The theme for the 2020 Photo Hunt was Encounter Our Stories which was part of the Heritage Festival theme of Encounter our Stories – Arts, culture and identity. It marks the 12th Photo Hunt and and...
The Christchurch Photo Hunt is our annual heritage image competition. Christchurch City Libraries has run a Photo Hunt since 2008. People have shared their photographic memories to help us build our...
2008 was the inaugral Christchurch Photo Hunt. Heritage Week 2008 was a celebration of Christchurch's heritage of the post-war period with the theme of "Retrospective: Christchurch life...
The 2019 Christchurch Photo Hunt was our 11th Photo Hunt. The theme was: "Encounter Our Stories Share stories of your encounters, with the city, your community, with friends or nature."
"Making Connections: Experience our past – present – future" was the 2014 Photo Hunt theme. The judges found it "very difficult to choose between so many incredible photos. These photos will be an...
The 2013 Photo Hunt had the theme Reconnect Christchurch and entries were made in two categories: Places: Buildings, Suburbs or City and People - families, cultural or social events. In total 499...
The 2015 theme was ‘Arrivals and Departures — The journeys that have shaped us’. Comment on the photo hunt submissions from the 2015 judges: "It's always a pleasure to view everyone's photo...
"Strength from struggle" was the theme for Heritage Week in 2019. The judges noted that this year the photos reflected Christchurch’s social history. In a year that marks many milestones for New...
The 2016 Photo hunt theme was "Hidden histories, our stories unearthed." Both judges, in selecting the winners, reflected on the poignancy that older photos of Christchurch now carry, as Doc Ross...
"Plains, Port Hills & Peninsula – Finding our way" was the theme for 2017. The judges noted that this year the photos reflected Christchurch’s social history, depicting everything from anti-nuclear...
Kathleen Mitchell with a photograph of Duckworth and Turner shoe factory employees. She used the photograph to arrange a reunion for former staff.
Portraits of Arthur Ivory, a retired post office official who exchanged love letters with a woman called Madge King during the Second World War and is looking to be reunited with her.
Portrait of Madge King taken in 1943 pasted into a book owned by Arthur Ivory who exchanged wartime love letters with her.
Portraits of Arthur Ivory, a retired post office official, with a selection of the love letters he exchanged with a woman called Madge King during the Second World War and is looking to be reunited...
Views of a photograph labelled “High School, Rangiora, N. Z.” with a handwritten note stating “Prior to 1906”. The photograph is on top of overseas postage stamps.
Display cabinet and family photographs in the dining room at Linda's home. Linda lives in an area of Halswell known by residents as 'Old Halswell'.
Bookshelf and family photographs at Linda's home in Halswell. The framed image is one of Linda's foster children. Linda lives in an area of Halswell known by residents as 'Old Halswell'.
A box belonging to the Bishopdale Badminton club containing club photographs with names of members and shuttlecocks. The Badminton club meets at Bishopdale Recreation Centre, YMCA, Bishopdale.
L. H. Beynon holding a letter and photograph of daughter Mary Ann, away on a rugby supporters trip in South Africa.
View of Lindsay Crozier, Presbyterian Publicity Studios cameraman with some of his prints.
Display board for Hawtrey Company, displaying images of Avon River boaters. Attached to a wall of the Antigua Boat Sheds.
Display board for Sheridan Theatre Company, displaying portraits and images of Avon River boaters and cyclists. Attached to a wall of the Antigua Boat Sheds.
Winners of the Ilford Shield inter-secondary schools photographic competition. Pictured are, from left, Lyndon Hadden, Sonja Bawden, Sarah Fountain, Lyn Hornblow, and Stephan Roberts.
A collection of more than 100 photographs taken by ‘Star’ cameraman Ray Pigney on display in the foyer of the ‘Star’ building in Kilmore St.