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National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa Headquarters in Wellington 41°16′36″S 174°46′42″E / 41.276614°S 174.778372°E / -41.276614; 174.778372 Location Molesworth Street, Thorndon , Wellington , New Zealand Established 1965 Branch of Department of Internal Affairs Collection Size 1,515,172 in General Collections 5,333,500 in Alexander Turnbull ...
A third issue - represented by the State Library of New South Wales copy DSM/C525 - contains completely different cloth specimens from the first two editions. [7] It has also been suggested that the tapa cloth samples used in the two issues were from different sources, and in the case of the second issue may have been sourced from the sale of ...
In 1979, Janet Paul, then curator at the Alexander Turnbull Library, organised the acquisition of Scales's papers and 17 of her works to the Library's collection. In 2018, The Suter Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū staged a significant solo exhibition of Scales's work. In 2021, a comprehensive website and catalogue of her life and work was launched ...
Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull (14 September 1868 – 28 June 1918) [1] was a New Zealand merchant, dandy [2] and book collector. [3] On his death, his collection became the nucleus of the Alexander Turnbull Collection, initially housed in his residence, Turnbull House, but as of 1987 housed with the collections of the National Library of New Zealand, a body formed in 1965 by the amalgamation of ...
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Turnbull House is a three-storey brick building located on Bowen Street. [2] Turnbull House's architecture is a mix of Queen Anne and Scottish baronial architecture and was designed by architect William Turnbull (no relation). The building's design incorporated three large library rooms to house Turnbull's large collection of books, maps, and ...
The earliest catalogue was an author catalogue published in 1867 (8vo, pp. 213). The next was a classified catalogue, published in 1872, the library then contained 8,700 volumes. In 1875, an elaborately classified catalogue of 11,450 books was compiled by Ewan McColl (8vo, pp. 351).
the Alexander Turnbull Library which purchased his collection of New Zealand manuscripts from the dealer Maggs Brothers in 1970 [6] the British Museum [ 7 ] Webster also strongly believed in the repatriation of Maori ethnographic material back to New Zealand.