New content partners and collections — December 2022

Posted on 16 December 2022 by Kelly

Nau mai, haere mai! Welcome to our new content partners Central and Western Murihiku Southland Archive, Charlotte Museum, Far North District Libraries, Huntly Museum Te Whare Taonga O Raahui Pookeka, The Edwin Fox Ship and Maritime Centre, SignDNA - Deaf National Archive New Zealand, and Villa Maria College Archive.

We are also thrilled to bring in new content types (videos and stories) from the New Zealand Fashion Museum and a huge number of new items from the New Zealand Maritime Museum after their migration from eHive to Vernon.

And finally we welcome new content partners — Toi Ohomai, SIT (Southern Institute of Technology) and Otago Polytechnic — as they join existing partners EIT (Eastern Institute of Technology) and Unitec within Research Bank.

Central and Western Murihiku Southland Archive

Black and white photo of a group of children and two adults wearing Edwardian-era clothing, standing in front of a wooden building.

Image: Te Tua School, 1914. No known copyright. Photo from Central and Western Murihiku Southland Archive.

Charlotte Museum

A metal badge showing two linked female sex symbols and the text ‘We are Everywhere’.

Image: Badge ‘We are everywhere’. 1980s, made by Moller & Young. All rights reserved. Item from Charlotte Museum.

Far North District Libraries

Men with spades standing outside a badly damaged 1830s house.

Image: Waitangi Treaty House, 1934. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Photo from Far North District Libraries.

Huntly Museum Te Whare Taonga O Raahui Pookeka

A black Bakelite item marked with the letters MSA. There are three knobs on top and a yellow meter dial with the measurement 'percent methane'.

Image: Methane detector. All rights reserved. Item from Huntly Museum / Te Whare Taonga O Raahui Pookeka.

The Edwin Fox Ship and Maritime Centre

SignDNA - Deaf National Archive New Zealand

A man wearing shorts and no top sitting next to a pile of wooden Coca Cola trays leaning on a sign that says 'Friends of the Deaf. Empties here please'.

Image: Auckland Carnival: Friends of the Deaf stall, 1958. CC BY-SA 4.0. Video from SignDNA - Deaf national Archive New Zealand.

Villa Maria College Archive

A crowd of people lining the edge of a swimming pool, including rows of girls wearing summer uniform tunics and hats.

Image: Villa girls at the opening of the swimming pool, 24 March 1957. CC BY-NC 4.0. Item from Villa Maria College Archive.

New Zealand Fashion Museum stories and video collections

Two women sitting in front of a yellow escalator. One women is holding a microphone.

Image: Ataraiti Waretini: Taniko weaving and in conversation, 17 November 2022. All rights reserved. Video from New Zealand Fashion Museum.

Otago Polytechnic

Otago Polytechnic is a tertiary educator provider based in Dunedin with additional campuses in Cromwell and Auckland.

Southern Institute of Technology

Southern Institute of Technology is a tertiary education provider centred in Invercargill with additional campuses in Otago and Canterbury.

Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology

Te Ohomai Institute of Technology is a tertiary education provider in the Bay of Plenty and South Waikato.


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