Engage with our Archives in a new way! Through Twitter, our team have been sharing some of the treasures we have in our archives, as well as providing a peek into the everyday life of the research team here at the Air Force Museum.
Captured in colour – this colour slide of Queen Maude Range was produced circa 1957, photographed from the bright orange Beaver NZ6001. #colours #archives30 #archivists #archives #photographiccollection #colourslides #airforcemuseumnz pic.twitter.com/PrgFJcmEcz
— Air Force Museum NZ (@AFMuseumNZ) April 8, 2019
Our Art Deco home, historical No. 1 Store is home to the Research Team who look after the archives and library of the @AFMuseumNZ. It has some lovely original decorative touches for a very functional building. #archives30 #artdeco #archives Read more: https://t.co/fPpX5tTggK pic.twitter.com/AeONdvCIjb
— Air Force Museum NZ (@AFMuseumNZ) April 8, 2019
Our archive is also home to this sweet fellow! This taxidermied Kea was a post-World War Two mascot of No.14 Squadron at RNZAF Ohakea. #archives30 #animals #archivists #archives #taxidermyBird #kea #14SquadronRNZAF #AirforceMuseumnz pic.twitter.com/E2Hiby9nPf
— Air Force Museum NZ (@AFMuseumNZ) April 10, 2019
"Hell! That Was Close". Pencil drawing by pilot Flight Lieutenant Grahame Prebble White of No. 488 Squadron who was captured by the Japanese in Java in 1942. #archive30 #drawing #WW2 #singapore1942 #RNZAF #AirforceMuseumnz pic.twitter.com/5HiXHxt7y1
— Air Force Museum NZ (@AFMuseumNZ) April 11, 2019
The Red Cross Society forwarded prisoner of war airmail during WWII. A mother wrote this letter to her son, Flight Sergeant Bill Smith, imprisoned in Stalag IVB.#archives30 #archivists #archives #letters #POW #RedCrossSociety #AirforceMuseumnz pic.twitter.com/8dS817OHfv
— Air Force Museum NZ (@AFMuseumNZ) April 12, 2019
This 1918 framed watercolour painting by Louis Neville, depicting the original three Canterbury Aviation Company hangars at Sockburn Aerodrome was 'inspired' by a 1917 aerial photograph which hung on the Company office wall. #archives30 #inspiration #EarlyWigram #AirforceMuseumnz pic.twitter.com/9hR39T7ooV
— Air Force Museum NZ (@AFMuseumNZ) April 12, 2019
This fun sticker celebrates the Fokker Friendship, flown by the RNZAF NATS/NATTS (Navigation, Air Electronics and Telecommunications Training Squadron) #archive30 #friendship #archivists #archives #FokkerFriendship #NATTS #AirForceMuseumNZ pic.twitter.com/4BJCK1oojH
— Air Force Museum NZ (@AFMuseumNZ) April 13, 2019
The Research Curator's workbench, where archive collections come for some TLC and an Arrangement and Description process of a collection in progress. #archives30 #archivists #archives #preservation #AviationHistory #AirForceMuseumNZ pic.twitter.com/cSvT6aT43H
— Air Force Museum NZ (@AFMuseumNZ) April 15, 2019
You don't need to look far for something small in the archive – our Archives Technician is only 5 foot something! #SomethingSmall #archives30 #archivists #archives #TallAndShort #colleagues #AirForceMuseumNZ pic.twitter.com/Uw6Yg3luPu
— Air Force Museum NZ (@AFMuseumNZ) April 16, 2019
We wish that hungry silverfish and the corrosion/physical pressure from the steel binder fastening had left this letter alone. We also wish people would not try to repair documents with sticky tape! #archives30 #PreservingArchives #NastyStickyTape #Silverfish pic.twitter.com/b0uDu2g1j3
— Air Force Museum NZ (@AFMuseumNZ) April 16, 2019
The wartime story of RAF Bomber Command navigator Jim Insull and his wife Gwen, records their thoughts and feelings as a young New Zealand couple separated by WWII. #archive30 #love #archivists #archives #LibraryCollection #relationships #AirForceMuseumNZ pic.twitter.com/NdYqu1hk3o
— Air Force Museum NZ (@AFMuseumNZ) April 18, 2019
The most common signature in our archives is Thomas Abram Barrow, Air Secretary, who signed thousands of condolence letters to families of airmen and women lost in World War Two. #Archives30 #Handwriting #WW2 #RNZAF #NZWarDead #AirForceMuseumNZ pic.twitter.com/ipEJDtUMDy
— Air Force Museum NZ (@AFMuseumNZ) April 18, 2019
Collection work takes care. This week we're housing and cataloguing this personal collection from World War Two. #Archive30 #Collection #Archivists #Archives #PersonalCollection #WWII #AviationHistory #AirForceMuseumnz pic.twitter.com/8DJZHxM9wl
— Air Force Museum NZ (@AFMuseumNZ) April 20, 2019
No two days are ever the same in the @AFMuseumNZ archives. Our team of three is constantly trying to help people out with information and look after our fabulous collection! #Archive30 #TypicalDay #Archives #ResearchQueries #OurCollection #TeamWorkMakesTheDreamWork pic.twitter.com/Qx1aNYd1co
— Air Force Museum NZ (@AFMuseumNZ) April 20, 2019
Six years ago our Keeper of Photographs discovered in our archives 1939 aerial film of Gardner Island, believed to be where Amelia Earhart spent her final days as a castaway. #Archive30 #Mystery #Archivists #Archives #AmeliaEarhart #Discovery #AirForceMuseumNZ pic.twitter.com/aR0qchELXJ
— Air Force Museum NZ (@AFMuseumNZ) April 21, 2019
We admit it, we are a bit nerdy! In each of our offices you'll find desk buddies purchased and gifted, including some souvenirs from the @britishmuseum. #archive30 #SomethingFun #Archivists #Archives #FunkoPop #Souvenirs #AirForceMuseumNZ pic.twitter.com/55ljWWIEwm
— Air Force Museum NZ (@AFMuseumNZ) April 24, 2019
In the 1960's, The Women's Royal New Zealand Air Force used fashion-based puns and colour to recruit! #Archive30 #Fashion #Recruiting #WRNZAF #Uniform #AirForceMuseumNZ pic.twitter.com/qNFCmsMeiM
— Air Force Museum NZ (@AFMuseumNZ) April 25, 2019
Here is a new favourite object of ours! Three WRAF women photographed posing next to an 'out of bounds except to men sign on a range duties', 1919. #Archive30 #Object #Archivists #Archives #WRAF #FirstWorldWar #AirForceMuseumNZ pic.twitter.com/2X7eetT2MZ
— Air Force Museum NZ (@AFMuseumNZ) May 1, 2019
Behind the photo
This photo of the WRAF women in the final tweet is from the A.E.W. McDonald Collection; Arnold McDonald was from Oamaru and served in the RFC in World War One. From the collection of the Air Force Museum.
