Places

Date: 1839 - 1841 - 1846 - 1848

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Page, George Hyde, 1823-1908; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-003-029-a/040-a

Description: Set of looseleaf offprints originally published as a set of 12 prints in "New Zealand calendar 1974". Contents: Goldmining at the Thames [i.e. Goldmining at Thames] / J.B.C. Hoyte. - Nelson Haven, 1841 / Charles Heaphy. - The Pink Terraces, 1874 [i.e. The White Terraces, 1888 (detail)] / C.D. Barraud. - St Mark's Church, Remuera [i.e. S. Mark's, Remuera & Mt Eden, 1859] / Rev. John Kinder. - The Barracks, Napier / C.D. Barraud. - Auckland, 1848 [i.e. Auckland, New Zealand, 1848] / Lt. Gen. G.H. Page. - The Aglionby or Matukituki Valley [i.e. In the Aglionby or Matukituki Valley, looking into the Otapawa, 20th Feb. [1846]] / Sir William Fox. - In Otira Gorge, 1864 [i.e. Otira Gorge, 1864?] / Sir William Fox. - Dunedin, Otago, 1861 [i.e. Part of the town and harbour of Dunedin, Otago, N.Z. [1861?]] / W.S. Hatton. - Kahu Kahu, Hokianga River [i.e. View of the Kahu-Kahu Hokianga River [December] 1839] / Charles Heaphy. - Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860 [i.e. Mount Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860] / Lt. Gen. C.E. Gold. - Bream Head, Whangarei / Charles Heaphy. Title from cover of calendar. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title and artist]; Recto - bottom left - Alexander Turnbull Library, / Wellington, N.Z.; Recto - bottom right - A.R. Shearer, Government Printer, / Wellington, N.Z., 1973. Quantity: 24 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 24 photolithographs, (2 sets of 12), variously sized from 157 x 238 mm, to 240 x 304 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright in the 1970s.

Date: ca1930

By: Martin, Tony, active 2002

Reference: PAColl-7419

Description: The Caledonian Hotel, Hastings Street, Napier, photographed ca 1930 by an unknown photographer. The Cafe Savoy may be seen on the far left. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1934-1936

From: National Council of Young Men's Associations of New Zealand: Collection

Reference: PA1-o-721

Description: Two YMCA holiday tours of the North and South Islands in the mid 1930s. In particular there are some good interiors of the Waitaki power station Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1839 - 1841 - 1846 - 1848

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Page, George Hyde, 1823-1908; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-003-029/040

Description: Set of looseleaf offprints originally published as a set of 12 prints in "New Zealand calendar 1974". Contents: Goldmining at the Thames [i.e. Goldmining at Thames] / J.B.C. Hoyte. - Nelson Haven, 1841 / Charles Heaphy. - The Pink Terraces, 1874 [i.e. The White Terraces, 1888 (detail)] / C.D. Barraud. - St Mark's Church, Remuera [i.e. S. Mark's, Remuera & Mt Eden, 1859] / Rev. John Kinder. - The Barracks, Napier / C.D. Barraud. - Auckland, 1848 [i.e. Auckland, New Zealand, 1848] / Lt. Gen. G.H. Page. - The Aglionby or Matukituki Valley [i.e. In the Aglionby or Matukituki Valley, looking into the Otapawa, 20th Feb. [1846]] / Sir William Fox. - In Otira Gorge, 1864 [i.e. Otira Gorge, 1864?] / Sir William Fox. - Dunedin, Otago, 1861 [i.e. Part of the town and harbour of Dunedin, Otago, N.Z. [1861?]] / W.S. Hatton. - Kahu Kahu, Hokianga River [i.e. View of the Kahu-Kahu Hokianga River [December] 1839] / Charles Heaphy. - Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860 [i.e. Mount Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860] / Lt. Gen. C.E. Gold. - Bream Head, Whangarei / Charles Heaphy. Title from cover of calendar. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title and artist]; Recto - bottom left - Alexander Turnbull Library, / Wellington, N.Z.; Recto - bottom right - A.R. Shearer, Government Printer, / Wellington, N.Z., 1973. Quantity: 24 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 24 photolithographs, (2 sets of 12), variously sized from 157 x 238 mm, to 240 x 304 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright in the 1970s.

Date: 1931

From: Lewis, Mr : Photographs taken after the Napier earthquake, 1931

Reference: PAColl-0153-07

Description: Empire Hotel, Napier, showing extensive earthquake damage, 1931. Some of the interior of the hotel can be seen. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Empire Hotel (2) Napier Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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: [ca 1931]

From: Whitehead, Henry Norford, 1870-1965 :Negatives of Napier, Hastings and district

Reference: PAColl-6761

Description: 30 views of floats in a Napier parade including: two of the Napier Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club's float showing members in the club kit on bicycles; Henry Williams & Sons (hardware) float, showing four men with a bathroom suite; Briascos Ltd's float decorated to look like a boat; a Hawke's Bay Motor Company Ltd Model T Ford decorated and full of 4 people in fancy dress; a horse and carriage and a truck passing the police station; a float advertising different kinds of shoes sponsored by a number of local shoe retailers; a Williams & Creagh truck with a number of people in fancy dress; an old car in which the back axle has been moved forward causing it to tip up again with people in fancy dress; a Piper & Co float with a display of their sails on a small boat followed by a float for Taradale Vineyards; a spoof fire truck; a Vulcan foundry float showing a complete workshop; a float advertising Queen Anne chocolates; Warath Tea Garden float covered in flowers; group of young people in pill box hats in front of a float; Napier Golf Club float inlcuding regulations signs; float advertising Sunny Spain; a Max Studio float with a group of young girls holding stars; a rugby team's float; a float labelled Wairere; four men dressed as druids with a float carrying standing stones; Te Awa Ex-Puplils' Association float with a group of them in sports clothes or fancy dress; Smith and Smith Ltd float showing paint samples; Engineers, Boilermakers and Iron and Brass Founders float; two children on tricycles decorated with flowers; a Swan bacon float; Napier Gas Company float with a display on gas cooking; two of children in fancy dress one pushing a relief workers wheelbarrow; a man on a horse advertising Griffiths shoes; and Taradale Hotel after the earthquake. Photographer was Henry Norford Whitehead. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-028782 to 028784, 1/4-028809 to 028818, 029318 to 029320, 029352, 029373, 029390, 029394, 029396, 029410 to 029412, 029580 to 029581, 029592, 029611, 029665, 029666, and 095742 to 095743. Quantity: 32 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: Probably March 20 - 21 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8794

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides was probably taken earlier than those on some of the preceding sheets (information from his diary). This sheet contains images taken in the Wairarapa, in Napier and Gisborne. Included are a view of Burnside Church near Pirinoa; several images of the road into, and views of the rock formations known as the Pinnacles (Putangiroa Pinnacles), including a close-up of shell fossils; Massey College at Palmerston North; street scene with the Majestic Hotel and the railway line passing through Palmerston North; the Domain Gardens, and Stortford Lodge Hotel at Hastings; the Hawke Bay province from Te Mata Peak; Cape Kidnappers and the gannet colony; Napier beach looking north; the Napier Sound Shell; flower beds as a border in Napier; and Gisborne from the hill. Slides on this sheet are numbered 554-578, with gaps for 556, 559-560, 567 and 577. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. 556, 559-560, 567, 577). These showed the river valley on the way to the Pinnacles; Pinnacle Valley "towers" and "castles"; railway line through Palmerston North; Gisborne area showing the beach looking south. They were removed to be included in his representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1931

From: Lewis, Mr : Photographs taken after the Napier earthquake, 1931

Reference: PAColl-0153-06

Description: Empire Hotel, Napier, showing extensive earthquake damage, 1931. Some of the interior of the hotel can be ssen. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Empire Hotel Napier Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1950 - 2020

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Napier

Description: Includes ephemera for accommodation in Napier. Includes a pamphlet about the history of the Masonic Hotel, published ca 2014. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying up to 250 mm. Provenance: One item donated by Michael Pringle, Wellington, in 2015.

Date: 1870-1880

By: Best, Walter, 1848-1929; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Monkton, Charles Henry, 1840-1890; Harding, R E (Mrs), active 1949

Reference: PA1-q-028

Description: Photograph album compiled by Walter Best, comprising views of Wellington, Auckland, Picton, Nelson, Naseby, Manawatu Gorge, Mahurangi, Te Ore Ore Pa, Masterton, Hutt River, Lorne station on the Waikohu River, Napier, Lyttelton, West Coast, Reefton, Maitai Valley, Bulls, Wanganui, Waitotara, Waimate plains and Mitre Peak. Also includes a photograph of the Best family home, Fernbank, Tinakori Road. Photographers represented include James Bragge and Charles Henry Monkton. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/1-000763, 1/1-000783, 1/1-00260, 1/1-002712 to 1/1-002721; 1/2-004094, 1/2-004136, 1/2-004698, 1/2-004699, 1/2-014969, 1/2-015699, 1/2-018087, 1/2-020713, 1/2-020714, 1/2-020716; 1/4-009246, 1/4-010018, 1/4-010023, 1/4-10024, 1/4-010894, 1/4-014970 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Donated by Mrs R E Harding, Wellington, in May 1949

Date: 1931

From: Lewis, Mr : Photographs taken after the Napier earthquake, 1931

Reference: PAColl-0153-11

Description: Ruins of the Masonic Hotel, Napier, after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Verso - centre right - Masonic Hotel Napier Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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: [Between 1860 and 1870]

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-040

Description: Photographs taken by Daniel Mundy in the 1860s. All but one were taken in the South Island. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in Mundy Album III, p 51). The North Island view was taken in Napier, and shows a two-storeyed house with quoinings, a horse-drawn coach outside, and to the right there is a wooden church. South Island views include many landscapes; hotels; the Christchurch government buildings, the Victoria Bridge, High Street and Cashel Street; and three sheep stations. Two are well-known, Benmore Station and Gramere Station (then known as Hawden's Station [i.e. Hawdon's Station]. The third is possibly that of George Gilbert Suman [the hand-written description appears to be `Sumans Station' at German Bay, and according to Wise's Post Office Directory, William Gilbert Suman lived in German Bay in 1875). There are three photographs showing Daniel Mundy's travelling darkroom (p 13, 25, and page 43) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather album, geometric pattern, gold decoration, entitled `New Zealand' in gold; 30.5 x 42.5 cm

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..