Feb 20, 2018 | Case Studies, Digitise
Throughout the years the NZMS team have digitised many illustrations and artworks for children’s books, reference and New Zealand history books. The most common material we digitise for children’s picture books are collections of watercolour artworks by talented and...
Jan 30, 2018 | Case Studies, Digitise, Leigh Rout
The Sisters of Mercy purchased the property on which the Villa Maria College is now situated in 1917. The school was opened on 18 February 1918 with 14 pupils enrolled. Villa Maria began serving the district as a parish school when boys were admitted in 1921. When...
Jan 30, 2018 | Case Studies, Digitise, Nigel Roper
City Gallery Wellington has spent the past year reviewing their archives which contain ephemera and documents of the Gallery’s history. Our NZMS team in Wellington has digitised these documents which are now being uploaded to the City Gallery website. City Gallery has...
Nov 17, 2017 | Case Studies
For a number of years, artist Sacha Lees has been trusting NZMS to digitise her Fantastical artworks. For her current exhibition ‘Vagrant Mind’ at the Exhibitions Gallery in Wellington we had the pleasure of viewing and carefully digitising her beautiful and unique...
Nov 14, 2017 | Case Studies, Digitise
As part of a much larger project for LINZ which includes large format maps, we are currently digitising approximately 630,000 pages of field books for the North Island, with some of them dating back to 1872. The field books are small and very fragile landscape bound...
Oct 31, 2017 | Case Studies, News
Earlier this year we received a unique digitisation request. The grid layout of a chalk Kiwi commonly known as the Bulford Kiwi carved by New Zealand troops on Bulford Hill near Stonehenge. The carving has recently become a “scheduled monument” on the advice of...
