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Preparations for the Christchurch Show

Circa 1950s

Two men in a barn holding and washing a cow in preparation for ...

Mr I. Estcourt on board the Endeavor, Lyttelton Harbour

11 January 1965

Mr I. Estcourt, leader of the scientific party from the ...

Science display at the Canterbury-Westland Science fair

29 June 1989

Mariehau High school sixth-formers Kathryn McSaveney and Julie ...

High Street courtesy girls

12 December 1969

A group of three girls from the Skellerup Militiares senior ...

Traffic officer checking a driver's licence

12 August 1967

Miss P. Stokes, traffic officer, checking the driver's licence ...

Parking attendants on Gloucester Street

8 February 1962

Mrs K. R. Banich (left) and Mrs A. E. Rees, parking attendants, ...

Denton Park cycle arena

29 October 1973

View across the track to the stands at Denton Park cycle arena ...

Aerial view of Denton Park cycle arena

13 April 1963

Denton Park cycle arena in Hornby viewed from above during ...

Aerial view of Denton Park cycle arena

7 June 1973

Denton Park cycle arena in Hornby viewed from above looking ...

Aerial view of Porritt Park

8 June 1973

Porritt Park on Avonside Drive, Wainoni, viewed from above, ...

Haywrights staff dressed in period costume, Sydenham

26 October 1977

Staff from Haywrights in Sydenham dressed in period costume ...

Model of the Golden Nugget Hotel, Sydenham

26 October 1977

Mrs Vera Sinclair and Mr Angus Kennedy in period costume next to ...

Canterbury Centennial re-enactment, Lyttelton

16 December 1950

A group of adults and children in period costume during a ...

NZ Centennials Canterbury 1950

1 June 1958

Large group of people walking up the Bridle Path from the ...

Artist Robin White at Christchurch Polytechnic

3 July 1992

Portrait of Robin White, artist, in the art studios of ...

Artist Graham Bennett in his studio

19 June 1985

Graham Bennett, artist, at work on his 3D drawings in his studio ...

Artist Gray Rathglen with telephone directory

12 April 1995

Gray Rathglen with a copy of the 1995 telephone directory ...

Artist Michael Armstrong with art and sewing machine

13 October 1983

Michael Armstrong, artist, in his studio on Idris Road with a ...

"Ohau 1" for the Robert McDougall Art Gallery

3 December 1987

Peter Simpson, president of the Friends of the Robert McDougall ...

Llewelyn Summers sculpture

8 October 1987

Philippa Dobson and Sue Bashford founders of Dobson and Bashford ...

Emily Cosgrove watches as John Coley hangs her painting

6 August 1986

Emily Cosgrove stood beside her untitled oil painting of a North ...

Artist and teacher Clark Esplin

7 October 1978

Clark Esplin, artist and art teacher at Shirley Intermediate ...

Artist Jeffrey Harris with painting

9 October 1976

Jeffrey Harris, artist working on the Banks Peninsula, sat in a ...

Artist Grant Banbury with mixed-media drawings

4 June 1980

Grant Banbury, artist, posing with his mixed- media artwork ...

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