Provincial Hotel (Napier, N.Z.)

Date: 1906

By: Sorrell, Charles, 1855-1932

Reference: PAColl-D-0794

Description: Three photographs, possibly all taken by Charles Sorrell in 1906. View overlooking Napier with Ashton's Cabinet Works in foreground and Clive Square in the middle distance. Opposite Ashton's Cabinet Works is a large open space and children at play. Several churches can be seen (Trinity Methodist Church and St Patrick's Catholic Church); Caledonian Hotel and Provincial Hotel; and a primary school near Clive Square. Tennyson Street is in the lower lefthand corner and Emerson Street runs parallel to it in the middle distance. Napier Technical School, a large two-storey brick building. Group of ten men are standing outside, some wearing workmen's aprons. View of the Petane Valley from Napier-Taupo road. There is a car in the foreground with a driver and three passengers. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Petane Valley. Napier-Taupo Rd. Protected 17/9/06 Sorrell Photo. Napier Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 3 x 159 x 205 mm mounted on card 530 x 250 mm

Date: 1890 - 1910

From: [Collection of playing cards. ca 1900]

Reference: Curios-017-002-005

Description: Playing cards, almost exclusively Jokers, collected for the pictures on their backs. This group features advertisements for alcohol, petrol, dentistry, etc. Brand names include: and sorted into 8 groups of themes: Formal, Birds, Ships, Camels, Houses, Advertisements, Women & pets, Women. Pilsener lager by New Zealand Breweries Ltd, Auckland Branch Mello Stout, by New Zealand Breweries Ltd, Wellington, NZ. Red Band pale ale, by New Zealand Breweries Ltd (Staples Branch) Wellington "The good companions", New Zealand's national beverage; yours always Speight's T A Heath, Hotel Provincial, Clive Square, Napier New Zealand and Federal Steamship Companies (3 different designs) National Electrical & Engineering Company Ltd. NEECO, the mark of quality tested electrical appliances Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: ca 50 playing cards, 90 x 60 mm.

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-047764-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1920]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-048841-G

Description: Clive Square east, Napier, circa 1920. The Provincial Hotel is on the left, alongside the fruit shop of Chas Johnston. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: A-354-020

Description: Shows a smoking ruined three-storey building with only a small section at the right showing the original full height. One of a series of paintings made by MacNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6). Other Titles - Don McNab. Title from accompanying slip of paper. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 192 x 306 mm (sight) Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..