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.
Display of photographs showing the construction of QEII Park back in the 1970s at the QEII Park Farewell Event.
Living room of Peveral Place on Mulcocks Road in Flaxton, home of Edward & Thirza Mulcock and their family of 17 children.
Dining room of Peveral Place on Mulcocks Road in Flaxton, home of Edward & Thirza Mulcock and their family of 17 children.
Earth from Above photographic exhibition sign on Rolleston Avenue.
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 ran...
The theme for the 2021 Photo Hunt was "People and Place - our stories revealed" and ran from Friday 1 October to Sunday 31 October.
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...
Portrait of Madge King taken in 1943 pasted into a book owned by Arthur Ivory who exchanged wartime love letters with her.
"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 Christchurch Photo Hunt is our annual heritage image competition. Christchurch City Libraries has run a Photo Hunt since 2008. People share their photographic memories to help build our...
2008 was the inaugural Christchurch Photo Hunt, held to coincide with Heritage Week. Heritage Week 2008 was a celebration of Christchurch's heritage of the post-war period with the theme of...
Portrait on material inserted between wooden slats.
In the 2012 Christchurch Photo Hunt people shared photos of 20th century Christchurch and helped build our photographic archive. The Christchurch Photo Hunt 2012 was themed "The ordinary is...
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...
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."
Reunion of the Creative Christchurch 1980s Group at the Black Dragon Theatre Group Photo Exhibition at the Eastside Gallery, on the corner of Worcester Street and Stanmore Road. David Lloyd is...
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...
"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...
"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...
Portrait of Canon James Stack with wife Eliza Stack sitting in a living room.
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...
Joan Swanson with prints for the Christchurch Photographic Society exhibition at the society's hall on St Asaph Street.