Taranaki Women Achievers 1943 - 1993
Description
A joint New Plymouth Library/Taranaki Museum project, established as part of the centennial celebrations for Suffrage Year 1993. Project co-ordinators Viv Bone (New Plymouth Public Library) and Mary Donald (Taranaki Museum).
The group had hoped to compile a database of 300/400 Pakeha and Maori women, the information to be publically available through the Museum and Library and eventually to publish a book containing the life stories of 50 women, this did not eventuate.
There are aproximately 240 womens' biographies, a printed index was lodged in the New Plymouth Library and the documents in the Taranaki Museum Archive, a searchable index was created in 2007 to provide access to these.
The collection contains biographical information on notable Taranaki women between 1943 and 1993 which was created as part of the suffrage centennial celebrations in 1993.
Object detail
Box 1
Biographical files A - C
Box 2
Biographical files D - J
Box 3
Biographical files K - R
Box 4
Biographical files S - Z
Box 5
Card index of women contacted for the project.
File of documents associated with administration of the project. Includes newspaper clippings. Minutes of the project committee.
File. Correspondence.
Public comments
Kia ora did the Taranaki Women Achievers project 1943-1993 contain any information on wahine Māori of Taranaki please? Is there a link to the searchable index?
- Tui MacDonald posted 3 years ago.