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Curious, cute, or edgy: cataloguing old negatives

Olivia Martin, a Master of Museum and Heritage practice program student at Wellington's Victoria University, spent three months working on a placement at Te Papa. Here she describes her work on a group...

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Making matches: Reconnecting Leslie Adkin photographs

‘Adkin’s photographs provide an honest, in-depth insight into rural life in New Zealand during the first half of the 20th century.’ Danielle Campbell, a Museum and Heritage Studies student at Victoria...

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Hardship and humour: two Alfred Burton stereoscopes

The struggles and joys of colonial exploration in Fiordland through a pair of stereoscopes. Both are from the Burton Brothers studio, one from the Alexander Turnbull Library and one from Te Papa. Te...

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