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Holland family : Papers

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Reference NumberARC-0505Date1800s-2016CreatorHolland familyDescriptionThe collection includes sales books and other business records of Holland's Fruit Shop. Photograph albums compiled by Joe Holland relate mostly to camping, tramping, and road trips around Otago and sometimes further afield in the 1930s. The collection includes correspondence between Errol Holland, writing from the Cook Islands, and Joe and Sadie Holland. Colour slide transparencies by Errol Holland relate mostly the Cook Islands, Dunedin, and South Island travel in the 1960s and 1970s.
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 / BiographyJoseph Hay Holland married Sara Noble Sophie Munro in 1936. The couple were known as Joe and Sadie Holland. Joe was a fruiterer and confectioner and had a store at Ravensbourne in the 1930s and 1940s. Between 1952 and 1967 Joe and Sadie operated Holland's Fruit Shop at Forbury Corner, Dunedin. Their son, Errol Holland, worked for W.H. Gregg and Company, and lived in the Cook Islands for a period in the late 1960s.ProvenanceDonated by Errol Holland in 2014 and 2019.

MS-4816/014/005

Depicts Or Relates To

NamesHolland, Joseph Hay, 1905-1976Holland, Sara Noble Sophie (nee Munro), 1907-1990Holland, ErrolHolland's Fruit ShopW.H. Gregg and Company LimitedPlacesDunedinCook IslandsCentral OtagoSubjectsBusiness enterprises - DunedinShops

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