How many records does the archive hold?

67,402 records about Christchurch, every one linked at the provider that keeps the original.

How far back does the archive reach?

1800, the oldest record on file.

Where do the records come from?

30 collections: council archives, Papers Past, DigitalNZ’s partners, cemetery registers, the heritage list itself. The shelf says what exists and where it lives.

Are these documents verified?

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.

“Botanic”, the shelf

Every record the archive holds about Christchurch, the oldest first. The originals live at the provider each row links to.

762 records matching 0 of these 100 with their text read Papers Past · Canterbury Stories · Kura Heritage Collections Online · Te Papa Collections Online · National Publicity Studios black and white file prints · TAPUHI · Canterbury Museum · Auckland Museum Collections · New Zealand Gazette · Digital Public Library of America · V.C. Browne & Son NZ Aerial Photograph Collection · Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · Hocken Digital Collections · Museums Victoria · Air Force Museum of New Zealand Photograph Collection · Wellington City Council Archives · The New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero · New Zealand Electronic Text Collection · Christchurch City Libraries Heritage Images Collection · Lincoln University Living Heritage: Tikaka Tuku Iho · Flickr · Radio New Zealand · Alexander Turnbull Library Flickr · Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki · Te Hikoi Museum · iNaturalist NZ — Mātaki Taiao · Manawatū Heritage · Canterbury Photography Museum · Akaroa Museum · Hawke's Bay Museum

the 1900s
1 Jan 1900
Woman in a canoe on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11006 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man in a canoe on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11597 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two men in canoes on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man and woman in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11629 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11515 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man and woman in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11533 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Woman in a tethered canoe on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11483 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Three women in a double rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11826 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man in a canoe on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10338 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Avon River and Botanic Gardens by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man in a canoe on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11084 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women and two men in a double rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11596 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Three women in a double rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11489 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man and woman in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11593 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Woman in a canoe on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10715 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man and woman in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11822 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man and two women in a double rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women and two men in a double rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11516 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11823 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Woman in a tethered canoe on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11626 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women in canoes on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10907 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women in canoes on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11154 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
River scene by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man in a canoe on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11078 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Woman in a canoe on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10855 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Three men and two women in tethered canoes by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Three men in canoes on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10458 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two boys in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Woman in a tethered rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10818 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10706 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man and woman in canoes on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women in canoes on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10924 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10905 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two men in a double canoe on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man and woman in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11402 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Five women in canoes and rowboats on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Three women in a double rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10918 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Woman and two children in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10681 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two men in a canoe on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man and two women in a rowboat by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man and a woman in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two men and two women in rowboats on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man and two women in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women and a man in canoes on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women and a man in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10502 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women and a man in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10936 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Monkey puzzle tree in the Botanic Gardens by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Large group of people on the Botanic Gardens footbridge by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Three women and a man in a double rowboat by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Eight men and two women in canoes on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Five men and two women in canoes on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Woman in a tethered canoe on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11119 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women with a canoe by the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Park view, in snow by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women seated on the bank of the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Three women in a double rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10906 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two men in a rowboat and a canoe on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man and girl in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man and woman in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11405 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women and child in rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Six women in canoes on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Woman and two children in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10688 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Woman and two children in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10680 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Three men and a woman in canoes on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11152 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Three men and two women in two rowboats on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women and a man in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10394 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two men and two women in tethered rowboats on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man and woman in a rowboat by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Four women in a double rowboat by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Five men and two women in canoes and rowboats on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women and a man in a double rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women and a girl in a double rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10886 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women and a girl in a double rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10887 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Vehicle bridge over the Avon River in snow by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Three men and a bulldog by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Five women in rowboats on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10499 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Five women in rowboats on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10500 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women and two men in a tethered double rowboat by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Botanic Gardens footbridge by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women and a man in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11488 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two men and three women in a rowboat by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Three women and one man in rowboats on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women and a man in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10501 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women in canoes on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10904 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Four women and nine men in canoes on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man and woman in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10519 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Miss Vear by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Specimen tree and bench in the Botanic Gardens by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Three women and one man in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Stephenson's Company, November 1904 by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two men, one with a tobacco pipe, in a double canoe on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man, two women and a child in two rowboats on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man, woman and dog in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Man and woman in a rowboat on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 11621 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Three men and a woman in canoes on the Avon River by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · no. 10817 · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Two women in a rowboat by a weeping willow by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1 Jan 1900
Rowing on the Avon River in the Botanic Gardens 2018 Photo Hunt · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries

Most of these originals are not republishable here, the link goes to the provider that keeps them. A search result is a lead, not evidence: what a document actually says is only claimed once somebody has read it, and those readings live on the place pages.

“Botanic”, the shelf

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