Christchurch Savage Club records
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
- Christchurch Savage Club (Organization)
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
- Title
- Christchurch Savage Club records
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Christchurch City Libraries Archives Repository
Tūranga
60 Cathedral Square
Central City
Christchurch Canterbury 8011 New Zealand
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