Scrapbook, Miss Anona Woodcock

Maker
Montgomery, Anona
Production date
1925-1928
1960

Object detail

Brief Description
Scrapbook that belonged to Miss Anona Woodcock. It contains items related primarily, but not exclusively, to the years 1925 to 1928.

Contains the following ephemera: Peace Celebrations, 1919 Schools' Day; The first page had a Napier Municipal Tramways ticket; an invitation from W Corbett of the Cosmopolitan Club block (late Working Men's Club), Emerson Street (jeweller) to view his new shop; 1925 Christmas card from D S Ltd Haberdashery) M Hill; Christmas card from Percy Mayo; Business card Miss Anona Woodcock representing, Everybody's Weekly, G W Venables & Co, Ltd, Napier; card of R U Spooney (love card); newspaper cutting 16 January 1969 (article written by Anona Montgomery about her life in Napier titled: 1925, The Golden Year); Daily Telegraph newspaper cutting 6 June 1925 regarding the High School Old Boys' Football Club; Black Cat Club membership card; Gaiety Electric Pictures, Thompson-Payne Ltd ticket, 10 August 1925; Hawke's Bay Rugby Union tickets; envelope from G W Venables & Co Ltd, Dalton St, Napier; coloured photo of the Gaiety Electric Pictures, October 1960, Thompson Payne's last show; reference letter of Miss A Woodcock from the Managing Secretary of D S L, general drapers furnishers men's outfitters, Hastings Street, Napier, dated 16 December 1927; dance invitations 1924. Letter to Robert McGregor regarding her life in Napier circa 1925; a newspaper article Central Leader October 31, 1978, MOTAT eyes 1918 Hudson, one of the service cars owned by Aard Motor Services Ltd, a company formed in 1917 by Mr Woodcock and the late Mr Ben Anderson, in Napier.
Production date
1925-1928
1960
Production technique
Media/Materials description
soft coloured cover; black pages; invitations have mainly been glued; those with sellotape have come away.
Measurements
Height x Width: 375 x 250mm
Subject date
1919-1960
Credit line
gifted by Mrs Anona Montgomery
Other number(s)
m83/10, 25266

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