
A very reuseable view – Muir & Moodie’s Whanganui River postcards
Wanganui River, The New Zealand, 1904-1915, Dunedin, by Muir & Moodie studio. Purchased 1998 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds. Te Papa (PS.000973/08)
Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
Open every day 10am-6pm
(except Christmas Day)
Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
A selection of postcards offering views of popular travel destinations in Aotearoa New Zealand from more than a hundred years ago.
24 Feb – 5 Apr 2021
Toi Art, Level 5
Free entry
All ages
10 minutes
Photo postcards were the social media of the early 1900s. By sending one, you could quickly and cheaply show off the places you’d visited – from main streets to local attractions. You might even get a same-day reply if you sent a postcard across town and your city delivered mail twice daily.
Today, these postcards are a window into the past. They show us what their makers and buyers saw, and thought was important to share.
Wanganui River, The New Zealand, 1904-1915, Dunedin, by Muir & Moodie studio. Purchased 1998 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds. Te Papa (PS.000973/08)
Takapau Divisional Camp 1914, 1914, Wellington, by James Henry Daroux. Te Papa (PS.003297)
At the Girls College sports, about 1910, Wellington, by Zak (Joseph Zachariah). Te Papa (PS.003374)
Mount Cook and bus, 1960s, by Gladys Goodall. Te Papa (PS.003574)