This year our heritage team have digitised and uploaded over 1500 unique items to our platform Wellington City Recollect, including posters, photographs, books, documents, maps and more!
Digitised for the first time is the collection of the weekly gazette of the Wellington Provincial Council, which offers a fascinating insight into the city and region’s early colonial history.
For much of the 20th century, entertainment was dominated by movie theatres. Many of our early cinemas grew from live theatres following the first screening of motion pictures in the capital in 1896.
The 1960s and 1970s saw the rise of a unique style of New Zealand architecture. Two of the best known exponents of this new form were the Wellington based architects, Roger Walker and Ian Athfield.
A collection of letters and family trees detailing the genealogy of thousands of individuals descending from early European settlers of the Wellington Province is now available on Recollect.
Previously only available in an online text form, one of the most useful and readable books about Wellington’s local history is now fully digitised on Wellington City Recollect.
Purchased over 40 years ago, our collection of over 350 images by one of New Zealand’s most significant photographers of the 20th century is now available to view on Wellington City Recollect.
One of Wellington’s most significant independent media outlets of the 1990s has been fully digitised and is now available to view on Wellington City Recollect.
This year our heritage team have digitised and uploaded over 1500 unique items to our platform Wellington City Recollect, including posters, photographs, books, documents, maps and more!
Watch the video of our author event with Kate Mahony,Clare Gleeson and Mary McCallum.
Theatre programmes and posters collected by the library over many decades are able to be rediscovered on Wellington City Recollect.
Riki Gooch interviews author Daniel Beban about his new nonfiction book, Future Jaw-Clap: The Primitive Art Group and Braille Collective Story.
A 1980s magazine from Wellington’s pioneering alternative radio station is now available to read online
Learn about when Te Tiriti was signed by mana whenua.
Digitised for the first time is the collection of the weekly gazette of the Wellington Provincial Council, which offers a fascinating insight into the city and region’s early colonial history.
For much of the 20th century, entertainment was dominated by movie theatres. Many of our early cinemas grew from live theatres following the first screening of motion pictures in the capital in 1896.
The 1960s and 1970s saw the rise of a unique style of New Zealand architecture. Two of the best known exponents of this new form were the Wellington based architects, Roger Walker and Ian Athfield.
In the late 1950s, a pioneering restaurant helped introduce Wellington to ‘fine dining.'
A collection of letters and family trees detailing the genealogy of thousands of individuals descending from early European settlers of the Wellington Province is now available on Recollect.
With the launch of the newly-digitised Wellington Airport Development Collection, we take a look back at a version of Rongotai that no longer exists.
Previously only available in an online text form, one of the most useful and readable books about Wellington’s local history is now fully digitised on Wellington City Recollect.
Purchased over 40 years ago, our collection of over 350 images by one of New Zealand’s most significant photographers of the 20th century is now available to view on Wellington City Recollect.
Recollect now hosts the complete digitised collection of Scope, the essential guide to Wellington’s alternative scene in the early 1990s.
A record of public art of the 1990's, as digitised by our heritage team.
One of Wellington’s most significant independent media outlets of the 1990s has been fully digitised and is now available to view on Wellington City Recollect.