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My dear Papa, 24 April 1879

3 records about Christchurch, the oldest first. A thin file, this is every record the archive has from the masthead, not the paper’s own run. The originals live at Papers Past, where each row links.

On this shelf
3
records
By size
#217
of 284 mastheads
Reaches
1879–1879
  1. My dear Papa, letter from Waimate, page 2, , My dear Papa, 24 April 1879
  2. My dear Papa, letter from Waimate, page 3Archive 498, , My dear Papa, 24 April 1879
  3. My dear Papa, letter from Waimate, page 1Archive 498, , My dear Papa, 24 April 1879

Printing beside it

The mastheads whose runs overlap this one’s, the shelf’s own contemporaries.

Star 1868–1909 · 12,716 · Evening Post 1865–1945 · 6,655 · Photographs / He Whakaahua 1850–1981 · 1,685 · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser 1877–1920 · 1,307 · Otago Witness 1852–1909 · 1,165 · Photography 1800–1999 · 1,091 · Otago Daily Times 1862–1920 · 953 · Timaru Herald 1864–1900 · 793

Questions, answered briefly

What was the My dear Papa, 24 April 1879?

A newspaper on the Papers Past shelf, the archive holds 3 of its records that mention Christchurch, 1879. The full run lives at the National Library, not here.

How much of the My dear Papa, 24 April 1879 does the archive hold?

3 records, the #217 heaviest file of the 284 mastheads on the shelf. A thin file, every record it has, not the paper’s own run.

Where are the My dear Papa, 24 April 1879 originals?

Papers Past, the National Library’s newspaper archive, every record row here links out to the issue it came from.

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