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We can connect 39 things related to Canterbury Region, 1900, 1910, and 1914 to the places on this map.
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[Artist unknown : Sign of the Bellbird, Kennedy's Bush, Port Hills, Christchurch, ca 1920]

Date: 1914 - 1925

Reference: E-278-q-105

Description: View of the single-storey stone rest house or tearooms known as The Sign of the Bellbird, in Kennedys Bush Reserve. The front door is open. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Rest House - Kennedys Bush, Cashmere Hills, Christchurch, NZ Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 75 x 110 mm on card 114 x 152 mm

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[Artist unknown : Sign of the Bellbird, Kennedy's Bush, Port Hills, Christchurch, ca 1920]

Date: 1914 - 1925

Reference: E-278-q-105-A

Description: View of the single-storey stone rest house or tearooms known as The Sign of the Bellbird, in Kennedys Bush Reserve. The front door is open. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Rest House - Kennedys Bush, Cashmere Hills, Christchurch, NZ Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 75 x 110 mm on card 114 x 152 mm

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[Artist unknown : Sign of the Bellbird, Kennedy's Bush, Port Hills, Christchurch, ca 1920]

Date: 1914 - 1925

Reference: E-278-q-105-B

Description: View of the single-storey stone rest house or tearooms known as The Sign of the Bellbird, in Kennedys Bush Reserve. The front door is open. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Rest House - Kennedys Bush, Cashmere Hills, Christchurch, NZ Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 75 x 110 mm on card 114 x 152 mm

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3422. Methodist church, Sydenham, Christchurch. N.Z.

Date: 1914 or 1915

From: Atkinson, John :Album of postcards and photographs of New Zealand churches

Reference: PA1-o-966-060

Description: View of Sydenham Methodist Church, Christchurch, taken ca 1914-1915 by an unknown photographer. Verso contains Christmas greetings from A A Campbell to Mrs Fairhurst, 1914-1915. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom left - 3422. Methodist Church Sydenham Christchurch N.Z.; Verso - top left - Christmas Greetings Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 89 x 138 mm

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Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :[Newspaper clipping relating to the loss of the ve...

Date: 1897 - 1914

From: [Moreton, Samuel Horatio], 1845?-1921 :[Sketchbook, 1896-1898, 1904]

Reference: E-120-q-2-031

Description: Sketch by Moreton of view from Dyers Pass (inscribed `Herbert's last morning') with clipping relating to the loss of the barque Sultana (dated Feb 7th 1914) pasted in lower lefthand corner Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title (partially obscured by clipping) Quantity: 1 drawing(s) and printed matter. Physical Description: Pencil and printed matter, 284 x 205 mm

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Kaiapohia; the story of a siege/ James West Stack

Date: [1893-1914]

From: Cowan family: Collection

By: Buckland, Jessie Lillian, 1878-1939

Reference: MS-Papers-11946-049

Description: Published by Whitcombe & Tombs, 1893. Also loose material including photographs, clippings, and a typescript (annotated) of Ngāi Tahu whakapapa. The volume is annotated by Cowan, and includes notes relating to Ngāi Tahu place names from the Canterbury region. The photographs are in postcard format, and include images of Akaroa and Wainui, by Jessie Buckland. Also a real-photo postcard sent to Cowan by W. A. Taylor, which includes a personal message saying 'To Mr James Cowan, trusting he will have a Happy Christmas and Prosperous New Year, with a pen ever ready to promote an understanding of the Maori People'. The image on the postcard is of signatures of the Tuahiwi Runanga, 1870. According to Cowan's annotations on the typescript of whakapapa, the information had been supplied by Tame Kirini [Thomas Green], of Tuahiwi, in 1907. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed volume with loose papers, photographs, and postcards

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World War I soldiers marching through Cathedral Square, Christchurch

Date: [ca 1914]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-011947-G

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

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Photographs of World War One soldiers, and the Royal Tour 1953-1954.

Date: [ca1914]-1954

From: Featherstone, Paul, fl 2006 :Photographs of World War I soldiers and the Royal Tour 1953-1954

Reference: PAColl-8952-1

Description: New Zealand soldiers, World War One. Unloading oysters, Bluff. Royal tour decorations and the Queen on the wharf, Bluff. Woburn, Lower Hutt, from the air. Mrs Elinor Roosevelt at the Ford Motor Co, Gracefield, Lower Hutt. Souvenier photographs of Auckland and Invercargill. Postcard view of the Centennial Exhibition, Rongatai, Wellington, 1939-1940. Unidentified stone church, Queenstown. Unidentified wrecked ship. Unidentified suburban houses. World War Two army encampment. Japanese Commander signing surrender after the fall of Singapore to the Allies. Lord Louis Mountbatten speaking in Singapore. Building belonging to S.Ward (NZ) Ltd. Clock tower, Sumner, Christchurch. Views of Picton. Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s) 21 prints on 5 album pages.

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Alpine photographs

Date: [Between 1914 and 1945]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Graham, Elizabeth Muriel, -1957; Hurley, James Francis, 1885-1962; Lysons, Markham Carthew, 1907-1944; Mercer, James Cuthbert, 1886-1944; Thomson, Jane, 1858-1944; Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983

Reference: PAColl-0959-03

Description: Scenic photographs of the Southern Alps, taken between about 1914 and the 1940s by various unidentified and identified photographers including William Alexander Kennedy, Markham Cardew Lysons, Jane Thomson, Frank Hurley and James Cuthbert Mercer, and possibly Elizabeth Graham (Mrs P Graham). Includes views of "Turner Hooker Expedition" in which Samuel Turner was the first man to climb Mount Hooker (in 1929), probably with guide Peter Graham (images 001-007); view no. 14 of the high peak of Mt Cook, taken by Mrs Thomson (Jane Thomson); numbers of unidentified images; views of glaciers and crevasses, mountains, and mountain huts; cutting round the schrund? below the Tasman Saddle showing the steepness of the snow slopes; the dining room of The Hermitage Hotel at Mt Cook; various expeditions including a Callery Valley Expedition and a goldminer's camp in Waikukupa Valley; aerial photographs taken by James Cuthbert Mercer including a campsite and landing site in the Arawata Valley; four views of Antarctica, including one of the end of the Shackleton Expedition ship Endurance, taken in 1915 by Frank Hurley (image no. 087), and one of Campbell Island; the foot of the Unser Fritz Falls; Copland Valley; Mt Ngaruahoe, and Tama Lake (Mt Tongariro); the road over Mt Hercules; Cascade Point; Mounts Cook and Tasman; aerial view of tree ferns ("palm trees") at Waiho; plane over Otako branch of Paringa looking north; Mount Hooker; five views of a group of men carrying planks up the Haast Ridge from the Tasman Glacier, probably in 1915 for the building of the King Memorial Hut; Mt Elie de Beaumont from the Upper Callery Valley; cloud reflections in Mapourika; the Fox Moth plane ZK-ADH by the camp and landing strip at Arawata. Quantity: 122 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

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Thompson, Barry :Photographs

Date: ca 1914-1918

By: Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: PAColl-0605

Description: Photographs of: Tui Hunt holding a doll and Huia Hunt at an easel in their back garden; the beach at Broad Bay, Dunedin; the employees outside J Mandl & Co, Westland Brewery in Hokitika with a horse and loaded dray next to it; a display of dolls, dolls furniture and framed pictures with poems attached; a hand touched photograph of an unknown man next to a lake probably in Rotorua; Lorna Moore holding the train of the dress of Miss Mulholland at Twomey's Hotel in Methven (not a wedding dress so possibly for a pageant); a taxi bedecked with union jacks outside a house in Christchurch with six people dressed up as clowns for a post-war celebration - one man is blacked up; and a street sellers cart labelled "Soldiers' Queen Cart No 4" possibly also associated with post-war celebrations. Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944: Assorted photographic prints and negatives

Date: [ca 1860-1914]

By: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944

Reference: PAColl-0341

Description: Photographs of various scenes: two of the convoy in Wellington Harbour in October 1914 (one from Field album VIII); the Field children outside a dilapidated house in Waikanae; a photographed captioned "mother and Peter" of two women, four children and a man in the mouth of Karori tunnel; a train passing through Te Aroha (Field album V); Auckland from the north shore (Field Album V); Sir George Grey's house at Momona Bay, Kawau (Field album IX); an excursion train meeting a river boat (Field Album XV); a house next to a small lake captioned New Plymouth (Field album IX); two of the visit by the Duke and Duchess of York in 1901 (one from Field Album VI); Mrs Edward and her mother on the verandah of their house in Khandallah; a post card of the station at Manakau; farm horses in harness eating at a trough (Field Album XV); Maori men, women and children around a meeting house for a tangi in Manaia, Coromandel - above the door is written Rahera Titia (Field Album V); Hot Springs Hotel beside the lake at Waiwera (Field Album V); looking down the Waimakariri from what is now Glacier Hotel at an old homestead and two of Mitre Peak and Milford Sound (stuck to the same piece of card Field Album IX); large two storey house (Field Album XVIII); and a panorama of Dunedin showing Rattray Street in the foreground and the wharves behind (Field Album VIII). Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-115913 to 115936 Quantity: 42 b&w original negative(s). 25 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Photographs of the students of Rolleston House and Wellington Harbour Board

Date: ca 1914-1931

From: Barrer, Nina Agatha Rosamond, 1879-1965 : Photographs of Rolleston House students at Canterbury University, Wellington Harbour Board and others

By: Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Standish & Preece (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4237

Description: Two photographs of the Wellington Harbour Board from ca 1920s, the earlier one taken by S P Andrew indicates J M Barrer at the right hand side of the back row. A large group portrait of men and boys gathered outside a place of work with two large flags draped near the door and a soldier standing in the middle of the group. Some of the men are in work clothes. The photograph is not captioned and the photographer is unidentified. Four photographs of the student body resident at Rolleston House, Canterbury University in 1927, 1929, 1931 and another year. The photographs are taken in the quadrangle in front of a cloister. The names are all given with offices held where relevant. Two of the photographs were taken by Standish and Preece. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Photographs of Orari

Date: 1914-1915, 1923-1924, 1950s

From: Unwin, Diana Mary, 1923-2014 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9535

Description: Collection comprises: Photographs of Unwin family at Orari, Timaru, October 1923 - April 1924. Views of Netley Hospital, Southampton, in 1915 Decorated cars in motor carnival, 1914 Central Otago motor tour, ca 1956 Portraits of Diana Unwin as a child Unwin family swimming in river. Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on album leaf.

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Parades - Kaiapoi

Date: 1914-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-040939-G

Description: Photograph taken for the 'Free Lance' newspaper between 1914 and 1960 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

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Parades - Kaiapoi

Date: 1914-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-040940-G

Description: Photograph taken for the 'Free Lance' newspaper between 1914 and 1960 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

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A view of World War I soldiers carrying their guns, marching through Cathedral Square, ...

Date: [ca 1914]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-011945-G

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

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Crowds of people in Cathedral Square, Christchurch, including a tram in the background

Date: [ca 1914]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-008433-G

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

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Parade procession of soldiers, World War One, Cathedral Square, Christchurch

Date: [ca 1914-1918]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-017665-G

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

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World War I soldiers marching down street beyond Cathedral Square, Christchurch City, w...

Date: 1914

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-008306-G

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

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Cathedral Square, Christchurch, including trams

Date: [ca 1914]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-008438-G

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

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