How many records does the archive hold?

81,477 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.

“"a"”, the shelf

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

64,722 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
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Group portrait in a garden Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Three men at the bottom of a cliff Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Two men walking bicycles Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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River surrounded by trees Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Man and two women in grass Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Group portrait of men and a boy Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Man sitting on a bicycle indoors Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Man on horse drawn machinery Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Two men beside a wooden structure Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Two men and three women in a paddock Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Two men at a mine Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Military band portrait Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Man in uniform with a gun Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · no. 71455 · Christchurch City Libraries
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Man holding a bugle Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Man in uniform with a gun Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · no. 71456 · Christchurch City Libraries
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Woman with a violin Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Ern Smith, Carrier Ernest Smith, photographs and papers · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Ern Smith with a truck Ernest Smith, photographs and papers · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Wainoni Park, Christchurch, N.Z. 2014 Photo Hunt · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Two women and a man outside a house Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Model T parked outside Charwell Forks school Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Three men at a roadside Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Group portrait with musical instruments Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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People outside a homestead Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Man walking on round near houses Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Two women on a veranda Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Man on a horse with a gun Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Man on a horse drawn automobile Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Bridge over Kowhai River Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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District map showing rivers and drains Christchurch Drainage Board, plans, maps and drawings · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Altar photograph Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Charwell Forks school house Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Men sitting on a house roof Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Five people in a living room Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Five women on a porch Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Four women standing in front of a shed Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Standing next to a bus reverse Ernest Smith, photographs and papers · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Two men, five women, and three children Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Composite of two photographs of unidentified people Sutton glass plates · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Group portrait outside a building Ernest Smith, photographs and papers · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Stanmore Road Bridge, Christchurch N.Z. 2014 Photo Hunt · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Sand ripples Parks and gardens : glass slides · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Two men and a bicycle by Christchurch Hospital by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Portrait, unknown womanArchive 1054 Christchurch photographs and postcards · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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The Avon, postcard backArchive 1054 Christchurch photographs and postcards · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Portrait, man with horsesArchive 1054 Christchurch photographs and postcards · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Standing next to a bus Ernest Smith, photographs and papers · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Sketch of proposed additions to Malcolm Avenue bridge Christchurch bridges: plans and drawings · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Trip to Lake Coleridge Ernest Smith, photographs and papers · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Foredunes at a beach Parks and gardens : glass slides · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Man and two boys on a riverbank by Kinnear, James Hutchings, 1877-1946 · Photographs / He Whakaahua · Kura Heritage Collections Online · Auckland Libraries
1900
Group of men in a garden by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Scenes from MED history by Municipal Electricity Department · MED negatives · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Queen Mary Hospital scaffolding Queen Mary Hospital · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
View of grounds near Bath Houses Queen Mary Hospital · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Queen Mary Hospital staff Queen Mary Hospital · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
A corner of the hospital grounds Queen Mary Hospital · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Queen Mary Hospital bathhouse and gas lamp Queen Mary Hospital · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Interior of a wooden building by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
St Andrew's Church, Le Bons Bay, Banks Peninsula Photographs / He Whakaahua · Kura Heritage Collections Online · Auckland Libraries
1900
Photographs of oil paintings by John McIntosh Madden Drayton album · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Dorothy & Maurice Bridges with horse, 1909 2014 Photo Hunt · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Road leading to a bridge by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Road and bridge by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Road and bridge surrounded by trees by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Wishing you a happy new year postcard Heney family album · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Girl on a plank bridge 2013 Photo Hunt · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Man and woman in a rowboat by the Antigua Boat Sheds by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Wishing you a happy new year, reverse of postcard Heney family album · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Building a dwelling Okains Bay Museum collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Building next to a river by Alexander Edward Wildey · Wildey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Boats in a harbour by Alexander Edward Wildey · Wildey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Three women in a garden by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Elaborate two-storied weatherboard house or building by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Two women standing in a doorway by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Two women standing on a drop-cloth background by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Herbaceous border with rhododendron by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Four women in a garden by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Man with a garden implement standing in a herbaceous border by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Man and woman on a garden path by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Loading wool on a truck Hanmer Springs · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Man and a woman on veranda Hanmer Springs · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Akaroa township 2021 Photo Hunt · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Steamboat on the Okains Bay jetty Okains Bay Museum collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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People on the Okains Bay jetty Okains Bay Museum collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Woman, girl and three children outside a house by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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House construction Hanmer Springs · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Three small children outside a house by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Man and six children standing on front steps of a house by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Hanmer Springs house Hanmer Springs · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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House in field Hanmer Springs · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
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Woman with baby and young child by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Man with children on front steps of a house by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
A two-storied weatherboard house by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Men outside a house Hanmer Springs · Canterbury Stories · no. 81397 · Christchurch City Libraries
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Men outside a house Hanmer Springs · Canterbury Stories · no. 81398 · Christchurch City Libraries
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Woman outside a house Local scenes and places · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Study of a house 2021 Photo Hunt · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Man and woman on the steps of a house by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1900
Man and woman outside a house by Samuel Anstey · Samuel Anstey collection · 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.

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