Description

A New Zealand (especially Nelson) and world wide historical news clippping service covering a wide range of photographic related topics and photographers - augmented in some cases with other historical documentation (land titles wills Birth Marriage & Death Certificates etc) maps & other legal documents 1841 - 1961 with some limited later material added.

Advertising and personal information held on some NZ and all Nelson Professional Photographers photographic retailers equipment films etc some camera club members and other amateur photographers.

- We also have our own collated in House Directories of most early New Zealand photographers and photographic retailers indexed by region. World wide information also held from photography's invention and through period 1841 - 1961 including cameras in space exploration beginnings and astronomy.

A wide cross section of topics photographic related are held. e.g. where ever the camera went and whatever the camera was used for we would have the relevent information.
e.g. medical photography etc .

Some early history of cinematography also included.