3 Books, 3 Scholars Monday 11 May 2009 – Rosemary Collier, Dan Scudder, Tomoko Tayama

Rosemary Collier, Archivist
Hunter Papers found at NZCER

Five pages of signatures excerpted from University Reform Association survey responses, 1910.
http://library.vuw.ac.nz/jcbr/findingaids/component.php?p=hunt&r=ref14

Rosemary Collier

“…why the paper of signatures is interesting? Firstly, it was a curiosity as to why anyone would go to the trouble of taking signatures off letters and pasting them onto other pages.  Then the detective process of deciding who it was who had done it, and why they were in a box of ‘historical records’ at the NZ Council for Educational Research.  Then the discovery that Hunter had left so little in the way of papers.  It was interesting to find out about the University Reform Association, and to attempt to prove that it was Hunter who had compiled the signatures together.”

Dan Scudder

Dan Scudder, Postgraduate student
JCBeaglehole – designer

“I am researching a Christmas card from 1927 that is one of the initial print works by J C Beaglehole. The card, addressed to his parents, offers hints at where JCB may have learned about print and book design. Illustrator, printer, architect and close friend, Australian Raymond McGrath may have been a bigger influence on the young JCB than previously thought. Using NZETC Beaglehole letters and research from a design perspective, this simple card turns out to not be so simple.”

Tomoko Tayama

Tomoko Tayama, Postgraduate student
Christmas carols
/ selected and arranged by Karl Schulte ; with illustrations by F.D. Lohman.

Publisher: Dunedin: Charles Begg & Co., c1942.
Description: 1 score (35 p.) : ill.
Call Number: M2085 C555

“An examination of Christmas Carols, a music manuscript published in Dunedin, is a great way to see how music can reflect society and its history. The text shows how important the piano may have been in the 1940s and the connection it has to the history of Christmas in New Zealand.”

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