Last year LAC staff scanned over 500 photographs from the James Hight papers in the archives. These photographs have now been uploaded to Kā Kohika. James Hight was appointed lecturer in politics and history at Canterbury College in 1901. He never left the college or Christchurch, apart from in 1927 when he traveled to Fiji, Hawaii, USA, Canada, and Europe on an exchange with Professor Grant  (chair of history at Leeds). These photographs are mostly from his travels, and include images of land, people, buildings, and animals. The library also has Hight’s correspondence from this period, which gives context to the photographs.

To view the collection, go to Kā Kohika, type 1069 in the search box, then use the filter on the left to refine your results to digital images.

This is one of my favourites

A huge thank you to Chris, Glenna, and Simon from LAC for doing the scanning, E-Services for uploading, and the MB Library Assistants for their help with getting this collection online.