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of the mid-1850s. By the late 1940s, Nan Kivell's collection had become substantial and was housed in various locations around
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He attributed an early interest in collecting to Sydney Smith, an antiquarian book dealer in
Christchurch whom Nan Kivell met while still at school. Nan Kivell was also inspired to read history and geography, especially works on European voyagers in the Pacific.
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Originally conceived as the basis of a pictorial history of
Australia and New Zealand, Nan Kivell's collection began to extend beyond the purely pictorial. It came to encompass a whole range of documentary evidence created during the voyages of discovery,
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of his collection of books, paintings, prints, documents, manuscripts and artefacts relating to the history of
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began in 1925. It had been founded two years earlier by two wealthy
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in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the material produced as a result of those voyages. His collection also included
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