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Townsend Telescope: Part Photograph 32

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A close-up photograph of the lower end of the main tube from the Townsend Telescope. The tube was crushed and bent during the 22 February 2011 earthquake.

Townsend Telescope: Part Photograph 62

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A photograph of the clock drive from the Townsend Telescope. Many of the plates around the clock drive broke off during the 22 February 2011 earthquake.

Townsend Telescope: Part Photograph 63

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A photograph of the clock drive from the Townsend Telescope. Many of the plates around the clock drive broke off during the 22 February 2011 earthquake.

Townsend Telescope: Part Photograph 33

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A close-up photograph of the lower end of the main tube from the Townsend Telescope. The tube was crushed and bent during the 22 February 2011 earthquake.

Inquest into 144 Christchurch quake deaths continues

Audio, Radio New Zealand

The inquest into many of the deaths in the Christchurch earthquake will today hear evidence about the more than 60 language students who perished in the Canterbury Television building.

Quake chief happy, despite $200,000 pay cut

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Despite taking a 200-thousand dollar pay cut, the new head of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority says he's delighted to have the job.

Image - Feeding the Multitudes

An image from a Navy Today April 2011 article titled, "Feeding the Multitudes". The image is of CPOCH Perrin Newland head chief of the HMNZS Canterbury which moored in Lyttelton after the 22 February 2011 earthquake, supplying meals to the Lyttelton community.

UC Restarts - Photograph 26

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Surveyors marking out Kirkwood Village, used as temporary teaching and office space for the University of Canterbury. The photographer comments, "Measuring up for the Kirkwood village".

UC Restarts - Photograph 15

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University of Canterbury students outside one of the tents used while lecture theatres were closed for structural testing. The photographer comments, "Students leave a lecture tent".

WEMO ERT Set 3 - February 2011 - Photograph 120

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A photograph of the Canterbury Times and Star building on Gloucester Street. USAR codes have been spray-painted on the door of Le Pot Au Feu and a window of O-Cha Thai. Broken glass and fallen masonry litters the footpath in front.

WEMO ERT Set 3 - February 2011 - Photograph 121

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A photograph of a car on Gloucester Street which has been crushed by falling bricks from the Canterbury Times and Star building. There is a pile of bricks on the front of the car. A USAR team have spray-painted codes on a plywood board and wedged it into the back of the car.

WEMO ERT Set 1 - February 2011 - Photograph 69

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A photograph of an alleyway between Gloucester Street and Cathedral Square. There is a pile of rubble near the end of the alleyway, fallen from the earthquake-damaged Base Backpackers building, behind the former Canterbury Times building on Gloucester Street. Scaffolding has also been constructed up the side of Base Backpackers.

Photograph number UC 11-0456-08

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Launch function for the UC CEISMIC digital archive. From left, College of Arts Pro-Vice-Chancellor Ed Adelson, Former the Press editor Andrew Holden, Vice-Chancellor Dr Rod Carr, Associate Professor and UC CEISMIC Director Paul Millar, and CERA Chief Executive Roger Sutton.