Image Collections

Sites

Auckland Museum Pictorial Collections Auckland

Includes the Sparrow Collection, Robin Morrison Collection, Paintings And Drawings Collection, Photograph Albums, Glass Plates and Negatives, Print Collections

Christchurch City Libraries images collection

A selection of historical images of Christchurch and Canterbury. The photographs depict local people, places and events and are dated from approximately 1860 to 1975. They have been reproduced from historical newspapers, archival sources, early books and reports.

Collections Online

Online gateway to Te Papa's collections

Heritage Images Online Auckland

A selection of images from Auckland City Libraries photograph collection, including images of Auckland, portraits from 1930's to 1970's and World War One soldier portraits.

Historical Livestock Gallery

An historical collection of agricultural images, primarily of livestock, from Massey University.

Horowhenua Historical Database

Matapihi

A window onto the heritage collections of New Zealand's archives, galleries, libraries and museums. It provide a single point of access for approximately 50,000 selected images, sounds and objects.

National Library of New Zealand Digital Collections

Includes Timeframes - thousands of images from the Alexander Turnbull Library, Papers Past, and other digitsed material.

Photographers' Database

Auckland City Libraries' photographers database is an index of photographers who worked in New Zealand from the 1840s through to the present day. The database draws on sources such as advertisements, newspapers, electoral rolls, published articles, trade directories and other resources.

Puke Ariki Photographs Collection

photographs of New Plymouth and Taranaki from the 1850s.

Robin Morrison Collection

The 1500 images available on the pictorial database are from a group of transparencies chosen by Robin Morrison when donating his collection to the Auckland museum. Out of 100,000 transparencies and negatives, Morrison selected those images he felt to be the best and most representative of his work.

Te Papa Picture Library

A small selection from Te Papa's photography collection.

Timeframes

Timeframes includes selected New Zealand and Pacific images from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, the research library within the National Library of New Zealand.

Wellington City Archives online

Find information about all archive items and series, including dates and descriptions, including several thousand images available online.