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Sharon Brick Kelly and today

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on the detail on here

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at Oakland Central Library, and

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I am with Zoe Calling,

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who is a librarian. I

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know this is kind of unusual for

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me, but you're going to take me

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on a tour of not the box,

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but something else. So should we start

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walking and talking, you can tell me

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all about us. Sure, yeah. Some books.

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Oh, it is some hoax. okay cove

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subtle that. mostly magazines. Photographs.

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A manuscript and femur?

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Okay. ephemeral. What's there's

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a famer is printed

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material and team to

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to have a limited

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lifespan. So some examples

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of a theme or

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posters, leaflets, Movie. Tickets

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so kind of throw away items things

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that we don't really think about. That's

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right, and you're a H When Title:

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I love it. Tell me what you're

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correct. Title and year at the Library.

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Associate. Curator Ephemera. so

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I'm one of. Two

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people. Who care for

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the of famer a collection?

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How to urge or clink

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Helpful libraries. The work involves

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acquiring a theme. Cataloguing.

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Urge and making it accessible

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to the public as well

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as using it and displays.

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I both. So

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we just come through the door

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was. At the library which.

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Sees that so last century

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and bed as the name.

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Oh the exhibition here. Well

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we could start with the first

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case. What

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are we looking at? This is a magazine.

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Yes, this is the mirror, the home journal

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of New Zealand. It's

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the cover of the magazine

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from October 1962 and

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I was so pleased when my

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colleague found this because we decided

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to use this image as

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the hero image for the exhibition. It's

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1960s, it's a bright yellow

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jumpsuit. There's also a

2:31

very interesting kind of cane

2:33

bag with a yellow ribbon

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and a yellow hat. We liked

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it because the outfit could be worn today.

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There's something timeless about it. And

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the little headlines on it

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say, The Shy Princess, The

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Forgotten Woman, Sessions, Personalities. Yes,

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some brief copy there. The

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magazine was aimed at middle class

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women. Where did your colleague find

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it? In the serials collection, sometimes with

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exhibitions we will go to the shelf

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and browse. I think in this case

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she knew about this title, she knew

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it was visually interesting material. I had

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never heard of it, but it's an

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example of one of the many magazines

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we have. Yes, a magazine that's produced

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in New Zealand, it's called New Zealand's

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National Journal. That's right. Where is the

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serials collection? That's a good question. There's

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a few different places. This

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particular magazine is kept behind a

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workroom on this floor. We

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also have thousands of serials in

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the basement. That would be where

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the bulk of the collection is. Members

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of the public can come in and request

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to view a lot of the material down

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there. It would be reference only

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material, so you're welcome to read

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the magazines in the library, but not

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borrow them. How far

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back do those magazines go? If

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we look at the case... Let's move to the new

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case. of

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the extent of the magazine

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and newspaper collection is the New Zealand

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Woman's Weekly. Hi I'm Jo Seager and

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here are my easy peasy mini cheese

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muffins. You

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throw everything into the bowl, it's so simple,

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quickly mix it together and you get 36

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muffins out of this recipe, very economical.

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Into the oven for 15 minutes and

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dada, they're ready. Great for an afterschool

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treat or just a cup for cocktails.

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For this easy peasy recipe and more,

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see this week's New Zealand Woman's Weekly.

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It's wonderful that our public

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library system holds the complete run and

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is still getting those

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issues of that iconic magazine. Oh

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what worry can do

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to your 55 face muscles? Some

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things don't change hey? No, no

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we're still worried about those worry

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lines. As well as

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astrology. I know astrology. Yeah

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astrologer Lindo forecast for the Beatles

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but they have been coming out.

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I think they did visit here

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that year. Come

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in will you come? Paul

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McBarry Ringo

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Starr and

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Gordon Harrison Thank

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you everybody who's come along today

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for turning up, for

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joining. So I

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don't know what we can say really. It's

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great to see the Mairi dancers. And

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yeah, thank you and beyond the

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wall with us. What? Can't

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see. I

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think there's possibly a photo in our

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collection of them near the town hall. I

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don't want to promise that. I feel

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like that's familiar. Oh we've got

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a couple of actual record albums in

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here. Yeah so we really

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wanted to make the exhibition visually

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interesting and showcase the variety of

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material. held by Auckland libraries

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and LPs are great for

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doing both those things. So

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Mr Lee Grant from the 60s. And

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Artis are amazing, Auckland

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based bangs. And

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I love the

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harem pants

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here. And

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the 80s shoulder pads. And it's a

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bonus that it is a signed LP.

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So that's a pretty special one. You

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can see the instructions from when these

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LPs were able to be borrowed

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and played. So there is some advice

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I think. Never leave records in a

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warm position. E.G. in cars. A

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diamond needle must always be

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used. Okay. Oh, what's

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this? These are two photographs.

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One from the 1960s, one from

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the 1970s showing two

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different wedding scenes. Sadly,

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we don't know the people in the images.

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We would love to be able to

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identify people in our images. And

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because these were taken during

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a period of time where people

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connected to the people in the images

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are alive now, there's

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a chance we can have these

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people identified and then connected back to those

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families. So really you're putting the call

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out to people come into the library, have a look at,

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you might see if they're there. photo of yourself from

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1960s ago. Yeah exactly.

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And I love this shot having a

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bride in a pantsuit in

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the 70s. We think that's

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very charming. Do you think that was you

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know quite radical to be wearing a pantsuit? I

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feel like it may have been. So

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Zoe what was the

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idea of this exhibition? When

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we decide on exhibitions we

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usually brainstorm as a

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group of subject librarian specialists

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and we think about recent exhibitions

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with Hajj. Like last year we

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had an exhibition focused on the

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medieval manuscripts and

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that was quite spare and you

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know these items from 500 years ago that we

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hold here and we like to contrast

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exhibitions so we

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thought focusing on a

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more recent time period and

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showing different collections like the amazing

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photographs that we have of people

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like these ones on the wall, the

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Raikkenberg Street photographs. Let's go

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and have a look at those. Yeah they're

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pretty stunning. Kind of poster

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size photographs. Yeah

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A1 size. There's 16 of

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them on two walls and

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they were all taken on Queen Street in

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Auckland in 1960. Auckland,

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the largest city in New Zealand with a

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population of over half a million people. It's

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a gorgeous city well planned and still

9:42

growing fast. Friday night is shopping night

9:44

and the city is bustling with people

9:46

and traffic. Auckland is built

9:48

on more than a score of volcanic coast

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thrown up thousands of years ago. And

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what I love about Bays is

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how right and

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his team of photographers really

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captured the diversity of Auckland.

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There's people from all different

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cultural backgrounds and economic

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backgrounds. You can see that from clothing

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they're wearing. We have these two

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women who may

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be in more 1950s

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style clothing, so the formal hats,

10:23

one of them's wearing gloves. And the

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old bus in the background and the

10:27

old car in the background. Yes, you

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can see the road works. Yeah,

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nothing changed there. Exactly.

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And who is Raikkenberg? John

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Raikkenberg immigrated from Holland in

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the 50s and

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had photography as a hobby,

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I believe, and then ended up having

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it as a career and set up a

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photography studio on Albert Street.

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He would take photos of people in

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public places like on

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the street or we've got photos

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in nightclubs and coffee lounges at

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the waterfront in walls, fair

11:05

welling or welcoming people from

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ships. And then he would give

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people a card. They could pop

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into a studio and purchase a

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photograph. So for example,

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this woman in her beautiful

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Pacifica style dress. So he'd

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take a photo of her and then

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give her a card and say, if you

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want to buy this photo, come to my

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studio. That's right, yeah. And he had a

11:29

team of photographers, so his wife was part

11:32

of that team and there were other photographers

11:34

working for him. You

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can sort of see a New

11:38

Zealand look emerging. Yeah,

11:40

I think often

11:42

we would be not necessarily copying,

11:45

but we'd be inspired by trends that

11:47

were happening overseas. So

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there are lots of clear links to fashion

11:52

trends that were happening elsewhere, like

11:55

hemlines getting shorter. It's neat

11:57

having a mix of posed

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shots and candid snaps.

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So that's the photograph.

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Like there's a good shot

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of I

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don't know 10 11 12 do you think?

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Yes. And

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these three have actually been identified which is

12:20

neat. So we know their names. All

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of these images are accessible

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via Kura Heritage Collections Online.

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People can search these and

12:30

I guess that's how

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they found themselves. Yeah, yeah

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lovely. What else have we got

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here? We have a case

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that looks at some fashion

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designers in Aotearoa and

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we've focused mostly on our

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photograph collection and magazine collection

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and when we highlight fashion designers we

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work with what we have so

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we're not able to

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focus on all the

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wonderful designers we have in this country. We

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look through indexes, we find articles

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in magazines and we

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look through our photograph collection to

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find stunning images like this Clifton

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first shot of

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the interior of Emanaki's

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salon on Derby Street and

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that story behind her and her

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family who were originally based in

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Taranaki she ended

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up sending her

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illustrations fashion illustrations to

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a group of designers in London. She

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ended up studying in London and then bringing

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her family back to Auckland to set up

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this shop. So very pioneering. What's

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your favorite here being the ephemera

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specialist? I do

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love the Rickenberg Street photos and we

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do have some neat pieces of

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ephemera I'm quite attached to. In

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one of the cases over here

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we have a

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lubrication chart for a sewing machine. So

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this is home sewing case

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and this wee manual

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when you open it up

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it just yeah it shows

14:08

you how to oil your

14:10

sewing machine so I guess

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it's about the size of a postcard

14:15

but it's a little pamphlet is it?

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What about that because a lot of

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people would just probably throw that away.

14:22

What about that that interests you? So

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it's from 1961 so I love

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it that it's been kept in such good condition

14:30

for so long and I love

14:32

it how it speaks to how

14:36

popular home sewing was and also

14:39

the technical skill involved in sewing

14:42

which can be glossed

14:44

over I guess. Learning

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how to sew skillfully will give you much

14:49

pleasure besides making beautiful

14:51

clothes you can add your

14:53

own touch of genius to your home. Personally

14:57

I find sewing very difficult I'm not able

14:59

to thread a bobbin and I

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like it that this piece of ephemera highlights

15:04

that manual and technical side of

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the skill involved in home sewing

15:09

and what you need to do

15:11

to keep your sewing machine in good nick. The

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other piece of ephemera I love is in this

15:15

1950s and 1960s case and it's called Smith's

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Remnant Bargains and

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it's actually from a shop

15:25

in Rangiura. Inside

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there are examples of fabric

15:31

remnants and what you can

15:33

do with those remnants so

15:35

different ideas about what you can

15:37

make with these scraps and I

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just love that idea. Well this

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is the triangular

15:44

by New Zealand made

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label. It's a label. It's so

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iconic isn't it? It

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really is. We were trying to

15:53

date it it was quite difficult to date it's

15:56

from the 1990s on the award-winning website,

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there's about five different versions of

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that Buy New Zealand Made tag.

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Is that still going? I

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don't think so. So this case looks

16:09

at manufacturing and we've

16:12

highlighted the

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Cambridge Clothing Company records that

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we hold. We have

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a ring binder which has fabric

16:20

swatches and an example

16:22

of a man's suit. We actually

16:24

have a few of the physical

16:27

suits. They're sitting somewhere down

16:29

in the basement. They have been carefully

16:31

cared for by the preservation unit and

16:34

when I went to try and look

16:36

at the suits, they were in an

16:39

archival box and there was a note

16:41

saying please have a look at

16:43

the photos instead. If it's for an

16:45

exhibition that's much easier to just

16:47

look through photos and we decided

16:49

having one suit in a case

16:51

when we are a small room

16:53

would dominate too much. So we've

16:56

gone with these photos of the

16:58

factory floor. So it's interesting, a

17:00

lot of this stuff is too

17:02

precious for people to touch. You've

17:04

got it behind in glass cabinets.

17:07

Yes, it's a heritage collection,

17:10

it's a non-circulating collection. People

17:12

are able to view these items in

17:15

our reading room. Oh they can. Do

17:17

they have to put on gloves? I think the

17:20

advice now is to have clean dry hands. Not

17:23

wear gloves. Sometimes gloves can cause more damage

17:25

because they're kind of fiddly. If you're trying

17:27

to turn a page it can be difficult

17:29

to grasp the corner. Oh

17:32

that's interesting. So this exhibition

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space is our shop front.

17:37

It's a way for people to get

17:39

an understanding of what we hold

17:42

and then they're welcome to explore more. They

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can book a time to meet with a

17:46

librarian, to learn more or talk about what

17:48

they might want to access from our collection.

17:50

And do they have to have a reason for it? No,

17:52

they don't need a reason

17:55

at all. Any chance in going to

17:58

have a locket where you get these

18:00

things from. OK,

18:05

we're in a corridor now. So

18:07

we have a photo store as

18:09

well, so that's temperature

18:11

controlled for our photographic

18:14

collections including photo albums,

18:16

35mm slides, dark

18:22

romes, the next smell, the

18:24

chemicals. OK,

18:26

dark romes, turn on the lights. Oh

18:30

gosh. Lots of grey

18:32

boxes. Yeah, part of our photograph

18:35

collection. So in these shelves

18:39

we have film negatives and

18:41

we have I think it's over 200 photo

18:43

albums. Many

18:46

of our photographs have been digitised

18:48

and are available via CURA heritage

18:50

collections online. So anyone

18:53

can browse the photographs like we

18:55

did to choose images. How

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many did you browse through?

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Thousands. How long

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did it take? It

19:06

took us three months to curate the

19:08

exhibition, which is short. It's a short

19:10

length of time. Usually

19:12

takes four to six months.

19:15

So will all of this

19:17

eventually be digitised? No,

19:20

like with the Reichenberg

19:22

collection for example, there's 1.5 million

19:24

negatives. So

19:27

I think there's about 9,000 online. There's

19:31

a selection process and

19:34

criteria in terms of what

19:36

gets digitised. I was

19:38

talking to my colleague the other day and

19:40

she was talking about how she

19:43

chose to select posters as

19:45

one of the first things to be

19:48

digitised from the ephemera collection because they

19:50

are so unwieldy. And then another priority

19:52

would be items that are very fragile.

19:55

So if there's an online version of

19:57

it, then that is true.

20:00

Yeah, reduces handling for that precious item

20:02

such as Like

20:05

I'm just thinking about some of our

20:07

early ephemera like a ball program

20:09

or Probably better

20:11

called a dance card. You'd

20:14

hope that archival Protection

20:16

we provide for our items

20:18

that they wouldn't disintegrate. Yeah, yeah

20:21

having a digital vision is

20:23

very important And

20:27

people just bring these into you today, so I don't

20:29

know what to do with them. So can you take

20:31

them? Yeah, and we do

20:33

have policies around what we

20:35

do collect because what we keep

20:37

we keep forever So

20:39

we have to be careful about what we say yes to

20:47

That's all for the week I'm

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Sharon Brekkalie and thanks to Zoe

20:51

Colling now if you're interested in

20:53

looking at the exhibition It's on

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Auckland Central City Library until the

20:57

13th of July The

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detail is funded by RNZ

21:01

and NZ on Air. This episode was

21:04

engineered by Ben Perf and The

21:06

Venus Zimmer and Gwen McClure produced it.

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Kaki te ano