A man with a pile of books at the North Canterbury Red Cross annual market to raise funds for meals-on-wheels and disaster relief teams.
Mr Frank Hollins a performer in Sherlock Holmes with Mr J. C. Williamson's Dramatic Company, with his wife Mrs Hollins in a rowboat on the Avon River in Hagley Park.
Three women under the trees in a garden. One lies on a hammock, the second is seated in a wicker chair and the third is seated on the ground, holding a banjo. Books and a sewing bag are strewn on the...
A library customer, Dorothy Croucher, collecting books during a visit to the mobile library on Marshlands Road in Shirley.
Interior of Whitcombe & Tombs bookshop and of a Christmas promotional book display of New Zealand Books.
Close-up of a Whitcombe & Tombs bookshop Christmas promotional book display of New Zealand Books.
Students from Casebrook Intermediate School dressed as book characters. From left, standing, are Keri Palmer (Worzel Gummidge) and Craig Buchanan (Robinson Crusoe). Front from left, Natasha O'Dea...
Deputy city librarian, Suzanne Sutherland (left) and city librarian, Dorothea Brown inside Canterbury Public Library.
View of pills hidden inside the pages of a book.
Portrait from a photograph album of Edgar Turner and his grandmother Amy (nee Skoglund).
Molly Anderson with her book, The Caltex Book of Veteran and Vintage Cars of New Zealand.
Advertising posters on Gap Filler book fridge at corner of Barbadoes Street and Kilmore Street.
Casebrook Intermediate School students as book characters in the school library during book week. Teachers, from left front, Mrs B. Buchanan and Miss A. Wilson. Pupils, from left, Sarah Flower, Amanda...
Mr Fred Argue a foreman at F. Cartwright and Son Ltd., bookbinders and paper rulers, at work marbling the edge of a book.
Matenga Karauria of F. Cartwright and Son Ltd putting gold lettering onto the spine of a book during the bookbinding process.
A P Class yacht on display in Mairehau Library to accompany a book display on aquatic sports.
Librarian Adrian Birkbeck on a motor cycle inside the Canterbury Public Library. The motorcycle is on display with two others in the Library to coincide with the New Zealand Grand Prix which was...
Six unidentified people eating during a family birthday tea.
Librarians Wendy Gallagher and Phillippa Collett inside Lyttelton Library surrounded by books.
Students of Beckenham School at Beckenham Park for the school's book week. Pictured are, from left down, (left, down) Kylee Dumbleton, Emily Turnbull, Michael Frazer and (right, down) Simon Laurie...
Children and teachers outside at Phillipstown Kindergarten on St Asaph Street.
Christchurch art teacher and children's author, Gavin Bishop, with his youngest daughter Alexandra and his book "Chicken Licken".
A group of children listening to Margaret Mahy storytelling at Canterbury Public Library as part of the Christchurch Festival.
Roger Smith, exhibitions manager at the Robert McDougall Art Gallery presenting Kate Turrell with a copy of Te Māori outside the gallery. Kate was unexpectedly the 100,000th visitor to the gallery...