St. Martins

Date: 1999

By: Whiteside, Meta, active 1987-2012

Reference: Eph-A-LIBRARY-Christchurch-1999-01

Description: Bookmark recto shows a composite illustration of houses in a valley, a pink stone library building, and children's book characters Winnie the Pooh, Tigger (A A Milne) and Jemima Puddleduck (Beatrix Potter). The verso gives details of the library's hours of opening, and subscription charges. A logo for the New World Supermarket shows beneath. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offprint on both sides of card, 200 x 50 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Petrie, through Christine Petrie, December 2012.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Smith, George John, 1862-1946

Reference: Pan-0928-F

Description: Panoramic view of "Riverlaw", Aynsley Terrace, Christchurch. It was a very large three-storeyed house with open balconies on the first floor, and deep arched verandahs on the ground floor. There is a drive in front with wide steps up a sloping lawn to the house. Rose bed on the near side of the drive, bench seats in the foreground facing up to the house, and another house is visible on the hill to the left. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - "Colonel Smith St Martins"; Marginal notes on negative - 10 10 10 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 112.1 cm

Date: [ca 1922]

By: Webb, Steffano Francis Pavlovich, 1880-1967

Reference: PA1-o-1831

Description: Photographs illustrating the stock at A W Buxton Ltd's Opawa Nursery, St Martins, Christchurch taken circa 1922 by Steffano Webb. As well as vases of flowers, pot plants, and a range of trees grown at the nursery, there are photographs of tree stock, cana lillies, and perennial phlox lined out in open ground, views of other parts of the nursery grounds planted with specimen trees and beds of plants, staff arranged in front of the packing shed, and staff packing trees. The album may have used by salesmen working for Buxton. (Note: the album includes a two page spread of illustrated cuttings, added to the album circa 1950s when the Mrs and Mrs Filer's son, David, was young) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 21 May 1974

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-71887-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate