Places

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-533

Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm

Date: 1880s

From: Tonks album

Reference: PA1-o-497-05

Description: View of Colombo Street taken fron the north bank of the River Avon looking towards the Cathedral. The Port Hills can be seen in the distance. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1972 - 1975

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Clark & Matheson (Firm)

Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-1973-01

Description: Shows photographs of seven scenes: Christchurch Cathedral, dining at the restaurant at the top of the gondola in Queenstown, jet boating on the Shotover River, an ice arch on a glacier, steaming geysers at Wairakei, playing golf in front of the Chateau Tongariro, and reflections in Lake Matheson in Westland. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on poster 815 x 535 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1980.

Date: 2011

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0017189

Description: The cartoon shows Christchurch Cathedral shattered and with its steeple gone after the earthquake on 22 February 2011. The words 'The oSCARs' (wordplay on 'Oscars' and 'scars') are in the top left corner and the text 'The worst picture' are in the centre. A second version shows an 'Oscar' statuette with a crown on its head. Context - The Christchurch earthquake 22 February 2011 and the 2011 Oscars - annual film awards. Two versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: ca 1880

From: Foxley Norris album

Reference: PA1-q-094-107

Description: Christchurch Cathedral in Cathedral Square, Christchurch. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom centre - Christchurch Cathedral, NZ. Christchurch Cathedral was designed by British architect Sir George Gilbert Scott. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 2004

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0005311

Description: Shows Satan wearing a business suit and carryinga briefcase and manilla folder. He is walking into a Church and is about to give a speech. Outside in the foreground is the Prime Minister Helen Clark with a bruised halo. Refers to the Christchurch Cathederal hosting a series of talks by left party politicians. Published in The Press, 16 March 2004 Arrangement: This cartoon file was originally delivered to the library within a sub-folder called "QANTAS2004". Quantity: 1 digital image(s). Processing information: This cartoon file was donated to the library with no file extension. On recommendation of the Digital Archivist and with the consent of the donor, a ".jpg" file extension was added to this file in order to ensure it was readable and accessible.

Date: [ca 1903]

Reference: 1/2-018021-G

Description: Christ Church Cathedral, Christchurch, with spire being rebuilt after the 1901 earthquake. Photographer unidentified. The nave, tower and spire of Christchurch Cathedral was completed in 1881. Work on completeing the rest of the building began in 1900. In 1902 the transcepts were finished and work started on the chancel and apse. An earthquake in 1901 cracked the upper part of the spire in two places. In this photograph which dates from late 1902/1903 (see scaffolding beyond the transcept indicating work on chancel) the upper part of the spire has been removed by Messrs Graham and Greig in preparation for replacing this section with a copper covered wooden structure. The Cathedral was completed in 1904. (Information from "Vision and Reality; Christchurch Cathedral in the Square," Colin Brown, Christchurch, 2000 and "A Dream of Spires," Ian Lochhead, Canterbury University Press, 1999, page 153.) Preparation for erecting the scaffolding was reported in the Christchurch Star 15 January 1902. The cross was replaced on the top of the new copper covered wooden section of the spire on 29 June 1903. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Reference: 1/2-091149-F

Description: Christchurch Cathedral building. A tram and some carriages are outside the front entrance. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1906 - 1910

From: [Ten postcards collected by Kathleen Quinn, nee Plunkett. 1906-1910]

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Quinn-04

Description: Coloured photographic postcard shows the Christchurch Anglican Cathdral from the west, with two green and yellow trams in the foreground. The spire has the copper top on it. The statue of Robert Godley can be seen at the right. There is a telegraph pole in the left foreground with eleven wire-carrying crossbars on it. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Chromolithograph on postcard, 90 x 142 mm.

Date: 2011

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0017200

Description: The cartoon shows the Christchurch Cathedral surrounded by rubble and with its steeple gone. The bell lies on the ground and pieces of broken stone form the word 'tragedy'. Context - The Christchurch earthquake 22 February 2011. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0023102

Description: Shows a cathedral made of the sheets of paper that have been used in documenting the saga of the Christchurch Cathedral, badly damaged in the Christchurch earthquakes. Context: A design for a temporary cathedral has been outlined by renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. The proposed $4 million temporary replacement for Christchurch's destroyed cathedral would be made of shipping containers and cardboard. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 25 Jul 1951

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Weigel, William George, 1890-1980

Reference: PAColl-6388-32

Description: The dean of Christchurch, Alwyn Keith Warren, prior to his ordination as bishop of Christchurch, 25 July, 1951. Photograph taken by William George Weigel at the Christchurch Cathedral, Cathedral Square, Christchurch. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 154 x 209 mm

Date: [ca 1914]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-008569-G

Description: Cathedral Square, Christchurch, circa 1914, with pedestrians in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: 1930

By: Mathews, Roydon C, 1886?-1973

Reference: B-036-020

Description: Caricature of Alexander Melvin Burns, General Manager of the Christchurch Press from 1925, with part of the spire of Christchurch Cathedral visible outside his office window. Below the caricature are the signatures of senior editors on The Press. The artist was working for The Press at the time this portrait was drawn. Signatures (as far as can be deciphered) are for G. Burns, K McC Studholme, L. T. Aschman, F. A. Marriott, W. J. Green, F. N. Grant, B. O'Neill, Walter G Stack, Hartley Smith, A. H. Carrington, L. A. Barrett, Jas Drummond, W. J. Wilson, J. C. McKinnon, J. Burns, W. Peebles, A. N. Duttrage [?], W. G. Banfield and one illegible, possibly H. W. Kinoir. Several of the signatories were fellow-journalists and senior editors under Burns. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Roy C. Mathews 1930; Mat recto - beneath image - "Speak up laddie!"; Recto - beneath image - [19 signatures] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash with Chinese white on 2 sheets of cardboard, mounted one above the other 248 x 243 mm (portrait) & 170 x 257 mm (signatures)

Date: [ca 1880s-1920s]

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-005319-G

Description: Photograph taken by the Steffano Webb Photographic Studio, Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 28 May 1904

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-068073-F

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

Reference: 1/2-106731-F

Description: Christchurch Cathedral in Cathedral Square, Christchurch. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1935

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-Christchurch-1935-01

Description: Shows a composite picture of various elements, of the Avon River at the Bridge of Remembrance, seen from Cambridge Terrace, with the Cathedral Spire and other buildings in the background. The columns or pillars in the foreground may be those of the cloisters in the old University of Canterbury building (later the Art Centre). Below are three square inset scenes of a lake, a mountain and Hanmer Springs. Dated from New Zealand Railway magazine, November 1935, page 16. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 1010 x 585 mm.

Date: November 1957

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Walker, W (Mr), active 1940s-1950s

Reference: PA12-6810-2

Description: Cathedral Square, Christchurch, showing buses in street and Christ Church Cathedral at right. Photograph taken November 1957 by National Publicity Studios photographer W Walker. Source of descriptive information - Original envelope Other Titles - T3726 Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparency 10 x 12.5 cm Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 1928

By: Green & Hahn (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-C-22846

Description: A view of Christchurch from the Provincial Buildings. This view looks across Gloucester Street, over rooftops and towards the spire of the Christchurch Cathedral. Taken in 1928 by Green & Hahn. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).