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Ranfurly Collection
The Ranfurly Collection is drawings, photographs, diaries and reports of Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand 1897 – 1904.
About the Ranfurly Collection
The Ranfurly Collection is made up of the private papers, photographs and artworks of Lord and Lady Ranfurly, from the period when Lord Ranfurly was Governor of New Zealand. These items were added to the Alexander Turnbull Library collections from England in 1988.
The Ranfurlys travelled throughout New Zealand, recording much of what they saw and did. You can find out about New Zealand and New Zealanders at the time from the Ranfurly Collection, as well as the lives of the family and their followers. The collection also includes material relating to meetings with Māori.
The collection has three sections:
- Paintings and drawings: two sketch books and seven watercolour paintings.
- Papers: 2,970 pages of letters, account books, diaries and scrapbooks.
- Photographs: four albums containing 450 photographs plus 24 separate family photographs.
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- Drawings, Paintings, and Prints
- Earp Collection
- Ephemera Collection
- Esperanto Collection
- Family History Collection
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- Fleck Collection
- Fraser Collection
- findNZarticles
- Gaelic Collection
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- Ian F. Grant Cartoon Research Collection
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- Ranfurly Collection
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- Rare Books and Fine Printing
- Robert and Mary Hogg Bequest
- Robert G. Barr Collection of Amateur Journalism
- Robert Trimble Collection
- Schools Lending Collection
- Shetland Islands Collection
- Sir Donald McLean Papers
- National Library e-resources
- Susan Price collection
- Te Ao Hou
- Te Kohikohinga o Te Reo Irirangi o Te Upoko o Te Ika
- Te Upoko o Te Ika — Māori radio collection
- Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
- Turnbull General Collection
- Turnbull Library Pictures
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- Wright Collection
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- Offer material to the Alexander Turnbull Library