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Date: 1931

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

Reference: PAColl-5465

Description: The Municipal buildings, Hastings, damaged by the Hawke's Bay earthquake of 1931. A truck is in the foreground. Taken by James Henry Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1931

Reference: 1/2-060976-F

Description: Shows the devastation after the Napier Earthquake in 1931. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer. note on back of file print reads: c/n from orig print Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1931

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

Reference: 1/2-047897-G

Description: Remains of a Methodist Church after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. The Municipal Theatre is in the background. Taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1931

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

Reference: 1/2-048342-F

Description: Looking over Napier at the buildings ruined by the earthquake and the fires that followed in 1931. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Feb 1931

By: Thomson, Richard John James, 1890-1977

Reference: 1/2-022337-F

Description: Panorama photograph surveying Napier after the earthquake and fire of 3 February 1931, showing the Public Trust Office and Dalgety's on the right, two of the few buildings left standing amidst the rubble. Photograph taken by J R Thomson. Other - Library holds other prints of this image at PA6-277, PA6-544, and PA6-545. Source of this copy negative unknown. Source of title - Photographer's title on negative Inscriptions: On original item: Napier, after the Great Earthquake & Fire, 3rd. Feb. 1931 ; R J Thomson / PHOTO 36 Kauri St Wgtn Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1931

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 2

By: G & R (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-5584-48

Description: A building, formerly housing the Zenith Transport Company and McBeath Prisk & Co, damaged by the Hawke's Bay earthquake of 1931. Photograph taken by G & R. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 627. G & R Napier Quake Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1931

From: Iona College :Albums and negatives relating to Iona College, Havelock North, Hawke's Bay

Reference: 1/2-104625-F

Description: Damaged tower of Iona College, after the 1931 Napier earthquake Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1931

From: Phillips, T David, fl 1981 :Photographs of Napier and Foxton

Reference: 1/2-057115-F

Description: Building(s?) in ruins after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, Napier. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1931

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

Reference: 1/2-048343-G

Description: Looking over Napier at the buildings ruined by the 1931 earthquake. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1931

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

Reference: 1/2-047309-G

Description: Fire damaged Napier Post Office after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

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

Reference: 1/2-100335-G

Description: View of the badly damaged Williams and Kettle's Garage in Hastings after the earthquake of 1931. Photograph taken by James Henry Daroux. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Hastings back Williams & Kettle Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: [1931]

Reference: PAColl-9617

Description: Elevated view of Emerson Street, Tennyson Street, and Bluff Hill, Napier, showing buildings damaged by the Hawke's Bay earthquake. Photograph taken ca 1931 by an unidentified photographer and printed by Beck's Quality Service. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Napier Earthquake; Verso - centre - Beck's Quality Service Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 10 x 14.6 cm

Date: 1931

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

Reference: 1/2-047694-G

Description: Rubble from damaged buildings in a street in Hastings after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Photograph taken in 1931 by Sydney Charles Smith. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

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

From: Iona College :Albums and negatives relating to Iona College, Havelock North, Hawke's Bay

Reference: 1/2-104631-F

Description: Shows the scaffolding around Iona College buildings where the damaged brick walls were being repaired after the Napier Earthquake in 1931 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1931

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

Reference: 1/2-045841-G

Description: Ruins of the nurses' home in Napier, after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1931

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

Reference: 1/2-048340-G

Description: Overlooking Napier city after the 1931 earthquake, with the ruins of St Paul's Presbyterian church in the foreground. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Note on back of file print reads: "St Paul's Presbyterian Church, completed just prior to quake" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: ca February 1931

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

Reference: 1/2-100070-G

Description: Men repairing the main building of Woodford House in Havelock North soon after the earthquake of 3rd February 1931. Photograph taken by James Henry Daroux. Note on back of file print reads: "Woodford House, Havelock North. Main building. Stood shock well. School recommenced in 2 weeks." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

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..