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Tag: portraits
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The beautiful game
By Kimberley Stephenson
17 August 2023
Documenting the rise of women's football in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Off the record | With help from our Friends
By Jennifer Cauchi
26 July 2023
Conservation treatment of Isabella Turnbull's portrait.
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Anna Jacoba (Ans) Westra (1936-2023)
By Paul Diamond
3 March 2023
Commemorating the life and legacy of one of New Zealand’s best-known photographers and documentarians.
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A life in miniature
By Anthony Tedeschi
8 September 2022
Identifying a miniature portrait in the Rare Books Collection.
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Tērā te whetū tīramarama kua whakawhenuatia
By Paul Diamond
12 October 2021
The Alexander Turnbull Library acknowledges the passing of Maui John Mitchell (Ngāti Tama, Te Ātiawa, Taranaki, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira).
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Francis (Frank) Thompson of Crown Studios
By Jenni Chrisstoffels
15 February 2019
How one WWI veteran went on to run one of Wellington’s most successful and long-lived photographic studios.
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'Capital Characters' and the Turnbull at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery
By David Colquhoun
12 June 2015
Selections from New Zealand’s pre-eminent repository of portraits.
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Turnbull on Tour
By Chris Szekely
18 August 2014
Turnbull collections showing up in exhibitions around New Zealand and the Pacific.
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Do you know this woman?
By Diane Woods
18 March 2013
She’s the face of an exhibition, and we still don’t know her name.
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