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Popular screening
Saturday 8 October | Camera Obscura,
This flier promotes a matinee screening of ‘educational, instructive, scenic and amusing pictures’ at the King’s Theatre on November 4 1911.
It's a sign of the times
Saturday 1 October | Camera Obscura,
So much has changed. This was the newspaper room in the old library in Alexandra St (Worley Place) in March 1993.
The Auckland Weekly News
Wednesday 28 September | Resources,
This popular publication from the past used to capture the current affairs and events of both New Zealand and the world with superb photographs and news reports.
An Easter bargain
Saturday 24 September | Camera Obscura,
This flier is promoting used cars for sale at Dominion Motors Ltd on Victoria Street in 1939.
Garden Place at night
Saturday 17 September | Camera Obscura,
This was Garden Place at night in September 1993. We don’t know what time it was so have no way of knowing what we should expect.
Hamilton Post office - a Victoria Street landmark
Wednesday 14 September | Stories of Hamilton,
Hamilton Post office was situated in Victoria Street opposite the Bank of New Zealand which was on the corner of Hood Street. It is now ‘Artspost Galleries & Shop’.
A top performance
Saturday 10 September | Camera Obscura,
The Hamilton Civic Choir and Orchestra often combined for performances, and this programme comes from 1951 when the groups performed Faust by Charles Francois Gounod.
A glimpse of the past
Saturday 3 September | Camera Obscura,
The Vienna was the northern-most shop in the Bristol Building on Victoria Street which was built in 1925.
Hamilton as a military settlement – 4th Waikato Militia
Wednesday 31 August | Stories of Hamilton,
Following the Waikato Wars, the colonial government sought to maintain peace in the Waikato. Their solution was to use military settlers.
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.