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Date: 1880 - 1900

From: Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :[New Zealand views]. Louis Glaser, Leipzig. [ca 1890s]

Reference: E-278-q-075

Description: Birdseye view of the city from the cathedral spire looking along Columbo Street towards the Cashmere hills. Horse-drawn carts are lined up in Cathedral Square below. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, 90 x 137 mm

Date: 1880 - 1900

From: Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :[New Zealand views]. Louis Glaser, Leipzig. [ca 1890s]

Reference: E-278-q-076

Description: Birdseye view of the city from the cathedral spire looking down at Cathedral Square to the Post Office building. Horse-drawn carts and carriages can be seen in the square below. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, 90 x 137 mm

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-047409-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1951 - 1959

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

Reference: Plans-2007-030-0634

Description: An arrangement of eleven photographs looking down on Cathedral Square in all directions, probably taken from the Cathedral spire. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Collaged photographs, on sheet 507 x 663 mm.

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Cathedral Square, Christchurch] / Cranleigh Barton [1930s-1950s?]

Reference: A-227-231

Description: Shows an alleyway looking towards a park and some buildings. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 250 x 110 mm

Date: [ca 1930s-1940s]

Reference: PAColl-6848

Description: 25 images including two of what is probably earthquake damage to buildings in Hawke's Bay following the 1931 earthquake; four of a gathering at a wool shed flying the union jack (location unknown); one of the war memorial in Cathedral Square, Christchurch; one of a small wooden church without a tower or steeple (location unknown); a general view of the town where the same church is located; two of a derailment; eight of various locomotives, steam, diesel and electric, including one of a railcar sitting at Wellington Railway Station and one of an electric locomotive and carriages at Paekakariki station; one of a line of buses at a rural depot with passengers waiting; two boys and a man next to their car; a boy crouching next to a man; and a landscape (location unknown). Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-029898 to 029903, 030017, 030035 to 030036, 030039, 030044 to 030050, 030997, 031000 to 031003, 031006, 031011 and 031015. Quantity: 25 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: [ca 1860s-1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6886

Description: 22 images: 18 are copy negatives of images in books of Old Wellington in the 1860s many of which are captioned; two are of people milling around in front of the Cathedral in Christchurch; one is of the ship Marama ca 1920s; and one is probably an original negative of two older children and a baby in a garden. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044160 to 044181 Quantity: 22 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate copy negatives

Date: 1938

Reference: PA1-q-052

Description: Album chiefly shows members of a Lands & Survey team surveying boundaries etc, in the Chatham Islands, and in South Canterbury, circa 1938. Residents of the Chatham Islands, various locations in the islands and activities such as sheep transportation from the islands to Lyttelton and Wellington by ship are shown. Another sequence shows drainage and irrigation procedures in South Canterbury. The photographer is probably Russell Gladstone Dick, later the New Zealand Surveyor-General. Other - Source of descriptive information - Card inserted in album which reads "Ample evidence this is a 1938 Lands and Surveys team surveying boundaries etc ... The photographer is shown in photos 126, 127 and 112, and is probably Mr Dick, later NZ Surveyoe General ..." Signed "Rhys Richards". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark blue cloth-covered album, 35.5 x 22.5 cm

Date: [ca 1931-1949]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-203

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1931-1949. Dunedin - Rattray Street cable car, 1935; Leith Stream; lower Stuart Street; The Exchange looking south; Robert Burns statue in The Octagon; elevated view of St Paul's Cathedral and Dunedin Town Hall; The Centotaph, Queen's Gardens; Otago University, 1931; Dunedin Botanic Gardens; Otago Boys' High School; tram in Princes Street; elevated view looking north along George Street; panoramic view taken from Mornington looking north; aerial view over Mornington showing High Street School, Hawthorne Avenue, Kaituna Bowling Club etc; aerial view showing St Kilda and Forbury Park Trotting Club; Larnach's Castle (taken during the Baptist Union Annual Assembly); Otago Peninsula from above Macandrew Bay looking towards Port Chalmers; wharves at Port Chalmers, 1935; new wing of the Medical School, 1948. Christchurch - Captain Cook's statue, Victoria Square; group under a tree near Bridge of Remembrance; canoeing on the Avon River; Hagley Park; Christchurch Botanic Gardens; Band Rotunda; Cathedral Square; Avon River; Mona Vale; Captain Scott's Statue with Christchurch Club in background; Worcester Street Bridge; Rolleston statue and Canterbury Museum in Rolleston Avenue; Bridge of Remembrance; Christchurch World War One memorial, 1937; Christchurch Hospital, 1941; daffodils beside the Avon; aerial view showing Christ's College, etc; aerial view of Addington Racecourse, 1934 & 1937; aerial view of Christchurch Botanic Garden; Edgar Stead's home, Ilam; hillside suburb showing access path and stone retaining walls; pupils at Fendalton School during PE class, 1948; Kerr's Reach, Burwood, 1949 Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1907

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: 1/4-023412-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-047411-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Cathedral Square, Christchurch] / Cranleigh Barton [1930s-1950s?]

Reference: A-227-230

Description: Shows a small park with a statue and a bus and people walking around with a church in the background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 285 mm

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Cathedral Square, Christchurch] / Cranleigh Barton [1930s-1950s?]

Reference: A-227-232

Description: Shows an alleyway looking towards people talking and a park and buildings. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 280 x 195 mm

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-047410-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1981

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to the Church of England and Anglican congregations, parishes, churches and buildings in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-RELIGION-A-1981-01

Description: Christmas greeting card, signed by Dean Michael Underhill shows a photograph on the front, of a service conducted in the Cathedral by the Archbishop of York, the Right Honourable and Most Reverend Stuart Blanch. Also in the photograph are, from left, Bishop Pyatt, Dean Underhill in the left foreground, Archbishop Paul Reeves (obscured), and other named clergy. The card lists the members of the Cathedral Chapter, and announces the services for the week of Christmas. The back cover shows a photograph of the Cathedral's choir and vestry standing outside the front of the Cathedral in Cathedral Square. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) booklet. Physical Description: Offset print, on card folded to 147 x 220 mm Provenance: Donated by Mary Smart, Wellington, in 2012. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed in the Photographic Archive..

Date: 1953

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-386-004

Description: Shows a family looking out over Christchurch's Cathedral Square during the Queen's visit in 1953. The family are all dressed in their best clothes. The Cathedral, the war memorial and Chief Post Office are all visible. The Queen's car is seen disappearing behind the Cathedral, and crowds of people are gathered in the Square Below image in pencil is written '1953? Queen's visit?' suggesting someone other than the cartoonist wrote it Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Tom Mayne [in ink] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 200 x 260 mm (image)

Date: 1955

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-386-038

Description: Shows a flooded Cathedral Square with people boarding a bus bound for Papanui. The bus has become a ferry and passengers are boarding via a wharf The words '8 Aug '55, "The Square" cartoon, no. 117' are written in blue coloured pencil on the back of the cartoon Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone on card, 255 x 278 mm

Date: 1959

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-386-183

Description: Shows people hanging from overhead wires in Cathedral Square in Christchurch. Text reads 'Let's have, rather, this inexpensive, airy and speedy overhead-wire slide. Then we could still... see all the sights!' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and white corrector on card, 255 x 318 mm

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.

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Cathedral Square, Christchurch] / Cranleigh Barton [1930s-1950s?]

Reference: A-227-229

Description: Shows people gathered in small groups either walking or sitting near a small park with buildings and a statue in the background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 190 x 285 mm