Colombo Street

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

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Christchurch streets, gardens and houses] / Cranleigh Barton [1930s-1950s?]

Reference: A-227-234

Description: Shows people walking along a street near a red phone box with buildings in the distance. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 285 x 190 mm

Date: ca 1880s

Reference: 1/2-002326-F

Description: View looking south down Colombo Street taken from the Cathedral. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Copy negative

Date: [ca 1900]

Reference: PAColl-6629

Description: Jubilee procession along Columbo Street in Christchurch, ca 1900, showing a bullock team passing between crowds. In the background is the chemist of Cook & Ross. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 146 x 103 mm, mounted on to card

Date: 1895

By: New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works; New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal

Reference: G-368

Description: At the top left of this view in four sections, Lyttelton, looking north along the railway lines and wharves. In the centre, Christchurch Cathedral viewed from Cathedral Square. Top right is a further view of Lyttelton township from the hills above it, looking down. The bottom half of the picture is a view in Cathedral Square forming a half-circle with Colombo Street looking south to the Port Hills in the centre, and east and west Worcester Street on the left and right. Warner's Hotel and the Central Post Office are to the right of Colombo Street. Main panorama measures 195 x 870 mm ; main title trimmed Lithographed from photographic originals Extended Title - Supplement to New Zealand Graphic, Dec 18, 1895 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, ca 350 x 870 mm

Date: 1908, 1925-1928, 1934

From: Dangerfield, Leonard Joseph, fl 1988-2002 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-1154

Description: Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: ca 1865-1872

From: Barker, Alfred Charles :Negatives

Reference: PAColl-3954-1

Description: Prints taken from negatives in the collection: T S Duncan and his family on the verandah of their house; church at Geraldine; a branch of the Bank of New South Wales; the headmaster's house at Christ's College; mountains near Grassmere; the church at Avonside; the old stone house on Colombo Street; a man standing next to an old building beside the Avon; Orari Gorge Station, owned by Mrs Barber Marton; and a statue in a square in Christchurch. Arrangement: Original negatives at 1/4-002583, 002608, 002614, 032228, 032229, 032232, 032235 to 032237, 032239 Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1920

By: Hewitt, George R, active 1920-1985

Reference: PAColl-0601

Description: Postcards collected by the depositor while working as an able seaman on HMS Renown during the tour by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Black and white postcards of Auckland, Christchurch, particularly the botanic gardens, Lyttelton, Picton, and Samoa and colour postcards of Wellington. Quantity: 43 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [1920]

From: Andrews, N :Stereoscopic photographs

Reference: PA4-0373

Description: Stereoscopic photograph looking north along Colombo Street, Christchurch, showig Christchurch Cathedral in the background, taken ca 1920 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1923

From: Panoramic photographs of New Zealand taken by R P Moore

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-072

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

Date: [ca 1900-1920]

By: Walker, George Allen, -1915; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945

Reference: PAColl-0524

Description: Collection comprises: Postcards of scenic attractions in the Rotorua and Waitomo area and others of Auckland and Christchurch including one of a young boy, F Shadbolt, on a pony and trap and a soldier in uniform named Howard Photographs of of an elderly woman called Mrs Stevenson and Miss O'Grady Photographs of soldiers at camp during World War I Photographs of children in hot pools, possibly at Whakarewarewa, and of the Blue and Green Lakes at Rotorua, taken by Blencowe Photograph of F O'Grady in a car belonging to Mr Pountney of Carr, Pountney & Co Photograph of a house in Waihi built 1900-1902 with a mother and two children standing outside Photograph of taxis outside a hotel in Onehunga, taken ca 1911 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). 30 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 2 b&w original photographic print(s) coloured by hand. Physical Description: Photographic prints Provenance: Donated by Charles O'Grady, Wellington, 1964

Date: ca 1900

Reference: 1/2-002340-F

Description: Looking south down Colombo Street with an opticians, the Mitchell Shoe Store, and Sarony on the left, Christchurch Cathedral half-way down the street, and trams and bicycles in the foreground. Photographers initials E T follow the postcard caption. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Copy negative

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: H E Perry Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-PHOTO-1940s-01

Description: Pink paper photo wallet, with advertisement for Selo Film (fast, British made) on the flap. H E Perry developed prints and enlargements from negatives, and made lantern slides. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on pink paper wallet, 175 x 107 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-0480 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-0480, and PA-Group-00627..

Date: 1957

Reference: 1/2-055411-F

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

Date: November 1947

Reference: PA1-f-260

Description: Album of photographs of the fire at J Ballantyne & Company Ltd department store, Colombo Street, Christchurch, taken November 1947 by an unknown photographer. Shows efforts to extinguish the fire on 18 November 1947, and the position of adjacent buildings in aerial views taken after the fire had been extinguished. Source of title - Title supplied by Library These photographs were used in the Royal Commission of Inquiry which was established to determine the cause of the fire and the culpability of both Ballantyne's management and of the local Fire Brigade Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Cardboard bound album 31.8 x 44.8 cm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2008

Date: Between 1950 and 1959

From: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.): Photographs

By: Cowey, D A, active 1950s; Barriball, Martin Sydney, 1929-

Reference: PAColl-0811-09-02

Description: Interior of the Vance Vivian mens clothing store in Colombo Street, Christchurch (architect: D A Cowey),constructed in the 1950s. Photograph taken by Martin Barriball Ltd. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

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-386-039

Description: Shows a man and his mother driving down Colombo Street in Christchurch. Large holes in the road mean that they have to drive along the tramlines. Cars are crashing, cyclists are falling in holes, and a Chinese man has popped his head out of one of the holes. A sign reads 'Colombo St. Crossing. Please try to cross at more than 2 miles per hour (and you'll be sorry)' The words '9th Aug,"Colombo St Crossing", No. 118' are written in blue coloured pencil on the back of the cartoon Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on card, 252 x 280 mm

Date: 1960

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-386-198

Description: Shows a group of men standing on a bridge on Colombo Street in Christchurch. One of the men holds a newspaper with the headline 'Nelson Railway work - NOT 'construction' - just 'preliminary investigation.' -Govt'. An angry man has knocked two others to the ground, and is ready to do the same to anyone else who questions him about preliminary investigations Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: 1950 - 1969

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-387-073

Description: Shows two men standing by a swimming pool beneath the Colombo Street Overhead Bridge. Text reads 'Colombo St. overhead bridge to be built, but - no roof to go on Centennial swimming pool... News.' A sign by the pool reads 'The new municipal (covered) swimming pool' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash and white corrector on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: 1950 - 1969

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-387-106

Description: Shows two frames illustrating unrelated topics. It appears that a third frame has been cut from the page. The first frame is about widening Colombo Street in Christchurch. It shows a widened street that is almost like a tunnel, because the upper stories of each building have not been moved back in line with the bottom stories. The second frame shows a man attempting to help his son with his maths homework Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and white corrector on card, 255 x 280 mm