The shelf
Every record the archive holds about Christchurch, the oldest first. The originals live at the provider each row links to.
- On the shelf
- 58,089 records
- Collections
- 30 30 listed below
- Reaches back to
- 1800 the oldest record on file
By collection
Each collection is a shelf of its own, every name is a door into the records it holds.
- Papers Past34,951
- Canterbury Stories10,204
- Kura Heritage Collections Online4,797
- Te Papa Collections Online1,902
- National Publicity Studios black and white file prints881
- TAPUHI841
- Canterbury Museum810
- Auckland Museum Collections647
- New Zealand Gazette562
- Digital Public Library of America354
- V.C. Browne & Son NZ Aerial Photograph Collection262
- Christchurch City Libraries Flickr229
- Hocken Digital Collections195
- Museums Victoria192
- Air Force Museum of New Zealand Photograph Collection102
- Wellington City Council Archives89
- The New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero88
- New Zealand Electronic Text Collection88
- Christchurch City Libraries Heritage Images Collection87
- Lincoln University Living Heritage: Tikaka Tuku Iho71
- Flickr70
- Radio New Zealand64
- Alexander Turnbull Library Flickr58
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki51
- Te Hikoi Museum47
- iNaturalist NZ — Mātaki Taiao46
- Manawatū Heritage38
- Canterbury Photography Museum36
- Akaroa Museum32
- Hawke's Bay Museum29
The oldest first
- High School - Christchurch, , Te Papa Collections Online
- Cathedral Square, Christchurch, , Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
- Christchurch from Cathedral tower, , Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
- On the Avon, Christchurch, New Zealand, , Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
- The Tower, Christchurch, Oxford, , Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
- LAST- NIGHT'S MEETING. (New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, 15 December 1841), , Papers Past
- METROPOLITAN ANTI-CORN LAW ASSOCIATION. (New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, 13 June 1843), , Papers Past
- Original deeds in favour of the brothers Deans of their property at Dean's Bush, Riccarton, near Christchurch, , Hocken Digital Collections
- Original deeds in favour of the brothers Deans of their property at Dean's Bush, Riccarton, near Christchurch, , Hocken Digital Collections
- THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. (New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, 26 April 1848), , Papers Past
- THE "Wellington Independent." Wednesday, August 22, 1849. (Wellington Independent, 22 August 1849), , Papers Past
- Untitled (Daily Southern Cross, 28 September 1849), , Papers Past
What was here, every place on the register →
Questions, answered briefly
58,089 records about Christchurch, every one linked at the provider that keeps the original.
1800, the oldest record on file.
30 collections: council archives, Papers Past, DigitalNZ’s partners, cemetery registers, the heritage list itself. The shelf says what exists and where it lives.
They are leads and citations, not evidence, a record says a document exists and where to read it. What a document actually says is only claimed once somebody has read it; those readings live on the place pages.