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Tess Maxwell

@tessmaxwell.bsky.social
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Feminist media and archives phd student in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa (she/her) toitū te tiriti & free Palestine

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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
1887 chart of lighthouses in aotearoa and the distances their light can be seen from - very cool and even better zoomed in! raukawa moana looking almost cosy from archives nz: ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/Del...
1887 chart of lighthouses in aotearoa nz
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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Proud to have been at the biggest ever rally for trans rights in Ōtepoti Dunedin
Protestors gathered in support of trans rights
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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Crayfishing boat 'Argo' in Piopiotahi, Milford Sound 1954 📷 K V Bigwood From archives nz: ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/Del...
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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Bean Rock lighthouse, Waitematā Harbour First lit in 1871 & renovated in 1985 it is Aotearoa's only remaining wave-washed lighthouse & also was the very first to be automated in 1912 📷 Henry Winkelmann 1905 (Auckland Library Heritage Collections 1-W0035) www.maritimemuseum.co.nz/ivan-and-the...
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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
& brothers island lighthouse was the last manned in aotearoa - till 1990 watercolour by j frost, 1877 natlib.govt.nz/records/2307...
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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Pencarrow Lighthouse - aotearoa's first permanent lighthouse (1858) & also the only ever to have had a woman as keeper This Pic from 1981 📷: unknown Archives NZ ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/Del...
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