A Life of Observation and Record Born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1908, Una Platts grew up in a world that was beginning to find its own visual language. The daughter of Charles Oakley Platts and Flora Galbraith, she moved with her family to Auckland, a city that would become the backdrop for much of her intellectual and creative life. After attending the Diocesan School for Girls and later Auckland University College, she began her professional life as a teacher, a role that likely nurtured the clarity and precision she would later bring to her historical studies. Her interests were never…