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University of Otago, Caversham Project : Records

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Reference NumberARC-0502CreatorUniversity of Otago, Caversham ProjectDescriptionThis collection includes minutes, correspondence, administrative files, records relating to the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology and funding, working papers, essays (mostly by honours students), procedural records, records relating to occupational codes, oral history transcripts, church history files (mostly relating to individual churches), the papers of Penny Isaac, photographs, and maps and related records. There is also some marriage data from David Pearson's Wellington study.
Only a small part of this collection is digitised and available through Digital Collections. Information about other items can be found on the Hākena catalogue, through the Library Catalogues link above.History / BiographyThe Caversham Project was an interdisciplinary research project studying Caversham and other southern suburbs of Dunedin, from 1893-1940. The project was initiated by Professor Erik Olssen and Dr Tom Brooking of the Department of History in the mid-1970s. It built up a large database of information on adults living in the study area, forming one of the largest social history projects in the world. The study area, the largest industrial district in New Zealand in its day, was selected for the study of the development of modern New Zealand urban society. The first phase of the project - 'Urban society and the opportunity structure' - investigated social and geographical mobility. The second phase - 'Space, time, gender and the urban opportunity structure', later renamed 'sites of gender' - examined gender and social structure.
The project received funding from the University of Otago, and, from 1995 to 2002, major grants from the Foundation of Research, Science and Technology. Related publications continued to be produced after the project ceased being active.

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Locksmith

Watchmaker

Wedding of Zeita Gore and Herman Sonntag

Watchmaker

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SubjectsSocial historyGeographySociologySocial sciences - researchGender studiesReligion and cultureOral history

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