Archives

The collection includes selected digitised material from the records of local and community organisations and clubs, churches, businesses and individuals. The archives material relates to Christchurch, the Canterbury region and the Chatham Islands from 1850 onwards and includes photographs, letters, diaries, booklets, government documents, and personal papers.

Collections

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Image of Protest against South African Rugby Board president

1981 Springbok Tour posters

In July, August and September 1981 New Zealand experienced some of its greatest civil disturbance in that century as the South African rugby team toured the country. This collection includes...

image of Chocolate Bomb House on the corner of Oxford Terrace and Manchester Street.

Albert James North collection

The collection consists of 133 photographs, 128 of which are by North, and 5 by an unknown photographer. A selection of 79 photographs have been digitised. Born in Dunedin on 26th August 1912...

Barbadoes Street Cemetery registers

A group of registers listing details of interments in the Barbadoes Street cemetery from 1851 to 1973. The original cemetery registers and indexes are held by Christchurch City Council Archives and...

Cashmere Sanatorium album and photographs, 1913-1933

Two photograph albums and 70 assorted photographs of the Cashmere Sanatorium, Fresh Air School, Fresh Air Home and Coronation Hospital taken between 1913 and 1933. One photograph album inscribed to Dr...

Christchurch and Banks Peninsula glass plate collection

Glass plate images of family group and individual portraits, landscapes, farm and city life scenes from mostly Christchurch and Banks Peninsula. The collection includes photos of boating parties...

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Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū poster collection

A selection of posters from the Robert McDougall Art Gallery (and its Contemporary Art Annex) and the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū. Some of these posters promoted exhibitions at the...

Christchurch City Council Archives collection

The Christchurch City Council archives are a rich resource of the history and development of Christchurch. The records date back to when the Council was first established in 1862 and include records...

Christchurch Documentary Project

The Christchurch Documentary Project was a collaboration between Christchurch City Libraries and the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts to create a documentary photographic record of...

Christchurch Star archive

The Christchurch Star archive is an extensive collection of photographic prints, negatives and newspaper clippings mostly covering local stories including those on community events, local people...

Cinema advertising slides

Three of these coloured glass slides advertise films, one at the Grand Opera House. Another slide is a request for patrons to leave by the nearest exit. The remaining two slides advertise forthcoming...

Doc Ross photographic archive

Images from the Doc Ross photographic archive, a rich collection of images of Christchurch places and people.

Drayton album

A photograph album from the early 1900s containing photographs of social activities, nature scenes and the 1900 Canterbury Jubilee celebrations. Image credit: CCL-PH14-Drayton-025a

Elliot family papers

A collection of colour transparencies recording family trips around New Zealand, pictorial views of scenery and places, and an Australian trip. Photographs are mainly taken by William Robin Elliot....

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Finding aids for the Archive collections

These finding aids describe in varying detail the contents of the Christchurch City Libraries Archives collection. Not all archives currently have a finding aid online.

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Gimblett family collection

Photographs of the Gimblett family and Heathcote Valley, from the 1890s through to the 1940s. Archive 949. Image Credit: Group of young people outdoors with cricket bat. CCL-Arch949-Gimblett-042...

Gordon Gee botanical illustrations

A collection of 296 of Gordon Gee’s watercolour and line illustrations from the Christchurch Botanic Gardens Archives. Image credit: Gordon Gee, Botanic Garden sign writer. CCL-StarP-01691A...

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Halswell Quarry collection

A selection of material from the Christchurch City Council Archives covering the working Halswell Quarry and its transition to Halswell Quarry Park. File reference: Remnants of quarrying, CCCArch...

Henry Bottle papers

A shipboard diary and six letters, 1879-1884. The diary, written by Henry Bottle, records the voyage of the Himalaya from London to Lyttelton, and starts on January 11, 1879, finishing on April 14...

Historical Christchurch images

Photographs taken by the Christchurch City Council for reports and publications on the growth of the city and wider environs. The photographs cover a wide range of years and subjects. The images...

Municipal Electricity Department collection

The Municipal Electricity Department archive consists of material relating to the Christchurch city's Electricity Department from its formation in 1903. The Electricity Department was reorganised and...

Image of Advertising bollard near the Stewart Fountain, city centre

Music posters

This is our initial online collection of posters, digitised from the libraries' ephemera collection for New Zealand Music Month, May 2007. The collection covers mostly Christchurch band in the...

O'Sullivan collection : First World War memorabilia, letters, diaries

A selection of material from the collection of Barry O'Sullivan relating to the first World War. The digital collection includes personal effects of enlisted men from Christchurch, regimental badges...

Rowley family letters

Letters between members of the Rowley family, Tom, Jane, Mary, Emily, and Marianne Taylor and others, from 1860 through to the 1880s.

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Black and white glass plate image of a group in canoes on Avon River.

Samuel Anstey collection

A collection of images from dry glass plate negatives. The images are of boaters in canoes and rowboats from the Antigua Boat Sheds, Christchurch buildings and scenes, and some images of a North...

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