Places

Date: 1858-1951, 1958

By: ANZ Banking Group (New Zealand)

Reference: qMS-0097

Description: Brief history of the Union Bank in Napier; lists earliest bank officers and customers; describes establishment of agency, issues of notes, development of commerce and the wool trade Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (7 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34cm, blue pamphlet case)

Date: 1862-1865, 1865-1867

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-1191-1192

Description: Two bankbooks containing details of McLean's account with the Union Bank of Australia, Napier, 12 November 1862-30 June 1865 and 30 June 1865-31 December 1867 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (two pieces). Physical Description: Holograph (18cm; in brown hinged lid box)

Date: 1924-ca1980

By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984

Reference: PAColl-0639

Description: Most of the black and white photographs date from the late 1920s to ca 1950. Of these there are quite a large number of early prints from the late 1920s to the mid 1930s. Most of these have not been "pictorialised" in the soft focus style Searle used for his later finished work. They are small snapshot sized and sharp and clear in detail. The general range of their subject matter sums up Searle's range of interests, photographically speaking, throughout his life. This general subject range is as follows - Railways, family friends and weddings (women and children predominate), Wellington city, Ships, Wellington Botanic Garden, Wellington Zoo (mainly animal studies), ANZAC Days, Some sports, aircraft, some other New Zealand towns, military training Second World War, some overseas trips of which those to New Caledonia during the Second World War and later were the most significant, and landscape studies. This last category makes up the largest group of photographs in the collection, especially in the later "pictorial" prints. Though the majority are unlabeled, most have at least one with identification written on the back - though to find these would require looking through some thousands of prints. Most of the pictorialised photographs have been printed on a pale creamy - brown paper which gives them an antique and arty appearence. Most have been manipulated to soften the focus, at times creating a painterly effect or the effect of some lithographs of the late 19th/early 20th centuries. A few have been treated to look like pencil drawings. Though most are landscapes there are also a fair number of architectural shots and flower studies, and some Māori subjects and portraits. Landscapes are predominantly attempts to emulate the sublime and classical/romantic traditions. Mountains and glaciers, humanised landscapes, with or without sheep, reminiscent of the creations of the 18th century English landscape designers, are most common. A fair number of the latter have been taken in some of our larger public parks and gardens. Humans very seldom feature in them. There are several essays of the Pinnacles at Palliser Bay. Many of the same images have been used over and over again. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-096421 to 096718 and 098069 to 099110; 1/2-178222 to 178231 Quantity: 7320 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 album(s). 214 b&w original negative(s) of which 204 are 35mm strips comprising 632 images. 162 colour original photographic print(s). 3100 colour original transparency/ies. 33 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1926

Reference: 1/4-015249-F

Description: Car number 2 of the Napier Corporation Tramways passing a bank (either the Bank of New Zealand or the Bank of New South Wales). Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [1920s]

Reference: PAColl-D-0689

Description: View looking along Hastings Street with the Hannah Building on left and Bank Of New Zealand and Napier Post Office on the right. Bestall's can be seen at the far end of Hastings Street. There is a tram in the immediate foreground, cars on the road and parked at kerb, and a number of pedestrians. Taken by an unidentified photographer, ca 1920s. Identified by comparing with 1/2-006602-F taken in 1921 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 400 x 545 mm mounted

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: [ca 1931]

Reference: 1/2-025494-F

Description: Community Banks' building, clad with corrugated iron, Napier, circa 1931. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1865

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to banks and banking, credit cards, methods of banking, saving and payment]

By: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: Eph-A-BANK-1865-01

Description: Decorative border and heraldic shield.The verso shows the name of the printer, and a line of spheres, the central sphere displaying the word "Twenty". Exhibited in 'To market, to market' Exhibition of advertising and commercial ephemera from the Printed Ephemera Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library. First Floor foyer, National Library of New Zealand, 5 August - 16 September 1997. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on banknote, 112 x 216 mm.

Date: 1931

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-047691

Description: A group of men working to clear rubble from the site of an unidentified building in Napier that had been badly damaged in the earthquake of 1931. The Bank of New South Wales, which stands beside this building, appears undamaged. Photograph taken by S C Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1931

Reference: 1/2-025495-F

Description: Moving silver coin from Napier's Bank of New Zealand safe after the 1931 earthquake. From left to right: Accountant F Dewhurst (with shovel), L C Friend junior, Mr Coles (representing the safe manufacturer), bank manager L C Friend, and two unidentified workmen. Photographer unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1931

Reference: 1/2-025493-F

Description: Removal of a safe from the Bank of New Zealand in Napier, after the 1931 earthquake. Accountant F Dewhurst (looking at camera) and bank manager L C Friend (far right) are alongside the F G Smith & Co trailer. Other men, and the photographer, are unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 188-?]

Reference: PAColl-8494

Description: Photograph overlooking the town of Napier, with Hastings Street and the Bank of New Zealand building in the centre; taken circa 1880s? by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 9.7 x 6.1 cm