Places

Date: 1931

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

Reference: PAColl-0153-12

Description: Building which was damaged during the Hawke's Bay earthquake of 1931. Some of the interior of the building is showing. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1982

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-136-083

Description: Shows the Clutha River flowing through a canyon. On one side stand Clyde Dam workers hammering a sign into the ground which demands a 15 per cent pay rise. On the other side are Muldoon and Bill Birch wearing a hard hat. Muldoon is angrily refusing to meet the workers' demands. At the bottom of the canyon two scientists from the D.S.I.R. Geological Survey are sitting on the ground with instruments measuring the shaking of the ground. Extended Title - 15 per cent higher pay for Clyde Dam workers Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, white gouache, crayon and letratone, 450 x 320 mm.

Date: 1931

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

Reference: PAColl-0153-04

Description: Napier after the 1931 earthquake, taken from Shakespeare Road. Widespread damage to buildings can be seen, with some reduced to either shells or piles of rubble. Some of the area is hidden from view by a clump of trees which cover the left hand side of the image. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Napier from Shakespeare Rd Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1931

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

Reference: PAColl-0153-03

Description: View of the rubble of a building that was demolished by the Napier earthquake in 1931. There is one overhead power pole standing next to the demolished building, and there are unidentified people just looking at the rubble. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: February 1931

From: Daroux, James Henry, 1870-1943 :Collection of negatives and prints

Reference: 1/4-021395-G

Description: Hawkes Bay Farmers' Cooperative Association building, Waipukurau, after Hawkes' Bay earthquake, 1931. The external brick wall is cracked, and plate glass is broken, but the building was not considered dangerous (information from album PA1-f-145). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1920-1943]

By: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962; Deste, Eileen, 1909-1986; Hastings Public Library (N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-0365

Description: A collection of photographs including views of Nelson by F N Jones, buildings and earthquake damage in Wellington in 1943 and others from around the country including three hand-touched photographs of Napier and Hastings. The photographs of Wellington are captioned with the building the weather conditions when the photographs were taken and whether flash was used. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 4 March 1987]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1987/1018-F

Description: Photographs of an Edgecumbe house damaged by an earthquake, taken ca 4 March 1987 by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: [ca 17 June 1929]

From: Scott, Ruth Copland, 1916- :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9195

Description: Photograph of rubble from the collapsed tower of Nelson College, following the Murchison earthquake, taken ca 17 June 1929 probably by Frederick Nelson Jones Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Portion of Nelson College after Earthquake on 17th. June, 1929, at 10.20a.m. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) (postcard). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.1 x 8.9 cm Transfers: From Book Collections - See also Manuscripts Section.

Date: [ca 1907], February 1931

By: New Zealand Post Office

Reference: PAColl-4616

Description: Photographs of the interior of Napier Telegraph operating room ca 1907 and of Napier Post Office immediately after the earthquake of February 1931. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1919 - 1931 - 1932

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

By: Edmund Anscombe, H McDowell Smith and Associates; Hodge, Ernest R, active 1930s

Reference: Plans-2007-030-0549/0553

Description: Includes sheets 2, 3, 5 and 6 of the original plans, showing front side and rear elevations, sections AB and CD, a ground floor plan and a first floor plan. The later plan by E R Hodge is sheet no 2 and shows elevations from all four sides. Collected by architect Martin Hill as part of Project 787. Quantity: 5 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, 490 x 695 mm.

Date: 1931

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-0573

Description: Shows the detail of chimney construction: cross section, upper part of stack, plan at hearth line. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo blueprint, 315 x 475 mm.

Date: [ca 26 May 1960]

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

By: Gardiner, Robert I, active 1960

Reference: PAColl-9150-27

Description: Damaged bridge, and gas main between Ahuriri and Westshore, Napier, caused by a tsunami generated by the 1960 Chilean earthquake. Workmen are connecting a temporary gas pipe to the West shore. Photograph taken circa 26 May 1960 by Robt I Gardiner. Publication note - Published in the Evening Post, 26 May 1960. Source of descriptive information - Notes on item, including caption from Evening Post, 26 May 1960, attached to back of print. Inscriptions: Verso - [stamped in ink] Photograph Robt I Gardiner Hastings; Verso - [stamped in ink] 26 May 1960 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15 x 20 cm

Date: 1931 - 1999 - 2001

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996; Percy, Kevin, active 1990s

Reference: E-592-069

Description: Shows a fashionably dressed woman and child in the right foreground beside a new car, with the new nurses' home, of Spanish Mission style, in the background. The original painting won the New Zealand Technical College art prize, where contestants were required to depict a modern building,modern car, and modern fashion. Seven nurses lost their lives when this building was destroyed in 1931. Other Titles - Don McNab Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 120 x 177 mm. 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: 1931

Reference: PAColl-7919

Description: Photograph of Napier after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, with Emerson Street and Clive Square in the foreground, taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 11.3 x 15.7 cm

Date: 4 March 1987

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1987/1012

Description: Original Evening Post caption reads: "A builder's premises leans precariously in hard-hit Tawa Street, Edgecumbe." Photographs of a man peering into the building that was damaged during the Edgecumbe earthquake, taken on 4th March 1987 by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

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: 1929

By: Herron, Dorothy, active 1982

Reference: PAColl-0236

Description: Views of the effect of the Murchison earthquake on the landscape and buildings. Quantity: 42 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1931

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-0574/0577

Description: Shows details of a three-flue chimney and a single flue chimney, with cross-sections, reinforcements, elevation showing flues, plan of stack. Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing and diazo prints, sizes varying up to 475 x 630 mm.

Date: [ca 1890s-1970s]

From: Rogers, Charles Marsden, 1892-1964 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9542

Description: Photographs of tramping trips, houses in Karori, factories, Crown Lynn pottery, taken by Charles Marsden Rogers. Includes postcards of NAC airplanes and old postcards and photographs of sports spectators, wedding party, picnics and boating. Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 item(s) of photographic ephemera.

Date: 1931

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

Reference: PAColl-0153-05

Description: Damage caused by the Napier earthquake, 1931. Wrecks of cars can be seen up against the curb of the street, and the destruction to buildings is quite extensive. Two men can be seen surveying the damage. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).