Wednesday 28 March 2012. File reference: CCL-2012-03-28-IMG_0806 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Wednesday 28 March 2012. File reference: CCL-2012-03-28-IMG_0818 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Friday 13 April 2012. File reference: CCL-2012-04-13-IMG_1393 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Cashel Street, looking onto Colombo Street. 23 May 2012. File reference: CCL-2012-05-23-IMG_2874 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
Wednesday 28 March 2012. File reference: CCL-2012-03-28-IMG_0808 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Wednesday 28 March 2012. File reference: CCL-2012-03-28-IMG_0805 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Wednesday 28 March 2012. File reference: CCL-2012-03-28-IMG_0803 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Some Christchurch business owners are criticising the government for winding down the earthquake support package. The Government has extended the package, which pays employees of quake effected business a wage subsidy for two more weeks.
A video about the Environmental Health Officers testing environmental and occupational health issues in the Christchurch red zone after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A PDF copy of pages 248-249 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Hereafter'. Photo: Bridgit Anderson
A PDF copy of pages 256-257 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Crux'. Photos: Trent Hiles
A PDF copy of pages 346-347 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Frames'. Photos: Te-O
A PDF copy of pages 150-151 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Bobo'. Drawings: Andrew Just, Jen McBride
It was a warm fair day on the 16th December 1919, a light nor’easterly breeze was blowing through the city. Much the same weather was being experienced throughout the whole of the Dominion. T…
For one of our city’s most famous early women settlers, poor health had marred not only her voyage to New Zealand but also her arrival to her new home at Riccarton. From the moment Jane Deans…
Christchurch was the last of the four cities to introduce electric trams. They had tried to introduce the system in 1902, but it was prior to the amalgamation of the boroughs, so with the advent of…
A Packing Case on Wheels Local and General. Star, Issue 6789, 8 May 1900, Page 3 A weird-looking vehicle has recently been seen travelling through the streets of the city much to the amusement and …
The title is 'Gambling on the rise in Christchurch'. Several vignettes show two men running in the 'Porta-loo stakes (runs)'; people betting on the 'size of the next shake'; people betting on 'who will have the last chimney standing'; a man sitting over a pot on a little gas ring wondering 'How long will it take to boil a 3 minute egg... when it's minus 10 in the kitchen'; someone in a car wondering 'Whose street can wipe out the most engine sumps'; and someone wondering 'Which power company will be first to put people before profits'. Context: The way of things following the earthquakes of September 4 2010, 22 February 2011 and 13 June 2011. The Problem Gambling Foundation says it is concerned more Christchurch people are turning to gambling to combat stress from earthquakes. It says spending on pokie machines in Christchurch has risen by almost $4 million, going against a downward national trend. The foundation says the data released by the Department of Internal Affairs shows spending on gaming machines rose by more than $3,800,000 in Christchurch city to almost $23 million. (Radio NZ News 26 July 2011) Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).
A photograph of Crack'd for Christchurch's ottoman artwork, wrapped in bubble wrap and tied with string and a bow. A sign under the bow reads, "To the city of Christchurch. From Crack'd for Christchurch."
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The fence of the cordoned off Christchurch City Mission showing all the teddy bears that people have left".
Photos of Christchurch City LIbraries Outreach staff working in welfare centres following the February 22 earthquake. File ref: CCL-2011-02-27-OperationStoryTime-boys-with-book From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
A PDF copy of pages 224-225 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'The Viva Project'. Photos provided by Lin Roberts. With permission from The Viva Project.
A PDF copy of pages 100-101 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project '185 Empty Chairs'. Photo: Julia Morison
A PDF copy of pages 164-165 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'CPIT Design/Build'. Photos: Gap Filler
The cartoon shows rubble and ruined buildings after the Canterbury earthquake of 4th September 2010. Rats representing 'looters' run over the buildings taking advantage as do cockroaches representing 'politics'. Refers to a certain amount of looting but also the high profiles during the aftermath of Mayor Bob Parker with local body elections only a few weeks away and PM John Key in particular. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
'Cappuccino dreams'. Christchurch mayoral candidates Jim Anderton and incumbent mayor Bob Parker tell constituents that they will get respectively more transparency in 'financial dealings' and in 't-shirts'. As the earthquake strikes they continue their electioneering until they are told to 'clear orf' because 'these frames lack substance'. A front-end loader begins to dismantle the structure from which they are speaking. Refers to the local body elections to take place 9th October and the Canterbury earthquake of 4th September. Published in the Presto Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
The cartoon's title is 'Life in the South Island'. A man wonders aloud to his wife when the 'plague of locusts' will arrive as they have had 'collapsing finance companies, earthquakes' and 'heavy snow damage'. Refers to the collapse of South Canterbury Finance, the earthquake of 4th September, and more recently, heavy snow in Southland that has caused roofs to collapse. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Text reads 'Water - One minute too much - The next, not enough' In the first frame a man is fed up with another downpour and in the second frame there is shown a plastic bottle of drinking water. Refers to the amount of rain in recent times but also the need for bottled or boiled water In Canterbury after the earthquake of 4th September 2010 which caused major damage to sewage and water systems. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Someone representing 'government', 'neighbours', 'firemen', 'friends' etc, all of which are printed on a her tshirt, reaches down with a 'helping hand' to 'Canterbury'. Refers to the Canterbury of 4th September 2010. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Warwick Isaacs is director of planning and transition for Civil Defence and as such has issued demolition orders for 128 buildings, 37 in the city. Gerry Brownlee has chosen the Government's 'demolition man' Warwick Isaacs to head the rebuild of central Christchurch. The buildings were damaged in the earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).