Extensions to the Municipal Electricity Department (MED) building.
View of a farmer and children alongside a bullock team used for moving farm equipment on the Banks Peninsula.
The stone erected to commemorate the origin of the Corriedale breed of sheep on Corriedale estate, Otago.
Exterior of Government Housing subdivisions under construction in Riccarton, part of one of the biggest government schemes in Christchurch.
Members of the Third composite company of the New Zealand Army corps and trucks and a motorcycle lined up along a residential street in Christchurch ahead of travelling to Cave during the Second World...
A member of the New Zealand Signal corps undergoing territorial training in the Port Hills during the Second World War.
View of Abberley Park Hall and Abberley Park looking towards houses in St Albans.
A boat clearing the weeds from the Heathcote River looking towards the Radley bridge on Radley Street and to Clarendon Terrace on the opposite side of the river. Photograph taken from Ferry Road...
Cyclists, including those on Penny Farthings, dressed in period costume participating in the centennial procession in Christchurch.
A man on a horse leading a packhorse with the sign "too slow for today" during the New Zealand centennial procession in Christchurch.
An Municipal Electricity Department float in the New Zealand Centennial procession in Christchurch marking 'A Century of Electrical Progress', outside the MED building on the corner of Manchester...
Horses for judging at the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association Show at Addington showgrounds.
A whitebaiter using a net to catch whitebait in the Avon River.
Otto Gustav Rosenau a Jewish refugee from Germany who worked with my Grandfather Max Ogilvie for a time on his orchard in Horotane valley and then went to enlist on the 26th December 1939
Merle, - Remembering the photographer who was always ready to snap people walking thru the Square. The era when mother made the children's clothes and we dressed up to go to town. Could the look be...
An encounter with Father Christmas 1940. Gordon Ogilvie (Christchurch author) aged 7 with sisters Helen and Ruth (wearing corrective eyewear) Their look of uncertainty is similar to that of most...
This photo is the locals starting clearing grounds for South Brighton School, 1940.
Work being carried out in a Vanguard motor car at Motor Assemblies who were situated in Tuam Street 1940s - 1965. From back of photo: Soldering or lead-loading joints which would otherwise not be...
Ethel Agnes Allridge on the back of her boyfriend, Ernest Leicester Frampton's Ariel motorbike. Bubs worked as a housekepper at the Amberley Hostel. Leicester was farming at Oxford. They married in...
"Mother, Mary Smith and friend walking through the Square" - Contributor's note
Our annual family camp site at Leithfield Beach where we stayed 6 weeks. The Rugby car with rug covering the tyre for sun protection and our new caravan of which we were very proud. Note how we always...
Centennial Tower and Reflecting Pool, NZ Centenial Exhibition, Rongotai, Wellington, 1940. Postcard from New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, 1940. Verso: Ellen Deste Photo, Printed by Coulls...
View of the yard area of the Municipal Electricity Department during the demolition of the destructor chimney and boiler house on Armagh Street.