National Library NZ on The Commons

  • 4,307 photos
  • 18.1M views
  • Member since 2008
  • Last upload was
    October 2017
  • 🇳🇿
The National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, collects, preserves, and shares Aotearoa New Zealand’s knowledge and stories for everyone. This Flickr Commons account shares images from our collections. These images are made available for reuse and discovery, to support research, creativity, and storytelling about Aotearoa New Zealand.

When were these photos taken?

81
1850
2015

 

Where were these photos taken?

10% of these photos are geotagged.

Photos of interest

These photos have had lots of views, comments, and favourites.

Recent uploads

The last upload was October 2017.

Conversations

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos::

Steamship Otago on the rocks at Chaslands Mistake, 4 December 1876

from National Library NZ on The Commons

  • 3 older comments, and then…
  • marley1027 said:
    You know you're having a bad day when...
  • vickiecollins said:
    Talk about being between a rock and a hard place............
  • Sjon Svenson said:
    to bad we don't hear the colourfull seamans expletives of the moment ^__^'
  • andy pucko said:
    Oopsie
  • FrigateRN said:
    The joys of sailing!

The ship Atlantis in Wellington Harbour, 1951

from National Library NZ on The Commons

  • Robert Taylor said:
    Hi, long with my family I was on the Atlantis in October 1951 when I believe this photo was taken. We later boarded the over night express for Auckland. She was a lovely old ship and I attended the 40th anniversary of her reunion in Auckland and shot some video of the function. Great to see another picture of her. I have some good ones in my collection. Robert Taylor
  • Jessica Louise said:
    Hello, Im trying to track my fathers travells to Wellington and i believe this is the ship he arrived on from the Port of Southampton. It departed on the 31st of March, 1950 and according to records it held a total of 887 passengers. Could this be the same ship? Jess
  • Edward Marchant said:
    Mum and I arrived on the Atlantis in October 1951. Poor old Mum was heavily pregnant and had a miserable voyage. I was six years and had the time of my life! We travelled down to Christchurch on the overnight service on the TS Maori , where we met Dad who took us onto our new home at the Hydro village in Roxburgh, Central Otago. The rest is history!

Aerial view of Johnsonville, Wellington, 1939

from National Library NZ on The Commons

  • chrisbwah said:
    Took me ages to work out which way this is looking, but I suspect it's south. The main road in the centre is J'ville road, the gorge is the small track going off towards 11 o'clock with Fraser Ave continuing straight ahead and then bending right. Broderick Rd is the road going off to the right where it will cross the rail lines visible in the bottom right.
  • National Library NZ on The Commons said:
    Thank you! I took one look at it and thought "oohhh, that's too hard for me to identify...."

    -- Courtney
  • Jessica Durham said:
    I can see my house! I've been trying to find an aerial view in the same direction from the 1920s too but no luck yet

No comments. Yet.

Do you know anything about what’s in these photos?

🇳🇿 Another member from New Zealand