Emerson Street

Date: ca 1880s

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: 1/4-010026

Description: View of Emerson Street looking towards Clive Square from above the Hastings Street intersection. The National Bank is on the left and Neal & Close, the Union Bank and Blythe & Co on the right. Photographed by Burton Bros. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Rochfort, Guy, 1878-1955

Reference: Plans-2002-058-041-001/006

Description: Includes subdivision plans by surveyor Guy Rochfort. Quantity: 6 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on waxed linen paper and tracing paper, sizes varying up to around 510 x 395 mm.

Date: [1890s-1900s]

From: New Zealand News Ltd :Photographs from the Auckland Star

Reference: PA1-q-014

Description: Views of a trip along the Whanganui River with views of Paranui kainga (listed as Parinui in the album), showing groups of whare, groups of Maori, various activities in the kainga, canoes on the river, and many scenes of waterfalls along the river. These include Taraipokiore (or Tarei-po-Kiore), Otuitu Falls, Ohura Falls, Kakahi Falls. The "Ladder scene", copy of Denton photograph, and other views of the Whanganui River and Ohura River. There is a gap in the album, followed by a separate sequence on Napier. These images include panoramic views of Napier from various locations, church buildings (including exterior and interior views of St John's Cathedral), hotel buildings and other public buildings and memorial statues. Photographs taken by Auckland Star photographers circa 1900s. Inscriptions: Album page - top right - Wanganui trip. Napier. Relationship complexity - Most images are represented by original negatives donated to the Library by the Auckland Star in the 1950s Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cloth bound album, labelled "This book must be returned to Mr H Brett's room"

Date: 1930 - 1979

From: Miller, Adam, 1960-: Collection of New Zealand sound recordings and record sleeves

By: Rabone Bros Print

Reference: Eph-C-PHONO-Miller-HMV

Description: Includes sleeves showing the following captions: Music in the home. "His Master's Voice" radiograms, "H.M.V" pickup units, "His Master's Voice" record players. Rubber-stamped: His Master's Voice retailers, radios, washers, refrigerators, 91 Cuba St., next Hannah's. "His Master's Voice" accessories. "His Master's Voice" instantaneous speed tester, "His Master's Voice" record cleaning pad. Get the best out of your gramophone. Rubber-stamped C Morrison records and books, Dunedin. Verso says: "Always use the finest needles, the Tungstyle" "His Master's Voice" accessories. "His Master's Voice" instantaneous speed tester, "His Master's Voice" record cleaning pad. Get the best out of your gramophone. Rubber-stamped Haworth's Music House, 109 Cuba Street Wellington. Verso says: "Always use the finest needles, the Tungstyle" Records! Hear the world's greatest artists on the world's finest recordings. Now pressed in New Zealand by His Master's Voice (NZ) Ltd, Wakefield St., Wellington (2 copies, one with Mason Struthers label stuck on) How to get the best results from "His Master's Voice" products. Dancing to the gramophone; recently issued dance records (2 copies) His Master's Voice Sale and Services, 91 Cuba St., Wellington; 6 Oxford Street Levin. Plain cover with rubber stamp caption Hutt Valley Consumers' Co-Operative Society Ltd Home appliances, Tocker Street Taita; Hilary Court Naenae. The world's finest music on His Master's Voice, Columbia, Parlophone, Regal Zonophone, M.G.M., Decca, London, Vogue, Beltona, Capitol (2 copies) His Master's Voice Sale and Services, Oxford Street Levin, phone 620. The world's finest music on His Master's Voice, Columbia, Parlophone, Regal Zonophone, M.G.M., Decca, London, Vogue, Beltona, Brunswick Provincial H.M.V. Sales & Services Limited, Lower Emerson Street Napier. Phone 3105, for radios, refrigerators, washing machines & all electrical appliances Provincial H.M.V. Sales & Services Ltd, Cnr Rangitikei and Cuba Streets, Palmerston North, and Emerson Street Napier. [Printed by] Rabone Print Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset and relief prints on record sleeves, sizes ranging up to 400 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1950 - 1957

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-041-042/048

Description: Floor plans for ground, first and second floors. Quantity: 7 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to 550 x 740 mm.

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: [1880s]

From: Bollinger, Mrs, fl 1958 :Scenic photographs of New Zealand

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-34-30

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.

Date: 1875

Reference: Eph-A-PLUMBING-1875-01

Description: An arrangement of text of various typefaces Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on flier, 225 x 151 mm.

Date: 1935 - 1936

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Atkins & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-041-007/034

Description: Floor plans, elevations and sections, with details of the domed tower, and circular main entrance vestibule. Quantity: 28 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to around 560 x 740 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1946

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-041-035/041

Description: Ground floor and first floor plans. Quantity: 7 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, 550 x 390 mm.

Date: 1966

From: Boyle, Kenneth, 1943- :Transparencies of a holiday in New Zealand, 1966

Reference: PA12-8306

Description: Transparency slides of Ken Boyle's 1966 holiday in New Zealand with his uncle, Noel Hartley, and his uncle's friend, Lionel Includes views of NZ Scenic Tours Ltd buses in Auckland, Noel Hartley with a snowman at Mount Cook after their DC3 plane landed en route to Queenstown (174); Brian and Lionel on the beach at Napier (186); Denbie's Hotel in Rotorua (196) Note: slide 167 is identified as Wellington but it Sumner Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: 1931

Reference: PAColl-6590

Description: 25 images of the destruction of Napier and Hastings after the 1931 earthquake. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-017193 to 017242 and 018051; 1/2-031383 and 061039 Quantity: 50 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film and glass negatives

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

From: Zachariah (Zak), Joseph 1863-1965 :Photographs

By: Frank Duncan and Company; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923

Reference: PA5-0104

Description: Emerson Street, Napier, showing commercial buildings on both sides of the Street and two open motor vehicles in the centre. Includes Union Bank of Australia and McCruer & Co. on the left. Photograph taken between 1910-1913 by FGR and published by Frank Duncan & Co. Auckland. Note on back reads: Zac Coll Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph, 85 x 135 mm

Date: ca 1868-1880s

Reference: PAColl-4398

Description: Duplicate prints of originals in the Cornford album or taken by him (presumably the originals are still held by the Museum). Views of: Marine Parade looking towards Bluff Hill with the court house on the left; Clive Square looking towards Napier Hill with the Theatre Royal on the far side; looking along Emerson Street with Neal & Close, drapers on the left and Palmers stables on the right; Browning Street looking towards Napier Hill with Hannah's shoe shop on the left (taken by W H Neal); ships moored at Port Ahuriri at Murray Roberts & Co, wool merchants; and two views looking north west from Bluff Hill towards The Spit one showing the Bluff Boarding House and the other T H Gifford. Also one original print of the beach possibly near Bluff Hill. Quantity: 10 b&w copy photographic print(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: February 1931

From: Wood, Kitty :Photographs of Wairoa Falls, Whakarewarewa, and aftermath of Hawke's Bay Earthquake in Napier

Reference: PAColl-1009-07

Description: Scene in Napier looking along Hastings Street towards Emerson Street, showing the premises of Blythes Ltd at 10 Emerson Street (right of centre), after the Hawke's Bay Earthquake of 3 February 1931. Photograph taken by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 68 x 113 mm

Date: [1930s]

By: Thomson, Richard John James, 1890-1977

Reference: PAColl-D-0819

Description: Three photographs showing the city before and just after the earthquake, and as rebuilt (some years later). Each is taken from a slightly different vantage point from Napier Hill. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 3 x 220 x 1000 mm on card 740 x 1060 mm

Date: [ca 1860s-1880s]

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874; Rhodes, Joseph, 1826-1905

Reference: PA1-q-193

Description: Album owned by Joseph Rhodes containing photographs and sketches and ephemera dated between 1860s-1880s of New Zealand and overseas. Includes photographs of Hawkes Bay dated between 1860s-1870s. Many of the sketches were drawn by Alfred Chapman, one section containing an illustrated tale "The life and adventures of Thomas Pinniger" (p 34a-d). On p 34b Governor Eyre is pictured lower left at Government House, Wellington. There are two photographs of paintings by Charles Barraud (one of Te Aro Flat, City of Wellington (p 68), and one of Wellington Heads (p 104). Many of the photographs of the Hawke's Bay area show the houses on various sheep stations, including Clive Grange Station, and Spring Hill Station (Joseph Rhodes), Maraekakaho Station (Donald Mclean), Woburn Station (Thomas Purvis Russell), Mount Herbert Station (Henry Robert Russell), and Mangatarata Station (Donald Gollan). There is also one of George Fannin's house in Napier, one of the Reverend Hamlin's mission station at Wairoa, and one of The Grange (Wellington home of Joseph Rhodes's brother William Barnard Rhodes).Others in the area are related to military encampments, barracks, stockades, and mission stations. On page 31 there is a photograph of "The great peace meeting, 1863", and one entitled "Whaka & tribe". On page 53, the caption reads "Donald McLean Esq. Superintendent, Hawkes Bay, purchasing Wairoa from the natives, 18[55?]." There are many photographs, postcards and tourist scenes taken in Egypt, Ireland, Norway, Italy and Australia. The Australian scenes show views in Queensland, including Australian Aborigines fishing for dugong, the Railway Mortuary Chapel at the Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney (subsequenlty sold to a church group, dismantled and rebuilt in North Ainslie in Canberra) and views in the Maryborough area. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown leather embossed cover 29 x 23 cm, with 79 leaves

Date: ca Oct 1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

By: Sorrell, Percy C, 1882-1965

Reference: PAColl-6301-04

Description: Men working on the road and buildings in Emerson Street, Napier, after the earthquake of 1931. Photographed by Percy C Sorrell, circa October 1932. Note on back of original print reads: Emerson St, Napier. P C Sorrell. Stamp on back of original print reads: 28 Oct 1932 Note on back of file print reads: Following start of rebuilding after quake of 1931. Pass 1933-34. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1931

From: Hurst, Arthur Bendigo, 1890-1964 : Photographs of Napier after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake

Reference: PAColl-8774-3-3

Description: Fire on Emerson Street, Napier, after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, Napier. Looks towards a smokey sky, along a rubble filled street lined with damaged buildings. Photograph taken by Arthur Bendigo Hurst. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 6.8 x 8.7 cm

Date: [ca 1895]

By: Sorrell, Charles, 1855-1932

Reference: 1/2-061034-F

Description: Emerson Street, Napier, circa 1895, photographed by Charles Sorrell. The Criterion Hotel is on the right. A sign advertising the shop of J P Thomson is visible. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative