Farm life
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:
Dorothy (Left) and Robina Bruce (Right) on Their Freshly Clipped Horse, Tommy, Aged 6 and 5
Digital Image
Identifier: DH04540006
Dates:
1939
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Dorothy (Left) and Robina BRUCE (Right) on Their Freshly Clipped Horse, Tommy, Aged 6 and 5, 1939
Item
Identifier: H04540006
Dates:
1939
Dorothy (Left) and Robina Bruce (Right) on Their School Ponies
Digital Image
Identifier: DH04540009
Dates:
c.1940s
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Dorothy (Left) and Robina BRUCE (Right) on Their School Ponies, c.1940s
Item
Identifier: H04540009
Dates:
c.1940s
DUFFY, Catherine Mary interviewed by Nancy Burnett
Record Group — Box 22
Identifier: H0264
Overview
This interview is part of the Gorge Road Collection. In this interview Mary talks of her family history and immigration from Ireland. Her family moved to a farm close to the Waituna Lagoon. She describes Kapuka South School, transport to school, classroom setup and general school day of the era. The family had an orchard in Roxbourgh. Mary began playing the piano when at secondary school and details her various experiences playing in the community. She goes on to describe the family farm,...
Dates:
2016
FAVEL, Annie Keturah interviewed by Dickon John Milnes
Record Group — Box 57
Identifier: H0618
Overview
Annie Favel was born in Edendale in 1909. Gives details about the history and location of her family farm and other dairy farms in the area. Mentions dairy factories at Seaward Downs and Edendale. Describes the Ayrshire cows, the milking process, the milking season, milking both by hand and with machinery and making butter. Describes the effect of World War I and the Depression on the farm and community. Describes the house, gardens, farm buildings, farm equipment and windmills on the farm....
Dates:
1998
FERGUSON, Wendy Patricia Evelyn by Cathy Macfie
Record Group — Box 41
Identifier: H0419
Overview
This interview covers Wendy's family's history in Otatara and her upbringing on a farm. Wendy talks about her husband and his accidental death in a car crash. She also talks about the Otatara community throughout her life.
Dates:
2020
FRASER, Lovat Hugh interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 53
Identifier: H0563
Overview
A retired farmer, Lovat has experienced life on very different rural properties in the Te Anau Basin. As a child he and his brothers grew up amid the tussocks and sheep of a small pastoral run, The Gorge. During his early married life, he experienced farming in eastern Southland and at Mossburn until 1970 when he was one of the successful applicants of the ballot system for the government's new farm settlements in the Te Anau Basin. During this interview Lovat gives a personal account of the...
Dates:
2006
GALLAND, George Joseph William (Joe) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 47
Identifier: H0524
Overview
In this interview Joe talks about his early life in Otago, Waikouaiti and then Dunedin. On leaving school Joe took up shearing. Joe then recounts his experiences of WWII in some detail. Joe served in the air force and was prisoner of war from 1943 to the end of the war, after his plane was shot down in Egypt. On his return Joe married and took on a lease for Elmwood Station at The Key. Initially Jo grew fescue, which was exported to the US, and made more money than sheep. Joe goes on to...
Dates:
2003 - 2004
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