Always a good read , the above current edition of the New Zealand
Genealogist contains a brief history of photography in that country and the Auckland Libraries Photographers Database. The author , Keith Giles, the Photographic Collections Librarian
at the libraries , asks anyone who had an ancestor who was a
photographer in Kiwiland and can supply information for the database to please make contact.
The Sir George Grey Special
Collection at the Auckland Central
Library is also very keen to receive and ensure the
preservation of any photographic memorabilia , photographs , negatives,
postcards and 35mm slides .
.Some of the colonial photographers
had Australian connections – Melbourne and Hobart, for
example. In his illustrated article, Giles includes
coverage of early female
photographers . The cover
photo of the
journal is a 1903
shot of five photographers in Fiji , from the Henry Winkelmann Collection,
Auckland War Museum .
