National Library of New Zealand

The Alexander Turnbull Library, a division of the National Library of New Zealand, holds the nation's pre-eminent collection of books, manuscripts, music, maps, sound recordings, ephemera, photographs, cartoons, paintings, drawings and prints. The picture collections cover the social and natural history of New Zealand, the Pacific and Antarctica from the earliest European contact to the present.

Currently a selection of over 50,000 images from the Library's collections is accessible through Timeframes. Accompanying the image on Timeframes is its full descriptive record taken from the Library's database TAPUHI. TAPUHI provides access to descriptions of the unpublished manuscript and picture collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library.

The Timeframes database includes items of cultural value to Maori people and other New Zealanders. These taonga are carefully selected and carry the mana of their iwi (people) whichever medium may be represented.

Research requests and orders can be sent to the Library.

Information about searching the database, using and ordering copies of images from the Library's collections can be found on the Timeframes site. You can also submit pictorial or general reference queries online.

For further information about the Alexander Turnbull Library and its collections, contact:

Alexander Turnbull Library
National Library of New Zealand
PO Box 12 349, Wellington, New Zealand
phone +64 (0)4 474 3113
fax +64 (0)4 474 3063
email atl@natlib.govt.nz
web http://timeframes.natlib.govt.nz

John Philemon Backhouse
(1845-1908)
King Hunter, NSW and South
Australian Parakeet 1873
Alexander Turnbull Library
National Library of New Zealand