Places

Date: 1909

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 3

Reference: PAColl-5671-46

Description: The Masonic Hotel and a band rotunda, Napier. Shows decorative wrought iron work. Taken by an unidentified photographer in 1909. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1870s

From: McNeish, James : Images of hotels

Reference: 1/2-008574-F

Description: Masonic Hotel, Napier, photographed in the 1870s. Shows a two storied wooden building with a sign reading: Masonic Hotel, G Ellis. A row of men, boys, and one woman, stand alongside. Photographer unidentified. Note on back of file print reads: "First Masonic Hotel building" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-002957-G

Description: Masonic Hotel in Napier, with decorative cast-ironwork on the verandahs, circa 1910. A young girl and a pram are in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1931

Reference: 1/2-060935-F

Description: Ruins of the Masonic Hotel, Napier, after the 1931 earthquake. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 29; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Masonic Hotel - Napier - Hawke Bay Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1931

From: Pickering E, fl 1977 :Photographs of the Napier earthquake

Reference: 1/2-002948-F

Description: Ruins of the Masonic Hotel, Napier, after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Ruins of Masonic Hotel. Napier Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1931

From: Long, Brent, fl 1997: Photographs of the Hawke's Bay earthquake

Reference: 1/2-020048-F

Description: The Empire Hotel, damaged by the 1931 Napier earthquake. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: B-155-020

Description: Shows one remaining wall, two storeys high, of the brick hotel. There is debris in the left foreground. Title from accompanying slip of paper. Other Titles - Don McNab 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). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 272 x 405 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..

Date: April - July 2008

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000248

Description: Photographs of the exterior of buildings in Waipukurau, Waipawa, Napier, and Takapau in the Hawkes's Bay Region, taken April-July 2008 Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within folder called "New Zealand Buildings April to July 2008" Quantity: 8 digital photograph(s).

Date: 1930s

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: MNZ-0348-1/4-F

Description: Inside the lounge of the Criterion Hotel in Napier showing the carpet, chairs, tables, potted plants, light fittings and a fireplace. Taken in the 1930s. The Criterion Hotel was designed by architect E A Williams. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-002958-G

Description: Masonic Hotel and band rotunda, circa 1900. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative