Posts tagged with ephemera

An ink drawing of a man using hatch and cross-hatching.

Literary papers | A poem by James K Baxter

By Seán McMahon
22 February 2024
The story behind a spontaneous poem about Tim Shadbolt.
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A man is smiling into the camera while his colleagues work in the background on arrangement and description.

Highlights of 2023 from the Turnbull Library’s Arrangement & Description team

By William Daymond
14 December 2023
A review of 2023 from the team who make our collections easier to find and use.
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Embroidery of a video game, there is a brown perimeter with one gap, inside the perimeter are the words "It's dangerous to go alone! as well as two fires, a bearded man and a sword. A small green creature is walking through the gap.

‘It’s Dangerous To Go Alone! Take This.’ — Storytelling in video games and their preservation challenges

By Finley Mudgway
8 December 2023
The joy of video games and why it is hard to collect them.
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A man holds a huge cabbage that appears to have just been harvested.

Lettuce celebrate Vegetarian Awareness Month

By Fiona Oliver
12 October 2023
Collection inspiration documenting the many vegetable-related materials held by the Library.
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Excerpt from a gig poster showing two venues and dates plus info on where to buy tickets and logos from sponsors in the bottom right corner.

The mayfly | Takes me back — Ephemera from New Zealand’s closed music venues

By Rata Holtslag
26 May 2023
Remembering the bars and clubs that are gone but not forgotten.
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A woman standing behind a table on which sit an array of ephemera items.

Surveying the Ephemera F sequence

By Bekah Jackson
20 April 2023
Working with a collection that has unique physical qualities.
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A woman stands simling behind a table on which sit a number of archival documents, folders and boxes.

The Associated Theatre Services collection

By Olive Russell
18 April 2023
Ray Channon's influence on Aotearoa’s live music industry ca. 1970 to 2000.
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Man standing at a work desk with posters in front of him on a table.

The life and times of a National Library intern

By Ronan Speden
3 April 2023
Ronan Speden on his time as an intern at the 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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Link to blog post The mayfly Protest ephemera.

The mayfly | Protest ephemera

By Audrey Stratford
16 June 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand's protest history documented in the Ephemera Collection.
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Shows a photograph of a smiling Martin Phillips holding a Charvel electric guitar and seated in a see-through blow-up armchair.

‘At the still point, there the dance is’

By Mark Hector
11 May 2022
Wondering what music-related ephemera is contained in the collections?
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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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A scene showing the range of placards and signs with slogans made by the protestors and hung up around parliament grounds.

Living history while documenting it

By Abi Beatson
8 March 2022
Archiving the 2022 Wellington protests.
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A detail from the Drake Hotline Bling meme showing his preference for the Covid-19 tracer app.

They’re the same picture: Collecting memes at the Alexander Turnbull Library

By Valerie Love
17 June 2021
Senior Digital Archivist Valerie Love on developing the library's growing meme collection including many that are unique to New Zealand.
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Man looking at poster from the Alexander Turnbull Library Ephemera collection.

Ep.2 Protesting in the shower

By Barbara Lyon
2 October 2020
A conversation about two anti-nuclear posters in the Ephemera Collection of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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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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Clipped trolley ticket.

Catching and describing the passing breeze

By Barbara Lyon
11 March 2020
Collecting ephemera at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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Ballins Sparkling Mineral Water 1967 soft drink label.

Golden guava, bitter ale

By Barbara Lyon
24 October 2017
What can we learn from the humble labels of yesterday’s food and drink?
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A card with the image of a man wearing a gas mask on and holding a smoke flare.

Words from the occupying forces

By Barbara Lyon
27 March 2017
Some German ephemera from occupied Europe.
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