Posts tagged with donations

Notebook with a green cover has a hand-drawn image and title on it.

Adventures in the underworld: A year of reviewing manuscript restrictions

By Jared Davidson
3 May 2023
Reviewing access restrictions and highlights of material reviewed.
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Man sat behind a table. On top of the table is a collection of comic strips.

Off the record | Welcoming Footrot Flats

By Sam Orchard
23 November 2022
The Alexander Turnbull Library welcomes over 5,000 Footrot Flats comics.
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A close-up of a manila folder with a red ink stamp designating the restriction level of the collections contained within.

Restriction reviews and exciting withdrawals

By Jared Davidson
26 October 2022
How the Turnbull Library manages access to restricted manuscripts held in the collections.
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A small portrait of a woman wearing a black dress and shawl surrounded by a gold frame with a cover.

A life in miniature

By Anthony Tedeschi
8 September 2022
Identifying a miniature portrait in the Rare Books Collection.
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Portrait of a smiling Māori man wearing glasses and a suit.

Remembering John Scott

By Jessica Moran
30 July 2022
John Scott's archive at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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Two beer labels side by side, one yellow and one green.

The mayfly | Wet your whistle

By Audrey Stratford
29 July 2022
Conservation of ephemeral beer and beverage labels from the 1940s-1960s.
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Green monthly tram card with days of the month punched out.

The mayfly | Here today gone tomorrow

By Audrey Stratford
18 March 2022
The first in a series of upcoming blogs about archiving ephemera at the Alexander Turnbull Library
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Pedestrians crossing the street beneath a banner with the words, 'Thanks Alex, 100 wonderful years. Kia ora koutou katoa', alongside a picture of Alexander Turnbull.

Thanks Alex, 100 wonderful years, kia ora koutou katoa

By Chris Szekely
15 January 2021
Chief Librarian Chris Szekely commemorates the first 100 years of the Alexander Turnbull Library and offers a glimpse of what's to come.
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A man points a video camera at a man standing behind a painting.

Lights, camera, action — the making of the Turnbull Library's mini-documentary

By Paula MacLachlan
17 December 2020
Paula MacLachlan, Executive Producer of the new Turnbull Library documentary, takes us behind-the-scenes to see how the film came together.
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A gnome wearing a red hat and holding a surfboard has been painted on a concrete wall.

Collecting COVID-19: your history, your voices

By John Sullivan
2 July 2020
Help us build the Library’s COVID-19 collection.
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Colourful gnome painted on concrete wall.

Lockdown 2020: your history, your voices

By Shannon Wellington
6 May 2020
Documenting New Zealanders daily lives during COVID-19.
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The cover of Hartley Valentine Palmer's diary.

ATL100 New collections

By Mark Crookston
13 December 2019
We’re incredibly honoured to announce the next major donation of the ATL100 Centenary...
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A painting of early instruments including a hurdy gurdy, a viola d’amore, and a spinet.

Castle bequest

By Denise Roughan
30 May 2018
Two new paintings donated to the collections help tell the story of the Castle family’s musical legacy.
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Bookplate showing a man wrestling a bull, and the text 'E libris Alex H Turnbull. Fortuna favet audaci', or 'From the library of Alex H Turnbull. Fortune favours the bold.

Our new use and reuse policy

By Mark Crookston
20 May 2014
Challenges and approaches to use and reuse of collection items.
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'The escape.'

“For God’s sake don’t mention this to anyone”

By David Colquhoun
9 April 2013
New Zealand, Hollywood, and the real Argo story.
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Watercolour and pastel drawing showing one of the frames highlighting the beginning of the climb to Mt Aspiring, including the drive to the Aspinall's homestead.

Aspiring storyboards

By Marian Minson
7 November 2012
A remarkable donation shows how beautiful a storyboard can be.
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