Posts tagged with manuscripts

Handwritten diary entry.

Manuscript Mondays

By Greagh Smith
23 November 2020
Manuscript Monday will explore a different item chosen from the Alexander Turnbull Library collections by Greagh Smith, a Museum and Heritage Studies student at Victoria University of Wellington.
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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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An example of an illuminated manuscript showing robbed men looking aloft to heaven.

Parchment, paper and pixels: Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Turnbull Library

By Anthony Tedeschi
10 June 2020
Curator of Rare Books and Fine Printing delves into the history of the collection's illuminated manuscripts.
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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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Catherine Bisley with one of the donors, Anna Riddiford, and Mark Crookston (Associate Chief Librarian).

Ngā tino mahi o te tau — A&D team highlights of 2019

By Ariana Tikao
17 December 2019
New acquisitions to the unpublished collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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Corona Typewriter.

My Corona

By Denise Roughan
5 April 2019
A highlight from the Curios collection: Katherine Mansfield's Corona 3 typewriter.
James Cox's diary Twitter profile picture.

The Swagman’s final tweet

By Jay Buzenberg
25 March 2019
Looking back at five years of the James Cox diary on Twitter.
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Katherine Mansfield's handwriting on a page.

We are what we eat: Part I

By Shannon Wellington
16 January 2018
Recipes in the Turnbull Library Manuscripts Collection.
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Hands of Melissa Bryant holding photographs of the whare whakairo Hinemihi ki Te Wairoa.

Arranged, described, and ready for you!

By Valerie Love
10 January 2018
Newly available collections at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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Merryn McAulay with a print showing Marine Parade, Napier.

Glass plates, yachts, maps and more

By Valerie Love
20 January 2017
The Arrangement & Description team looks back at 2016.
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General view of an advanced dressing station on battleground at 'Somme Farm', Ypres Salient. Scene includes soldiers gathered around an ambulance and a wounded soldier laying on a stretcher on the muddy ground.

"I am so longing for letters"

By Camus Wyatt
31 August 2016
Digitising the wartime diaries of Norman Gray.
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Ariana Tikao.

Highlights from the Arrangement & Description Team

By Catherine Bisley
23 December 2015
Behind the scenes in 2015.
Long reads Behind the scenes
A detailed sketch of Ledger’s cottage `Bella Vista’ in Abbotsford, Melbourne, 1892.

In Search of a Home at the Antipodes

By Seán McMahon
9 November 2015
Highlights from an illustrated memoir.
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Annotations by James Cowan.

An annotated history of James Cowan

By Ariana Tikao
23 July 2015
Insights into Cowan's character and determination.
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Annotations from the front cover of James Cowan's copy of a 'A Little History of New Zealand' by E M Bourke..

A little history of James Cowan

By Ariana Tikao
29 June 2015
Going deep with the new collection of Cowan family papers.
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The text 'New Zealand WW100' positioned behind a red circle with a black centre.

ANZACs in the family

By Amy Watling
24 April 2015
How to find out about your family members who fought in, supported, and challenged the Great War.
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A family photo.

‘A Queer Mixture of Men’

By Peter Ireland
11 March 2015
The World War One diary of Sergeant John Duncan McLeod
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An illustration of what Te Kairakau School looked like in 1912.

Children of the Chathams

By Jocelyn Chalmers
15 January 2015
The pupils of Kairakau School want to tell you all about the Chatham Islands in 1940.
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Win Lynch working on a large panorama negatives, which is sitting on a lightbox.

Fresh favourites from ’fourteen

By Valerie Love
6 January 2015
The Arrangement and Description team revisits their favourite new acquisitions of 2014.
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The 'Topp Twins'; Jools and Lynda Topp.

Describing Jools and Lynda

By Valerie Love
9 September 2014
Describing the indescribable Topp Twins – and making them a little more findable.
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