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WAITAKI WADE THEIR WAY THROUGH OUR HISTORICAL ARCHIVES...
Monday, 27th February 2012
Action in the Archives!!!
Last Friday saw 20 Year 12 History students from Waitaki Girls spend a day in our archives searching for sources of information from 1860 - 1890. The Lakes District Museum houses over 4,000 photos, microfilms of old newspapers, oral histories, town planning doucments, births, death and marriage records as well as many rare and unique New Zealand history books.
Students had many different focusing questions to answer on topics such as the Chinese miners, life for women on the goldfields and law and order. To break up the research day students also went to the Chinese village to see 'the real' Ah Lum's store and several other preserved Chinese huts. Some viewed the Miners' Cottages in Buckingham Street recently retored by the Arrowtown Trust.
We hope you enjoyed your visit to us Waitaki and that you managed to gather lots of historical knwoledge and information for NCEA 2.1 & 2.2!
Comments (11)
Thank you so much rachel for your help on our trip, we all learnt alot and you totally went out of your way to help us all.
Hi Rachel!
Thank you so much for helping me find information for my internal :) I found a large majority of sources relatiing to my questions and it was all thanks to you! Your awesome :)
Hi Rachel,
Thank you for all your help for research for our internal, it was much appreciated. I learnt a lot from you and from the sources you gave us.
Rachel you beauty!
Before we went to the Lakes District Museum, i didnt have a lot of information relevant to my questions, but at the Museum, there was just so much information to go through and i gathered heeeeaps! So thank you SO SO SO much for your help. i know im not the only one who appreciated it. It was so helpful.
Thanks again!
Llewela :)
Hi Rachel
Thank you for all the help on finding information for our history class it was extremely helpful and i learnt alot from you and the sources avaliable.
Thanks again
Hannah
Thanks so much for helping us all with gathering information for our internal, it has helped alot.
hey Rachael,
thank you sooo much for the help on our visit it was really enjoyable and were there to help everybody and answer outr questions as best as you could :) :) :)
Thank you for helping me and everyone else with our work. I had fun learning new things. And your help was really appreciated.
Hey Rachel!
Thank you so much for all the effort you put into our day at the museum, you made everything easy to find and we all had a great day :)
Thanks heaps
Emily :)
Hi Rachel,
Thank you very much for all your help, i really appreciate how much effort you put in for us for the day. We got lots of relevant information.
Thanks heaps!
Laura (:
Hello Rachel,
Thank you so much for all the help that you provided the students on Friday - we all really appreciated it.
Looking forward to seeing you again soon.
Sonya
By: Sonya Hull on Tuesday, 28th February 2012 @ 15:19:10