Invercargill (N.Z.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1105 Collections and/or Records:
SINCLAIR, Jennifer Lois interviewed by Rosie Stather
Record Group
Identifier: H0353
Overview
In this interview Jennifer looks at her family history including: her fathers time in the Air Force during WW2 and both parents’ employment. She recalls her mother taking in boarders and some of their occupations. They had four at any one time. Jennifer goes on to detail her education through to completing a secretarial course. She had an interest in music, learning the piano and to sing and going on to teach both of these with Sister Cecil at St. Catherine's High School. Jennifer tells of her...
Dates:
2018
Skandinavian Hotel, corner Tay and Kelvin Streets
Digital Image
Identifier: D27520001_045
Dates:
c.1880
Found in:
Invercargill City Council Archives
Sketch [Concept] Plan of the Public Library & Retail Shopping Development May 1985, May 1985
Item — Map-box 11: Series S0089
Identifier: S00890118
Dates:
May 1985
Sketch of Civic Administration Building, [no date]
Item — Box 3: Series S0089
Identifier: S00890086
Dates:
[no date]
Sketch of Entrance Vestibule [most likely the Athenaeum], [no date]
Item — Box 3: Series S0089
Identifier: S00890058
Dates:
[no date]
Sketch of Existing Entrance [most likely the Athenaeum], [no date]
Item — Box 3: Series S0089
Identifier: S00890060
Dates:
[no date]
Sketch of Landing showing Library and Reading Room Entrances [most likely the Athenaeum], [no date]
Item — Box 3: Series S0089
Identifier: S00890059
Dates:
[no date]
Sketch of Proposed Entrance [most likely the Athenaeum], [no date]
Item — Box 3: Series S0089
Identifier: S00890057
Dates:
[no date]
Small Plan of the Existing Ground Floor of the Invercargill Library, c.1986
Item — Map-box 11: Series S0089
Identifier: S00890113
SMITH, Charlotte Anne Lindsay (Nan) interviewed by Lloyd Esler
Record Group
Identifier: H0156
Overview
Nan discusses and describes her family history: her father and grandfather settling in NZ and making a life here; her education first at Spar Bush school then at Southland Girls High. She talks of her memories of the depression and farm conditions at this time. When she left school she qualified as a nurse in 1936. Nan recalls and mentions wartime Invercargill e.g. ration books, petrol rationing, Park Hospital and the purchase of her Vauxhall 12 car for £300.00. Nan worked for ten years at Park...
Dates:
2007
