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Photographs
What is Pictorial Canterbury?
A searchable online collection of 10,000 historical and contemporary photographs taken in the City of Canterbury.
Pictorial Canterbury is free to use and can be found at: www.photosau.com/canterbury.
Through Pictorial Canterbury we are taken into the living and working lives of our community. This visual snap shot of the City of Canterbury dates from the mid 1800s to the present day and is now available 24 hours, 7 days a week.
Pictorial Canterbury is a valuable resource for:
- Family historians
- Local historians
- Students
- Anyone who loves old photographs
The Photographs
The photographs in Pictorial Canterbury illustrate over 150 years of people, places and events that have shaped the City of Canterbury.
They record the histories of people of different ages, lifestyles and cultural backgrounds as well as reflecting the many changes to our diverse and vibrant community over the years by capturing:
- Family lives
- Working lives
- Festivals
- Clubs
- Places
- Buildings
- Rural scenes
Features
Options to view photographs as:
- Thumbnails: to view several photographs on a screen
- Half screen size: to view an image and the corresponding text on the same screen
- Full screen size: to view details of a photograph
Choice of search options:
- Keyword search
- Or just browse the collection via a series of dropdown menus:
- Popular topics
- Suburbs
- Decades
- Major collections
Contribute your photographs
The City of Canterbury Library is continually adding photographs and information to Pictorial Canterbury to make it a living growing collection.
We always appreciate the donation of any photographs of local content. Alternatively, we can copy photographs if you wish to keep your originals.
If you have any photographs you would like to contribute please contact:
Catherine Hardie
Family History / Images Librarian
Email: catherineh@canterbury.nsw.gov.au
Telephone: (02) 9789 9562
Contribute your information
We have provided two online feedback forms on the Pictorial Canterbury website:
- Survey and Comments Form: for you to help us make the collection as useful to you as possible.
- Photograph Identification Form: provided under each photograph for you to help us identify 'mystery' and partly identified photographs in the collection.
Visit the Pictorial Canterbury Photograph Collection here.
| To view our existing collection of photos, visit http://www2.canterbury.nsw.gov.au/photoindex.htm. This collection of photos will eventually be replaced by the Pictorial Canterbury Photograph Collection. |
Pictorial Canterbury