Places

Date: [ca 1968]

From: Thorn, Benji, fl 2005 :Colour slides taken on holidays in the South Island

Reference: PA12-3423

Description: A Bus trip in Cental Otago and the town of Tarras; views of Timaru; views of an unidentified lake; People sunning thenselves at the youth hostel at Waimate; Views of Christchurch. Photographed by an unidentified photographer about 1968. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 5 May 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1731-F

Description: Panoramic view of Lyttelton Harbour and wharves. Looking down over the roofs of the port warehouses in the foreground. Six steamships in port. Pleasure craft, yachts, fishing boats moored in small harbour to the right of the wharves, inside the breakwater. Houses on hills far right and far left. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1732 for view taken further up the hill behind the wharves Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Lyttelton. N.Z. No. 544A Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 98.7 cm

Date: 5 May 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1732-F

Description: Panoramic view of Lyttelton Harbour and wharves. Looking down over lyttelton Port with the wharves in the centre. Township on the left above the port, houses and gardens and cleared land on the right and left on the hills behind the port. Hills across the harbour. Quail Island far right. Several steamships in port. Pleasure craft, yachts, fishing boats moored in small harbour to the right of the wharves, inside the breakwater. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Port of Lyttelton (New Zealand) No. 545 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 98.0 cm

Date: 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1733-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over Lyttelton Port and the breakwater. A large area of mudflats on the right beyond the breakwater. Several steamships in port. Pleasure craft, yachts, fishing boats moored in small harbour to the right of the wharves, inside the breakwater. Township on the far left, some houses far right. Cleared hills across the harbour, mountains in the background. Quail Island visible far right. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1731 and Pan-1732 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Lyttelton. N.Z. No. 546 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 105.4 cm

Date: 1950 - 1958

By: Campbell, Jenny, 1895-1970; Coomber, Thomas Warren, 1923-; Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965; Fell, Jean, active 1983; Delbruck, Elizabeth, active 1943

Reference: A-384-049/059

Description: Includes: John L Moore. Morepork [with three verses, and with handwritten note on verso. 1957] To Lisbet with best wishes for 1958 + love from John. John L Moore. The Hostel, Arthurs Pass [1957?] John L Moore. Kowhai [1957] John L Moore. Rock daisy [1957] John L Moore. Ranunculus Lyallii [1957?] John L Moore. The Hotel, Morere, N.Z. [ca 1957] John L Moore. Weka [ca 1957] John L Moore. Te Mata Peak [ca 1957] The above were enclosed with a New Year message to Lisbet for 1958. Also accompanied by a note: "Lisbet with love from John + in remembrance of those days in Havelock North" Also includes: Tom Coomber. [Seated woman]. The compliments of the season to Mrs Delbruck from Tom Coomber Jenny Campbell. [Doves and flames] Artist unknown. [Young man with guitar] Quantity: 11 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Woodcuts and etchings, sizes varying. Provenance: The collection was given to the donor by Mrs W R (Jean) Fell in around 1983. It had previously belonged to Elizabeth Delbruck.

Date: 1952

From: Leigh-Wood, Roger : Photographs of New Zealand Loan and Mercantile premises

Reference: PAColl-7242-01

Description: The corrugated-iron building containing the business of E Burrows, blacksmith and general engineer, and C J Redmond, furniture maker, in Ashburton, photographed in 1952 by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Ashburton (new site future building) This was later the site of the New Zealand Loan & Mercantile building Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 8.7 x 6.2 cm

Date: 1896

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: D-035-001

Description: Looking north from southern Fyffe's Bay towards Kaikoura township and the Seaward Kaikoura Range. Fyffe House, two boatsheds and a stone wharf are in the middle distance. In the left foreground is a man with a beached fishing boat. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - W F Barraud 1896 [in brown brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour

Date: Dec 2007- Apr 2008

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000268

Description: Photographs of Christchurch buildings, 2007-2008 Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within folders called "Buildings Dec 2007 to Jan 2008" and "Buildings Feb to April 2008" Quantity: 143 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2007

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000490

Description: Photographs of Christchurch City, Avon River and Lyttelton Harbour. Includes photographs of black and iron sands, container shipping, wharves and boats. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (christchurch)" Quantity: 59 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0026175

Description: An excited woman shows 'a key to the door' to her partner who assumes that it is the key to their first home. Unfortunately it is only the key to a literal door. It is all that the couple can afford. During 2013 house prices and costs rose dramatically, especially in Auckland and Christchurch, putting the goal of owning their first home out of reach of many people. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0023946

Description: Shows Gerry Brownlee next to a large rock that is advertised as 'For sale 300m2 solid building platform'. In the background is further rocks for sale and rocks falling down a cliff. Refers to Brownlee downplaying the Christchurch housing crisis. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: Architecture New Zealand (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0024761

Description: With the full title being 'Affordable housing...where architects, governments, accountants, enthusiasts, romantics, well, anyone really, get to experiment on the poor...', several vignettes illustrate impractical and mean-minded 'solutions' are devised to produce cheap housing. The scarcity of housing affordable to those on low and medium incomes, especially in Auckland and Christchurch, continued to rise during 2013. Many of the proposed solutions were impractical. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0020654

Description: Text reads 'Did you put the cat out and lock and back door?'. Shows car parked in Christchurch City at night. Context: People have been sleeping in their cars due to housing shortage created by Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 (Stuff 29 March 2012) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0022185

Description: Context: Refers to the housing shortage in Christchurch - one of the legacies of the earthquakes. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0021344

Description: Shows an enormous Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee portrayed as a house for rent being viewed by a couple. Context: Brownlee announced plans to alleviate Christchurch's housing shortage by increasing rental stocks (Stuff 24 April 2012) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0023256

Description: Four-panelled carton in which the Minister of Finance, Bill English, denies that homes costing half a million dollars are unaffordable for many New Zealanders; his reasoning is that with the Spring rains, there must be 'pots of gold sitting at the end of rainbows all over the country!' By October 2012 the crisis in the lack of housing, especially in Auckland and Christchurch, was worsening. The government, however, displayed no sense of urgency, nor any desire to increase expenditure on public housing. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0023258

Description: The Prime Minister, John Key announces the government's new housing plan of making home ownership easier for the poor by opening land for development and cutting through red tape. The Labour Party leader, David Shearer, compares it to the intention the SS Titanic to make Trans-Atlantic travel easier. The National Party government, in response to the housing crisis, in October 2012 announced a new housing package of opening up land and easing official restrictions on its development. The Labour opposition was sceptical. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0026931

Description: A cartoon of a settlement consisting entirely of tents and labelled '"Tentleton"'. The tents and inhabitants, both in stages of disrepair, are in streets signposted as 'Squalor St', 'Destitute Drive' and 'Winz Way'. The 'attractions' of the settlement include 'No covenants. All pets. Own longdrop. No rates. solar heating'. The cartoon is captioned 'Another Christchurch sub-division'. It was reported on 12 December 2013 that since the 2011 earthquake the number of people with dire needs on Housing New Zealand's waiting list had tripled, with 39 families in Christchurch more in need of housing than a woman who had moved her family into a tent in a public park. With the shortage of housing, a shanty and tent city seemed possible. 'Tentleton' is a play on the name for a real suburb, 'Templeton'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).