Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking through the Gloucester Street window of the Central Christchurch City Library".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Demolition under way at the Library Chambers (the old public library), Cambridge Terrace".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Demolition under way at the Library Chambers (the old public library), Cambridge Terrace".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Old city library in Cambridge Terrace".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Starting demolition of the old City Library in Cambridge Terrace".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Starting demolition of the old City Library in Cambridge Terrace".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Starting demolition of the old City Library in Cambridge Terrace".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The city library administration is moving into this work space near the new bus exchange".
The yellow-stickered Redcliffs Public Library on Main Road in Redcliffs.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Redcliffs Public Library".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "View from HSBC Tower demolishing the old City Library".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Christchurch City Library in the CD shelving area".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking along Gloucester Street from the Oxford Terrace intersection. The central library is to the left".
The ground floor of the Central Library on Gloucester Street. Books have fallen off the shelves and are in piles in the aisles.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Autumn leaves form a thick pile in front of the boarded-up door".
Damage to the Woolston Community Library. Part of the roof has collapsed inwards, and the facade is badly cracked.
A view across Cambridge Terrace to the former Canterbury Public Library. Masonry from the building's corners and end gable has fallen onto the footpath and the base of the building has been cordoned off with wire fencing.
Damage to the Woolston Community Library. Part of the roof has collapsed inwards, and the facade is badly cracked.
The city centre and Tuahiwi Marae, the home of Ngāi Tūāhuriri, are now linked by names. The Anglican cathedral and Tuahiwi’s church, both called St Stephens, sit on land called Whitireia. Whitireia was the house of Paekia, the ancestor who landed on the North Island on the back of a whale at Tūranga, which is now the name of Christchurch’s city library.
Damage to the Woolston Community Library. Part of the roof has collapsed inwards, and the facade is badly cracked.
Damage to the Woolston Community Library. Part of the roof has collapsed inwards, and the facade is badly cracked.
Damage to the Woolston Community Library. Part of the roof has collapsed inwards, and the facade is badly cracked.
Damage to the Woolston Community Library. Part of the roof has collapsed inwards, and the facade is badly cracked.
Damage to the Woolston Community Library. Part of the roof has collapsed inwards, and the facade is badly cracked.
Damage to the Woolston Community Library. Part of the roof has collapsed inwards, and the facade is badly cracked.
A view across Cambridge Terrace to the former Canterbury Public Library. Masonry from the building's corners and end gable has fallen onto the footpath below. Wire fencing has been placed around the building as a cordon.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Demolition of the National Library building, corner of Salisbury and Manchester Streets".
An entry from Sue Davidson's blog for 11 February 2014 entitled, "Joined by Library van....".
A colour photograph of the east frontage of the former City Council Offices on Manchester Street, which appears to have been taken before the 4 September 2010 earthquake.
Colour photograph of a red brick building that is the rear of 146 High Street, with cars parked beside it. Photographed before the earthquakes.