“This Seat Was Presented by the Women Descendants, no. 32298”, the shelf

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

Every collection Papers PastCanterbury StoriesKura Heritage Collections OnlineTe Papa Collections OnlineNational Publicity Studios black and white file printsTAPUHICanterbury MuseumAuckland Museum CollectionsNew Zealand GazetteDigital Public Library of AmericaV.C. Browne & Son NZ Aerial Photograph CollectionChristchurch City Libraries FlickrHocken Digital CollectionsMuseums VictoriaAir Force Museum of New Zealand Photograph CollectionWellington City Council ArchivesThe New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi KōreroNew Zealand Electronic Text CollectionChristchurch City Libraries Heritage Images CollectionLincoln University Living Heritage: Tikaka Tuku IhoFlickrRadio New ZealandAlexander Turnbull Library FlickrAuckland Art Gallery Toi o TāmakiTe Hikoi MuseumiNaturalist NZ — Mātaki TaiaoManawatū HeritageCanterbury Photography MuseumAkaroa MuseumHawke's Bay Museum Every paper StarEvening PostLyttelton TimesAuckland Weekly NewsEllesmere GuardianAshburton GuardianAkaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula AdvertiserPhotographs / He WhakaahuaOtago WitnessWanganui ChronicleOtago Daily TimesAuckland StarPhotographyColonistTimaru HeraldNZ TruthSamuel Anstey collectionWanganui HeraldArchives NZ Collections searchHawera & Normanby StarNorth Otago TimesPhotographic ArchivePoverty Bay HeraldMarlborough ExpressGrey River ArgusThames StarPlantsGreg O’Beirne collectionWest Coast TimesNatural ScienceNelson Evening MailFeilding StarWairarapa Daily TimesNew Zealand TabletTaranaki HeraldRecords of the Office of the Secretary of DefenseMED Historical PhotographsJessie Buckland collectionTaranaki Daily NewsMataura EnsignHawke's Bay HeraldSouthland TimesNorthern AdvocateManawatu TimesWildey collection2019 Photo HuntJan Shuttleworth Collection2013 Photo HuntPioneer Amateur Sports club imagesChristchurch and Banks Peninsula glass plate collectionSutton glass platesObserverThe imperial album of New Zealand sceneryArt2014 Photo HuntHuman HistoryParks and gardens : glass slidesBush AdvocateWellington Independent1940s Christchurch Star photographs Oldest first Newest first Newest to the shelf

1. the 1890s
1. 31 Mar 1898

   Biographical Notes of Settlers of the First Decade. THE OLD IDENTITY. (Otago Witness, 31 March 1898) Otago Witness · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read
2. the 1900s
2. 15 Sept 1909

   LOCAL & GENERAL, (Otago Witness, 15 September 1909) Otago Witness · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · text read · about 1 place

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.