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Ronald Castle - Papers, 1933 - 1975

documentary heritage
  • Description

    Item 1 -- 'Baroque Instrument String Catalogue' The House of Mari, Long Island City, New York. (includes envelope)

    Item 2 -- 'The West Country Magazine', vol. 2, no. 2, Summer 1947.

    Items 3-6 -- Four leaflets from the National Board for Travel in Spain - Valladolid, Teneriffe, Sorcia, and Spain, the country of Art.

    Item 7 -- Press cuttings 'Chinese cling to old music' and 'Music down the centuries', The Dominion, 19 January 1961, regarding old Chinese musical instruments. Includes photograph of Zillah Castle. (2 leaves, mounted on single page)

    Item 8 -- Press cutting 'Recorder renaissance', NZ Listener, 26 July 1975, regarding Steve Rosenberg. Includes photograph of Rosenberg. (1 leaf)

    Item 9 -- Card 'Third Birthday Greeting to Zillah Castle' with message on verso from 'E. Boxall'.

    Item 10 -- Certificate from 'The Music Teachers' Registration Board of New Zealand' for Zillah Castle, dated 18 May 1939, for violin theory.

    Item 11 -- Certificate from The Music Teachers' Registration Board of New Zealand' for Zillah Castle, dated 25 January 1963, for recorders, early keyboard and stringed instruments.

    Item 12 -- 'Instruments of Worship in the Zillah and Ronald Castle Collection of musical instruments'. (Typescript and photographs; 24 leaves)

    Item 13 -- 3.5 inch Computer disk 'First label disk'.

    Item 14 -- Microfilm 'Carminvm Qvae Cy. Osterreichischen Nationalbibiothek.'

    Item 15 -- Microfilm 'Thomas Robinson. New Citharen lessons. London 1609. British Museum'

    Item 16 -- Microfilm 'Nederlandisch-Gedenk-Clank. H. Valerius. Harlem 1626'

    Outsized items:

    Item 17 -- 'Royal College of Music Certificate of Proficiency' for Zillah Castle, dated 31 May 1933. (mounted on card)

    Item 18 -- Hand-painted poster for annual concert by music students, July.

    Item 19 -- Printed poster for 'Zillah Castle String Orchestra Concert', 16 October 1946. Includes photocopy of poster with photograph of orchestra.

  • Other Id

    1167 (Presto content ID)

    MS-2000-23 (Reference Number)

    16392 (DBTextworks system ID)

    2000/23 (Registration number)

  • Department

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Ronald Castle - Papers, 1933 - 1975
  • Primary Maker
  • Date
    1933-1975
  • Physical Description

    1 box + 3 outsized items

  • Level of Current Record
    Parent
  • Public Access Text

    See also the following:

    (1) - Two boxes of photographs relating to this collection are held in Photograph collection.

    (2) - "Chapbook : the magazine for original literature and art" (with other subtitles), 1944-1950. See Serials collection for several issues. Edited by Ronald Castle and with content by both Ronald and Zillah.

  • Last Update
    07 Jul 2023
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