Christchurch, back when.
The city before it grew up, photographs from the archive’s licensed collections, 1851 onwards. Mostly Canterbury Stories at Christchurch City Libraries, some further afield; every copy sits on this site under the record’s own stated rights, and every picture links back to its source record so the caption can be checked. The pick of them hangs as an exhibition at the beautiful city; the newest report photographs, what the city looks like today, live on the wall.
- 1800s1
- 1840s2
- 1850s91
- 1860s642
- 1870s254
- 1880s572
- 1890s810
- 1900s3,081
- 1910s1,673
- 1920s1,517
- 1930s2,227
- 1940s1,276
- 1950s792
- 1960s387
- 1970s779
- 1980s309
- 1990s4
- 2000s551
- 2010s14
The 1800s 1
Copies are hosted here under each record’s stated rights: mostly “no known copyright” or CC-BY, via DigitalNZ collections including Canterbury Stories, Kura Heritage, Archives New Zealand, Canterbury Museum and Te Papa. Every photograph opens its source record at the collection that holds it, where the caption and the licence can be checked. The exhibition picks its rooms from the same pool.