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Christchurch Star

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1868 - Present

Biography

The Christchurch Star newspaper was a local daily paper which ran from 1868-1990 and since then has run as a free paper, currently produced once a week.

Found in 5830 Collections and/or Records:

Ice Skating Personalities: Grafton, Wendy, 1962-1967

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Identifier: ARCH 1072/2/9/1/38
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Photographs of Christchurch skater Wendy Grafton. Shots include portraits of Wendy Grafton and her performing during the 1962 New Zealand championships, the New Zealand ice skating championship at Arrowtown and the inter-gold figure skating test. She was also the only New Zealander to hold an internatonal silver medal in ice skating at the time.

Dates: 1962-1967

Ice Skating Personalities: Greene, Joana, 1977

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Identifier: ARCH 1072/2/9/1/39
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Portrait of Christchurch skater, Joanna Greene who was the first ice skater to pass the international gold medal dance test.

Dates: 1977

Ice Skating Personalities: Grigg, Bother and Sister, 1953

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Identifier: ARCH 1072/2/9/1/40
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Photograph of Grigg siblings on ice. Possibly Tom, Susan or Sue Grigg.

Dates: 1953

Ice Skating Personalities: Grinkow, Sergei, 1989

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Identifier: ARCH 1072/2/9/1/41
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Photograph of Sergei Grinkov with Ekaterina Gordeeva during the world figure skating championship in 1989.

Dates: 1989

Ice Skating Personalities: Haase, Helga, 1962

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Identifier: ARCH 1072/2/9/1/42
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Photograph of Helga Haase in action.

Dates: 1962

Ice Skating Personalities: Hamill, Dorothy, 1976-1977

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Identifier: ARCH 1072/2/9/1/43
Scope and Contents

Photographs of US Winter Olympic ice skating gold medalist, Dorothy Hamill. Photographs include a portrait, her skating in the World Figure Skating Championships and of her rehearsing with another Olympic gold medalist, Bruce Jenner (Caitlyn Jenner).

Dates: 1976-1977

Ice Skating Personalities: Havenaar, Jan, 1965

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Identifier: ARCH 1072/2/9/1/45
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Photograph of Jan Havenaar in action during the 10,000 metre speed skating event at the 1965 New Zealand ice skating championship.

Dates: 1965

Ice Skating Personalities: Heiden, Eric, 1980

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Identifier: ARCH 1072/2/9/1/46
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Photograph of US Olympic speed skating gold medalist, Eric Heiden. Photographs include a portrait of Eric Heiden and him in action during the Winter Olympics.

Dates: 1980

Ice Skating Personalities: Heitzer, Regina, 1960

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Identifier: ARCH 1072/2/9/1/47
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Regina Heitzer in training.

Dates: 1960