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45 Harvard Ave, Wigram, Christchurch, New Zealand Phone: +64 3 371 9600
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Open daily 9.30am to 4.30pm (except Christmas Day)
Location: 45 Harvard Ave, Wigram
Phone: +64 3 371 9600
We are really thrilled to announce that for the first time ever, researchers will be able to browse digitised parts of our photograph collection, online.
Our Keeper of Photographs, Matthew O’Sullivan takes us through an example of conserving a photo negative from the collection.
What’s in the background? Find out more about this photo from our Keeper of Photographs.
In 1959 an RNZAF Sunderland was damaged and eventually abandoned on the remote Chatham Islands east of New Zealand. In this blog, we explore the story of that incident, using recently-digitised historic photographs from our archives.
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