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Oral history

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 999 Collections and/or Records:

Thelma Eaton (nee Small) 5 years (?) with little sister Nola

 Digital Image
Identifier: DH00330003
Dates: 1929

THOMAS, Edwin James (Ted) Interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box 50
Identifier: H0542
Overview Ted Thomas is a prolific artist of Fiordland landscapes. Before taking up the easel and brush, he was involved in a variety of different enterprises from building commercial properties to running a milk bar. This interview concentrates on his involvement in the Fiordland Venison Industry as a meat processing and packaging factory owner and operator. Starting in Mossbum and moving to Te Anau in the early 1960s, Ted provides some details about how he got into the business and who he worked with....
Dates: 2005

Thomas Johnstone

 Digital Image
Identifier: DH02950004
Dates: c.1944

THOMAS, Margaret Frances interviewed by Pamela Smith

 Record Group — Box 59
Identifier: H0494
Overview This interview is one of eight undertaken by Pamela Smith and Tuatapere residents conducted as part of a thesis on social change in a rural community. The completed thesis is titled "Whatever happened to Tuatapere. Are we doing very nicely thank you?". In the interviews the participants discuss their early life, aspects of life in Tuatapere and their thoughts on the community at the time of the interview and into the future.
Dates: 2008

THOMAS Raymond George (Ray) interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box 54
Identifier: H0580
Overview From a young age, Ray knew that he wanted to become a sheep farmer. After leaving school he completed tertiary studies in commerce and agriculture at Lincoln College. Having also got married to the daughter of a farmer, he went on to work at her family's farm near Riversdale before securing a position as shepherd in the Moa Flat area. It was there that Ray and Ruth decided to apply for a balloted farm under the government's citizen settlement scheme which ran for almost thirty years until the...
Dates: 2008

Thomas William Edward Johnstone

 Digital Image
Identifier: DH02950005
Dates: 2017