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Christchurch Savage Club records

 Collection
Identifier: CCL Archive 1264

Scope and Contents

Records including minutes, financial records, newsletters and photos. Some pamphlet length publications and objects including two banners and some badges. Most records relate to the Christchurch Savage Club with some records from other branches of the Savages and Kindred clubs.

Dates

  • Creation: 1927 – 2020

Creator

Biographical / Historical

The Christchurch Savage Club was a social entertainment club founded in 1893 whose membership included artists, musicians, journalists, authors and scientists.

The club was a colonial off-shoot of the London Savage Club which was founded in 1857 and limited to actors, journalists and artists. This difference in membership created difficulties in having the Christchurch club affiliated to the original London institution in the early years.

In the early years the club enjoyed a large membership (over 200 members referenced in the Lyttelton Times in 1896) including many significant Christchurch figures such as William Henry Wynn Williams, Dr E. Jennings, A. J. Merton, R. E. McDougall, Samuel Hurst Seager and the artists Petrus van der Velden, John M. Madden and William Menzies Gibb.

Extent

11 Boxes (10 archives boxes and one outsize/ transit box) ; 270mm x 100mm x 390mm

Language of Materials

English

Physical Location

Shelf TU M 1c - Shelf TU M 1d, Tūranga, Tuakiri floor, ANZC Archives

Other Christchurch Savage Club materials

Some earlier Christchurch Savage Club records are held by Canterbury Museum.

Title
Christchurch Savage Club records
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Christchurch City Libraries Archives Repository

Contact:
Tūranga
60 Cathedral Square
Central City
Christchurch Canterbury 8011 New Zealand