Oral history
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 986 Collections and/or Records:
ROBBIE, Elizabeth Ann interviewed by Cathy Macfie
Record Group — Box 61
Identifier: H0591
Overview
Ann talks family history, employment, interest and involvement in bag pipes and the Pipe Band, and incidents in her life that helped to form her beliefs and her commitment to being an advocate for vulnerable people. She became the first female Qualified Horticulturalist Arborist in NZ. She details her varied employment record and employers, marriage and family. Ann tells of the crippling interest rates in the 1980s and impacts on their farming. She goes on to tell of the hardships faced when...
Dates:
2022
ROBBIE, Valerie Joan (Val) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 51
Identifier: H0555
Overview
Holidays in Te Anau were a regular event for Val from a very young age. As a result, she is one of a handful of people with memories of summers on a section of land just a stone's throw from Lake Te Anau which was bordered by scrub and manuka and indented by makeshift wharves and boatsheds. By the late 1930s, the family had gone upmarket after being allowed to build a 'crib' on the same section. The dwelling, which was extended and upgraded over the years, was soon one of a motley collection of...
Dates:
2005
Robert Keith COOK as Extra Camera for Crosbie Candids of Filmcraft, 1963
Item
Identifier: H04340006
Dates:
1963
Robert Keith Cook With His First Motorbike, a Honda NV 400
Digital Image
Identifier: DH04340005
Dates:
1994
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Robert Keith COOK With His First Motorbike, a Honda NV 400, 1994
Item
Identifier: H04340005
Dates:
1994
Robert McNab Shirley
Digital Image
Identifier: DH02960005
Dates:
No Date
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
ROBERTS, Andrew Douglas interviewed by Chrissy Wickes
Record Group — Box 36
Identifier: H0347
Overview
This interview talks about Andrew's involvement in the Kakapo Recovery Project.
Dates:
2017
ROBERTS, Thomas Andrew (Tom) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 51
Identifier: H0554
Overview
The Roberts family connections with Te Anau span almost one hundred years as it was Tom's grandfather, Captain Thomas Roberts, who first laid roots in what was a remote settlement in 1906. As skipper for the government steamer, Tawera, there is already printed documentation about Captain Roberts and his years spent in Te Anau. This interview, therefore only touches lightly on Tom's ancestors. The focus is more on the achievements made by Tom and his brother, Ted Roberts, in the local building...
Dates:
2005
ROBERTSON, Graeme Boyd interviewed by Warrick McCallum
Record Group — Box 16
Identifier: H0307
Dates:
2006
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