About Timeframes
The Timeframes database features images that relate to a range of topics, including geography, history, the natural environment, art, people and events.
Timeframes contains digital copies of many items from the collections, including photographs, drawings, paintings, ephemera (like posters, programmes, and advertisements), manuscripts, unpublished maps, and cartoons. There are also a small number of text items.
Each image is accompanied by a full descriptive record. Timeframes is continually being added to.
Copies of most images on Timeframes can be ordered.
Access items in this collection
Timeframes is fully searchable – browse by name, subject, place, iwi (tribe), hapū (sub-tribe) or genre.
If you can’t find what you are looking for on Timeframes, try searching the National Library Catalogue (for published material like books, published maps, and magazines) or TAPUHI (for unpublished material like manuscripts and paintings). You can also contact us for help.
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Other resources
Other maps, book covers and images from the Alexander Turnbull Library collections have been digitised and are available on the National Library Catalogue.
