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What's on the menu...
Saturday 27 August | Camera Obscura,
This a la carte menu is from Restaurant Vienna, on Victoria Street, and dates from 1959. Both Restaurant Vienna and Restaurant Chevron were owned and directed by George Vlasic.
Times are a changing
Saturday 20 August | Camera Obscura,
Hamilton as we knew it in October 1978. Crawford Street is off to the left having come away from Avalon Drive which goes off to the distance on the right.
Local photographers leave legacies for the city
Wednesday 17 August | Stories of Hamilton,
We look at photographs every day here in Special Collections. They range from formally set portraits to scenic images to carefully composed photographic recordings of our built environment.
Civic choir celebrates
Saturday 13 August | Camera Obscura,
In July 1956, the Hamilton Civic Choir celebrated it’s tenth anniversary with a concert at the Embassy Theatre. The concert was conducted by J.
Camping by the lakeside
Saturday 6 August | Camera Obscura,
A few weeks ago, we showed a photograph of four young people on holiday. This image may be a wee bit later and it is said to be near Taupo. We don’t know the location, but the hills suggest the ‘other side’ of the lake.
Tips and Tricks for Using Our Heritage Collections Online Website
Wednesday 3 August | Resources,
Did you know you can search for items from our Archives and Special Collections from your own device?
Waikato trounced
Saturday 30 July | Camera Obscura,
This flier lists the teams from Hamilton and Pukekohe who played a rugby football match at Pukekohe on 23 July, 1927.
Show on a grand scale
Saturday 23 July | Camera Obscura,
Last week we featured a piece of ephemera. It was a flyer for a production of Dick Whittington and his cat done in 1926.
The history of the famous miners cough cure
Wednesday 20 July | Stories of Hamilton,
There is many a home medicine cabinet being raided right now with both Covid and seasonal colds and flu doing the rounds.
A purr-fect performance
Saturday 16 July | Camera Obscura,
Nighty-six years ago, 50 performers from the St Peter’s Girl Guides performed the bright and sparkling operetta, 'Dick Whittington and His Cat’.
Smoothing the way
Saturday 9 July | Camera Obscura,
New asphalt in Hood Street. It’s always great to have a new surface to drive on – smooth and responsive. Only now the road marking to be done.
The Waikato River in flood, 1907
Wednesday 6 July | Stories of Hamilton,
The unprecedented rainfall just in January 1907 caused one of the biggest floods in the history of New Zealand.