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Raymond Thomas Shannon - Papers

documentary heritage

Files relating to butterfly collecting as well as connection with the New Zealand Post Office and New Zealand Air Force. Photographs primarily date from the late 1930s during Shannon's time as an engineer cadet in Wellington.

Whakahounga o Mua: 28 Jan 2026

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Kupu whakaahua

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Wāhi

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Wāhi Hāngai

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Rā Kohinga

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Tohu Tuakiri Kē

7387 (Presto content ID)

MS-2010-25 (Reference Number)

86849 (DBTextworks system ID)

ACQ-2009-12 (Acquisition number)

2010/25 (Registration number)

Momo Tohu Tuakiri Kē

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Wāhanga

Manuscripts

Rūma Whakaatu

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Herenga

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Momo

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Tirohanga API

Rūma Whakaatu

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Momo Taonga

manuscript

Ingoa/Taitara

Raymond Thomas Shannon - Papers

Ingoa Kē

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Kaiwaihanga Matua

R T Shannon (PRIMARY MAKER)

Kaituku Kōrero/Kaiwhakaputa

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Wāhi

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Rā

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Ngā Tuhipoka Rā Whakaputa Tuatahi

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Waitohu/māka

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Whakaahuatanga ā-Kiko

4 London boxes containing a total of 42 folders

Ngā Puritanga Rangatū

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ISBN/ISSN

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Reo

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Kohinga

Raymond Thomas Shannon

Taumata o te Mauhanga o Nāianei

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Ahanoa Mema

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Ngā Tuhipoka Ahanoa Hāngai

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He Wāhi Nō

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Whakaahuatanga Rawatoi/Mātū

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Rawatoi/Mātū

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Raraunga Ine

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Tikanga Waihanga

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Putanga/Āhua/Whakaaturanga

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Tangata e Kōrerotia/Whakaahuatia ana

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Huinga Kaupapa

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Taumata whakarōpū

Holograph

Typescript/Other Documents/Documentary Artifacts/08 Communication Artifacts/Chenhall Nomenclature

Map/Cartograph/Graphic Documents/Documentary Artifacts/08 Communication Artifacts/Chenhall Nomenclature

printed ephemera/information artifacts by function/information artifacts/information forms (objects)/Information Forms (hierarchy name)/Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)

Photograph/Graphic Documents/Documentary Artifacts/08 Communication Artifacts/Chenhall Nomenclature

Kōrero o Roto

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Kuputuhi e Wātea Tūmatanui ana

Butterfly collection in Entomology Department.

Selected book collection in storage (B2) until processing.

Portrait photograph of Ray Shannon in academic gown. [Location: Basement 2; Call No. DU402.2 S528 size 3]

Photographs and negatives are held in the Pictorial Collection.

Ngā Tuhipoka a te Kairangahau

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Tuhipoka Hāngai

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Subject Notes

Ray Shannon was born on 1 July 1917, at Ngaruawahia. He obtained a science degree at Victoria University College and served as an engineer in the Post and Telegraph Department for most of his working life, apart from service in the Air Force from 1942 to 1945. He served in the Solomon Islands, where his interest in butterflies developed. This became a life-long passion, amassing 500 trays of displayed butterflies and moths and many hundreds of publications on these from around the world. Shannon died in 2008, at Tauranga.

Momo Kohinga

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Rārangi Mihi

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Whakahounga o Mua

28 Jan 2026

Raymond Thomas Shannon - Papers