, bathing in the Dead Sea, boxing and wrestling championships. Campaign against malaria, widening and deepening drains; participation at the Western desert battle front; Visit of a party of NZers to a bandit stronghold in Syra (p 62-64); Sergeant James Allen Ward's VC with illustrations (p 71-72); Winston Churchill visiting NZers in the Western Desert (p 77-80, 82); the Alamein front; the NZ General Hospital at Beirut in Syria housed in former French barracks (p 86-90). A studio party in New York for Unted Servicement; a New York Bond Party; and later, a group of NZers in New York. RNZAF training in Canada (group portrait); NZers in North Western Alaska, and a group of wireless operators in Canada. Recipients of awards (named above); Kiwi Concert Party. Pursuit of the Axis Forces and war material abandoned by Germans and Italians (p 104-125); advance to Tripoli (p 128-138). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22 cm

Date: 1930 - 1939

Reference: Eph-D-DRAMA-NonNZ-1930s-01

Description: Poster shows an arrangement of text advertising a dramatic performance. Cast members included Vesey O'Davoren, Raymond Jarecki, Naomi Bailey, Helene Willis, Julie Leonard, Nola Luxford, Maurice Luxford and others. An "atmospheric prologue" was provided by Alice and Granville Robertson, and there was incidental music by a concert orchestra. The play and prologue were directed by Lionel Belmore. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, on light card 560 x 355 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Jim Johnson, Colorado, in 1995.

Date: 1939-1945

From: Luxford Dolberg, Nola, 1895-1994 : Papers

By: Luxford, Nola, 1895-1994

Reference: 95-052-35

Description: Assorted correspondence, clippings and other miscellaneous papers relating to the ANZAC Club and its associated activities. The ANZAC Club was founded by and largely administered by Luxford, in association with the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity in New York. The club organised recreational activities and accommodation for more than forty thousand New Zealand and Australian servicemen in New York during World War II. Papers include information on a variety of club-related activities, including the ANZAC Gardens, the ANZAC Hour broadcasts Luxford made to New Zealand, and other administrative records. Quantity: 1 box(es).