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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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Victorian era black and white photo of a man sitting on a chair hugging a gun.

Encountering William Harding | I see red

By Eileen Tuhou
7 October 2022
Re-imagining a William Harding portrait of a Mr Cobb and his rifle.
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Victorian era back and white photo of a young girl sitting on a chair for a studio portrait.

Encountering William Harding | Moon daughter

By Florence Kitteridge
7 October 2022
Re-imagining a William Harding portrait of moon daughter.
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Victorian era black and white photo of a man lying in a bed looking at camera. He may be unwell.

Encountering William Harding | Bedside manner

By Amy Noble
7 October 2022
Re-imagining a William Harding portrait of an unidentified man.
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Victorian studio photo of a small family group, a man, a boy and a small girl sitting on the man's knee.

Encountering William Harding | Capped

By Blaze Thompson
30 September 2022
Re-imagining a William Harding portrait of the Burne family.
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Victorian era black and white photo of a man lying in a bed looking at camera. He may be unwell.

Encountering William Harding | Man, unidentified

By Salif Sidibe
30 September 2022
Re-imagining a William Harding portrait of an unidentified man.
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Victorian black and white photo of a young girl standing by a chair. Her hand is in front of her stomach.

Encountering William Harding | Small girl, big chair

By Erica Challis
30 September 2022
Re-imagining a William Harding portrait of an unidentified girl.
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Victorian era black and white photo of a man sitting on a chair hugging a gun.

Encountering William Harding | A town where everybody knows everybody 

By Louise Hammersley
23 September 2022
Re-imagining a William Harding portrait of Mr Cobb and his rifle.
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Victorian studio photo of a small family group, a man, a boy and a small girl sitting on the man's knee.

Encountering William Harding | A family portrait 

By Joseph Rozga
23 September 2022
Re-imagining a William Harding portrait of the Burne family.
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Victorian era black and white photo of a man lying in a bed looking at camera. He may be unwell.

Encountering William Harding | In sickness you see me

By Millie Romei
23 September 2022
Re-imagining a William Harding portrait of an unidentified man.
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Black and white Victorian-era studio photograph of a woman wearing a jacket with a sailor boy collar, a matching skirt, and a ruffled high-neck blouse. She has a Mona Lisa smile.

William Harding: An unconventional eye

By Fiona Oliver
17 August 2022
Includes thoughts on why there was no smiling in formal Victorian portraiture.
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Black and white photo of a man grey-haired and bearded man. He has kind eyes.

Off the record | William Harding, ‘photographist’

By Fiona Oliver
28 July 2022
The immediate and relatable portraits of William Harding.
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A lifelike, miniature model of a weatherboard house painted green with tall grass growing around it.

Re-visioning Joseph Divis and Waiuta

By Caroline McQuarrie
24 November 2021
Recovering details from the photographs of a small West Coast mining town.
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People watching a conical shaped mountain with large plumes of steam coming from its centre.

Encountering Mīharo | Ngāuruhoe 1926, Today

By Gerard O’Brien
24 September 2021
Enjoy responses to the Mīharo Wonder exhibition from MA students in creative writing.
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A woman stares intently into the camera, scratches visible on the image from damage to the glass plate.

Encountering Mīharo | Daguerreotype

By Flora Feltham
15 September 2021
Enjoy responses to the Mīharo Wonder exhibition from MA students in creative writing.
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One of the photos at the installation in Courtney Place light box. Shows a man sitting on a bench feeding pigeons.

Between two places

By Camus Wyatt
2 June 2021
Working with Alexander Turnbull Library photographic archives for a public art installation.
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A man in a band uniform and hat holds a trombone with a puzzled look upon his face.

Looking for wonder in the Photographic Archive — part 4 | The unnamed in the collection of Adam MacLay

By Peter Ireland
16 September 2020
Uncovering anonymity in the dry plate glass negatives made by this Christchurch photographer.
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Street scene with pedestrians and a man on a horse.

Daniel Mundy: From Christchurch to Hokitika

By Deidra Sullivan
9 September 2020
Photographs of 19th century New Zealand that informed production of 'The Luminaries' television miniseries.
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Three people sit on a bench, a bicycle is against the wall in the background.

Looking for wonder in the Photographic Archive — part 3 | George Bull and Leo White

By Peter Ireland
2 September 2020
A nuanced look into the photography of two prominent New Zealand photographers.
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Two men beside a lake with empty buckets, one man holds a bottle upside down to show it contains no contents.

Hardship and humour: two Alfred Burton stereoscopes

By Lissa Mitchell
26 August 2020
Photography curator Lissa Mitchell investigates a pair of stereoscopes that together reveal the struggles – and joys – of colonial exploration in Fiordland.
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