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Display board for Hawtrey Company

Display board for Hawtrey Company, displaying images of Avon River boaters. Attached to a wall of the Antigua Boat Sheds.

Date 1900 to 1907
Format Glass plate negative
Resource Type Image
Collection Samuel Anstey collection

Display board for Sheridan Company

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.

Date unspecified day in 1901-11
Format Glass plate negative
Resource Type Image
Collection Samuel Anstey collection

Display of photos

Display of photographs showing the construction of QEII Park back in the 1970s at the QEII Park Farewell Event.

Date 2012-12-09
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection Gina Hubert earthquake collection

Living room of Peveral Place

Living room of Peveral Place on Mulcocks Road in Flaxton, home of Edward & Thirza Mulcock and their family of 17 children.

Date unspecified year in 187X
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2013 Photo Hunt

Dining room of Peveral Place

Dining room of Peveral Place on Mulcocks Road in Flaxton, home of Edward & Thirza Mulcock and their family of 17 children.

Date unspecified year in 187X
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2013 Photo Hunt

2020 Photo Hunt

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...

Format Collection
Resource Type Collection
Collection Christchurch Photo Hunt

2021 Photo Hunt

The theme for the 2021 Photo Hunt was "People and Place - our stories revealed" and ran from Friday 1 October to Sunday 31 October.

Format Collection
Resource Type Collection
Collection Christchurch Photo Hunt

Arthur Ivory

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...

Date 1981-07-11
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1981 Christchurch Star negative strips

Portrait of Madge King from 1943

Portrait of Madge King taken in 1943 pasted into a book owned by Arthur Ivory who exchanged wartime love letters with her.

Date 1981-07-11
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1981 Christchurch Star negative strips

2018 Photo Hunt

"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...

Date 2018
Format Collection
Resource Type Collection
Collection Christchurch Photo Hunt

Christchurch Photo Hunt

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...

Format Collection
Resource Type Collection
Collection Collections

2008 Photo Hunt

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...

Date 2008
Format Collection
Resource Type Collection
Collection Christchurch Photo Hunt

Portrait between slats of wood

Portrait on material inserted between wooden slats.

Date 2011 (year approximate)
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection Christchurch views, post earthquake

2012 Photo Hunt

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...

Format Collection
Resource Type Collection
Collection Christchurch Photo Hunt

2015 Photo Hunt

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...

Format Collection
Resource Type Collection
Collection Christchurch Photo Hunt

2019 Photo Hunt

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."

Format Collection
Resource Type Collection
Collection Christchurch Photo Hunt

Reunion of Creative Christchurch 1980s group

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...

Date 2020-10-20
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection Black Dragon Theatre Group collection

2016 Photo Hunt

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...

Format Collection
Resource Type Collection
Collection Christchurch Photo Hunt

2014 Photo Hunt

"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...

Format Collection
Resource Type Collection
Collection Christchurch Photo Hunt

2017 Photo Hunt

"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...

Format Collection
Resource Type Collection
Collection Christchurch Photo Hunt

2013 Photo Hunt

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...

Format Collection
Resource Type Collection
Collection Christchurch Photo Hunt