Posts tagged with newspapers

t-SNE representation of items by Elson Best, processed by a recurrant neural network.

article: {type: “War reports in all CAPITALS”}

By Emerson Vandy
16 November 2015
Large-scale computational research with Papers Past.
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A cartoon by Trevor Lloyd in the Auckland Weekly News, which appeared less than a week after the British army had suffered its worst day in its military history.

The Hun Hog

By Peter Attwell
10 September 2015
Anti-German feeling in New Zealand during the First World War.
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An article from a Samoan newspaper.

Telling Samoa’s stories

By Roger Swanson
21 May 2015
Samoan newspapers make the first Pacific additions to Papers Past.
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Screenshot of graph showing newspapers published in New Zealand by year and region.

Ninety done...

By Gordon Paynter
20 October 2014
A look, by the numbers, at our progress in digitising newspapers.
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Four red book spines and a colour pallette.

A heritage colour palette

By Arawhetu Berdinner
28 July 2014
Designing? Decorating? Searching for a colour space? Find it on a book!
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The 'Turnbull Library'card from The Battle Times.

Cards against the Library

By Lucy Schrader
26 March 2014
Building a card game on the back of Papers Past.
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Notebooks from the McLean papers, describing games between the All Blacks and South Africa. The handwriting is difficult to read.

Arranging a real life

By Tim Lovell-Smith
23 September 2013
The papers of Terry McLean, the Richie McCaw of sports journalism.
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Masthead of the NZ Truth, as it was in April 1930.

Not to bury the NZ Truth, but to praise it

By Emerson Vandy
16 July 2013
You told us what we didn’t admit we wanted to know.
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A balloon, from the Observer, 1899.

In my beautiful balloon

By Emerson Vandy
11 January 2013
A high-altitude tale told though the papers.
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Advert for 'clairvoyant healer' J.P Biggins' services from the family’s home in Khyber Pass Road.

Great-great-grandpa was a quack, and other stories from Papers Past

By Petra Jane
20 August 2012
Celebrate Family History Month by discovering how "colourful" your family was.
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Grey leaf.

“I could have confronted a million monkeys in the Himalayas…”

By maxine
27 June 2012
Extracting a serialised story from Papers Past.
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An illustration of a chef tasting a recipe.

Recipe for fun

By Emerson Vandy
5 April 2012
Why research your family when you could be looking up lard-based sauces?
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An white lead paint advertisement from The Evening Post ,12 November 1923.

Your own Papers Past

By Emerson Vandy
4 March 2012
Papers Past is stuffed with things that past communities found important. Now you can use it to find what matters to you.
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Grey leaf.

Handwritten newspapers

By Gordon Paynter
13 December 2010
Is a newspaper still a newspaper when written by hand?
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T*breaktweets hits the big time with Lobsterotica

By Chelsea Hughes
27 July 2010
@NLNZ goes global with a lobster's tale.
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Papers Fast

By Gordon Paynter
18 November 2009
Bringing the speed to Papers Past.
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Christmas comes early for Papers Past users

By Chelsea Hughes
2 December 2008
New functionality AND new content on Papers Past!
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Papers Past relaunched on Greenstone

By Andy Neale
10 September 2007
An exciting new version of Papers Past brings scale and functionality.
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