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The first five men
On Sunday afternoon 26 April five armed and mounted men clattered down the main street of Waiuku. Ref: Bruce Ringer, Outside the Kentish Hotel, Waiuku, 2015.The occasion was not a bank robbery nor a...
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Automobile Association maps
Sir George Grey Special Collections holds a number of road, street and tramping track maps produced by the Automobile Association (AA).Ref: Automobile Association 'road surface' motor touring map...,...
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Ann Baxter, 1937-2015
The staff of Sir George Grey Special Collections and the Central Auckland Research Centre at the Central Library were deeply saddened to hear of the death of Ann Baxter on Tuesday 28 April. Ann had...
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New Zealand Music Month playlist
May is New Zealand Music Month (NZMM) and to help celebrate the Heritage & Research teams at the Central Library have compiled a playlist featuring some of our favourite New Zealand songs. The only...
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T.A. Bishop Stereographs
Today on Heritage et AL we are featuring the T.A. Bishop Collection of stereographs that are held at the West Auckland Research Centre. This collection consists of 767 stereograph cards from the early...
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How valuable is the very first copy of the New Zealand Herald, from 13...
Over the years, many people have claimed to have a copy of the very first New Zealand Herald. As there are only two known full copies, one with the publishers and the other with the National Library...
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Auckland Cup and racing at Ellerslie
To celebrate Auckland Cup day at Ellerslie today, we've had look through various Heritage and Research collections held at Auckland Libraries to find out some the history around the Auckland Racing...
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Mullet boat races
Local Māori were in charge of fishing in the early days of Auckland, but as more immigrants arrived fishermen from other countries entered the trade. They were unused to the Waitematā and Manukau...
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Auckland Libraries Instagram account
At the beginning of February Auckland Libraries resurrected our Instagram account. It gives us in the Heritage and Research teams a great channel to show off heritage collections and exhibitions that...
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Auckland Cup and racing at Ellerslie
To celebrate Auckland Cup day at Ellerslie today, we've had look through various Heritage and Research collections held at Auckland Libraries to find out some the history around the Auckland Racing...
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James Hartley Warburton: A West Aucklander who served in WWI
Eli and Selina Warburton of Lancashire, England, had 2 children, James Hartley and Edna, while living in England. The Warburton family immigrated to New Zealand in the early 20th Century.The Warburton...
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Di Stewart photograph collection
Auckland Libraries’ photograph collections contain over five hundred thousand images and are continually growing. Today we are spotlighting a 2013 accession of photographs taken by Di Stewart which...
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The Lusitania and Submarine Warfare
By 1915 the Auckland Weekly News Supplement was becoming a sophisticated propaganda organ. Editorial policies determined what readers would see and how they would interpret photographs, in a campaign...
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Benny Levin collection
Today we have another New Zealand Music Month post featuring the manuscript collection of Benny Levin (1930-1994) an entrepreneur, band manager and concert promoter.This collection includes personal...
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Samoa Guardian
To mark Samoan Language week, we are featuring a great Samoan resource in our heritage collections whose existence was alerted to me by a sleuth-like colleague.We have a carbon copy typescript of the...
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Carbon paper letter books
Today we are highlighting a couple of interesting items from our New Zealand Manuscripts collection: carbon paper manifold copying books. These two copying books show two of the most common uses for...
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Mauku Victory Hall
There is an interesting and rather beautiful little hall in Union Road, Mauku (a semi-rural locality between Waiuku and Pukekohe). Known as the Mauku Victory Hall, this was formallyopened by...
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Luna Park
Back in the day, Auckland had its only version of New York’s Coney Island - a fully functioning amusement park on the waterfront complete with dodgems, a roller coaster, stalls and sideshows.The...
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Quran
Among the many items that Auckland bibliophile Henry Shaw (1850-1928) donated to the Library early in the twentieth century are a number of Asian and Middle Eastern manuscripts purchased from London...
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Bridge parties: best bib and tucker affairs
Looking through the Footprints database I was surprised how many images depicting official openings of bridges there were in South Auckland. In the good old days, and even in the not so early days...
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