Tauranga City Libraries art collection

The Photo News magazine in Tauranga during the 1960s was the Instagram of that generation. With its strong photographic emphasis driven by local events and everyday locals it was very popular. Ev...

Early photographic techniques captured images on glass. Tauranga City Libraries has a small collection of these.

These photographs are made available as part of a collaboration between the 6th Battalion (Hauraki) Regimental Association Inc. and the Tauranga Central Library Heritage and Research team in 2012...

Photographs from the Bernard Sladden (1879-1961) collection. Sladden was a photographer, cattle farmer, book keeper, historian, soldier, botanist, ornithologist and ranger operating largely in th...

A selection of stills taken during the 1935 filming of Hei Tiki.

Tauranga based images taken by local photographer Nathan Pettigrew.

170 wildlife images taken by Paul Cuming during the Rena Recovery Programme.

Photographs within Ams 227

In 2015 local retiree Rodney Giddens began an undertaking to provide a photographic record of shop fronts from the roadside of Tauranga's CBD. Though initially interested in capturing Art Deco bu...

Photographs taken by Lee Switzer between 1976 and 2021

Photographs mostly taken from glass plates owned by Les Woods.

Images directly uploaded by members of the community

Collection of mayoral portraits for Tauranga

Tauranga City Libraries have been digitising historic images since 1998.