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Melanie Pflaum

Portraits of Melanie Pflaum, an author who is in Christchurch for a year with her husband who is lecturing at the University of Canterbury.

Date 1970-03-07
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1970 Christchurch Star negative strips

Robyn Jenkin in her house

Author, Robyn Jenkin, sitting inside her Scarborough house.

Date 1970-10-24
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1970 Christchurch Star negative strips

Robyn Jenkin in her garden

Robyn Jenkin sitting on a wall outside her Scarborough house.

Date 1970-10-24
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1970 Christchurch Star negative strips

Molly Anderson, author

Molly Anderson with her book, The Caltex Book of Veteran and Vintage Cars of New Zealand.

Date 1970-10-10
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1970 Christchurch Star negative strips

Children's author, Margaret Mahy

"Portrait of Christchurch children's author, Margaret Mahy at her typewriter with her pet rabbit following her being awarded the Carnegie Medal by the British Library Association for the "The Haunting...

Date 1983-06-28
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 1983 Christchurch Star photographs

Cookbook author, Mrs Mary Browne in her kitchen

Author of "The Cooks Garden", Mrs Mary Browne, making notes for recipe ideas in her kitchen in Cashmere.

Date 1988-11-15
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 1988 Christchurch Star photographs

Guests at Library Association Children's Book Awards

Guests at the New Zealand Library Association Children's Book Awards at Canterbury Public Library. Guest are, from left, Elsie Locke (author), Ms Cathy Thompson (librarian, Christchurch) and Mrs Mandy...

Date 1988-07-13
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 1988 Christchurch Star photographs

Author Grace Porter with her book “Under the Nor’ West Arch”

Author Grace Porter posing with her book “Under the Nor’ West Arch” which is about her and husband Ted’s experiences of life in the back country. The book is about to go on sale.

Date 1970-09-24
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1970 Christchurch Star negative strips

Denis Glover

Portrait of Denis Glover, New Zealand Poet, publisher and author of "Bedside Book".

Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 1975 Christchurch Star photographs

Mr Ernest G. Collins

Portraits of Mr Ernest G. Collins, author of 'Malting in the Heathcote Valley' and retired worker at the Canterbury Malting Co.

Date 1981-10-07
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1981 Christchurch Star negative strips

Margaret Mahy on the set of Strangers

Margaret Mahy, author of the children's mystery series Strangers, meeting the producer Chris Bailey (left) and two of the young actors Martin Henderson (Zane) (left centre) and Amber McWilliams (Emma)...

Date 1989-06-24
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 1989 Christchurch Star photographs

Elsie Locke

Portraits of Elsie Locke with a copy of her book "Student at the Gates", which is based on her experiences of being a student from Christchurch studying in Auckland.

Date 1981-07-25
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1981 Christchurch Star negative strips

John Huddleston

Portraits of John Huddleston, author of a book on the Baha'i faith, "The Earth Is But One Country", during a visit to Christchurch to deliver a talk.

Date 1981-07-18
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1981 Christchurch Star negative strips

Kathleen Coghlan sitting at a typewriter

Kathleen Coghlan, senior mistress of commerce at Aranui High School and author of the book “Touch Typing by Colour”, sitting at a typewriter.

Date 1971-09-14
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1971 Christchurch Star negative strips

Rodney Smith

Portraits of author Rodney Smith with his book ‘A guide to the ski fields of New Zealand’.

Date 1981-06-19
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1981 Christchurch Star negative strips

University of Canterbury Chemistry Professor Leon Phillips

Views of Chemistry Professor at the University of Canterbury, Leon Phillips with his book 'Ritual Fire Dance', a spy thriller set at the University.

Date 1981-06-16
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1981 Christchurch Star negative strips

Judy and Sandy Fairservice

Portraits of Judy and Sandy Fairservice, authors of the book 'Gold in your bottle: fossicking for fun in New Zealand'.

Date 1981-03-09
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1981 Christchurch Star negative strips

Errol Braithwaite

Portraits of author Errol Braithwaite with a copy of a unbound typescript of his book on the history of ChristChurch Cathedral.

Date 1981-08-26
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1981 Christchurch Star negative strips