Photo Archive

The Photographic Archive was begun in the last part of the 1930s and shapes part of the Alexander Turnbull Library assortments. Figure out how to get to pictures in the Photographic Archive, how to get duplicates and features of the Photographic Archive.

What’s the Photographic Archive?

The Photographic Archive is one of New Zealand‘s chief assortments of photographs. It contains around 1,600,000 things from the 1840s to the present, including:

  • Prints
  • Negatives
  • Collections
  • Transparencies
  • Computerized photographs
  • Other photographic organizations

The Photographic Archive keeps on developing as a visual record of the land and people groups of Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific.

The Photographic Archive holds photographs accepted by proficient photographers as well as crafted by customary New Zealanders who have reported their lives, families and networks. The accentuation is on gathering the most potential unique organization.

Admittance to the Photographic Archive

You can track down assortment things in the Photographic Archive by utilizing Tiaki, the list for unpublished assortments, or through utilizing search on our site. Various high-goal pictures can be downloaded free of charge.

Not all things are portrayed independently yet every assortment has a record. On the off chance that you can’t find what you’re searching for, utilize our online ‘Ask a curator’ administration.

Seeing unique things from the Photographic Archive

You can arrange unique things from the Archive to see in the Katherine Mansfield Perusing Room at the Public Library working in Wellington.

A few things, like negatives, require one-on-one meetings with one of the Photographs Guardians in the Heaphy Room.

Turnbull Library Pictures

One more method for finding pictures in the assortment is to look through the pictorial records of Turnbull Library Pictures. You can do this in the Library’s General Perusing Room at the Public Library working in Wellington.

The Turnbull Library Pictures assortment contains photographic duplicates of unique things from the Library’s pictorial assortments.

Request duplicates of pictures from the Photographic Archive

ou can arrange duplicates of most things in the Photographic Archive, giving replicating doesn’t hurt the first and there are no contributor or copyright limitations.

If when you search the site you find a photograph you might want to arrange utilize the ‘request duplicate’ button on the right-hand side of the picture page.

On the off chance that you have any inquiries about requesting pictures utilize our ‘Pose to a bookkeeper’ administration.

Features of the Photographic Archive

Photographs from the starting points of photography until the present can be tracked down in the Archive, and many photographic styles and cycles are addressed. Features of the Photographic Archive incorporate conspicuous New Zealand photographers, New Zealand in wars, paper assortments, the Pacific, Antartica, photos connecting with expressions, regular and metropolitan conditions, and transport. See underneath for more data.

Work of noticeable New Zealand photographers

The Archive holds crafted by numerous huge New Zealand photographers of the nineteenth and twentieth hundreds of years, including:

  • Jocelyn Carlin
  • Leslie Adkin
  • Daniel Beere
  • Samuel Carnell
  • Les Cleveland
  • Gladys Goodall
  • William James Harding
  • Irene Koppel
  • James McAllister
  • R P Moore
  • Max Oettli
  • John Pascoe
  • Tyree Studio
  • Ans Westra

You can discover some related material in the Archive, including photographer’s unique negative registers, files, and occupation records.

See likewise the Oral History and Sound assortment for interviews with various photographers including:

  • Ans Westra
  • Mark Adams
  • Noel Chime
  • Les Cleveland
  • Gladys Goodall
  • George Kay
  • Max Oettli
  • Clyde Stewart,
  • What’s more, John Turner

Photographs connecting with the help of New Zealanders in wars and struggle zones

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The Archive has rich property connecting with the battlefields wherein New Zealanders have served, including:

  • The New Zealand Wars
  • The South African Conflict, and
  • The two Universal Conflicts

A few photographs connecting with Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan are likewise held, alongside those on subjects like clinical benefits, restoration and the home front.

You will track down both authority and individual photograph assortments in the Archive. Remarkable assortments include:

  • New Zealand official negatives, Universal Conflict 1914-1918
  • War History Branch photographs connecting with the two universal conflicts, the control of Japan, the Korean Conflict, and Malayan Crisis
  • John Pascoe’s photographs of the home front during WWII
  • Simon Strombom’s photographs connecting with his tactical assistance in Afghanistan

See the Library’s Most memorable Universal Conflict research guide for more data about finding material connecting with that specific struggle.

 

 

 

 

 

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