Industrial buildings - New Zealand - Hawke's Bay Region

Date: [ca 1925-1935]

By: Lovell-Smith, Hubert John, 1881-1948

Reference: PAColl-0451

Description: Photographs of Hastings and the surrounding area taken by H J Lovell-Smith. They include photographs of earthquake damage to shops in Hastings; the flooding of the Ngaruroro River; excavation of the site of the new swimming pool in Havelock North; a man and a boy sheltering from the rain outside a barbers shop; the Soldiers Memorial Hospital; Taradale Post and Telegraph Office with the library across the street; two men working on a steam locomotive; neon sign on Queen's Wharf, Auckland; wedding photograph of a couple named Harper and Ward (the groom was a minister); five men next to a crashed aeroplane on a snowy hillside; a Windsor chair made from New Zealand birch; schoolgirls leaving Hastings High School; a view across Hastings, possibly from the Clock Tower, over Railway Road and towards St Andrew's Church; two of the Cosy Buildings (possibly previously the Douglas Buildings), one when the picture theatre had the electric sign "Cosy" hanging from it and was showing the film Nurse Marjorie and the other without the sign and with the ground floor closed up; and the new Post and Telegraph Office built to replace the old one after the earthquake. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1976

By: Tole, Charles Holbert Smales, 1903-1988

Reference: G-592

Description: Shows a cluster of buildings, probably factories, at the seaside, with a yacht shown on the sea in the right background, a road leading to the buildings in the foreground and a lamp-post on the right On display in Manuscripts Room, Free Lance Building, 1978-1986. Exhibited in 'ART Notes: 20th century artists' papers and sketches from the Turnbull Library' exhibition curated by Jill Trevelyan, in the Turnbull Room, National Library Gallery, 27 November 1999 - 6 February 2000. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Charles Tole 76-8 [in red brushpoint] Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on hardboard 365 x 540 mm

Date: 1931

From: Insurance Council of New Zealand :Photographs of people associated with Insurance Companies and Underwriters' Associations, and various related insurance activities

Reference: PA1-f-145-09-50

Description: White Swan Brewery, Hastings Street, Napier, showing damage caused by the Hawke's Bay earthquake, taken 1931 by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - 50. Swan Brewery, Napier. Taken from Napier Hotel. All gates locked. Cannot get inside to make close inspection. Wood portion very old and out of plumb. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 10.8 x 16.5 cm, mounted on album page