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Follow the latest developments from Rekindled: Ōpunakē Life through the Feaver Collection. Here you'll find project updates, stories uncovered through the collection, and media coverage.
Who was John Feaver, pharmacist and prolific photographer?
‘Rekindled: Ōpunakē Life through the Feaver Collection’ is a significant project which aims to catalogue and digitise the ‘Feaver Collection’ of over 10,000 glass plate negatives at Puke Ariki.
Love, cows and rugby: First impressions of the Feavers’ photographic practice
If you want to understand life in Ōpunakē in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Feaver Collection offers three clues: love, cows, and rugby. In cataloguing some of the earliest photographs in the collection, which date from 1895 onwards, I have found evidence of all three.
Help Puke Ariki name the faces of Ōpunakē and South Taranaki
NPDC’s Puke Ariki Museum is calling on the community to help identify the people, places, and stories captured in thousands of historic photographs through Rekindled: Ōpunakē Life through the Feaver Collection.
Seven Sharp story
Time travelling mysteries. Ten thousand glass plate negatives are slowly revealing their secrets. Could you help shed some light?
RNZ interview
New Plymouth's Puke Ariki museum wants your help. For the first time thousands of historic images are going to be shown publicly, and the museum needs help identifying the people, places and stories within them. The project is called Rekindled: Opunake Life through the Feaver Collection. Puke Ariki's pictorial curator Natasha McKinney joins Jesse.
