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Oral history

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 929 Collections and/or Records:

LINDSAY, Tara interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen

 Record Group — Box 36
Identifier: H0333
Overview This interview was recorded as part of a project to celebrate of 125 years of Women's Suffrage in New Zealand.
Dates: 2018

Linen Flax Mill at Tapanui (Blue Mountains in the background)

 Digital Image
Identifier: DH00310010
Dates: c.1943

LOVETT, Bailey Ann interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen

 Record Group — Box 6
Identifier: H0055
Overview This interview was recorded as part of the About Us Voices of Southland collection. In this interview Bailey gives a description of Bluff life and activities e.g. Oyster Festival. She discusses her family’s connection with fishing, her early education and studying to become a Marine Biologist and what this entailed. Bailey describes experiences such as studying shell fish, shark tagging and research on whales, dolphins, sharks and seals.
Dates: 2011

LOW, John Davidson interviewed by Nancy Burnett

 Record Group — Box 11
Identifier: H0134
Overview This interview is a topic based interview about the 1984 flood and was recorded following the 25th anniversary of the flood. In this interview John looks at the 1978 Otautau Floods and how these affected him and his family who were farming at Bayswater on the banks of the Aparima River. He recalls what he had to do keep family, stock and feed safe. Compares this flood with the 1984 and 1987 floods and looks back on floods in 1913 and 1916 and how mechanisms were put in place after these to try...
Dates: 2009

LOWREY, Janice Claire interviewed by Nancy Burnett

 Record Group — Box 11
Identifier: H0135
Overview Janice describes her experiences, feelings and evacuation in Otautau during the 1984 flood and the aftermath of this event to family, home, business and community.
Dates: 2009

LUTTRELL, Jack De Wilton interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box 51
Identifier: H0552
Overview One of the New Zealand team members seconded to Colonel Howard for the 1949 expedition was former government deer culler, Jack Luttrell. He had worked a couple of years earlier for the Wildlife Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs culling red deer in the Haast district of the West Coast. He also took part in a reconnaissance survey of Fiordland in 1948 in preparation for the Howard expedition. Now in his 70s, Mr Luttrell, has a clear memory of those earlier years hunting in much of what...
Dates: 2005

Mabel Christina Wachner as a Young Woman

 Digital Image
Identifier: DH00820004