Oct 10, 2018 | Archives, Case Studies, Digitise, Nigel Roper, Print, Replica
Significant historical documents are at the mercy of time. Often fragile and holding important and irreplaceable information, it is crucial that these documents be both preserved and accessible. Handling, exposure to light, and fluctuating environmental...
Aug 22, 2018 | Artist, Case Studies, Digitise, Gallery, Nigel Roper
A collection of unseen works from prominent New Zealand Artist of the 1950’s Leonard Mitchell has been digitised and printed as high-quality reproductions for Mitchell Studios, managed by Leonard’s niece Anna Reed (née Mitchell). Born in 1925, Leonard was...
Jul 30, 2018 | Alison Barnett, Case Studies, Digitise
Colleen Brown first approached us back in 2015 with a bundle of photographic negatives connected to the story of Sling Camp and the huge Kiwi memorial carved into the hill there. The Bulford Kiwi is still visible from across the Salisbury Plains in Southern England...
May 3, 2018 | Case Studies, Digitise, Gavin Mitchell, Leigh Rout
A joint project between Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, Archives New Zealand, Land Information New Zealand, and Environment Canterbury is bringing the original survey plans of Canterbury to life on a new digital platform. During the European settlement of Canterbury in...
Apr 19, 2018 | Case Studies, Digitise, Nigel Roper
One of the projects we love doing is helping a family capture and preserve their history. Our Wellington team has recently digitised two historical family tree documents for one of our clients, John Christie. The first tree is titled – “William Laddes, of...
Mar 27, 2018 | Case Studies, Digitise
LINZ Surveyor Field Book of the Gisborne area from May 1913. We recently found a photograph in one of the 13,000 Surveyors Field Books we have been digitising. The book was dated May 1913 and has a title on the front cover “476A Gisborne John Roddick May 1913” which...
