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Devonport in Focus Exhibition
Current displays in the Museum
Devonport Borough Council Scrapbooks 1886 - 1989
Collection Policy
Photograph Collection
Research at Devonport Museum
Devonport in Focus Exhibition
Snapshots of
Devonport, Yesterday and Today

This external display is upstairs in
the old Area Office Council building in Victoria Rd (see Locations
and hours) and features
photographs, film footage and a model of the Astrolabe ship.
We gratefully acknowledge the North
Shore City Council and The
Rotary Club of Devonport for their assistance with this display.
Current displays in the Museum
Devonport Schools
Devonport Transport
Some early Devonport settlers and families
Brickmaking in Devonport
Military exhibits
and many more
Some highlights:
Butcher's block

One of three butcher's blocks of the
AMC (Auckland Meat Company) Butcher's store of Devonport.
Made of kauri from a tree trunk purchased from the Whangaroa Timber
Company in Northland.
The 3 stores were
- Vauxhall Rd near the old Post
Office - opened to supply Fort Cautley
- Victoria Rd on the corner of
Rattray St - opened to supply the general population of Devonport
- Calliope Rd - opened to supply the
Navy
This butcher's block delivered to
Calliope Rd AMC in 1921. Moved to Victoria Rd shop when Calliope Rd shop
closed and remained there until the shop closed in 1984.
By counting the number of rings in the
wood, there are about 500, we can reliably estimate that this tree
seeded around 1400.
For more information and to see the
block come and pay us a visit.
Villa

This model villa is typical of the 1890's
era. This model is all hand made from Kauri. There is a central hallway,
a parlour, three bedrooms, and a kitchen. Out the back there is a
pantry, and a scullery (both off the kitchen), bathroom, washhouse and
WC.
The villa took 10 months to build.
Always a favourite!
Devonport
Borough Council Scrapbooks 1886 - 1989

These invaluable scrapbooks contain:
collated newspaper cuttings relating
to Devonport Borough Council business and happenings, local events and
local and regional issues during the 103 years of the Council's
existence
The museum paid to have the scrapbooks indexed under the supervision of the North Shore Libraries.
Three complete photocopy sets of 115
volumes have been produced and they are held at:
The main sources of these cuttings
were:
The New Zealand Herald
Auckland Star
North Shore Times Advertiser
other miscellaneous printed news media
the Council's own correspondence and material
The original scrapbooks are stored in
the North Shore City Council Archives.
North Shore Libraries has indexed these
scrapbooks and this can be found as the Devonport Heritage Index on the
North Shore Libraries catalogue (in the "Advanced" search option, tick Devonport
Heritage Index - Devonport Borough Council Scrapbooks index).
Photograph Collection
The Museum has a large photograph collection
that we are currently
digitising. This will then be searchable through the in-house database.
The Museum can now provide photographs from the collection at the costs below. These are computer generated and the best quality is equal to that of a normal photograph.
Photo
Reproduction Costs
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Digital Black & White premium paper |
$10.00 |
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Digital Black & White photo quality paper 5x7 |
$20.00 |
Digital Black & White photo quality paper 5x7
(for commercial use) |
$30.00 |
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Digital Colour on premium paper |
$15.00 |
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Digital Colour on photo quality paper |
$30.00 |
Digital Colour on photo quality paper
(for commercial use) |
$40.00 |
| Digital
image high quality on CD |
$30.00 |
| Digital
image high quality on CD (Commercial) |
$40.00 |
Images
can be provided from museum material sent to a photograph developer.
Costs are normally around $25-$35+ depending on size of image. The
museum charges around $20 per order for delivery and processing time.
Photocopying
of written material varies depending on research content but usually
20c.
See also Research
at Devonport Museum
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