Collections

Discovering the story behind a long-forgotten image and the rarely seen photographic process used to create it.

Jo Mann, the Helen Zwartz scholar for 2018, talks about her scholarship experience including favourite collections and online services from the National Library. 

Two new paintings donated to the collections help tell the story of the Castle family’s musical legacy.

The latest installment of home grown NZ Creative Commons music from the last year.

Arranging and describing the John Psathas collection.

Preserving New Zealand’s musical history is a mission for all seasons.

British artist Geoffrey Allfree's watercolour shows how enormous quantities of bully beef, biscuits and other stores were set alight during the evacuation.

The Wahine disaster through the eyes of Evening Post photographers.

Where were you on the 10th of April 1968? Were you sheltering from Cyclone Giselle as she battered the country? Did you brave the weather to make your way to work or school? Imagine if you were, like Ada Woolf, on board the Wahine.

Recipes in the Turnbull Library Manuscripts Collection.