This is a sample of photographs from our collection celebrating women. You can search the catalogue for more or browse the collections.
- View a DigitalNZ set of Christchurch women.
- Find photos of women on the Discovery Wall
Flickr set of images of women
Kate Sheppard National Memorial
- Flickr photo set
- Our page on the Kate Sheppard National Memorial
Photos from our digital collection
- Nursing staff at Christchurch Hospital [189-?], CCL PhotoCD 7, IMG0004
- Public notice for a meeting on the present and outlook of woman’s suffrage to be held at the Oddfellows Hall, Lichfield Street, Chch. [20 Oct. 1892], CCL PhotoCD 11, IMG0098
- Franchise for women [Nov. 1893] Some of the first women voters entering the Tuam Street hall, CCL PhotoCD 11, IMG0095
- The convention called by the Canterbury Women’s Institute which resulted in the formation of the National Council of the Women of New Zealand [1896], CCL PhotoCD 8, IMG0086
- Nurse Maude, Sibylla Emily Maude (1862-1935) [ca. 1900], CCL PhotoCD 13, IMG0039
- Rose Rhodes (née Moorhouse) [1901], CCL PhotoCD 5, IMG0073
- Peeling potatoes [1905?], CCL PhotoCD 7, IMG0041
- A group of Maori women dress reformers [1906], CCL PhotoCD 11, IMG0096
- Nurse Akenehi Hei, who was the first Maori nurse to qualify in 1908, outside her tent hospital [ca. 1910], CCL PhotoCD 11, IMG0062
- Women rowing on the Avon River, Christchurch [191-?], CCL PhotoCD 4, IMG0057
- The flaxcutter [1913], CCL PhotoCD 6, IMG0089
- New Zealand wants domestic servants [ca. 1913], CCL PhotoCD 6, IMG0035
- A nurse leaving a sub-depot on her daily round of visits, during the 1918 influenza epidemic, Christchurch [1918], CCL PhotoCD 2, IMG0047
- The soup kitchen at the Sydenham Manual Training Centre : some workers under Miss Ponder [1918], CCL PhotoCD 2, IMG0053
- Elizabeth Reid McCombs, née Henderson (1873-1935) [between 1919 and 1925], CCL PhotoCD 6, IMG0028
- The wahine who welcomed the visitors to Tuahiwi, North Canterbury [3 Aug. 1922], CCL PhotoCD 9, IMG0080
- Appeal for free kindergartens [7 Oct. 1936], CCL PhotoCD 7, IMG0047
- During the war, girls were engaged on a wide range of jobs [between 1940 and 1945], CCL PhotoCD 7, IMG0082
- Girls in a small workroom engaged on assembly work [between 1940 and 1945], CCL PhotoCD 7, IMG0098
- Knitting socks for the troops serving overseas in World War Two (1939-45) [1940], CCL PhotoCD 7, IMG0057
- Women of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAFs) on parade at Harewood Air Force Station, Christchurch [1941], CCL PhotoCD 15, IMG0095
- The Women’s Art Environment, CSA Gallery, Christchurch : women in the tepee space [1977], CCL PhotoCD 7, IMG0037
