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Oral history

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 927 Collections and/or Records:

SQUIRES, Clare interviewed by Lee Wadds

 Record Group — Box 3
Identifier: H0079
Overview In this interview Claire discusses her families association with Stewart Island, their careers and interests. She includes a description of traveling from Wellington to Stewart via ferry and train. She also covers her career choices training first as a nurse then as a kindergarten teacher, her marriage and children and her husband’s career in medicine, his life works and death.
Dates: 2010

STANCOMBE, Clara Faulds interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen

 Record Group — Box 28
Identifier: H0185
Overview In this interview Clara recalls her early life, family, education, growing up around Tuatapere, employment, being a member of the Volunteer Aids Group during the war and marriage.
Dates: 2013

STANTON, Jane Louise interviewed by Avis McDonald

 Record Group — Box 21
Identifier: H0065
Overview This interview was recorded as part of the About Us Voices of Southland collection. In this interview Jane talks of her early life, family, her sporting interests, employment and personal relationships. She goes on to talk about her company the Seriously Good Chocolate Company its beginnings, evolution to the business it is today and her aspirations for it in the future.
Dates: 2011

STEARNE, Patricia Ann (Pat) interviewed by Nancy Burnett

 Record Group — Box 11
Identifier: H0161
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 Pat gives a background to her involvement as a volunteer as a St John Ambulance Officer in Otautau. She goes onto describe the 1984 flood in Otautau, the preparation for evacuation, watching the water break through, no telephone communication, the taking of a patient to Kew Hospital and the flood condition observed on the way. Pat also tells of the after...
Dates: 2009

Stevens Family at "Westwood"

 Digital Image
Identifier: DH03040004
Dates: 1911

STEWART, Jacqueline Rae interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen

 Record Group — Box 36
Identifier: H0341
Overview This interview was recorded as part of a project to celebrate of 125 years of Women's Suffrage in New Zealand.
Dates: 2018

STILES, Raewyn Dorothy interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen

 Record Group — Box 34
Identifier: H0273
Overview This interview is part of the Grand Hotel Project. In this interview Raewyn talks in detail about her Grandfather, Willaim Holding, who came to New Zealand from England in 1923. William was a joiner and a sign writer as well as a talented painter and amateur photographer. He served in WWI and WW2. He did strongman acts and was a wrester. In 1954 he did a painting for the Queen's visit to Invercargill and Raewyn recounts the story of how he held up the painting from the veranda of a shop across...
Dates: 2016