Farm life
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 93 Collections and/or Records:
O'CONNOR, Judith Anne interviewed by Jane Craske
Record Group — Box 2
Identifier: H0210
Overview
Judith looks at her early life through school and growing up at Mokotua where the family had a mixed farm of dairy and sheep on 200 acres. Judith was a day pupil at James Hargest High School before leaving school and working at H & J Smiths until her marriage to Murray. They had three children and Judith gives a description of her time in Dee Street Maternity Hospital. Murray and Judith purchased a dairy farm at Kapuka which is now run by their son. She gives a description of her typical...
Dates:
2014
Orepuki Young Farmers Club
Record Group
Identifier: A0703
Processing Information
This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives Staff for details of collection content.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1940 - 1988
PATTERSON, Edna Dorothy interviewed by Avis McDonald
Record Group — Box 35
Identifier: H0322
Overview
Edna talks about family history and life when growing up. She talks about the vegetable garden, helping her father in the dairy factory where he was manager, games played and chores as a child. She describes her father’s work and the operation of the factory and cheese making. She details her mother’s role in the home and goes onto talk about her education until leaving school at 15. Her out of school activities included going to Balclutha to learn music and going to Dunedin to learn...
Dates:
2010
PEARS, Brian Monteith interviewed by Anne McCracken
Record Group — Box 41
Identifier: H0406
Dates:
2019
Photograph album of Glenaray Station
Digital Image
Identifier: DH00430006_001
Dates:
Majority of material found within c.1945 - c.1949
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Photograph album of Glenaray Station, bulk: c.1945 - c.1949
Item — Digital-archive SOHP
Identifier: H00430006
Overview
Photograph album of Glenaray Station buildings, people, animals, farmland, and high country.
To view full album see Digital Material link below.
To view full album see Digital Material link below.
Dates:
Majority of material found within c.1945 - c.1949
Photographs of Glenaray Station
Digital Image
Identifier: DH00430007
Dates:
Majority of material found within c.1945 - c.1949
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Photographs of Glenaray Station [8], bulk: c.1945 - c.1949
Item — Digital-archive SOHP
Identifier: H00430007
Overview
Photographs of Glenaray Station, people, animals, farmland and high country. Loose photos, most likely from the larger photograph album [item H00430006].
Click on Digital Materials link below to see all photographs.
Click on Digital Materials link below to see all photographs.
Dates:
Majority of material found within c.1945 - c.1949
PICKNEY, Bernard Eyre Interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau
Record Group — Box 56
Identifier: H0502
Dates:
1994
PIRIE, Ewen Alexander interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen
Record Group — Box 26
Identifier: H0111
Overview
In this interview Ewen describes his family history in detail, dating back to his grandfather’s journey to NZ via goldmining in Australia and the establishing himself in farming in NZ. He refers to a book ‘One Hundred Years at Morton Mains’ which records his grandparents and their descendants. He discusses his relationship with his father and their religious beliefs. Ewen goes on to discuss tractors and their advancement in farming, deer stalking and culling, joining the army, friendships...
Dates:
2012
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