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Image collection: Faces of our Forebears
This is a sample of photographs of people. You can search the catalogue for more or browse the collections.
![R Ashby, Cobham Street, Spreydon, Christchurch, standing among the tobacco plants grown in his back yard](/Heritage/Photos/Disc7/thumbnails/IMG0011.jpg)
R Ashby, Cobham Street, Spreydon, Christchurch, standing among the tobacco plants grown in his back yard [1928] |
![Traffic Officer Herbert MacIntosh prepares to mount his bicycle](/Heritage/Photos/Disc7/thumbnails/IMG0012.jpg)
Traffic Officer Herbert MacIntosh prepares to mount his bicycle [1895] |
![Homeguard manoeuvres : a demonstration of a dummy machine-gun](/Heritage/Photos/Disc7/thumbnails/IMG0050.jpg)
Homeguard manoeuvres : a demonstration of a dummy machine-gun [1941] |
![Knitting socks for the troops serving overseas in World War Two (1939-45)](/Heritage/Photos/Disc7/thumbnails/IMG0057.jpg)
Knitting socks for the troops serving overseas in World War Two (1939-45) [1940] |
![Two bishops](/Heritage/Photos/Disc7/thumbnails/IMG0091.jpg)
Two bishops [ca. 1900] |
![A busker with a banjo entertaining in Cathedral Square, Christchurch](/Heritage/Photos/Disc3/thumbnails/IMG0060.jpg)
A busker with a banjo entertaining in Cathedral Square, Christchurch [1927] |
![A shoe-shine man reads a newspaper while waiting in Cathedral Square for customers, Christchurch](/Heritage/Photos/Disc3/thumbnails/IMG0061.jpg)
A shoe-shine man reads a newspaper while waiting in Cathedral Square for customers, Christchurch [1927] |
![R.S.A. Miss Victory contest, Christchurch, 1943](/Heritage/Photos/Disc4/thumbnails/IMG0073.jpg)
R.S.A. Miss Victory contest, Christchurch, 1943 [1943] |
![Some members of the Atalanta Club](/Heritage/Photos/Disc5/thumbnails/IMG0054.jpg)
Some members of the Atalanta Club [ca. 1892] |
![Elizabeth Reid McCombs, née Henderson (1873-1935)](/Heritage/Photos/Disc6/thumbnails/IMG0028.jpg)
Elizabeth Reid McCombs, née Henderson (1873-1935) [between 1919 and 1925] |
![A newspaper vendor in Cathedral Square, Christchurch](/Heritage/Photos/Disc6/thumbnails/IMG0039.jpg)
A newspaper vendor in Cathedral Square, Christchurch [1927] |
![A sandwich-board man advertising dancing shoes in Cathedral Square, Christchurch](/Heritage/Photos/Disc6/thumbnails/IMG0041.jpg)
A sandwich-board man advertising dancing shoes in Cathedral Square, Christchurch [1927] |
![Five of the six children of Thomas Jones Walker Shand](/Heritage/Photos/Collection22/thumbnails/01504.jpg)
Five of the six children of Thomas Jones Walker Shand [1886] |
![A Canterbury trooper, 3rd New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Rough Riders), preparing to depart for the Boer War (1899-1902)](/Heritage/Photos/Collection22/thumbnails/02211.jpg)
A Canterbury trooper, 3rd New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Rough Riders), preparing to depart for the Boer War (1899-1902) [1900] |
![A day at New Brighton beach](/Heritage/Photos/Collection22/thumbnails/02356.jpg)
A day at New Brighton beach [ca. 1927] |
![A 21st birthday celebration](/Heritage/Photos/Collection22/thumbnails/02357.jpg)
A 21st birthday celebration [6 Dec. 1955] |
![Patricia and Victor Ellena at 34 Shrewsbury Street, Merivale](/Heritage/Photos/Collection22/thumbnails/02361.jpg)
Patricia and Victor Ellena at 34 Shrewsbury Street, Merivale [ca. 1935] |
![Schoolboys pictured outside the tea kiosk at Victoria Park](/Heritage/Photos/Collection22/thumbnails/02362.jpg)
Schoolboys pictured outside the tea kiosk at Victoria Park [ca. 1940] |
![Going to the pictures](/Heritage/Photos/Collection22/thumbnails/02366.jpg)
Going to the pictures [ca. 1954] |
![Cheerful boy scouts acting as messengers to distribute food and medicine to patients at their houses during the influenza epidemic](/Heritage/Photos/Disc2/thumbnails/IMG0048.jpg)
Cheerful boy scouts acting as messengers to distribute food and medicine to patients at their houses during the influenza epidemic [1918] |
![A family picnic on a summer's day at Addington Show Grounds' motorist's camping ground, Christchurch](/Heritage/Photos/Disc2/thumbnails/IMG0054.jpg)
A family picnic on a summer's day at Addington Show Grounds' motorist's camping ground, Christchurch [1929] |
![Interior of a cave hut at Taylor's Mistake, Christchurch, used by young men on weekend summer trips](/Heritage/Photos/Disc2/thumbnails/IMG0080.jpg)
Interior of a cave hut at Taylor's Mistake, Christchurch, used by young men on weekend summer trips [1910] |
![Five generations of an old Banks Peninsula family, the Wrights](/Heritage/Photos/Disc15/thumbnails/IMG0065.jpg)
Five generations of an old Banks Peninsula family, the Wrights [1912] |
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