Oral history
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 961 Collections and/or Records:
Mary Ellen (Nellie) Collinson
Digital Image
Identifier: DH03770002
Dates:
1993
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Mary Ellen Wenham (Nellie) COLLINSON, 1993
Item — Box 24
Identifier: H03770002
Mary Ellen Wenham (Nellie) COLLINSON, 1918
Item — Box 24
Identifier: H03770003
Mary Jane CATHCART at Time of Interview
Digital Image
Identifier: DH0411000
Dates:
2019
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Mary Margaret Smith
Digital Image
Identifier: DH01140003
Dates:
2011
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Mary Margaret Smith, 2011
Item — Box 26
Identifier: H01140003
Overview
Photograph taken at the time of her interview.
Dates:
2011
MASON, Barbara Jean interviewed by Virginia Henderson
Record Group — Box 26
Identifier: H0118
Overview
This interview was recorded as part of the Wendon Valley Research Project. In this interview Barbara talks of her family history dating back to her grandparents, the purchase of the family farm at Wyndham Valley and the history of the family here; and of her marriage to Bill Mason and move to Otara where they took over Bill’s uncles farm. She describes what it was like for her to leave Wyndham Valley to go to Otara. Barbara also recalls her education at Wyndham Valley School and a little local...
Dates:
2012
MATHIESON, Ruth interviewed by Carolyn Deverson
Record Group — Box 16
Identifier: H0304
Overview
In this interview Ruth Mathieson talks about her father Vic Stevens. Vic was the 13th of 14 children and was born in 1905. He attended Wild Bush, Riverton and Oraki Schools. When he left school he went to work on the family farm in Longwood and then he was employed by Parkinsons, an electrical installation company, in Invercargill. He worked with a gang getting houses "hooked up to the electric". Vic then mobved to the West Coast and played rugby for the Star Rugby Club and he met and married...
Dates:
2006
MATTHEWS, Anthony Phillip (Tony) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 55
Identifier: H0584
Overview
The younger son of a Canterbury dairy farmer, it was Tony's boyhood ambition to run his own sheep farm. School holidays in the early 1960s were spent on an uncle's sheep farm in Northern Southland where he learnt the basic skills of stock management such as drenching, lambing and shearing. A decade later Tony returned to Southland with wife, Judy, when they moved to their own 500-acre sheep and beef farm on one of the newly developed farm settlement blocks in the Te Anau Basin. This recording,...
Dates:
2008
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