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Kerr, Elizabeth Jane : Personal and family papers

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Reference NumberARC-0922Date1870s-2017CreatorKerr, Elizabeth Jane, 1960-2017DescriptionThe collection includes personal papers and correspondence, diaries of Charlotte and Lance Kerr, other papers relating to the Kerr and Company and the Kerr family, papers relating to architecture, design, built, heritage, and sculpture, and family and other photographs.
Only 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 / BiographyElizabeth Jane Kerr was an architecture and design graduate and lecturer, built heritage consultant and advocate, freelance writer, event co-ordinator, and blogger. She was born in Palmerston on 11 May 1960. Her parents farmed at Waikouaiti, where her grandfather had run the Kerr and Company drapery business. Elizabeth was educated at Waikouaiti School and Waitaki Girls' High School. She graduated with a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Auckland in 1990. She was a lecturer at the University of Otago School of Consumer and Applied Sciences from 1991 to 1994. She was administrator of the 'What If? Dunedin' blog, now archived by the National Library of New Zealand. Elizabeth Kerr died in Dunedin on 18 August 2017.

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Kerr & Co., Oamaru branch

Kerr & Co. store at Waikouaiti

Kerr & Co. Commer van

Kerr & Co. branch store at Oamaru, MS-5135/104/001.

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NamesKerr, Elizabeth Jane, 1960-2017

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