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Uare Taoka o Hākena. University of Otago research library, archive and gallery. History and culture of Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific and Antarctica.

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#FlashbackFriday Orientation at Otago 30 years ago. https://t.co/Kl0ZHL6mUl

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Some West Coast general stores for #FlashbackFriday. These photos come from a little album put together in December 1936 and kept in the records of Sargood Son & Ewen Ltd.

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8/8: The cover of a Tip-Top Ice Cream Company annual report from 1954.

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Ice cream! A few images from the collections, looking at a favourite summer treat for #FlashbackFriday

1/8: A young boy with an ice cream, 1950s. George Chance (1885-1963) photographer.

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7/8: An advertisement for a 'stainless steel and enamel refrigerator, for milk bars and dairies'. From the front cover of the N.Z. Confectioner and Ice Cream Journal, vol.1 no.10, 15 March 1950.

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@itslise It is looking south from St Andrew Street. You would now see Farmers on the left. Milburn & Neill Optometrists only moved out of the corner building last year.

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#FlashbackFriday. Dunedin's George Street, Octagon, and Princes Street, captured by the same unidentified photographer about 1927. What's familiar and what's not?

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@southernscoop True! Or any painted road markings.

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Our new Digital Collections site launched last October and we continue to add new things. Here are just a few of the hundreds of items added over the past few months.

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If you were ‘trans-island’ this summer, did you take a Cook Strait ferry (aka ‘floating bridge’) to get to your destination?
“Drive on Drive off….. New Zealand Railways Cook Strait Ferries”. Wellington: [NZ Railways Publicity Branch], 1966. Ephemera Collection.
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Have you been camping or glamping this summer? One of the age-old obstacles to a camping holiday is its lack of creature comforts. Alex Thompson & Son's 1939 catalogue includes the Kia ora Tent, claimed to be ‘scientifically designed to give roominess’. #FlashbackFriday