How many records does the archive hold?

92,172 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.

66,999 records matching 64 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 · Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · V.C. Browne & Son NZ Aerial Photograph Collection · 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 1930s
9 Dec 1937
AT THE HOTELS (Evening Post, 09 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
10 Dec 1937
Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 (Ellesmere Guardian, 10 December 1937) Ellesmere Guardian · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
11 Dec 1937
MR. BARTON'S TEAM (Evening Post, 11 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
11 Dec 1937
CHOSEN AS JUDGE (Evening Post, 11 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
13 Dec 1937
AIRPORT NEWS (Evening Post, 13 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
13 Dec 1937
CHRISTCHURCH SALE (Evening Post, 13 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
13 Dec 1937
CHRISTCHURCH, TRIAL (Evening Post, 13 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
14 Dec 1937
Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 (Ellesmere Guardian, 14 December 1937) Ellesmere Guardian · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
14 Dec 1937
POWER SUPPLY (Ellesmere Guardian, 14 December 1937) Ellesmere Guardian · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
14 Dec 1937
CHRISTCHURCH SALE (Evening Post, 14 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
14 Dec 1937
AT THE HOTELS (Evening Post, 14 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
16 Dec 1937
LIVESTOCK MARKETS (Evening Post, 16 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
17 Dec 1937
Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Ellesmere Guardian, 17 December 1937) Ellesmere Guardian · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
17 Dec 1937
Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 (Ellesmere Guardian, 17 December 1937) Ellesmere Guardian · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
18 Dec 1937
MY LUCKY SPIN" (Evening Post, 18 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
18 Dec 1937
DE SOTO APPEAL (Evening Post, 18 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
18 Dec 1937
AT THE HOTELS (Evening Post, 18 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
20 Dec 1937
MENACE TO PUBLIC (Evening Post, 20 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
20 Dec 1937
MR..W..H..CORRIGAN (Evening Post, 20 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
20 Dec 1937
CHARITY MATCH RACE (Evening Post, 20 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
21 Dec 1937
KILLED BY TRAIN (Evening Post, 21 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
21 Dec 1937
NEWS OF THE DAY (Evening Post, 21 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
22 Dec 1937
At the Rangi-ruru Girls' School, Christchurch Auckland Weekly News · Kura Heritage Collections Online · Auckland Libraries
22 Dec 1937
Romola Rowe, dux of Avonside Girls' High School, Christchurch and G. G. Burness, dux of St. Andrew's College, Christchurch Auckland Weekly News · Kura Heritage Collections Online · Auckland Libraries
23 Dec 1937
PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 23 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
23 Dec 1937
Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 (Ellesmere Guardian, 23 December 1937) Ellesmere Guardian · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
23 Dec 1937
C. S. DONALD'S PROGRAMME (Evening Post, 23 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
24 Dec 1937
PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 24 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
29 Dec 1937
CHRISTCHURCH BRIDE (Evening Post, 29 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
29 Dec 1937
GOLF (Evening Post, 29 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
30 Dec 1937
STAGE AND SCREEN (Evening Post, 30 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
30 Dec 1937
AT THE HOTELS (Evening Post, 30 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
31 Dec 1937
AIRPORT NEWS (Evening Post, 31 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
31 Dec 1937
NELSON NEWS (Evening Post, 31 December 1937) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
1938
Workers laying out reinforcing for floor by Municipal Electricity Department · MED Historical Photographs · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
Floor of MED building under construction by Municipal Electricity Department · MED Historical Photographs · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
Girder with reinforcing for concrete floor by Municipal Electricity Department · MED Historical Photographs · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
Girders, cranes, and radio tower by Municipal Electricity Department · MED negatives · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
Upper floor of MED building under construction by Municipal Electricity Department · MED Historical Photographs · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
Foundations of former MED building wall by Municipal Electricity Department · MED negatives · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
MED building site trench by Municipal Electricity Department · MED negatives · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
Trench at MED building site by Municipal Electricity Department · MED negatives · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
Workers demolishing MED building by Municipal Electricity Department · MED negatives · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
Colleen Clinton and Alice White 2013 Photo Hunt · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
Wreath laying in New Brighton Ernest Smith, photographs and papers · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
Partial demolition of MED building by Municipal Electricity Department · MED negatives · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
A.G. Sandston MED Historical Photographs · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
Floral arrangement Parks and gardens : glass slides · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
Flower display Parks and gardens : glass slides · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
Harakeke stalk Parks and gardens : glass slides · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
E.A. Sharp MED Historical Photographs · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
Small cutting in a silver vase Parks and gardens : glass slides · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
New Zealand Holly floral arrangement Parks and gardens : glass slides · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
Fuchsia floral arrangment Parks and gardens : glass slides · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
Purple flower cutting Parks and gardens : glass slides · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
Flower cutting in a vase Parks and gardens : glass slides · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
Floral display of fuchsia Parks and gardens : glass slides · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
1938
[Joe Barnao] Documentary Heritage · Auckland Museum Collections · Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira
1938
Watercolour Painting: Magistrate's Court, Christchurch by Cranleigh Barton · Canterbury Museum · Canterbury Museum
1938
Photograph: Anona Joie Buckett Canterbury Museum · Canterbury Museum
1938
Bill and Lyle on a branch (PB0611/163) V.C. Browne & Son NZ Aerial Photograph Collection · V.C. Browne & Son
3 Jan 1938
SERIOUS INJURIES (Evening Post, 03 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
3 Jan 1938
HUTT TEAM AT CHRISTCHURCH (Evening Post, 03 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
4 Jan 1938
SERIOUS ACCIDENT (Evening Post, 04 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
4 Jan 1938
Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 (Ellesmere Guardian, 04 January 1938) Ellesmere Guardian · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
5 Jan 1938
TOURING PARTY RETURNS (Evening Post, 05 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
5 Jan 1938
Mr Oliver Nicholson, President of the Auckland Racing Club and Mr A.T. Donnelly from Christchurch Auckland Weekly News · Kura Heritage Collections Online · Auckland Libraries
6 Jan 1938
AT THE HOTELS (Evening Post, 06 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
7 Jan 1938
OBITUARY (Ellesmere Guardian, 07 January 1938) Ellesmere Guardian · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
7 Jan 1938
Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Ellesmere Guardian, 07 January 1938) Ellesmere Guardian · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
7 Jan 1938
PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 07 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
7 Jan 1938
AT THE HOTELS (Evening Post, 07 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
7 Jan 1938
Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Ellesmere Guardian, 07 January 1938) Ellesmere Guardian · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
8 Jan 1938
NO SIGN OF BODY (Evening Post, 08 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
10 Jan 1938
TWO MEN RESCUED (Evening Post, 10 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read · about 1 place
10 Jan 1938
PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 10 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
11 Jan 1938
Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Ellesmere Guardian, 11 January 1938) Ellesmere Guardian · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
11 Jan 1938
Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Ellesmere Guardian, 11 January 1938) Ellesmere Guardian · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
11 Jan 1938
PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 11 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
11 Jan 1938
Construction of the Municipal Electricity Department building by Municipal Electricity Department · MED Historical Photographs · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries
12 Jan 1938
PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 12 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
12 Jan 1938
The flying-boat Centaurus arrival at Lyttelton Auckland Weekly News · Kura Heritage Collections Online · Auckland Libraries
12 Jan 1938
A woman standing on the banks of the Arawata River Auckland Weekly News · Kura Heritage Collections Online · Auckland Libraries
12 Jan 1938
A woman standing on the bank of the Arawata River, snow-covered Mount Gate and Mount Ark in the background Auckland Weekly News · Kura Heritage Collections Online · Auckland Libraries
13 Jan 1938
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Evening Post, 13 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
14 Jan 1938
SURF LIFE-SAVING (Evening Post, 14 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read · about 4 places
14 Jan 1938
AT THE HOTELS (Evening Post, 14 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
14 Jan 1938
BOWLING (Evening Post, 14 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
15 Jan 1938
MARRIAGES. (Evening Post, 15 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read · about 1 place
15 Jan 1938
PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 15 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
15 Jan 1938
BOWLING (Evening Post, 15 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
17 Jan 1938
IN OTHER CENTRES (Evening Post, 17 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
18 Jan 1938
PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 18 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
18 Jan 1938
POWER SUPPLY (Ellesmere Guardian, 18 January 1938) Ellesmere Guardian · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
18 Jan 1938
BOWLING (Evening Post, 18 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
18 Jan 1938
Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Ellesmere Guardian, 18 January 1938) Ellesmere Guardian · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
19 Jan 1938
Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Evening Post, 19 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
19 Jan 1938
FIERCE FIRE (Evening Post, 19 January 1938) Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
19 Jan 1938
A retriever dog leaping through a hoop at Riccarton Auckland Weekly News · Kura Heritage Collections Online · Auckland Libraries
19 Jan 1938
The Dominion Lawn Bowls Tournament held in Dunedin Auckland Weekly News · Kura Heritage Collections Online · Auckland 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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