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Lighthouse keeper

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

SMITH, Susan interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau

 Record Group — Box 44
Identifier: H0375
Overview This interview was commissioned by Women's Division of Federated Farmers for a project entitled Pioneer Women. Susan Smith describes her family background and their emigration to New Zealand. She recalls early Otara, living in a 'bungi' (tree fern house) at Otara. She recalls the use of peat for fuel; her grandmother's cooking - sad cake, carrageen pudding made from seaweed and collecting carrageen during World War II for Greggs Ltd, Dunedin. She describes other farm tasks, including rabbiting,...
Dates: 1990

Susan Smith as a Young Woman

 Digital Image
Identifier: DH3750004

Susan Smith at Time of the Interview

 Digital Image
Identifier: DH03750003_1
Dates: 1990