Reading rooms
Opening of Te Awaroa Nepia's room, Canterbury University
From: Te Reo Irirangi o Te Upoko o Te Ika: Recordings
Reference: OHInt-0937-0025
Item of furnitrue in Reading Room - General Assembly Library
Date: ca 1930
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP-1570-1/2-G
Reading room of the General Assembly Library, Wellington
Date: ca 1930
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP-1568-1/2-G
Description: Reading room of the General Assembly Library, Parliament Buildings, Wellington. There are many shelves of books, and many laid out on tables. There are ornate light fittings hanging from the ceiling. Taken by an unidentified photographer ca 1930. From box containing EP-1568 to 1570 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Reading room of the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Date: [193-?]
From: New Zealand Railways: Photographs
Reference: 1/1-003844-G
Description: Reading room of the Alexander Turnbull Library, 11 Bowen Street, Wellington, during the 1930s. Looks along drawers of catalogue cards, a bookcase, and tables and chairs, towards a bay window. An elderly woman sits reading a book in a chair by a fireplace. Photographer unidentified. Publication notes - Published in Rachel Barrowman, The Turnbull; a library and its world (Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press in association with the Historical Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Interior photographs of the Lower Ground Floor public areas, National Library building
Date: October 2008
From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs
Reference: PADL-000258
Description: Photographs of the interior public areas of the Lower Ground Floor of the National Library of New Zealand building, Wellington, taken October 2008 Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "National Library of New Zealand Interior and Exterior Photographs Wellington October 2008" Quantity: 13 digital photograph(s).
Reading room, Wellington Public Library
Date: [ca 1935]
From: Burt, Gordon Onslow Hilbury, 1893-1968 :Negatives
Reference: 1/1-015495-F
Description: Rows of books on shelves, and people seated at desks, in a reading room at the Wellington Public Library, circa 1935, photographed by Gordon Burt. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Reading room interior, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Date: 1952
From: Blennerhassett, Jean Elizabeth, 1919-2008: Photographs of the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Reference: 1/2-056206-F
Description: Reading room interior, Alexander Turnbull Library, Bowen Street, Wellington. Shows library patrons seated at tables in a window lit room. Photograph taken in 1952 by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Interior photographs of the Alexander Turnbull Library public areas, National Library b...
Date: October 2008
From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs
Reference: PADL-000256
Description: Photographs of the interior public areas of the Alexander Turnbull Library (1st and 2nd Floors) of the National Library of New Zealand building, Wellington, taken October 2008 Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "National Library of New Zealand Interior and Exterior Photographs Wellington October 2008" Quantity: 24 digital photograph(s).
Reading room of the General Assembly Library, Wellington
From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: 1/2-048451-G
Description: Reading room of the General Assembly Library, Parliament Buildings, Wellington. There are many shelves of books, and many laid out on tables. There are books stacked on top of one another in sections under some of the tables. There are ornate light fittings hanging from the ceiling. There is a bust of Sir Richard John Seddon on a pedestal in the middle of the reading room. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Interior photographs of the Ground Floor, National Library building
Date: October 2008
From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs
Reference: PADL-000254
Description: Photographs of the interior of the Ground Floor of the National Library of New Zealand building, Wellington, taken October 2008 Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "National Library of New Zealand Interior and Exterior Photographs Wellington October 2008" Quantity: 46 digital photograph(s).
Interior of the General Assembly Library reading room
Date: 1958
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP/1958/2878-F
Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 inches