glass plate negatives

Curious, cute, or edgy: cataloguing old negatives

Olivia Martin, a Master of Museum and Heritage practice program student at Wellington’s Victoria University, spent three months working on a placement at Te Papa. Here she describes her work on a group of photographs.Read more

By: Guest writer

On: 11 Sep 2019

In: Photography

A slice of Wellington life: the Berry & Co collection

Te Papa has a collection of nearly 4,000 glass plate and film negatives taken by the Wellington photography studio Berry & Co. The studio was founded by William Berry in 1897, and operated in Cuba St until 1931. The negatives are mainly portraits – of families, children, men and women,Read more

By: Anita Hogan

On: 25 Oct 2012

In: Art, History, Photography

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